1 00:00:00,180 --> 00:00:04,170 - Today's a very special day. In our internal system, 2 00:00:04,170 --> 00:00:07,180 this has only happened twice before, this is number 69. 3 00:00:07,180 --> 00:00:11,743 Nice. What's also nice, this is the ASUS ROG Zephyrus M16, 4 00:00:11,743 --> 00:00:14,780 which is a stupid name because that's a gun, 5 00:00:14,780 --> 00:00:18,570 and the Alienware also already has the M15 and the M17. 6 00:00:18,570 --> 00:00:22,120 But whatever, I think it's a good laptop or maybe not. I guess we're gonna find out. 7 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:27,030 Hello. Okay, for our power adapter, we get 240 Watts. 8 00:00:27,030 --> 00:00:30,380 That's quite a bit. Well then again, this is probably a pretty power-hungry guy here. 9 00:00:30,380 --> 00:00:34,240 It's charged by a barrel adapter, but I believe you can do 100 Watts 10 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:37,713 of USB-C charging. As for other stuff, we get nothing. 11 00:00:37,713 --> 00:00:41,020 This is a pre-production unit. It is one of the very first laptops 12 00:00:41,020 --> 00:00:43,853 that we have seen that has Intel's Core H. 13 00:00:44,772 --> 00:00:48,230 I think that looks really good. Look at the size of this, like, 14 00:00:48,230 --> 00:00:52,360 foot on the bottom. They must have to do that to suck in air in here 15 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:57,040 and shoot it out the back. They don't do the thing where it opens up on the bottom anymore. 16 00:00:57,040 --> 00:01:01,050 This back is very fingerprint prone. Oh, you can really see it in the overhead. 17 00:01:01,050 --> 00:01:05,040 Oh yeah. Look at that. (Alexander grumbles) 18 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:08,680 So we have two Thunderbolts, I'm guessing a Slender Bolt 4, 19 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:13,110 and I'm guessing because they're so close there's only a single Thunderbolt controller 20 00:01:13,110 --> 00:01:16,820 but that's fine. I also have full size USB Type A, Ethernet, 21 00:01:16,820 --> 00:01:20,050 that's always nice to see, full-size HDMI as well, 22 00:01:20,050 --> 00:01:23,820 power input, and around to the other side, you get another full size HDMI 23 00:01:23,820 --> 00:01:26,990 and a mini SD card reader. Wish that was full size 24 00:01:26,990 --> 00:01:31,220 for laptop like this, but whatever. Overall, this is extremely similar 25 00:01:31,220 --> 00:01:34,453 to the Zephyrus G15. Now you might be thinking, 26 00:01:34,453 --> 00:01:38,150 if this is essentially the same body as the G15 27 00:01:38,150 --> 00:01:42,150 but is the M16, how did they get that extra inch? 28 00:01:42,150 --> 00:01:45,500 Well, by giving it a 16 by 10 display. 29 00:01:45,500 --> 00:01:49,260 This thing is so good looking. Look at that. It comes all the way down here. 30 00:01:49,260 --> 00:01:52,640 And they have a webcam, too. Look at that. That's something that we haven't seen 31 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:57,330 on a Zephyrus in a good long while. Oh, it even has a matte display. 32 00:01:57,330 --> 00:02:00,880 Awesome. - Yeah. - Thanks, Wren, for sponsoring today's video. 33 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:04,700 Wren is a website where to calculate your carbon footprint and then offset it by funding projects 34 00:02:04,700 --> 00:02:08,530 that plant trees and protect rainforests. By answering a few questions about your lifestyle, 35 00:02:08,530 --> 00:02:13,280 you can see your carbon footprint and ways to reduce it. Once you sign up and make a monthly contribution 36 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:17,766 to offset your carbon footprint, you receive monthly updates from tree planting, rainforest protection, 37 00:02:17,766 --> 00:02:21,068 and other projects you support. No one can reduce their carbon footprint to zero, 38 00:02:21,068 --> 00:02:24,440 so you can offset what you have left after reducing. 39 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:27,650 Click the link below, and that's actually pretty cool. 40 00:02:27,650 --> 00:02:31,930 This display is so sick. So it's like tall Quad-HD, 41 00:02:31,930 --> 00:02:35,750 so it's 2560 by 1600. 42 00:02:35,750 --> 00:02:39,830 Oh my god that looks good. (Alexander laughs) Massive track pad. 43 00:02:39,830 --> 00:02:44,050 This right here is the kind of thing that you can, you know, actually use and not hate your life. 44 00:02:44,050 --> 00:02:47,555 The keyboard also, so good. ASUS also has their Strix lineup 45 00:02:47,555 --> 00:02:51,500 which has their opto-mechanical key switches. These are so much better. 46 00:02:51,500 --> 00:02:54,950 This is easily, like, probably tied for my favorite switches 47 00:02:54,950 --> 00:02:58,763 on a gaming laptop aside from, like, the cherry ones on the M17. 48 00:03:00,030 --> 00:03:04,500 Great. Yep, love the keyboard. Awesome. Everything that you interact with 49 00:03:04,500 --> 00:03:07,950 in this little area right here, ASUS has nailed. 50 00:03:07,950 --> 00:03:13,070 It's so awesome to see, like, gaming laptops that don't, like, suck to use anymore. 51 00:03:13,070 --> 00:03:16,560 Like this is pretty light, it is just over two Kilograms. 52 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:23,420 So this right here has an i9-11900H, which is eight core, 16 threads, 10 nanometer, 53 00:03:23,420 --> 00:03:27,750 And also, you know, I have no clue how good it is. 54 00:03:27,750 --> 00:03:30,750 We're not allowed to do performance testing on this guy, 55 00:03:30,750 --> 00:03:33,970 and also, like, I do have upstairs one 56 00:03:33,970 --> 00:03:38,160 that I'm allowed to do testing on, but it's not this design. It's one that Intel sent us. 57 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:41,930 And it's, it's garbage. It's terrible. Not because of the CPU, 58 00:03:41,930 --> 00:03:45,040 but because just the references that they gave us is really bad 59 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:48,510 and throttles to all hell. So yeah, 60 00:03:48,510 --> 00:03:51,530 I have no clue how good these chips are right now 61 00:03:51,530 --> 00:03:56,910 and probably won't for like several weeks. But we'll let you know when we can find out. 62 00:03:56,910 --> 00:04:00,240 Oh, only 500 Gigabyte SSD. I'd much rather have like a Terabyte 63 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:03,330 in something like this, but whatever. This graphics driver could not find 64 00:04:03,330 --> 00:04:06,919 compatible graphics hardware. - Uh, that sounds - Uh. 65 00:04:06,919 --> 00:04:10,670 (Alexander laughs) I was planning on not showing you performance testing because they asked, 66 00:04:10,670 --> 00:04:15,665 but I guess I'm just not doing performance testing. Uh, well, I guess while it figures that out 67 00:04:15,665 --> 00:04:18,890 we can always do a nice little sound test. 68 00:04:18,890 --> 00:04:21,440 I think they said this is like a six speaker setup. 69 00:04:22,540 --> 00:04:27,354 Apparently it's good. ("Crab Rave") 70 00:04:32,810 --> 00:04:36,410 Yeah, the XPS wins. This is really good though. 71 00:04:36,410 --> 00:04:39,560 It doesn't quite have, like, the deep base-y sounds, 72 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:45,600 but clarity, excellent. Overall, good showings, 73 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:51,270 not the best. We can also see here the displays are very comparable. 74 00:04:51,270 --> 00:04:55,300 It makes sense. I believe that they're both color calibrated. So they're both accurate. 75 00:04:55,300 --> 00:04:59,880 The Dell is a bit, like, richer. It feels more saturated 76 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:03,070 and the blacks are deeper, but that's the trade-off that you have 77 00:05:03,070 --> 00:05:06,921 with this being a matte display. Everything's not quite as, like, 78 00:05:06,921 --> 00:05:11,370 crispy, inky black, but also, like, when I move over here, 79 00:05:11,370 --> 00:05:14,670 it's not just I don't see that light in this screen 80 00:05:14,670 --> 00:05:19,180 but I see it really bad in the XPS. Okay, well, I did a bit more, like, 81 00:05:19,180 --> 00:05:22,545 updating, firmware crap, one device manager. 82 00:05:22,545 --> 00:05:26,710 No clue why we can't find the GPU. It's just not showing up at all. 83 00:05:26,710 --> 00:05:32,690 Maybe it was just hard-disabled? I have no clue. But either way, we're not playing games today, 84 00:05:32,690 --> 00:05:36,311 which makes me sad because I wanted to play Valheim. (Alexander laughs) 85 00:05:36,311 --> 00:05:40,040 Now I checked and you don't get Windows facial recognition with this webcam, 86 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:43,390 but it doesn't really matter because you get this fingerprint reader here 87 00:05:43,390 --> 00:05:47,670 and it's just the best fingerprint reader ever. Because you hit the power button 88 00:05:47,670 --> 00:05:51,230 and it caches your fingerprint for when Windows asks for it 89 00:05:51,230 --> 00:05:54,810 like after it's booted up. So you don't need to come in and touch it again. 90 00:05:54,810 --> 00:05:59,440 Frickin awesome. Really good. Now how is the webcam? 91 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:05,060 I'm guessing it's terrible. But at the same time, this seems totally usable. 92 00:06:05,060 --> 00:06:10,690 It's not fantastic. It's really grainy, but it also isn't having a lot of trouble. 93 00:06:10,690 --> 00:06:13,953 Like I'm moving around here, there's a lot of bright light there, there's a lot of dark there, 94 00:06:13,953 --> 00:06:19,770 a lot of a dark there, and it's not doing, like, terrible stuff. 95 00:06:19,770 --> 00:06:24,420 Like for a camera on a webcam. My face is kind of blown out when you come over here, 96 00:06:24,420 --> 00:06:28,380 but, like, it's fine. I'd say this is pretty good. 97 00:06:29,450 --> 00:06:32,740 What to see? Respectable. Very respectable. 98 00:06:32,740 --> 00:06:36,896 It's a lot of heat pipes. One, two, three, four, five, six. 99 00:06:36,896 --> 00:06:40,370 Six. This one wraps around underneath. That's a lot of heat pipes, 100 00:06:40,370 --> 00:06:43,870 especially for something that's this thick. Now, it does look like you get 101 00:06:43,870 --> 00:06:47,030 MDOT2 slot here that's filled, and another one right here 102 00:06:47,030 --> 00:06:50,090 if you want to, you know, upgrade it. You also get one RAM slot. 103 00:06:50,090 --> 00:06:53,410 This is one of those stupid, ASUS has this thing where they have 104 00:06:53,410 --> 00:06:57,740 half the RAM on the backside of the motherboard. So I guess this one, since it currently 105 00:06:57,740 --> 00:07:01,080 has 16 Gigabytes on it, if you got it up to what, 106 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:08,581 like 48 Gigabytes of RAM, if you put, like, a 32 Gigabyte in this slot 107 00:07:08,620 --> 00:07:12,250 but then if you buy the more expensive one that comes with 32 Gigabytes, 108 00:07:12,250 --> 00:07:15,300 wait, that's the one that goes up to 48. This one would be what, 24? 109 00:07:15,300 --> 00:07:18,759 - Yeah. - Yeah. Okay, math. It's hard. 110 00:07:18,759 --> 00:07:22,970 Now you also get a 90 Watt hour battery. That's almost as big as you can get. 111 00:07:22,970 --> 00:07:26,132 I have no clue what the battery life on this is gonna be like. 112 00:07:26,132 --> 00:07:30,040 Intel's new processors. I don't know. 113 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:33,260 They might be good. They're probably not. Intel didn't say anything 114 00:07:33,260 --> 00:07:37,100 about battery life in their slides. So I'm guessing it's just terrible. 115 00:07:37,100 --> 00:07:41,180 If they had improvements over the previous generation I'm sure they would have told us. 116 00:07:41,180 --> 00:07:44,710 So, like, I don't know. It might be six hours of battery life, 117 00:07:44,710 --> 00:07:49,890 like it's probably fine, but at the same time the AMD version of this has 10. 118 00:07:49,890 --> 00:07:52,970 So, like, I don't know. I can't really tell you 119 00:07:52,970 --> 00:07:56,270 because I don't know enough about these processors yet. Oh, there's actually a GPU in there. 120 00:07:56,270 --> 00:08:01,430 There is for sure a GPU in here. It's right there. But at the same time we can't use it for whatever reason. 121 00:08:01,430 --> 00:08:05,540 So yeah, that sucks. I guess that's about the end here. 122 00:08:05,540 --> 00:08:10,440 This is a really good laptop, I think. The display, awesome. 123 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:13,830 One of the best I've ever seen on a gaming laptop. Maybe the best. 124 00:08:13,830 --> 00:08:18,640 We do have the Lenovo one with 16 by 10 coming in soon. So get subscribed to check that out. 125 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:25,160 This is an extremely compelling device and it might be my gaming laptop of the year 126 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:28,490 depending on how good 11th Gen Core-H is. 127 00:08:28,490 --> 00:08:31,586 We'll know that in like a month or something. Sorry, I can't tell you. 128 00:08:31,586 --> 00:08:35,810 (Alexander laughs) But anyway, have a great day, get subscribed, 129 00:08:35,810 --> 00:08:37,970 hit Like, and so long. Bye.