WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.956 (gentle music) - Oh 00:00:04.930 --> 00:00:08.590 Fancy. ASUS has made an incredibly powerful 00:00:08.590 --> 00:00:12.230 and incredibly small laptop, tablet kind of thing, 00:00:12.230 --> 00:00:15.430 but they seem to want to overcompensate a bit 'cause the first time, 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. 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. 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. 00:00:30.830 --> 00:00:35.240 The code's there. Editor, please blur that out. John O put it in the comments. 00:00:35.240 --> 00:00:39.120 Someone gets this. Yeah, we also have some headphones. 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, 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. 00:00:51.370 --> 00:00:55.720 It's vinyl wrapped with an ROG little design on it. 00:00:55.720 --> 00:00:59.370 And how do we get at it? Where's where's the laptop. 00:00:59.370 --> 00:01:03.500 Okay, nevermind. ASUS ROG super overcompensated 00:01:03.500 --> 00:01:06.860 and this box only had the peripherals in it. 00:01:06.860 --> 00:01:10.273 Like, did they send us one of their GPUs, Jono? - [Jono] Guess so. 00:01:10.273 --> 00:01:13.320 - That's sick. This is the XG Mobile. 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. 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 00:01:23.990 --> 00:01:27.200 it is very powerful. We'll have to test this out later. 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:30.462 - [Jono] What's that connecting thing though? - What's the connector thing. 00:01:30.462 --> 00:01:36.040 - [Jono] Yeah. - Oh, so this right here is their XG mobile connector. 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 00:01:40.410 --> 00:01:45.340 but we also have is PCIe Gen Three 5/8 connector right here. 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. 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 00:01:55.740 --> 00:01:58.910 and also just lower bandwidth, which sucks. 00:01:58.910 --> 00:02:03.860 Bandwidth over Thunderbolt is only good for about 10/60, 10/70. 00:02:03.860 --> 00:02:07.820 So when you're putting a 30/80 in there it would really impact your performance. 00:02:07.820 --> 00:02:13.570 Anyway, moving on. Here's the star of the show, the power brick. 00:02:13.570 --> 00:02:19.020 - [Jono] What, why? - Because, I'm this is what Galien Knight tribe. 00:02:19.020 --> 00:02:23.300 Hundred watts over type C. This thing's wicked, Jono, star of the show. 00:02:23.300 --> 00:02:26.663 Absolute unit. No, here's the actual star of the show. 00:02:27.950 --> 00:02:31.970 Are we allowed to call it just a Surface Pro but good, Jono? 00:02:31.970 --> 00:02:35.480 Yeah, this is essentially a Surface Pro, but good. 00:02:35.480 --> 00:02:40.410 Microsoft has struggled a lot to cool, you know, 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. 00:02:47.500 --> 00:02:51.860 So the first thing that's super cool about this design is see through plastics. 00:02:51.860 --> 00:02:55.040 Love it. I absolutely adore that that's coming back. 00:02:55.040 --> 00:03:00.270 It just looks cool. And it's kind of nostalgic while also just being freaking awesome. 00:03:00.270 --> 00:03:04.560 We also have fan intakes here and here, it looks like. 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:09.570 What do we have here for call on activity? It looks like we have Thunderbolt four. 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. 00:03:16.380 --> 00:03:19.650 There we go. Rubber thing, super easy to get out. 00:03:19.650 --> 00:03:24.190 There's our XG connect port. And if you want, there is another USB type C 00:03:24.190 --> 00:03:27.253 on the side of it that you can use. Right on the other side 00:03:27.253 --> 00:03:33.723 we have our power button, volume button, full size type A port; that's pretty impressive. 00:03:33.723 --> 00:03:38.250 And headphone microphone combo jack. How did they fit in so much performance 00:03:38.250 --> 00:03:42.800 and also completely destroy the Surface Pro's IO Jono? 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:46.660 - [Jono] They actually listened. - Ooh, let's open her up though. 00:03:46.660 --> 00:03:49.900 - [Jono] That looks so cool. - Yeah, this does look really cool. 00:03:49.900 --> 00:03:53.370 I have to say I was kind of skeptical 00:03:53.370 --> 00:03:57.323 about this thing because like tablets, but it looked sweet. 00:03:58.271 --> 00:04:02.619 - [Andy And Jono] Ooh. - [Jono] It glows, whoa, RGB on the back. 00:04:02.619 --> 00:04:07.720 - [Andy] RGB on the back. - What are you guys seeing? Oh, that is really fancy. 00:04:07.720 --> 00:04:11.510 Okay, yep. Keyboards working fine. Edge is not working. 00:04:11.510 --> 00:04:16.050 That's great. Thank you, Microsoft for your incredible software. 00:04:16.050 --> 00:04:20.610 The first thing I was concerned about with this laptop is the super small track pad. 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. 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. 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:36.240 Like it's the kind of thing where obviously it's not as good 00:04:36.265 --> 00:04:41.360 as an actual laptop. Like you can see here, Andy, probably 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:46.900 there is some flex in it, but I also have seen worse in laptops. 00:04:46.900 --> 00:04:53.360 And if you want, you know the traditional clam shell design, they have the Flow X13. 00:04:53.860 --> 00:04:58.100 And so you should just buy that if you want a traditional clam shell design. 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. 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 00:05:10.420 --> 00:05:13.860 use that, or just, you know, use it very simply as a tablet. 00:05:13.860 --> 00:05:17.300 This also would probably be awesome to have on a plane 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 00:05:22.900 --> 00:05:25.910 of a little laptop. This thing would be awesome to have 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. 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 00:05:36.820 --> 00:05:40.770 thick this is, Andy, it's a tablet, but it's got 20 threads. 00:05:40.770 --> 00:05:44.780 What the hell? So in this we have an i9 12900H, 00:05:44.780 --> 00:05:48.210 that's a 45 watt processor, again in a tablet. 00:05:48.210 --> 00:05:51.640 We also have a NVIDIA RTX 3050Ti, 00:05:51.640 --> 00:05:56.430 along with 16 gigabytes of RAM at 5,200 mega transfers per second 00:05:56.430 --> 00:06:00.170 that has to be DDR5, one terabyte SSD, 00:06:00.170 --> 00:06:04.100 Intel Wi-Fi 6E, basically all of the best stuff. 00:06:04.100 --> 00:06:07.910 I'm guessing it's also incredibly expensive and it is very expensive. 00:06:07.910 --> 00:06:14.100 This unit right here is 1899. You can definitely get more power for the price 00:06:14.100 --> 00:06:18.910 but you know, look at it. Those are much, much bigger. 00:06:18.910 --> 00:06:24.800 Now, one thing I was curious about is how Xbox controllers play with this. 00:06:24.800 --> 00:06:28.210 I'm assuming that they have batteries in the controller 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, 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:39.990 which would be awesome because otherwise we need one of those big old wireless, Xbox controller 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. 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 00:06:49.530 --> 00:06:54.070 and did it? Failed to pair, okay. That wasn't as flawless as I was hoping. 00:06:54.070 --> 00:06:57.110 So wait, does that mean that you can just pair Xbox series controllers 00:06:57.110 --> 00:07:00.753 over Bluetooth to your laptops? - [Jono] Guess so. - That is sick. 00:07:02.430 --> 00:07:06.682 Ha ha. Controller's ready to go. Wow, it's amazing how things just work 00:07:06.682 --> 00:07:10.970 once you've updated everything. Okay, do we get to game on it? 00:07:10.970 --> 00:07:14.403 I think we finally get to game on it. Heck yeah. Oh, here we go. 00:07:14.403 --> 00:07:18.440 Excellent. 120 Hertz gotta enable that. 00:07:18.440 --> 00:07:23.440 So we have a 1920 by 1200p display going at 120 Hertz 00:07:23.900 --> 00:07:26.920 16 by 10, fricking love that, 00:07:26.920 --> 00:07:30.250 we also have an eight bit color depth. And what did you say? 00:07:30.250 --> 00:07:34.140 Hundred percent DCI-P3. Okay, don't know exactly what the color space is 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. 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:42.810 So we're here in Forza Horizon 5, 10 ADP. 00:07:42.810 --> 00:07:47.810 It looks like that we're getting 60 to 70 FPS on low. 00:07:47.810 --> 00:07:53.270 Now that might not sound amazing but this game looks really good. 00:07:53.270 --> 00:07:56.700 Even on low settings. And remember, this is, this is a tablet. 00:07:56.700 --> 00:08:01.170 Like it is absolutely incredible that we can play a game that looks like this 00:08:01.170 --> 00:08:04.950 record it at the same time and still be getting 70 FPS. 00:08:04.950 --> 00:08:08.430 Like this is incredible. What it's doing right now. 00:08:08.430 --> 00:08:14.070 It's also nearly silent. I'm really impressed with how it's not making 00:08:14.070 --> 00:08:18.220 absolute racket. How are the speakers on this? 00:08:18.220 --> 00:08:21.930 That's really quite good. Like this is loud enough. - [Game] Go Team Motorcycle. 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 00:08:25.720 --> 00:08:30.700 - [Game] Daredevil bikers. - You know, use these speakers effectively while 00:08:30.700 --> 00:08:34.290 having a group of dudes around it. Or gals. 00:08:34.290 --> 00:08:37.610 Yeah, like as far as just like a casual gaming 00:08:37.610 --> 00:08:40.650 experience goes, this is very good. 00:08:40.650 --> 00:08:44.420 There is a chance though that you saw that and we're like 60 FPS. 00:08:44.420 --> 00:08:47.900 What is this? I'm a PC gamer. I can't live with that. 00:08:47.900 --> 00:08:51.092 And I want to give ASUS a whole bunch more money. 00:08:51.092 --> 00:08:54.900 That's where the XG mobile comes in. 00:08:54.900 --> 00:08:58.490 Oh, so this is pretty sweet. Now you've got your multi-monitor display. 00:08:58.490 --> 00:09:02.810 You can look at lttstore.com and at the same time you can boot up 00:09:02.810 --> 00:09:09.550 your games on the other screen. So we go to Start Manager GPU RTX 30/80. 00:09:10.270 --> 00:09:14.480 Oh yeah. So now we've got our lttstore.com open. 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:18.960 We've got Forza up top, which is a 1440p on high. 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 00:09:26.966 --> 00:09:30.440 is not a desktop 30/80. 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 00:09:39.110 --> 00:09:43.250 but they call it a 30/80 in laptops. It's the same dye. 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. 00:09:48.490 --> 00:09:52.530 - [Andy] Oh yeah. - Oh, one-sixty, a hundred sixty FPS. 00:09:52.530 --> 00:09:57.300 You cannot complain about that. We could probably increase the graphics a little bit 00:09:57.300 --> 00:10:01.960 but I'm one to go for 160 FPS over ultra quality 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:06.300 and 140 FPS. This is clearly very awesome. 00:10:06.300 --> 00:10:09.900 Especially that you have that's, it's running off a tablet. 00:10:09.900 --> 00:10:13.760 Like, can you guys believe that? - [Jono] And an eGPU. 00:10:13.760 --> 00:10:19.150 - Yeah, it's a tablet and an eGPU. But like if you have bolder tier cash 00:10:19.150 --> 00:10:22.300 this is a really awesome way to have like your cake 00:10:22.300 --> 00:10:26.820 and eat it too with a laptop. Now, one thing that makes this so sweet is 00:10:26.820 --> 00:10:30.622 that it has a vapor chamber in there. So instead of having heat pipes 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 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:39.290 the vapor chamber's able to just take all that heat 00:10:39.290 --> 00:10:42.890 and sort of put it wherever it needs to go. It doesn't really care. 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 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 00:10:53.436 --> 00:10:59.620 and the CPU gets all of the, you know thermals that this has built into it. 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 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:07.910 on a mobile CPU with an eGPU. 00:11:07.910 --> 00:11:11.350 Okay, so this thing is clearly a small gaming beast. 00:11:11.350 --> 00:11:14.437 What I'm curious of is can you upgrade it? 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 00:11:20.040 --> 00:11:25.330 it to really, you know be upgradeable, but if it is, that's a massive bonus. 00:11:25.330 --> 00:11:28.610 I do see screws on the back. One thing that I didn't notice before is 00:11:28.610 --> 00:11:32.050 that there appears to be a little SD card reader right here. 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 00:11:36.630 --> 00:11:40.470 you can take this little cover off and have access to your SSD for upgrading. 00:11:40.470 --> 00:11:45.020 That's pretty awesome. Look at that Andy. Yeah, I'm getting real 00:11:45.020 --> 00:11:48.600 if we want to get into this we gotta break out the heat gun vibes 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. 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 00:11:58.290 --> 00:12:01.790 that goes all the way along here. Underneath it there is liquid metal. 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 00:12:06.440 --> 00:12:11.150 so that your GPU goes directly through your CPU and doesn't have, you know 00:12:11.150 --> 00:12:15.720 the associated losses with that. Before we head out, I just want to quickly see 00:12:15.720 --> 00:12:20.170 how good this webcam is. Okay, front facing camera looks pretty good. 00:12:20.170 --> 00:12:25.390 This is more than acceptable for your typical like tablet or laptop. 00:12:25.390 --> 00:12:29.493 Let's see about the back facing. Okay, yeah. So this is actually pretty decent. 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. 00:12:35.910 --> 00:12:38.940 So that makes it way more impressive. Cuz they're always so (bleep) on laptops. 00:12:38.940 --> 00:12:43.890 Anyway, Flow Z13. Huge thanks to ASUS for sponsoring this video. 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. 00:12:47.470 --> 00:12:50.843 If you do, you're an idiot. Thanks for watching. Goodbye, have a good day.