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disclosure I'm invested in a framework who makes laptops the idea I pitched to
ASUS and that came alive inside this box is actually a pretty cool one because
here's the situation almost every powerful laptop on the market today is
either for gamers or for Content
creators because heaven forbid that any one person want to do both of those
things so you end up having to choose do
you want a 60 hertz 4K panel to cover
with all the little sliders dials and switches that you need for video or
photo editing or do you want to sacrifice resolution for a high refresh
rate panel so you can land those sick 360 no scope headshots my idea then was
to have something that can do both or well
really it wasn't my idea TVs that can
run at 4K 60 or 1080p 120 hertz have
existed for a long time and it's been kind of baffling to me that nobody has
adopted this approach in the PC space until now I love when things say
internal demo only and I get to play with it
it's a makeshift bezel don't peel it peel it off am I going to get in trouble
if I peel it yes they said not to peel it don't peel it why not jeez
hello setting up a device USB receiver is my
battery dead balls
no using a wireless mouse with a wire
imagine being such a big loser boy that
is a lot of pixels this thing got 100 scaling is freaking ridiculous in terms
of real estate and at 4K 120 hertz this
is already pretty smooth but could be smoother it's 3840 by 2400. that is
awesome like all these Creator monitors
that are 4K but 3840 by 2160 so you
don't even have that additional vertical space for all your all your tracks or
whatever else like that's stupid this is cool
after rebooting the display will be set to full HD at up to 240 hertz oh okay
that was it so we're at 1920 by 1200 now
and that is very 240 hertz that is super
smooth oh it's pretty bad
it's chugging it's chugging
whoa there we go what the heck I swear
it's running faster now or something likes ever so slightly there's only one
of the there's you're only supposed to fight one spider thing in this Zone it's
hilarious not gonna lie I really like this thing
so far man this feels smoother than the FPS
it's reporting it's just super responsive that's the thing a lot
of people don't realize about high refresh rate panels is it's not just
about how many FPS your game is running at it's about how frequently you are
getting an update how much latency there is like this is
easy low latency super responsive and in terms of resolution
from my point of view at this size 1080p is Lots if you're talking 24 or 27 inch
monitors yeah you're gonna want 1440p but I would
rather have the additional frame rate at this size personally oh I fell down An
Elevator Shaft cool there are definitely some Oddities in 4k
120 hertz mode they rate it for 100 coverage of the DC ip3 color space and
500 nits Peak brightness but this is weird at 1080p 240 hertz it's got a
hundred percent coverage of srgb and can reach only 400 nits now that's not to
say that it's a bad panel we got an average Delta e of just 2.27 in SDR in
4k mode and with firmware updates I mean who knows where it's going to be once
it's finished one other Oddity it's got a crack in it
um ASUS wanted to clarify that not all of them are going to ship with a crack
in it I mean personally I don't think it's a big deal I've got a crack in me
and I don't think anyone ever told me I was defective haha get it because everyone's got a
anyway I don't know maybe the engineer dropped it or something now the quote
from ASUS is you can game at 240 hertz and can work on content creation at 4K
while still getting a nice smooth 120 hertz and that really is a great idea
that I can't take credit for the big question for me then is why haven't we
been able to do this forever CRTs actually did have a similar
functionality because the main limitation was how fast the electron gun
could scan back and forth so they often had multiple rated resolutions each with
their own optimal refresh rate but the thing is LCDs have their own limiting
factors and a big one is pixel response time now manufacturers tune their panels
in order to achieve as little smearing as possible which usually involves some
degree of overdrive that is for each individual pixel essentially applying a
voltage that is great enough to get past the desired state but then back backing
off of it at the last possible moment so that it lands in the right spot so
fine-tuning that sort of thing is a royal pain in the butt and fine-tuning
it for multiple refresh rates is even more work so what I suspect is that no
one wanted to bother but that's changed in recent years with the introduction of
variable refresh rate displays with g-sync or freesync those need to perform
perfectly at many different refresh rates on the fly so again what I suspect
is that a lot of that r d is making its way into products like this that are
going to have multiple native refresh rates there are likely other factors
integer scaling that is allowing a two by two quad of pixels to be driven as a
single unit only recently gains driver support for major Graphics manufacturers
and the last thing you'd want is dual native resolutions but one of them looks
like an interpolated mess but all of this is just speculation what isn't is
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
that involves rebooting the machine in order to change modes though that could
also just be due to the early firmware that's running on these machines I'm
actually kind of surprised that this one works as well as it does
now let's change gears I love these little engineering sample
care packages
this one's really cool first things first let's talk about
what's different about this machine versus the one I just looked at it's got
an hva panel they're rating it at a hundred thousand one contrast ratio and
we'll see how that works out almost 1200 nits Peak brightness with 100 coverage
of the DCI P3 color gamut and this one is apparently Pantone validated it's
compatible with Dolby Vision HDR and uses a quantum dot layer in order to
achieve all of this now here's what's kind of trippy the mini LEDs are UV the
quantum dot film turns that into white light and then you've got just regular
LCD subpixels that gate that white light as r g or B so what I imagine is that
you're not really going to get necessarily the same kind of color
benefits that you would on a quantum dot TV but that's how you're able to achieve
this I can already tell you extremely bright backlighting on a mobile device
it's 1440p 165 Hertz so it's kind of
that Goldilocks Zone in terms of resolution and refresh rate and it's got
512 local dimming zones and Lara is dead
Reflections off the water that looked pretty sick definitely Trace HDR this
one boys oh man I don't know how well the camera is going to capture this but
jeepers so for comparison we've got a mini LED
iPad Pro here you definitely lose a little bit of the
contrast of the iPad going to a matte display instead of a glossy one Apple's
definitely got darker blacks mind you this is a product that is
actually released so there's that ASUS
seemed to be pretty concerned that we were going to be hyper critical of their
haloing uh it is to my eye not that bad though again
this is actual content if we played you know Halo testing videos we would
obviously see them where you've just got a a white ball bouncing around on a
black screen I guess it was a matter of time once we saw this stuff in the iPad
before we'd see it in mobile computers now there are some areas where I've
definitely seen notably better performance out of the tablet here we go
this sign this first floor sign here you
can clearly read the sign on the iPad but it's actually kind of hard to make
up this text on the laptop overall very impressive so there's three different
modes that it can run in either HDR which is obviously going to be using
full array local dimming HDR off or HDR
off with a single zone and then it gets 600 nit sustained brightness so that's
meant for like color accurate work if you're editing your photos or whatever
the case may be yeah you know what else is cool ah the
new gamer hoodie on LTT Store and there's even more guys
oh my gosh this is freaking heavy I
thought there's no actual laptop in it is it this heavy without even the
components in it what
the heck is this are you sure this is
what Jesus was supposed to send because this is apparently the follow-on from
the mothership concept but in a usable size
still pretty big but if it's anything like the mothership it's gonna have the
performance to back it up it's my ticket to Rog flow
adorable thank you Jesus all right
oh this is the
okay is the NR 2201 flow surface so the
idea is it's supposed to be kind of like the mothership which was a laptop that
we actually went all the way to Taiwan to see the design facility for and the
basic premise was that instead of putting all the heat generating
components in the bottom where they're going to get suffocated by your
beautiful deskpad lttstore.com they put all the heat generating components in
the top kind of like a convertible laptop or like a surface just like a
surface it's got a detachable keyboard that comes down in front of it like this
and unlike a surface it's got top tier
specs so I don't think they've confirmed absolutely everything about it but we're
expecting up to weight a 30 50 TI
got a little more clarity we're supposed to be teasing the nr2201 flow surface
which is based on this concept this is a mechanical sample of the original
Mothership but up to 3050 TI optic core
I9 up to one terabyte Gen4 SSD compatibility with their XG mobile
external gpus full HD 120 hertz or 4K
60hz blah blah blah liquid metal Etc but I don't have one to show you so I can't
really comment on how good the detachable keyboard is or the kickstand
or anything like that but I can tell you is that we're going to have a lot more
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