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this right here believe it or not is the fastest single GPU gaming laptop that we

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have ever had in our office the zephyrus

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gx701 is an absolute beast rocking a six

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core core i7 processor and a GeForce rtx

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2080 max q that's clocked closer to a desktop spec than the laptop one

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but how the heck have they managed to cram all of that power in here and

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has the extra performance been worth the uh

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interesting design choices that uh

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you know like the keyboard placement wait

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wait where's the webcam it's not here

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it's not here is it under here oh no that's just our sponsor

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the zephyrus gx701 does an excellent job of looking both classy and gamery at the

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same time blending eye-catching details like the colorful rog logos and RGB

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keyboard with a very sturdy black magnesium alloy chassis that gives the

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device a distinctly premium feel

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now the zephyrus does look a bit like an

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oddball but at this point we've pretty much come to expect it's small offset

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vertical trackpad it's shifted keyboard and the ventilation flap party trick

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that opens up the back of the chassis for improved airflow speaking of party

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tricks in the box you get a little metal sculpture of the rog logo which is cool

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i guess but honestly ASUS i would have much rather there was a

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gigabit Ethernet dongle in here it's the only port that's really notably missing

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from what's otherwise a very solid assortment of i o with usbc with

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charging and full-sized HDMI all making appearances now let's get into

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performance as we discussed in our review of the MSI gs75 NVIDIA's mobile

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rtx cards can have extremely varied

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thermal and power targets with about half of their performance depending on

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laptop manufacturer's ability to completely optimize both cooling and

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power delivery so with that in mind before we proceed

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with our testing we need to disable the illuminated logo right here above the

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keyboard because according to ASUS it's possible to see a 3 degree increase in

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temperatures while it's on and when push comes to shove it turns

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out that we are not actually willing to give up real

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performance for RGB lighting

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and we don't have to in the 3dmark port

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royal test our gx701's graphics core managed 1600 megahertz for the duration

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of the test time which is shockingly close to desktop performance and

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side note absolutely smashes the MSI gs75

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this translates into real-world performance that just runs circles

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around last-gen laptops enabling high refresh rate gaming and aaa titles that

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previously would have run closer to 60 FPS than they would to 144. now we

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haven't got any other max-q laptops in yet so we don't know if others on the

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market will be equally fast but we do know that they won't be faster for that

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you would need something truly massive like the rog mothership or the alienware

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area 51m and there's more good news the FPS isn't

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the only thing that's been turned up here so has the screen size with a 17

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inch thin bezel display sitting where a 15.6 inch one used to be

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but this did come with a sacrifice not only

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is there no webcam up here there isn't one anywhere else on the

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machine blasphemy now ASUS's solution

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was to pack a 1080p 60fps webcam in the

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box with the logic being that well we

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have to choose between one of two options including a barely usable webcam

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like what MSI did with the gs75 stealth

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or include one that doesn't fit in the laptop's chassis but is frankly good

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enough for twitch streaming well okay fair point but here's my take why are

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you guys acting like there are only two ways of doing something why is it my job

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to come up with something else here's an idea free of charge you make an indent

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here and you put a camera bump there the smartphone industry has been doing it

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for years and then we could have even better front-facing cameras or i mean

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while we're thinking outside of the box instead of this going on like this how

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about magnets there is no reason that they couldn't have run a usb 2 interface

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up here had little contact points that power it and handle data and you just

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put it on there and it snaps into place now in fairness as it is the quality is

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great the best that we've seen on

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a gaming laptop but the implementation is

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truly clunky back to the display though

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this thing is very impressive it's a 144

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hertz ips 1080p panel with g-sync 3

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millisecond response times and factory calibration from pantone frankly it's

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awesome to game on and it's got other benefits too ASUS astutely noticed that

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a lot of people purchase gaming computers like this for professional

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tasks like cad music creation and video

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editing so they actually tuned the display to be more suitable for these

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tasks and it's great because video editing on laptops used to be a giant

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bag of suck nowadays honestly for basic cutting you can't

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tell the difference and even for some late after effects work they are pretty

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darn capable of course for more professional or

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creative work CPU power is key which is why desktops still have a lot of life in

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them by the way i mean any system with a core i7 8700k will destroy the zephyrus

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for a lot less money but ASUS has done

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quite a bit to make the core i7 8750h in

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here more potent its 1200 score in cinebench is higher than most core i9

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laptops that we've tested and under an all core synthetic load the CPU gets

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toasty while it's turboing then settles down to a more reasonable level at

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around three gigahertz sustained that's not bad the only way to get more

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performance out of a laptop would be to buy something much thicker which is kind

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of becoming a recurring theme here and along with its strong CPU

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performance the gx701 can be equipped with up to 24 gigs of RAM eight gigs

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soldered while the remaining 16 is on a sodium slot and a one terabyte NVMe SSD

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from samsung that really impressed us like this machine regularly loaded games

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and completed tasks faster than the two raid zeroed ssds in the gs75

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but performance only gets you so far let's return to the questionable

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keyboard and trackpad placement i'm actually going to let alex

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who did up the review on this field this bit over the last two years here i've

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used a ton of laptops and i have to say this design choice of putting the

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keyboard right here is not nearly as bad as you'd think like using it on your lap

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is a really bad time and so is going from one side of the

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screen to the other with this trackpad but beyond that i'm always surprised by

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how quickly using the trackpad on the right of the laptop becomes natural to

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me after a day of using the zephyrus i suspect you'll be reaching for the

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numpad on other laptops instead of the usual trackpad placement the only real

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improvement i would have made is to bring back the front firing speakers

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from the last zephyrus and use this space to make the trackpad even wider

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but Linus and i ended up just debating of whether we'd end up giving up the

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surprisingly good sound quality ASUS has been able to squeeze in here

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one thing we agree on for sure though is the quality of the keyboard it's got a

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bit of an unusual feel but the strokes while short have a nice tactile feel and

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the keycap stabilization is well above average making it pretty forgiving for

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inaccurate typists it's solid and ASUS

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was actually particularly proud of their volume knob which

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really does have quite a nice feel and

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satisfying click for mute you guys hear that

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all right so that's all fine and good but the biggest problem with the

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zephyrus has always been its portability

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it's small yes light

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ish but the last model had a wimpy 53

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watt hour battery that struggled to get three hours of light to moderate use in

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our testing to address this shortcoming ASUS has finally upped the battery

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capacity to 76 watt hours

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now to get the most out of it you're going to have to make some tweaks you're

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going to want to switch out of dedicated GPU mode which means disabling g-sync

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and allowing the Intel igpu to take over for lighter tasks and of course you're

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going to have to dial back your RGB and knock the screen refresh rate down to 60

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hertz but if you do all these things it adds

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up to letting this guy run for about 5 hours on battery with light to moderate

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use not too shabby and the type-c usb

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charging also helps in this regard because it allows you to pack a much

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smaller 65 watt charger if you don't plan on gaming saving you a pound or two

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in your backpack so as long as you have a desk wherever you're planning on

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working the zephyrus is now a much more compelling option than ever before

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as for upgradability well no one's perfect opening it up and

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replacing the RAM or storage is possible but there's only one RAM and one m.2

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slot making upgrades more wasteful and therefore expensive which in turn makes

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it harder for us to recommend the spec down versions of this guy if there's any

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chance that you might need to upgrade them later which i guess brings us to

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the conclusion for our model here coming in at an eye watering 3 300 us

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dollars it's expensive so if you want something

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cheaper the MSI gs75 is a solid option

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and the zephyrus gx531 still gets you the same CPU for about 1300 less

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but the gx701 still walks out of here with a solid recommendation thanks to

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ASUS's zero compromise approach to cooling battery life and build quality

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with extra marks for the pantone calibrated display

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workings of your vehicle helping you feel more empowered and less intimidated

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when you're confronted with an automotive issue it also explains your

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trouble codes keeps track of where items reminds you when your vehicle is doing

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for maintenance and it does all of this regardless of your level of vehicle

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