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disclosure I'm invested in a framework who makes laptops the idea I pitched to

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ASUS and that came alive inside this box is actually a pretty cool one because

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here's the situation almost every powerful laptop on the market today is

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either for gamers or for Content

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creators because heaven forbid that any one person want to do both of those

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things so you end up having to choose do

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you want a 60 hertz 4K panel to cover

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with all the little sliders dials and switches that you need for video or

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photo editing or do you want to sacrifice resolution for a high refresh

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rate panel so you can land those sick 360 no scope headshots my idea then was

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to have something that can do both or well

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really it wasn't my idea TVs that can

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run at 4K 60 or 1080p 120 hertz have

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existed for a long time and it's been kind of baffling to me that nobody has

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adopted this approach in the PC space until now I love when things say

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internal demo only and I get to play with it

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it's a makeshift bezel don't peel it peel it off am I going to get in trouble

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if I peel it yes they said not to peel it don't peel it why not jeez

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hello setting up a device USB receiver is my

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battery dead balls

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no using a wireless mouse with a wire

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imagine being such a big loser boy that

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is a lot of pixels this thing got 100 scaling is freaking ridiculous in terms

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of real estate and at 4K 120 hertz this

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is already pretty smooth but could be smoother it's 3840 by 2400. that is

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awesome like all these Creator monitors

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that are 4K but 3840 by 2160 so you

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don't even have that additional vertical space for all your all your tracks or

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whatever else like that's stupid this is cool

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after rebooting the display will be set to full HD at up to 240 hertz oh okay

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that was it so we're at 1920 by 1200 now

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and that is very 240 hertz that is super

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smooth oh it's pretty bad

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it's chugging it's chugging

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whoa there we go what the heck I swear

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it's running faster now or something likes ever so slightly there's only one

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of the there's you're only supposed to fight one spider thing in this Zone it's

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hilarious not gonna lie I really like this thing

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so far man this feels smoother than the FPS

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it's reporting it's just super responsive that's the thing a lot

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of people don't realize about high refresh rate panels is it's not just

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about how many FPS your game is running at it's about how frequently you are

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getting an update how much latency there is like this is

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easy low latency super responsive and in terms of resolution

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from my point of view at this size 1080p is Lots if you're talking 24 or 27 inch

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monitors yeah you're gonna want 1440p but I would

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rather have the additional frame rate at this size personally oh I fell down An

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Elevator Shaft cool there are definitely some Oddities in 4k

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120 hertz mode they rate it for 100 coverage of the DC ip3 color space and

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500 nits Peak brightness but this is weird at 1080p 240 hertz it's got a

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hundred percent coverage of srgb and can reach only 400 nits now that's not to

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say that it's a bad panel we got an average Delta e of just 2.27 in SDR in

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4k mode and with firmware updates I mean who knows where it's going to be once

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it's finished one other Oddity it's got a crack in it

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um ASUS wanted to clarify that not all of them are going to ship with a crack

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in it I mean personally I don't think it's a big deal I've got a crack in me

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and I don't think anyone ever told me I was defective haha get it because everyone's got a

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anyway I don't know maybe the engineer dropped it or something now the quote

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from ASUS is you can game at 240 hertz and can work on content creation at 4K

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while still getting a nice smooth 120 hertz and that really is a great idea

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that I can't take credit for the big question for me then is why haven't we

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been able to do this forever CRTs actually did have a similar

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functionality because the main limitation was how fast the electron gun

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could scan back and forth so they often had multiple rated resolutions each with

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their own optimal refresh rate but the thing is LCDs have their own limiting

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factors and a big one is pixel response time now manufacturers tune their panels

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in order to achieve as little smearing as possible which usually involves some

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degree of overdrive that is for each individual pixel essentially applying a

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voltage that is great enough to get past the desired state but then back backing

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off of it at the last possible moment so that it lands in the right spot so

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fine-tuning that sort of thing is a royal pain in the butt and fine-tuning

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it for multiple refresh rates is even more work so what I suspect is that no

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one wanted to bother but that's changed in recent years with the introduction of

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variable refresh rate displays with g-sync or freesync those need to perform

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perfectly at many different refresh rates on the fly so again what I suspect

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is that a lot of that r d is making its way into products like this that are

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going to have multiple native refresh rates there are likely other factors

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integer scaling that is allowing a two by two quad of pixels to be driven as a

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single unit only recently gains driver support for major Graphics manufacturers

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and the last thing you'd want is dual native resolutions but one of them looks

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like an interpolated mess but all of this is just speculation what isn't is

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that this Tech is coming and I think it's super cool cool and it's going to be even cooler when it's not a big chore

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that involves rebooting the machine in order to change modes though that could

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also just be due to the early firmware that's running on these machines I'm

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actually kind of surprised that this one works as well as it does

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now let's change gears I love these little engineering sample

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care packages

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this one's really cool first things first let's talk about

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what's different about this machine versus the one I just looked at it's got

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an hva panel they're rating it at a hundred thousand one contrast ratio and

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we'll see how that works out almost 1200 nits Peak brightness with 100 coverage

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of the DCI P3 color gamut and this one is apparently Pantone validated it's

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compatible with Dolby Vision HDR and uses a quantum dot layer in order to

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achieve all of this now here's what's kind of trippy the mini LEDs are UV the

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quantum dot film turns that into white light and then you've got just regular

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LCD subpixels that gate that white light as r g or B so what I imagine is that

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you're not really going to get necessarily the same kind of color

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benefits that you would on a quantum dot TV but that's how you're able to achieve

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this I can already tell you extremely bright backlighting on a mobile device

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it's 1440p 165 Hertz so it's kind of

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that Goldilocks Zone in terms of resolution and refresh rate and it's got

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512 local dimming zones and Lara is dead

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Reflections off the water that looked pretty sick definitely Trace HDR this

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one boys oh man I don't know how well the camera is going to capture this but

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jeepers so for comparison we've got a mini LED

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iPad Pro here you definitely lose a little bit of the

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contrast of the iPad going to a matte display instead of a glossy one Apple's

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definitely got darker blacks mind you this is a product that is

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actually released so there's that ASUS

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seemed to be pretty concerned that we were going to be hyper critical of their

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haloing uh it is to my eye not that bad though again

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this is actual content if we played you know Halo testing videos we would

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obviously see them where you've just got a a white ball bouncing around on a

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black screen I guess it was a matter of time once we saw this stuff in the iPad

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before we'd see it in mobile computers now there are some areas where I've

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definitely seen notably better performance out of the tablet here we go

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this sign this first floor sign here you

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can clearly read the sign on the iPad but it's actually kind of hard to make

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up this text on the laptop overall very impressive so there's three different

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modes that it can run in either HDR which is obviously going to be using

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full array local dimming HDR off or HDR

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off with a single zone and then it gets 600 nit sustained brightness so that's

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meant for like color accurate work if you're editing your photos or whatever

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the case may be yeah you know what else is cool ah the

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new gamer hoodie on LTT Store and there's even more guys

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oh my gosh this is freaking heavy I

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thought there's no actual laptop in it is it this heavy without even the

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components in it what

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the heck is this are you sure this is

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what Jesus was supposed to send because this is apparently the follow-on from

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the mothership concept but in a usable size

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still pretty big but if it's anything like the mothership it's gonna have the

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performance to back it up it's my ticket to Rog flow

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adorable thank you Jesus all right

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oh this is the

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okay is the NR 2201 flow surface so the

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idea is it's supposed to be kind of like the mothership which was a laptop that

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we actually went all the way to Taiwan to see the design facility for and the

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basic premise was that instead of putting all the heat generating

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components in the bottom where they're going to get suffocated by your

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beautiful deskpad lttstore.com they put all the heat generating components in

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the top kind of like a convertible laptop or like a surface just like a

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surface it's got a detachable keyboard that comes down in front of it like this

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and unlike a surface it's got top tier

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specs so I don't think they've confirmed absolutely everything about it but we're

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expecting up to weight a 30 50 TI

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got a little more clarity we're supposed to be teasing the nr2201 flow surface

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which is based on this concept this is a mechanical sample of the original

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Mothership but up to 3050 TI optic core

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I9 up to one terabyte Gen4 SSD compatibility with their XG mobile

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external gpus full HD 120 hertz or 4K

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60hz blah blah blah liquid metal Etc but I don't have one to show you so I can't

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really comment on how good the detachable keyboard is or the kickstand

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or anything like that but I can tell you is that we're going to have a lot more

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coverage of things that are getting announced at CES so make sure you get subscribed so you don't miss them and I

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video maybe check out our review of my favorite ASUS laptop right now the flow

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x13 it is absolutely sick