1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,956 (gentle music) - Oh 2 00:00:04,930 --> 00:00:08,590 Fancy. ASUS has made an incredibly powerful 3 00:00:08,590 --> 00:00:12,230 and incredibly small laptop, tablet kind of thing, 4 00:00:12,230 --> 00:00:15,430 but they seem to want to overcompensate a bit 'cause the first time, 5 00:00:15,430 --> 00:00:20,530 it was inside of the mothership and this time it's an even bigger package, ROG Bounce. 6 00:00:20,530 --> 00:00:25,190 Doesn't bounce, proved them wrong. Anyway, let's get into it. This is sponsored by ASUS ROG. 7 00:00:25,190 --> 00:00:30,830 Oh, let's see what we have in here. So first of all, we have a Game Pass Ultimate subscription. 8 00:00:30,830 --> 00:00:35,240 The code's there. Editor, please blur that out. John O put it in the comments. 9 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:39,120 Someone gets this. Yeah, we also have some headphones. 10 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:45,330 I didn't know these were in here, so that's pretty cool. So we have got the Fusion II 500, 11 00:00:45,330 --> 00:00:51,370 apparently it has surround sound and RGB. And also in here we get the Xbox wireless controller. 12 00:00:51,370 --> 00:00:55,720 It's vinyl wrapped with an ROG little design on it. 13 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:59,370 And how do we get at it? Where's where's the laptop. 14 00:00:59,370 --> 00:01:03,500 Okay, nevermind. ASUS ROG super overcompensated 15 00:01:03,500 --> 00:01:06,860 and this box only had the peripherals in it. 16 00:01:06,860 --> 00:01:10,273 Like, did they send us one of their GPUs, Jono? - [Jono] Guess so. 17 00:01:10,273 --> 00:01:13,320 - That's sick. This is the XG Mobile. 18 00:01:13,320 --> 00:01:19,520 And it connects to the Flow Z13 and allows you to have like a full blown Z dedicated GPU. 19 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:23,990 Well, I think it's a mobile GPU actually in a little enclosure, but at the same time 20 00:01:23,990 --> 00:01:27,200 it is very powerful. We'll have to test this out later. 21 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:30,462 - [Jono] What's that connecting thing though? - What's the connector thing. 22 00:01:30,462 --> 00:01:36,040 - [Jono] Yeah. - Oh, so this right here is their XG mobile connector. 23 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:40,410 And what we have is we have, I believe this is Thunderbolt. It might just be type C 24 00:01:40,410 --> 00:01:45,340 but we also have is PCIe Gen Three 5/8 connector right here. 25 00:01:45,340 --> 00:01:51,210 So that allows us to get the full bandwidth or pretty much the full bandwidth of this GPU to the laptop. 26 00:01:51,210 --> 00:01:55,740 Whereas if you did it over Thunderbolt or something like that, you would have way more latency 27 00:01:55,740 --> 00:01:58,910 and also just lower bandwidth, which sucks. 28 00:01:58,910 --> 00:02:03,860 Bandwidth over Thunderbolt is only good for about 10/60, 10/70. 29 00:02:03,860 --> 00:02:07,820 So when you're putting a 30/80 in there it would really impact your performance. 30 00:02:07,820 --> 00:02:13,570 Anyway, moving on. Here's the star of the show, the power brick. 31 00:02:13,570 --> 00:02:19,020 - [Jono] What, why? - Because, I'm this is what Galien Knight tribe. 32 00:02:19,020 --> 00:02:23,300 Hundred watts over type C. This thing's wicked, Jono, star of the show. 33 00:02:23,300 --> 00:02:26,663 Absolute unit. No, here's the actual star of the show. 34 00:02:27,950 --> 00:02:31,970 Are we allowed to call it just a Surface Pro but good, Jono? 35 00:02:31,970 --> 00:02:35,480 Yeah, this is essentially a Surface Pro, but good. 36 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:40,410 Microsoft has struggled a lot to cool, you know, 37 00:02:40,410 --> 00:02:47,500 two, four cores in a CPU and not turn the back of the chassis into a frying pan. 38 00:02:47,500 --> 00:02:51,860 So the first thing that's super cool about this design is see through plastics. 39 00:02:51,860 --> 00:02:55,040 Love it. I absolutely adore that that's coming back. 40 00:02:55,040 --> 00:03:00,270 It just looks cool. And it's kind of nostalgic while also just being freaking awesome. 41 00:03:00,270 --> 00:03:04,560 We also have fan intakes here and here, it looks like. 42 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:09,570 What do we have here for call on activity? It looks like we have Thunderbolt four. 43 00:03:09,570 --> 00:03:16,380 This right here is the XG GPU port. Although I believe you can use that as a type C. 44 00:03:16,380 --> 00:03:19,650 There we go. Rubber thing, super easy to get out. 45 00:03:19,650 --> 00:03:24,190 There's our XG connect port. And if you want, there is another USB type C 46 00:03:24,190 --> 00:03:27,253 on the side of it that you can use. Right on the other side 47 00:03:27,253 --> 00:03:33,723 we have our power button, volume button, full size type A port; that's pretty impressive. 48 00:03:33,723 --> 00:03:38,250 And headphone microphone combo jack. How did they fit in so much performance 49 00:03:38,250 --> 00:03:42,800 and also completely destroy the Surface Pro's IO Jono? 50 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:46,660 - [Jono] They actually listened. - Ooh, let's open her up though. 51 00:03:46,660 --> 00:03:49,900 - [Jono] That looks so cool. - Yeah, this does look really cool. 52 00:03:49,900 --> 00:03:53,370 I have to say I was kind of skeptical 53 00:03:53,370 --> 00:03:57,323 about this thing because like tablets, but it looked sweet. 54 00:03:58,271 --> 00:04:02,619 - [Andy And Jono] Ooh. - [Jono] It glows, whoa, RGB on the back. 55 00:04:02,619 --> 00:04:07,720 - [Andy] RGB on the back. - What are you guys seeing? Oh, that is really fancy. 56 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:11,510 Okay, yep. Keyboards working fine. Edge is not working. 57 00:04:11,510 --> 00:04:16,050 That's great. Thank you, Microsoft for your incredible software. 58 00:04:16,050 --> 00:04:20,610 The first thing I was concerned about with this laptop is the super small track pad. 59 00:04:20,610 --> 00:04:25,780 Out of the box, I wasn't a huge fan but after disabling mouse acceleration, it's not bad. 60 00:04:25,780 --> 00:04:31,240 I'm sure you'll get used to it in a second. Also the keyboard: keyboard's great. 61 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:36,240 Like it's the kind of thing where obviously it's not as good 62 00:04:36,265 --> 00:04:41,360 as an actual laptop. Like you can see here, Andy, probably 63 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:46,900 there is some flex in it, but I also have seen worse in laptops. 64 00:04:46,900 --> 00:04:53,360 And if you want, you know the traditional clam shell design, they have the Flow X13. 65 00:04:53,860 --> 00:04:58,100 And so you should just buy that if you want a traditional clam shell design. 66 00:04:58,100 --> 00:05:05,050 If you do go for a traditional laptop, though what you can't do is this: remove the keyboard. 67 00:05:05,050 --> 00:05:10,420 So that allows you to, you know, not have a keyboard. You could put whatever keyboard you want right here 68 00:05:10,420 --> 00:05:13,860 use that, or just, you know, use it very simply as a tablet. 69 00:05:13,860 --> 00:05:17,300 This also would probably be awesome to have on a plane 70 00:05:17,300 --> 00:05:22,900 cuz you're always just running out of space there. This I see is kind of like the dorm room hero 71 00:05:22,900 --> 00:05:25,910 of a little laptop. This thing would be awesome to have 72 00:05:25,910 --> 00:05:30,460 with a bunch of your friends, just like plop it anywhere. Good, we can play some games. 73 00:05:30,460 --> 00:05:36,820 As I've alluded to the really impressive thing about this laptop are the specs like look at how 74 00:05:36,820 --> 00:05:40,770 thick this is, Andy, it's a tablet, but it's got 20 threads. 75 00:05:40,770 --> 00:05:44,780 What the hell? So in this we have an i9 12900H, 76 00:05:44,780 --> 00:05:48,210 that's a 45 watt processor, again in a tablet. 77 00:05:48,210 --> 00:05:51,640 We also have a NVIDIA RTX 3050Ti, 78 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:56,430 along with 16 gigabytes of RAM at 5,200 mega transfers per second 79 00:05:56,430 --> 00:06:00,170 that has to be DDR5, one terabyte SSD, 80 00:06:00,170 --> 00:06:04,100 Intel Wi-Fi 6E, basically all of the best stuff. 81 00:06:04,100 --> 00:06:07,910 I'm guessing it's also incredibly expensive and it is very expensive. 82 00:06:07,910 --> 00:06:14,100 This unit right here is 1899. You can definitely get more power for the price 83 00:06:14,100 --> 00:06:18,910 but you know, look at it. Those are much, much bigger. 84 00:06:18,910 --> 00:06:24,800 Now, one thing I was curious about is how Xbox controllers play with this. 85 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:28,210 I'm assuming that they have batteries in the controller 86 00:06:28,210 --> 00:06:35,160 first of all, but I would assume that they have an Xbox controller dongle integrated into this, 87 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:39,990 which would be awesome because otherwise we need one of those big old wireless, Xbox controller 88 00:06:39,990 --> 00:06:43,760 dongles hanging out of the side whenever we want to use it. That's not very elegant. 89 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:49,530 So I just pressed the pair button here. It immediately popped up on this that I wanted to connect 90 00:06:49,530 --> 00:06:54,070 and did it? Failed to pair, okay. That wasn't as flawless as I was hoping. 91 00:06:54,070 --> 00:06:57,110 So wait, does that mean that you can just pair Xbox series controllers 92 00:06:57,110 --> 00:07:00,753 over Bluetooth to your laptops? - [Jono] Guess so. - That is sick. 93 00:07:02,430 --> 00:07:06,682 Ha ha. Controller's ready to go. Wow, it's amazing how things just work 94 00:07:06,682 --> 00:07:10,970 once you've updated everything. Okay, do we get to game on it? 95 00:07:10,970 --> 00:07:14,403 I think we finally get to game on it. Heck yeah. Oh, here we go. 96 00:07:14,403 --> 00:07:18,440 Excellent. 120 Hertz gotta enable that. 97 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:23,440 So we have a 1920 by 1200p display going at 120 Hertz 98 00:07:23,900 --> 00:07:26,920 16 by 10, fricking love that, 99 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:30,250 we also have an eight bit color depth. And what did you say? 100 00:07:30,250 --> 00:07:34,140 Hundred percent DCI-P3. Okay, don't know exactly what the color space is 101 00:07:34,140 --> 00:07:39,680 but it has Dolby vision support and it's Pantone Validated. So all the colors should be nice and accurate, yeah. 102 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:42,810 So we're here in Forza Horizon 5, 10 ADP. 103 00:07:42,810 --> 00:07:47,810 It looks like that we're getting 60 to 70 FPS on low. 104 00:07:47,810 --> 00:07:53,270 Now that might not sound amazing but this game looks really good. 105 00:07:53,270 --> 00:07:56,700 Even on low settings. And remember, this is, this is a tablet. 106 00:07:56,700 --> 00:08:01,170 Like it is absolutely incredible that we can play a game that looks like this 107 00:08:01,170 --> 00:08:04,950 record it at the same time and still be getting 70 FPS. 108 00:08:04,950 --> 00:08:08,430 Like this is incredible. What it's doing right now. 109 00:08:08,430 --> 00:08:14,070 It's also nearly silent. I'm really impressed with how it's not making 110 00:08:14,070 --> 00:08:18,220 absolute racket. How are the speakers on this? 111 00:08:18,220 --> 00:08:21,930 That's really quite good. Like this is loud enough. - [Game] Go Team Motorcycle. 112 00:08:21,930 --> 00:08:25,720 - That you could very easily, if you're playing a game with a couple of your friends 113 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:30,700 - [Game] Daredevil bikers. - You know, use these speakers effectively while 114 00:08:30,700 --> 00:08:34,290 having a group of dudes around it. Or gals. 115 00:08:34,290 --> 00:08:37,610 Yeah, like as far as just like a casual gaming 116 00:08:37,610 --> 00:08:40,650 experience goes, this is very good. 117 00:08:40,650 --> 00:08:44,420 There is a chance though that you saw that and we're like 60 FPS. 118 00:08:44,420 --> 00:08:47,900 What is this? I'm a PC gamer. I can't live with that. 119 00:08:47,900 --> 00:08:51,092 And I want to give ASUS a whole bunch more money. 120 00:08:51,092 --> 00:08:54,900 That's where the XG mobile comes in. 121 00:08:54,900 --> 00:08:58,490 Oh, so this is pretty sweet. Now you've got your multi-monitor display. 122 00:08:58,490 --> 00:09:02,810 You can look at lttstore.com and at the same time you can boot up 123 00:09:02,810 --> 00:09:09,550 your games on the other screen. So we go to Start Manager GPU RTX 30/80. 124 00:09:10,270 --> 00:09:14,480 Oh yeah. So now we've got our lttstore.com open. 125 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:18,960 We've got Forza up top, which is a 1440p on high. 126 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:26,253 I think that's what we'll get away with, with a mobile 30/80, which to be clear, the 30/80 in this eGPU 127 00:09:26,966 --> 00:09:30,440 is not a desktop 30/80. 128 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:38,150 Like, you're probably wondering how the heck is it so small and it's 30/80. It isn't a 30/80, it's more like a 30/70 on the desktop 129 00:09:39,110 --> 00:09:43,250 but they call it a 30/80 in laptops. It's the same dye. 130 00:09:43,250 --> 00:09:48,490 16 gigs is a big RAM though, pretty sweet. Okay, Andy, you have to say, this is pretty sweet. 131 00:09:48,490 --> 00:09:52,530 - [Andy] Oh yeah. - Oh, one-sixty, a hundred sixty FPS. 132 00:09:52,530 --> 00:09:57,300 You cannot complain about that. We could probably increase the graphics a little bit 133 00:09:57,300 --> 00:10:01,960 but I'm one to go for 160 FPS over ultra quality 134 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:06,300 and 140 FPS. This is clearly very awesome. 135 00:10:06,300 --> 00:10:09,900 Especially that you have that's, it's running off a tablet. 136 00:10:09,900 --> 00:10:13,760 Like, can you guys believe that? - [Jono] And an eGPU. 137 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:19,150 - Yeah, it's a tablet and an eGPU. But like if you have bolder tier cash 138 00:10:19,150 --> 00:10:22,300 this is a really awesome way to have like your cake 139 00:10:22,300 --> 00:10:26,820 and eat it too with a laptop. Now, one thing that makes this so sweet is 140 00:10:26,820 --> 00:10:30,622 that it has a vapor chamber in there. So instead of having heat pipes 141 00:10:30,622 --> 00:10:36,120 that might dedicate a certain amount of your cooling to the GPU, certain amount to the CPU 142 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:39,290 the vapor chamber's able to just take all that heat 143 00:10:39,290 --> 00:10:42,890 and sort of put it wherever it needs to go. It doesn't really care. 144 00:10:42,890 --> 00:10:48,370 So when you have it as a tablet the GPU and the CPU are going to be vying 145 00:10:48,370 --> 00:10:53,436 for all of that heat dissipation. Whereas in a setup like this, the GPU is basically off 146 00:10:53,436 --> 00:10:59,620 and the CPU gets all of the, you know thermals that this has built into it. 147 00:10:59,620 --> 00:11:04,320 So that's why you're able to have a super awesome situation where you're doing 160 FPS 148 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:07,910 on a mobile CPU with an eGPU. 149 00:11:07,910 --> 00:11:11,350 Okay, so this thing is clearly a small gaming beast. 150 00:11:11,350 --> 00:11:14,437 What I'm curious of is can you upgrade it? 151 00:11:14,437 --> 00:11:20,040 Can you repair it? I don't know. It's the kind of device where I don't expect 152 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:25,330 it to really, you know be upgradeable, but if it is, that's a massive bonus. 153 00:11:25,330 --> 00:11:28,610 I do see screws on the back. One thing that I didn't notice before is 154 00:11:28,610 --> 00:11:32,050 that there appears to be a little SD card reader right here. 155 00:11:32,050 --> 00:11:36,630 So you could slot one in for additional storage. So it looks like with just one screw 156 00:11:36,630 --> 00:11:40,470 you can take this little cover off and have access to your SSD for upgrading. 157 00:11:40,470 --> 00:11:45,020 That's pretty awesome. Look at that Andy. Yeah, I'm getting real 158 00:11:45,020 --> 00:11:48,600 if we want to get into this we gotta break out the heat gun vibes 159 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:53,490 and I'm not in a heat gunning this and destroying it kind of mood right now. 160 00:11:53,490 --> 00:11:58,290 It is too bad that we couldn't open it up. I really wanted to check out the big old vapor chamber 161 00:11:58,290 --> 00:12:01,790 that goes all the way along here. Underneath it there is liquid metal. 162 00:12:01,790 --> 00:12:06,440 That's how you keep your parts all nice and cool. And also there is a muck switch 163 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:11,150 so that your GPU goes directly through your CPU and doesn't have, you know 164 00:12:11,150 --> 00:12:15,720 the associated losses with that. Before we head out, I just want to quickly see 165 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:20,170 how good this webcam is. Okay, front facing camera looks pretty good. 166 00:12:20,170 --> 00:12:25,390 This is more than acceptable for your typical like tablet or laptop. 167 00:12:25,390 --> 00:12:29,493 Let's see about the back facing. Okay, yeah. So this is actually pretty decent. 168 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:35,910 It's pretty much, you know what you'd expect from a normal phone camera except it's in a laptop. 169 00:12:35,910 --> 00:12:38,940 So that makes it way more impressive. Cuz they're always so (bleep) on laptops. 170 00:12:38,940 --> 00:12:43,890 Anyway, Flow Z13. Huge thanks to ASUS for sponsoring this video. 171 00:12:43,890 --> 00:12:47,470 Oh, Jona wants me to mention that there's a 4k 60 Hertz version. Don't buy it. 172 00:12:47,470 --> 00:12:50,843 If you do, you're an idiot. Thanks for watching. Goodbye, have a good day.