ASUS Zenbook UX31E-DH72 Intel Core i7 2677 Ultrabook Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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1,632 words · ~8 min read
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welcome to my Zenbook unboxing this is
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very exciting and I am excited to bring
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you this exciting new unboxing from the exciting Channel lonus Tech tips which
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does unboxings reviews and other computer videos this
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is an unboxing but we're also going to do an overview of the unit in general
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here is some Packaging and here is other
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more different packaging so the Zenbook is part of a new class of notebooks
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which is called a thin and light no it's called a thinner and lighter no wait
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it's called an Ultra Book yes so an Ultra Book is thinner and lighter than a
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thin and light and basically refers to a
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class of notebooks that is thinner and lighter than a thin and light yes
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totally circular blabbing right now while I get
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the packaging opened so the most obvious
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competitor for the Zenbook is the MacBook Air although there are other PC
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guys who will be releasing Ultra books in the near future great packaging
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actually reminiscent of the way Apple uh does the MacBook Air which we also
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unboxed so here we are
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Zenbook oo I can already see it has USB 3 which is better than the MacBook Air
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although the MacBook Air has Thunderbolt which is better than the Zenbook so
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let's just give them both some time to reveal their strengths and weaknesses
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and we will go from there so let's find out what comes in this little package here we are going to find a USB
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connector attached to an Ethernet port
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aha so you can run a wired net Network
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out of the box on the Zenbook
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fascinating next we have oh look at that a little mini connector to VGA you can
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run a VGA external monitor out of the box on the Zenbook
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Advantage Zen book so far next we have a
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power adapter that looks a little something like this actually fairly similar to the
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way that uh the MacBook Air does things
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except the MacBook Air does have the option to instead extend this cable and
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make it even longer and not take up as
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much space in your power brick so Advantage MacBook
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Air all right what else we got in here ooh it comes with a case that is a big
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Advantage Zen book because uh we all
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know Apple accessories are not cheap so here we are it comes oh you know
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remember those commercials where they showed you the the air fits in an envelope ASUS thought to provide you
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with an envelope so you can do that demo all day every day for all of your
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friends just going to go ahead and slip that bad boy in there and that is how
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much space and ASUS Zen book will take
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up okay don't worry we're going to keep going here what else we got for
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documentation here Zen
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book some like branding there very
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nice okay inside we find a battery
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notice hm something caution do not dispose of in fire do not put in water
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do not eat it that kind of stuff okay next we have a cable tie thank you ASUS
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very elegant very not MacBook Air likee all right next we have a notebook
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warranty card here's a big Advantage ASUS because you get look at that
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complimentary one-year accidental damage
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protection plan bam you must register within 60 days from the date of purchase
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and follow the simple steps but you get accidental damage protection that
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includes water electricity broken screen and
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fire wow doesn't cover acts of God however
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okay uh okay so what else we got here 12 month limited on the complete unit 24
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month new purchase oh okay this is just
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General stuff okay so that's not that useful um Beyond The Accidental damage
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warranty bit system recovery DVD
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fascinating next we have a notebook users manual as well as an LCD cleaning
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cloth Advantage Zenbook all right and let's go ahead and
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get the Zenbook taken back out of its
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envelope here and let's check it out so it is also
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slightly lighter than the MacBook Air so these are both I'm comparing both the
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13.3 in models so the Zenbook is yeah
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I'm cheating I have a cheat sheet down there is 1.3 kg and the MacBook Air is
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1.35 kg which actually holding on to the
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units doesn't feel that significant to be perfectly honest but that's okay I
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mean every Advantage counts right all right let's uh check out the overall
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form factor so I'm going to do my uh my
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traditional iPhone size comparison so there it is at its thickest point
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Point here it is at its thinnest point at the front of the unit I'm going to go
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ahead and open it up here and then I want you guys to check out the oops a
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little bit tricky to open there we go all right so I want you guys to check it
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out on the screen here let's make sure we go y there we go so that's the
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thickness of the LED back lit 13in
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screen actually I believe it's 13.3
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in okay and then there is the bottom of
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the unit so there's that thickness comparison so
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overall yes it is very thin and very
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very light all right uh you know what we're
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going to close it back up for a second and so let's have a look at what we've
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got in terms of IO here we've got a usb2 port a headphone jack an SD card slot so
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far all this is looking pretty familiar along the back we have a hinge excellent
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next we have a DC in so there's your
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power we also have an a super speed USB
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3 Port so that is to combat the Thunderbolt port on the MacBook Air we
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also have uh I think it's micro HDMI as well as our Fancy Pants little
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one that supports where'd it
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go oh no hold on this is this so This
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does HDMI and VGA so cool so okay give
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me a sec here guys I got to find out what this is got a little confused there guys so
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this is the VGA this is the micro HDMI
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and this is a light okay so let's go ahead and oh here there's a little lip
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here which is going to help you lift up the lid of the Zen
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book look at how fancy pants this thing
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looks wow okay so we have in traditional
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PC fashion actual left and rightclick buttons which will help you left and
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right click in the software that you use in your daily life we also have check
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this out so ASUS actually got authorization to use altered branding
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for Intel Core i7 as well as Windows 7
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in a monochrome kind of style so that it wouldn't disrupt the overall look of the
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machine we've got sort of your typical ASUS branding here stereo microphone by
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the look of things which is pretty cool next to the webcam and then the keyboard
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layout let's check out the keyboard layout so the keyboard layout looks very ideal from where I'm sitting right now
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we've got long backspace long enter long shift long shift and a reasonably sized
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tab we've also got a fairly ideal layout in terms of the arrow keys as well as
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pretty much everything else that I can see on here you know what it's pretty
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darn similar in fact to the MacBook Air which I'm just going to run over here
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and grab because this reminds me of it so
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much okay here we go so there there's
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both machines side by side so the only only major differences look like the
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inclusion of a Windows key on the Windows machine
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and yeah that's looking like pretty much
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it in fact they even both have their power Keys here although uh looks like
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the ASUS Zenbook has not come pre-charged so I'm not going to be able
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to turn it on just yet now I do want to take both of these notebooks and I
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haven't really done the the finish on the top yet here so this looks just
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outstanding it's kind of a a circular here you might need to move to that side
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so that we can get the light on it can you see the circular pattern in it yeah
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you can okay good so you can see kind of the um well the circular pattern with
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the ASUS branding in the top of the notebook here and then on the bottom
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very very sharp looking by the way um kind of like stainless steel appliances
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sort of thing and then on the bottom instead of a circle it's more like a brushed pattern and then we've got
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little plasticky rubbery feet on the bottom as well as ventilation holes all
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along the back the unit can be opened up with torque screws all along the bottom
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if you needed to well open it up for any
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reason in particular so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the ASUS's
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end book and stay tuned to my ncixcom channnel for a more detailed comparison
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of these two notebooks head-to-head and thank you for watching Line's techtips
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