calling it now in my hands is the best gaming laptop of 2022 this is the allnew
zephrus G4 and it's one of the seven
laptops eight laptops that isus sent us over for CES 2022 that run the gamut
from incredibly practical all the way to
well I sure hope the engineers had a lot of fun making
it like I had fun telling you about our
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below out of the gate we're going to fix a recent screw up of ours that was
caused by a communication snafu this is
the ASUS mother ship concept something that I had honestly assumed sort of died
as a weird Skunk Works project never to be seen again but boy was I ever wrong
by removing these four screws that's
right you have to unscrew it sorry we
find the conclusion or at least the next
evolution of the mothership Saga the ASUS flow
z13 it's a 1.1 kg tablet that's just
just 12 mm thick and has a core I 9 12
900h that is 14 processing cores with a maximum turbo
of 5 GHz it's got an RTX 3050 TI
featuring a MX this is a 40 watt GPU and
the craziest part of this is Microsoft has been struggling for years to cool
the Surface Pro how the heck did ASUS
manage this well they've got a vapor chamber that apparently has 44% coverage
of the main board as well as liquid metal for the cooling system and using
the kickstand allows for even more airflow ASUS claims it will be only 32
DB under heavy load 40 DB Max which is
incredible if true and I can't wait to properly try it out but I can't because
this is just a dummy unit it'll be available with up to 32 gigs of ddr5
5200 megat transfer per second memory and up to a 1 tbte SSD well there is one
that's working behind you there's a working one yeah it's right there well then what was the point of sending us
this mockup one that's a good question we're not allowed to use it well you
can't run games you can use it we're not allowed to run games no but we could run
games yeah you could but they'll yell at us yeah and it's not like ASUS will yell
at us NVIDIA will yell at us and that's not a good
time there are two different options for the touchscreen although if you get a 4K
panel on a 13-in device you're well that's not a very nice thing to write
Alex says you are all bone from the Jaw up I am not going to take a stance on
that either way but I will agree with him that the 1080p 120 HZ panel will be
more than enough resolution while offering a much better gaming experience
and with 100% coverage of srgb and 500 nit brightness it shouldn't look too
shabby either for I/O it's got Thunderbolt 4 with DP 1.4 running off
the igpu and support for power delivery
it's got an egpu port with support for up to an RTX 3080 mobile that's right
just like the flow x13 it's got a type a
USB 2.0 which is weird micr SD HDMI 2.0
man this thing is absolutely loaded for bear with I/O and it finishes things off
with a 56w hour battery no idea how long that'll last given how powerful this
thing is but it's pretty impressive given the size my question while looking
at the flo z13 though is is who would
buy it over the flow x13 which is
basically the clamshell version that has a much more usable keyboard and a better
sort of weight balance and the answer is
um according to ASUS people who don't type very much the z13 is lighter and
easier to card around so if you primarily just plan on gaming and
consuming content it could actually make a lot of sense no word on pricing but
I'm confident that it will have a high dollar to gr ratio and arrive sometime
in late q1 or Q2 2022 as an aside can I
just say that I fully support a return to transparent and translucent
Electronics yeah this is so cool I love
it got the window into the back what even is it showing nothing particularly
important as far as I can tell we'd have to open it up to find out for sure
moving on let's Circle back to the zephrus G14 here and talk about why I
think this is going to be the gaming laptop of the here the specs are
freaking exceptional this is an AMD ryzen 6800 HS so that is 8 core 16
threads up to 5 GHz is a 6 nanom CPU uh
stopped working it's got an AMD rad on RX 6800s
that has a 105 W thermal envelope which
means that in spite of the thinness of this thing it should be pretty darn
impressive in terms of performance and maybe even more efficient than an Intel
NVIDIA combo thanks to AMD's control over the entire platform here though
we'd have to test it to be sure because the only other thing I'm sure of is that
you should shop at LTT Store.com for your water bottle your indoor hoodie all
that good stuff actually one other thing we know for sure is that for the size of
the laptop these components will be well cooled 48% of the motherboard is now
covered by a vapor chamber and it's got liquid metal on both the CPU and GPU up
to 32 gigs of 4,800 megat transfer per second ddr5 one dim is swappable
and support for up to a 1 TB m.2 SSD and
it's an 80 mm one which means you could basically put in whatever you want we're
not clamoring over this laptop because of its power though I'm excited by the
G14 because of its incredible versatility the screen is now 16 by10
making it much better for productivity and there's a new QHD plus 120 HZ panel
that sounds exceptional with 100% coverage of the dcip 3 color space and
500 nit Peak brightness although to be clear I don't think you'll be
disappointed if you go for the full HD panel that we've got right here at 13
and 14 in 1080P is pretty good the
trackpad is also 50% larger and the Magnesium chassis has been massaged to
give it more of a premium appearance rather than a gamer one rounding out the
practicality they gave it a webcam hey and not only that but it has Windows
hello facial recognition and a 76w hour
battery that might be enough to pry Alex's Dell XPS from his hands or dare I
say my framework even though I'm invested in the that's my disclosure right there no word
on pricing but I hope it isn't too much higher than the last Model because that
one was very compelling and we're going to see this in late Q2
2022 what is still full on gamer though
is the strick scar 15 this bad boy is
now available with up to a 150 wat RTX
380 TI that's right NVIDIA's new 38 TI
features 16 gigs of gddr6 memory and
7,420 4 Cuda course that's a 20.8% increase
over the standard 380 mobile that means that NVIDIA's claim that it is 20%
faster checks out at first glance but you will have to be careful since of
course the TDP of a laptop potentially makes a bigger difference to your
performance than the exact model of the GPU chip inside I'm really glad that
ASUS has published an article showing the TDP and GPU clocks of their gaming
laptops so I can easily go in and find out that ah yes this one is not the
fastest one it is in fact this one right
here the zephrus duo6 it has an eye-watering GPU TDP of
165 Watts putting it at pretty much the limit of mobile Hardware with up to an
RTX 380 TI and an AMD ryzen 9 6900 HX
this thing I mean it doesn't matter what you try to do on it gaming content
creation it's an absolute Beast the upper display is now 16 x 10 with three
panel options that all frankly sound amazing though my favorite has got to be
the mini LED option with 1,00 nit Peak brightness 165 HZ refresh rate and QHD
resolution this is one of the few laptop displays that will give you a proper HDR
experience also available is a switching mode display that can be either 120 HZ
4K or 240 HZ 1080P and you can check out
our ShortCircuit where I look at that display in a little bit more depth I
mean it's crazy when the worst panel available on a laptop is 165 HZ QHD with
500 nit Peak brightness like dang oh yeah and that's just one of the screens
this being a Duo there's a second one down here where our video editors really
like to put their timeline while editing on the go that is if we were going to
CES 2022 we might have brought a couple of these finally we've got a bunch of
tough family laptops are these the fs yeah those are
the fs 15 and F no what's this I didn't
even look at them cuz they're budget laptops we don't have pricing yet so oh
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
also introducing the tough Dash F-15 and
f17 which are at least assuming that you
know they are priced like budget gaming laptops surprisingly well built uh they
should be available this quarter so hopefully we'll be able to properly
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