WEBVTT 00:00:00.180 --> 00:00:04.170 - Today's a very special day. In our internal system, 00:00:04.170 --> 00:00:07.180 this has only happened twice before, this is number 69. 00:00:07.180 --> 00:00:11.743 Nice. What's also nice, this is the ASUS ROG Zephyrus M16, 00:00:11.743 --> 00:00:14.780 which is a stupid name because that's a gun, 00:00:14.780 --> 00:00:18.570 and the Alienware also already has the M15 and the M17. 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. 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:27.030 Hello. Okay, for our power adapter, we get 240 Watts. 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. 00:00:30.380 --> 00:00:34.240 It's charged by a barrel adapter, but I believe you can do 100 Watts 00:00:34.240 --> 00:00:37.713 of USB-C charging. As for other stuff, we get nothing. 00:00:37.713 --> 00:00:41.020 This is a pre-production unit. It is one of the very first laptops 00:00:41.020 --> 00:00:43.853 that we have seen that has Intel's Core H. 00:00:44.772 --> 00:00:48.230 I think that looks really good. Look at the size of this, like, 00:00:48.230 --> 00:00:52.360 foot on the bottom. They must have to do that to suck in air in here 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. 00:00:57.040 --> 00:01:01.050 This back is very fingerprint prone. Oh, you can really see it in the overhead. 00:01:01.050 --> 00:01:05.040 Oh yeah. Look at that. (Alexander grumbles) 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:08.680 So we have two Thunderbolts, I'm guessing a Slender Bolt 4, 00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:13.110 and I'm guessing because they're so close there's only a single Thunderbolt controller 00:01:13.110 --> 00:01:16.820 but that's fine. I also have full size USB Type A, Ethernet, 00:01:16.820 --> 00:01:20.050 that's always nice to see, full-size HDMI as well, 00:01:20.050 --> 00:01:23.820 power input, and around to the other side, you get another full size HDMI 00:01:23.820 --> 00:01:26.990 and a mini SD card reader. Wish that was full size 00:01:26.990 --> 00:01:31.220 for laptop like this, but whatever. Overall, this is extremely similar 00:01:31.220 --> 00:01:34.453 to the Zephyrus G15. Now you might be thinking, 00:01:34.453 --> 00:01:38.150 if this is essentially the same body as the G15 00:01:38.150 --> 00:01:42.150 but is the M16, how did they get that extra inch? 00:01:42.150 --> 00:01:45.500 Well, by giving it a 16 by 10 display. 00:01:45.500 --> 00:01:49.260 This thing is so good looking. Look at that. It comes all the way down here. 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 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:57.330 on a Zephyrus in a good long while. 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So it's like tall Quad-HD, 00:02:31.930 --> 00:02:35.750 so it's 2560 by 1600. 00:02:35.750 --> 00:02:39.830 Oh my god that looks good. (Alexander laughs) Massive track pad. 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. 00:02:44.050 --> 00:02:47.555 The keyboard also, so good. ASUS also has their Strix lineup 00:02:47.555 --> 00:02:51.500 which has their opto-mechanical key switches. These are so much better. 00:02:51.500 --> 00:02:54.950 This is easily, like, probably tied for my favorite switches 00:02:54.950 --> 00:02:58.763 on a gaming laptop aside from, like, the cherry ones on the M17. 00:03:00.030 --> 00:03:04.500 Great. Yep, love the keyboard. Awesome. Everything that you interact with 00:03:04.500 --> 00:03:07.950 in this little area right here, ASUS has nailed. 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. 00:03:13.070 --> 00:03:16.560 Like this is pretty light, it is just over two Kilograms. 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:23.420 So this right here has an i9-11900H, which is eight core, 16 threads, 10 nanometer, 00:03:23.420 --> 00:03:27.750 And also, you know, I have no clue how good it is. 00:03:27.750 --> 00:03:30.750 We're not allowed to do performance testing on this guy, 00:03:30.750 --> 00:03:33.970 and also, like, I do have upstairs one 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. 00:03:38.160 --> 00:03:41.930 And it's, it's garbage. It's terrible. Not because of the CPU, 00:03:41.930 --> 00:03:45.040 but because just the references that they gave us is really bad 00:03:45.040 --> 00:03:48.510 and throttles to all hell. So yeah, 00:03:48.510 --> 00:03:51.530 I have no clue how good these chips are right now 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. 00:03:56.910 --> 00:04:00.240 Oh, only 500 Gigabyte SSD. I'd much rather have like a Terabyte 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:03.330 in something like this, but whatever. This graphics driver could not find 00:04:03.330 --> 00:04:06.919 compatible graphics hardware. - Uh, that sounds - Uh. 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:10.670 (Alexander laughs) I was planning on not showing you performance testing because they asked, 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 00:04:15.665 --> 00:04:18.890 we can always do a nice little sound test. 00:04:18.890 --> 00:04:21.440 I think they said this is like a six speaker setup. 00:04:22.540 --> 00:04:27.354 Apparently it's good. ("Crab Rave") 00:04:32.810 --> 00:04:36.410 Yeah, the XPS wins. This is really good though. 00:04:36.410 --> 00:04:39.560 It doesn't quite have, like, the deep base-y sounds, 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:45.600 but clarity, excellent. Overall, good showings, 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:51.270 not the best. We can also see here the displays are very comparable. 00:04:51.270 --> 00:04:55.300 It makes sense. I believe that they're both color calibrated. So they're both accurate. 00:04:55.300 --> 00:04:59.880 The Dell is a bit, like, richer. It feels more saturated 00:04:59.880 --> 00:05:03.070 and the blacks are deeper, but that's the trade-off that you have 00:05:03.070 --> 00:05:06.921 with this being a matte display. Everything's not quite as, like, 00:05:06.921 --> 00:05:11.370 crispy, inky black, but also, like, when I move over here, 00:05:11.370 --> 00:05:14.670 it's not just I don't see that light in this screen 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, 00:05:19.180 --> 00:05:22.545 updating, firmware crap, one device manager. 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. 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, 00:05:32.690 --> 00:05:36.311 which makes me sad because I wanted to play Valheim. (Alexander laughs) 00:05:36.311 --> 00:05:40.040 Now I checked and you don't get Windows facial recognition with this webcam, 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:43.390 but it doesn't really matter because you get this fingerprint reader here 00:05:43.390 --> 00:05:47.670 and it's just the best fingerprint reader ever. Because you hit the power button 00:05:47.670 --> 00:05:51.230 and it caches your fingerprint for when Windows asks for it 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. 00:05:54.810 --> 00:05:59.440 Frickin awesome. Really good. Now how is the webcam? 00:05:59.440 --> 00:06:05.060 I'm guessing it's terrible. But at the same time, this seems totally usable. 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. 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, 00:06:13.953 --> 00:06:19.770 a lot of a dark there, and it's not doing, like, terrible stuff. 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, 00:06:24.420 --> 00:06:28.380 but, like, it's fine. I'd say this is pretty good. 00:06:29.450 --> 00:06:32.740 What to see? Respectable. Very respectable. 00:06:32.740 --> 00:06:36.896 It's a lot of heat pipes. One, two, three, four, five, six. 00:06:36.896 --> 00:06:40.370 Six. This one wraps around underneath. That's a lot of heat pipes, 00:06:40.370 --> 00:06:43.870 especially for something that's this thick. Now, it does look like you get 00:06:43.870 --> 00:06:47.030 MDOT2 slot here that's filled, and another one right here 00:06:47.030 --> 00:06:50.090 if you want to, you know, upgrade it. You also get one RAM slot. 00:06:50.090 --> 00:06:53.410 This is one of those stupid, ASUS has this thing where they have 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 00:06:57.740 --> 00:07:01.080 has 16 Gigabytes on it, if you got it up to what, 00:07:01.080 --> 00:07:08.581 like 48 Gigabytes of RAM, if you put, like, a 32 Gigabyte in this slot 00:07:08.620 --> 00:07:12.250 but then if you buy the more expensive one that comes with 32 Gigabytes, 00:07:12.250 --> 00:07:15.300 wait, that's the one that goes up to 48. This one would be what, 24? 00:07:15.300 --> 00:07:18.759 - Yeah. - Yeah. Okay, math. It's hard. 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. 00:07:22.970 --> 00:07:26.132 I have no clue what the battery life on this is gonna be like. 00:07:26.132 --> 00:07:30.040 Intel's new processors. I don't know. 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:33.260 They might be good. They're probably not. Intel didn't say anything 00:07:33.260 --> 00:07:37.100 about battery life in their slides. So I'm guessing it's just terrible. 00:07:37.100 --> 00:07:41.180 If they had improvements over the previous generation I'm sure they would have told us. 00:07:41.180 --> 00:07:44.710 So, like, I don't know. It might be six hours of battery life, 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. 00:07:49.890 --> 00:07:52.970 So, like, I don't know. I can't really tell you 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. 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. 00:08:01.430 --> 00:08:05.540 So yeah, that sucks. I guess that's about the end here. 00:08:05.540 --> 00:08:10.440 This is a really good laptop, I think. The display, awesome. 00:08:10.440 --> 00:08:13.830 One of the best I've ever seen on a gaming laptop. Maybe the best. 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. 00:08:18.640 --> 00:08:25.160 This is an extremely compelling device and it might be my gaming laptop of the year 00:08:25.160 --> 00:08:28.490 depending on how good 11th Gen Core-H is. 00:08:28.490 --> 00:08:31.586 We'll know that in like a month or something. Sorry, I can't tell you. 00:08:31.586 --> 00:08:35.810 (Alexander laughs) But anyway, have a great day, get subscribed, 00:08:35.810 --> 00:08:37.970 hit Like, and so long. Bye.