A Surface Pro for HARDCORE Gamers - ROG G703 "Mothership" First Look #Helpful Post

so right here to my left we've got the

asus rog g 703 and this thing it's

pretty freakin sick like we were able to

achieve 5 gigahertz overclocking all six

cores concurrently but can you really

call it a laptop when it doesn't fit on

your lap and should we be making the

sacrifices required to have a clamshell

design for a machine like this when

quite literally everyone is going to be

using it on a desk

well Asus thought not and over here at

our early preview of CES 2019 here in

our studio because Asus brought the show

to us is the rog mothership a complete

rethinking of the desktop rapoo it's

still heavy though the desktop

replacement category

private Internet access I mean that's

basically it that's exactly what you get

with PIAA and it's got loads of other

features as well check it out at the

link below okay so I guess step one is

to kind of open the thing oh I've been

informed there are tabs on the bottom

don't don't no I don't want the answer

don't wait oh that's weird so here's all

these vents on the bottom here with some

very hefty looking dents copper fit Wow

all the copper everywhere look at this

freakin stuff and this ventilated

perforated bottom here and I was

expecting that this thick side was gonna

contain the laptop and then this thin

side was going to contain the screen

that's like sort of the way that laptops

have sort of traditionally where blow

it's that no that's that is in fact the

keyboard so quiet that so this piece

comes down here and then this is what

speaker grilles intakes what is this

speakers hell yeah oh my god it's a

surface for gamers how about that

so instead of having the cooling of the

CPU the GPU the SSDs and all that stuff

choke down against the desk or your lap

or whatever the case may be they put

them all up here and the results well

they claim they are pretty darn

impressive my allowed to turn this thing

on I can turn it on okay oh my god it

came apart you can use it as an AI oh

and you can just ditch the keyboard and

like or you can just use the keyboard as

more like a traditional keyboard and

it's raised so check this shiz out you

can either just kind of adjust it for a

different organ on mcfeely you got your

trackpad on the right you got your

keyboard on the left and then

run a type-c wire over to your your

actual like a i/o computer with a screen

that folds on to the front of it I don't

know what to even call this thing

anymore or you can just flip over to

wireless mode here bebop and you can

like use it from the couch and you can

have that hooked up to your TV or

whatever the case may be and then it's a

pretty common use case actually for a

laptop I will find the power button at

some point this must be it

okay this is a prototype it's not

working a hundred percent here just

gonna plug in this mouse having a little

go freak out okay I'm not saying I broke

it I'm just saying it's broken and I'm

the last person who touched it that's

all where was I

so the original concept here actually

came from basically like going like this

with a G 703 and then measuring how much

better the temperatures of all those

heat generated components are once

you're not restricting the airflow by

having them sitting up against something

so in actuality this new device even if

it did have the same hardware wouldn't

necessarily run any cooler because

they've gone and they've made it thinner

to eat up that extra sort of thermal

budget that they made for themselves

which isn't to say this gimped on the

components because what's in here

requires some pretty hardcore cooling so

it's rocking a 6 core core I 989 50 H K

and r-tx 2080 that they won't let me

look at at all like not even in task

manager they've actually gone and

disabled it in the BIOS though given

that we do know the model number and

that is an RT X 2080 we're expecting

full-blown desktop performance but

computing isn't the only way that the

rog mothership that's what they're

actually calling this thing is insanely

fast so this will be their first mobile

machine with greater than

one gigabit networking it's actually two

and a half G which might feel kind of

strange given that we went from 10 to

100 to 1,000 to 10,000 but then now also

there's these weird Inbetweeners but

that's still a really nice bump that's

about 250 megabytes per second

real-world to a server that is enabled

for it so I mean it's not like you're

gonna have to do that necessarily

because it's got three nvme SSDs in raid

0 that also get additional cooling by

the way due to the upright nature of the

device so these are so fast basis

couldn't put all of them running off of

the chipset so two of them are directly

connected to the CPU for a wild eight

point seven gigabytes per second of data

transfer speeds I mean just like you

know it's not the most impressive demo

but you know just like booting up like

launching it you will definitely feel

the difference it's faster than I can

say

shave and Freud I don't even know if

that means what did I just say cuz I

said like German joke I don't get got it

the only problem though with the display

is that when you have all of these

components right up against the back of

it all that heat can be a very bad time

so to solve this problem no wonder this

thing is so heavy they created this CNC

machined heat shield so this right here

is what actually separates the display

and all of the heat generating

components and guess what this takes 20

hours to machine not to mention it costs

a freaking lot of money but I guess you

know the monkey was just out of the bag

and the engineers went hog-wild with the

robots because actually pretty much

everything about it this CNC machine out

of solid freaking blocks of aluminum so

this here is the

back panel with the kickstand there

where's the kickstand the kickstand ah

yes I believe this is the kickstand

beautiful needless to say everything

here there's a cost to CNC okay both in

terms of materials in time but there's a

benefit even without the actual laptop

in it this thing is incredibly stiff

like this is as much flex as I'd expect

from a finished device and it's just a

backplate so that's pretty much all we

can say about it for now

other than a quick look at IO you got to

power inputs so that should give you

some idea how power hungry it's gonna be

you got your VR port here SD and the

HDMI all that good stuff other than to

guess Thunderbolt 3 nice that this thing

is going to be extremely expensive so

let me know you guys want to see a full

review this thing yeah you want to see a

flow review of this thing you know what

Alex I'm gonna take away your desktop

right and so you're gonna see if you can

learn to like this and I'm taking away

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content here at the show yeah can you

believe I missed this part look at this

they've got the cooling solution here

it's like it's massive its massive

like this weighs as much as a laptop and

there's a laptop in it yet good heavens