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o we're coming back at you from CES

2019 where a sous brought the CES show

to us this is the Zephyrus s GX 701 the

latest in their lineup of hyper thin and

yet super powerful gaming laptops you

might not be able to tell from the

outside or from its weight or even from

the inside unless you're like some kind

of electronics engineer and/or you know

this heat pipe design means anything to

you but this is gonna be one of the most

powerful gaming laptops out there we're

gonna show you all around it and our CES

coverage this year is brought to you by

D brand you can check out D brand's new

2nd gen grip case this is a drop proof

case we've got that link below as well

as their prism hammer proof screen

protector hit the links in the video

description at the links at the links

I'm standing

so from the outside the new Zephyrus

inherits a lot of the traits of it

15-inch predecessors it's super thin

you've got your exhaust ports here here

here and here because there is a lot of

heat to dissipate and you've got a

actually pretty ample selection of IO

with the one thing that's notably

missing being an rj45 jack because the

thing is quite honestly just too darn

thin to fit it but there are some really

cool new additions that are obvious

before we even open it up so while it

does have a power in Jack it can also

accept right there USB type-c power

up to 65 watts so that means you can

actually top this thing up on the go or

at the very least extend your gaming

time by a little bit another thing

that's really cool here is that they

have made some not too obvious changes

to the thermal design they're not

strictly speaking new to this generation

of Zephyrus but they're definitely worth

mentioning so these fans here are now

made using a liquid crystal polymer

which is presumably to make them like

super mega hyper thin and the shrouds

for them have been redesigned as well

so right here they've got like a dust

collection chamber so you won't gunk up

the fins of your heatsink and they've

added up a little pump to it let's just

say they've got a little lip on the

bottom that keeps here we go

typical Zephyrus fashion that keeps the

cool air that's being drawn in from this

flap that opens up at the bottom when

you open up the screens from mixing too

much with the hot air that's coming out

here and here because it wouldn't do you

a lot of good to exhaust the hot air if

you just sucked it right back in now

let's get it opened up and this is where

things get exciting these bezels are

hyper thin so even though it's a 17 inch

display the laptop itself is crazily

actually not that big and there's a

couple of options there's a 144 Hertz

1080p version and that

is gonna be obviously for the gamers out

there but even not quite because it's

Pantone certified so you could do some

light content creation on it and they're

gonna have a 400 nits peak brightness

HDR display with local dimming so that's

right 400 nits peep redness right so

yeah good try

now one disadvantage to this thin bezel

approach that you might have picked up

on is that I tried to launch the camera

happened oh wow it doesn't have a webcam

so a Seuss's rationale here is that most

gamers don't care about the webcam

anyway so they went so far as to not

even include a crappy one down here but

to rip it out entirely assuming that

anything you could build into a tiny

little bezel or anything like that

wouldn't be acceptable anyway and they

might as well just ship a standalone

webcam and it appears that it mounts

that's the standalone stand for it well

you know what I've had enough of your

crap

Jeff ah it goes like that oh look how

much of your screen it covers can it

kind of bite onto it like that okay so

it's an imperfect solution but it's

better than nothing you know which is

quite literally what you have if you

don't put this on I've been informed it

is at least 1080p 60fps so now let's

talk specs this little puppy is equipped

with a 6 core 8750 h our particular

model has 24 gigs of ram for some reason

and you can get it with either a GTX

tensa 2070 or 2018 max q did I say GTX

the first time damn it so this thing is

equipped with an RT X 27 T which I don't

know if it's equivalent to the desktop

version because Nvidia won't tell us a

damn thing about it

or a 28 Emacs Q which I also don't know

a damn thing about because Nvidia won't

tell us anything about it so I don't

know how neutered the 28 Emacs Q is

although presumably if Asus bothered to

do two SKUs it's either because Nvidia

their arm behind their back or because

even with the max-q variate the 20 80 is

still at least a little bit faster than

2017 either way what we know is that you

can turn our TX on and have glorious 40

to 55 FPS gaming on this machine and

there's a few other extras so the

keyboard backlight is now brighter than

ever this wheel right here adjusts the

volume and oh it has a 50% bigger

battery yes my friends Asus used a bunch

of the extra space they have down here

to put a 76 watt hour battery in this

thing so now you can gain for even a

little bit more over an hour on battery

fabuloso now in fairness to a soos it

does include the same GPU switch button

that'll actually trigger an entire

restart of the machine and switch

between g-sync discrete graphics mode

and optimist mode where you can't have G

sync but our testing on those FSM

yielded something like 54 minutes of

battery life in the PC mark battery test

even in optimist mode so I'm still not

expecting this to be like you know the

machine for meetings at the office or

whatever unless your office has very

very short meetings anyway what do

people expect it doesn't have

Thunderbolt

no no Thunderbolt I disapprove but I

approve of this message from D brand

without deep brand our trip to CES 2019

wouldn't even possible so big shout-out

to those guys go check out their new 2nd

gen grip at the link in the video

description

it's grippier than ever so no dropping

even for me and it's 65% thinner than

the first generation

it offers military-grade impact

protection along the full case and it's

easy to customize the backplate also you

can protect the front of your phone with

the brand now - with their prism screen

protector that you can literally smack

with a hammer and it won't break

obviously there are limits to this

technology we don't recommend trying it

at home but it's a heck of a lot better

than nothing and it's got a nice

glass-like feel even though it's an

impact resistant screen protector that's

pretty cool go check that out at the

link below as well so don't miss any of

our CES

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