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calling it now in my hands is the best gaming laptop of 2022 this is the allnew

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zephrus G4 and it's one of the seven

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laptops eight laptops that isus sent us over for CES 2022 that run the gamut

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from incredibly practical all the way to

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well I sure hope the engineers had a lot of fun making

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below out of the gate we're going to fix a recent screw up of ours that was

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caused by a communication snafu this is

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the ASUS mother ship concept something that I had honestly assumed sort of died

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as a weird Skunk Works project never to be seen again but boy was I ever wrong

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by removing these four screws that's

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right you have to unscrew it sorry we

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find the conclusion or at least the next

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evolution of the mothership Saga the ASUS flow

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z13 it's a 1.1 kg tablet that's just

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just 12 mm thick and has a core I 9 12

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900h that is 14 processing cores with a maximum turbo

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of 5 GHz it's got an RTX 3050 TI

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featuring a MX this is a 40 watt GPU and

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the craziest part of this is Microsoft has been struggling for years to cool

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the Surface Pro how the heck did ASUS

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manage this well they've got a vapor chamber that apparently has 44% coverage

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of the main board as well as liquid metal for the cooling system and using

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the kickstand allows for even more airflow ASUS claims it will be only 32

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DB under heavy load 40 DB Max which is

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incredible if true and I can't wait to properly try it out but I can't because

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this is just a dummy unit it'll be available with up to 32 gigs of ddr5

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5200 megat transfer per second memory and up to a 1 tbte SSD well there is one

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that's working behind you there's a working one yeah it's right there well then what was the point of sending us

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this mockup one that's a good question we're not allowed to use it well you

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can't run games you can use it we're not allowed to run games no but we could run

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games yeah you could but they'll yell at us yeah and it's not like ASUS will yell

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at us NVIDIA will yell at us and that's not a good

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time there are two different options for the touchscreen although if you get a 4K

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panel on a 13-in device you're well that's not a very nice thing to write

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Alex says you are all bone from the Jaw up I am not going to take a stance on

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that either way but I will agree with him that the 1080p 120 HZ panel will be

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more than enough resolution while offering a much better gaming experience

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and with 100% coverage of srgb and 500 nit brightness it shouldn't look too

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shabby either for I/O it's got Thunderbolt 4 with DP 1.4 running off

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the igpu and support for power delivery

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it's got an egpu port with support for up to an RTX 3080 mobile that's right

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just like the flow x13 it's got a type a

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USB 2.0 which is weird micr SD HDMI 2.0

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man this thing is absolutely loaded for bear with I/O and it finishes things off

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with a 56w hour battery no idea how long that'll last given how powerful this

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thing is but it's pretty impressive given the size my question while looking

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at the flo z13 though is is who would

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buy it over the flow x13 which is

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basically the clamshell version that has a much more usable keyboard and a better

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sort of weight balance and the answer is

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um according to ASUS people who don't type very much the z13 is lighter and

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easier to card around so if you primarily just plan on gaming and

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consuming content it could actually make a lot of sense no word on pricing but

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I'm confident that it will have a high dollar to gr ratio and arrive sometime

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in late q1 or Q2 2022 as an aside can I

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just say that I fully support a return to transparent and translucent

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Electronics yeah this is so cool I love

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it got the window into the back what even is it showing nothing particularly

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important as far as I can tell we'd have to open it up to find out for sure

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moving on let's Circle back to the zephrus G14 here and talk about why I

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think this is going to be the gaming laptop of the here the specs are

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freaking exceptional this is an AMD ryzen 6800 HS so that is 8 core 16

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threads up to 5 GHz is a 6 nanom CPU uh

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stopped working it's got an AMD rad on RX 6800s

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that has a 105 W thermal envelope which

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means that in spite of the thinness of this thing it should be pretty darn

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impressive in terms of performance and maybe even more efficient than an Intel

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NVIDIA combo thanks to AMD's control over the entire platform here though

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we'd have to test it to be sure because the only other thing I'm sure of is that

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you should shop at LTT Store.com for your water bottle your indoor hoodie all

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that good stuff actually one other thing we know for sure is that for the size of

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the laptop these components will be well cooled 48% of the motherboard is now

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covered by a vapor chamber and it's got liquid metal on both the CPU and GPU up

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to 32 gigs of 4,800 megat transfer per second ddr5 one dim is swappable

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and support for up to a 1 TB m.2 SSD and

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it's an 80 mm one which means you could basically put in whatever you want we're

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not clamoring over this laptop because of its power though I'm excited by the

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G14 because of its incredible versatility the screen is now 16 by10

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making it much better for productivity and there's a new QHD plus 120 HZ panel

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that sounds exceptional with 100% coverage of the dcip 3 color space and

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500 nit Peak brightness although to be clear I don't think you'll be

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disappointed if you go for the full HD panel that we've got right here at 13

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and 14 in 1080P is pretty good the

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trackpad is also 50% larger and the Magnesium chassis has been massaged to

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give it more of a premium appearance rather than a gamer one rounding out the

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practicality they gave it a webcam hey and not only that but it has Windows

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hello facial recognition and a 76w hour

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battery that might be enough to pry Alex's Dell XPS from his hands or dare I

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say my framework even though I'm invested in the that's my disclosure right there no word

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on pricing but I hope it isn't too much higher than the last Model because that

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one was very compelling and we're going to see this in late Q2

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2022 what is still full on gamer though

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is the strick scar 15 this bad boy is

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now available with up to a 150 wat RTX

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380 TI that's right NVIDIA's new 38 TI

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features 16 gigs of gddr6 memory and

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7,420 4 Cuda course that's a 20.8% increase

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over the standard 380 mobile that means that NVIDIA's claim that it is 20%

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faster checks out at first glance but you will have to be careful since of

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course the TDP of a laptop potentially makes a bigger difference to your

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performance than the exact model of the GPU chip inside I'm really glad that

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ASUS has published an article showing the TDP and GPU clocks of their gaming

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laptops so I can easily go in and find out that ah yes this one is not the

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fastest one it is in fact this one right

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here the zephrus duo6 it has an eye-watering GPU TDP of

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165 Watts putting it at pretty much the limit of mobile Hardware with up to an

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RTX 380 TI and an AMD ryzen 9 6900 HX

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this thing I mean it doesn't matter what you try to do on it gaming content

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creation it's an absolute Beast the upper display is now 16 x 10 with three

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panel options that all frankly sound amazing though my favorite has got to be

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the mini LED option with 1,00 nit Peak brightness 165 HZ refresh rate and QHD

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resolution this is one of the few laptop displays that will give you a proper HDR

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experience also available is a switching mode display that can be either 120 HZ

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4K or 240 HZ 1080P and you can check out

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our ShortCircuit where I look at that display in a little bit more depth I

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mean it's crazy when the worst panel available on a laptop is 165 HZ QHD with

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500 nit Peak brightness like dang oh yeah and that's just one of the screens

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this being a Duo there's a second one down here where our video editors really

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like to put their timeline while editing on the go that is if we were going to

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CES 2022 we might have brought a couple of these finally we've got a bunch of

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tough family laptops are these the fs yeah those are

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the fs 15 and F no what's this I didn't

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even look at them cuz they're budget laptops we don't have pricing yet so oh

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yeah you can't really say much about a budget laptop that you don't have a price for well but at any rate they're

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also introducing the tough Dash F-15 and

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f17 which are at least assuming that you

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know they are priced like budget gaming laptops surprisingly well built uh they

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should be available this quarter so hopefully we'll be able to properly

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evaluate them soon and tell you if they're actually a good deal what I can

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