This Laptop Has (Almost) No Bezel #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin take one look at

the Isuzu end book s13 and you will see

that there is a lot going for it I want

to give a real shout out to a soos for

hooking us up with these Zenbook a

little bit early this won't be going on

sale until around March or so so we have

a slightly pre-production unit but

beyond that this thing looks dope this

is a 97% screen to body ratio which

means that you're essentially getting a

14 inch screen and a 13 inch laptop

sighs now the way they do this is with

very thin bezels on the sides as well as

a little bit of a anti notch or a verse

notch you got a little a little tab

maybe instead of moving the webcam down

below the screen or onto the keyboard

this actually seems to be a pretty

decent approach it gives you a little

bit of something to grab when you're

opening up the laptop and it means that

you still do have a decent quality

webcam don't get me wrong it's not

amazing with a 720p resolution but this

is so much better than if it was like

yes they're the keys of this is the

bottom bezel it's there but you just

can't see it

so that's thanks to the ergo lift hinge

so when you actually open up the laptop

what happens is that it slightly

elevates the keyboard and that is a

couple of advantages including making a

little bit more comfortable to type on

giving you more cooling and importantly

totally making it look like there's not

a bottom bezel of the screen at all it's

a really clever piece of technology and

engineering and it's just smart it's

also helped that this is a solid display

no it's not a touchscreen it is only

1080p resolution but honestly I prefer

that for battery life and importantly

the panel itself is very high quality

it's very accurate and it is one of the

brightest laptop displays we've ever

tested bezel little smartphones kind of

taken over and laptops are starting to

take that trend but what's cool about

this is it actually makes a big

difference right I mean you're getting a

legitimately bigger screen and a chassis

which is just as small as a lot of the

other 13 laptop so we've been using the

last few years it's one of those things

where there's no real downside there's

no real gimmicks here it's just some

smart ideas and a cool way of making a

laptop just that a little bit much

better that brings us to the second

claim to fame for the Zen book s this is

the world's thinnest laptop with

dedicated graphics and yeah that's

pretty thin 13 millimeters the NVIDIA MX

150 inside is hardly the most powerful

GPU in the world but it is a huge step

up over integrated graphics this is

enough power to play most games as long

as you don't mind turning down the

settings a little bit so for example

here in fortnight I've got it

20p medium we're able to get a pretty

consistent 50 to 60 frames per second

the only issue is is that because this

is so much power in such a thin and

light laptop it means that it does run a

little bit warm especially on the

keyboard and the fans they can spin up a

little bit it's not crazy loud but it's

definitely much louder than most

ultrabooks open it up and we see that's

actually Wow okay so first of all it has

a dual fan setup which does make sense

considering we do have not only a CPU

but we also have a GPU also I just

realized this is unstoppable

are they like trying to keep

jerry-rigged everything else so it does

look like you can swap out the nvme SSD

but it's really impressive is just how

big of a battery they're able to fit

this is a full 50 watt hours so usually

when you add a GPU to a laptop it means

that not only is it pulling more power

so you need that bigger battery but on

top of that there's less room for an

actual battery as far as the physical

space you've got to add room for the

cooling the GPU but here they've got

pretty much a full size cell and you've

got the power to back it up so in

addition to the MX 150 you have a

whiskey lake eighth-generation core i5

or Core i7 you also have up to 16 gigs

of ram and all the way up to a one

terabyte PCIe SSD build quality is solid

so not only is the keyboard deck very

rigid but even the screen really doesn't

have any flex to it a big reason for

that is because unlike most other

laptops out there this starts life as a

single block of aluminum which is then

CNC milled down to get what you see here

and that's usually reserved for very

expensive laptops such as razor as well

as Apple options so it's nice to see on

a Zenbook and I think it's probably part

of the reason why they're able to get so

much power into such a small and thin

form factor the fundamentals are all

here the keyboard feels great thanks to

the ergo lip design the touchpad is a

little bit on the small side but it

works and it does have a fingerprint

sensor and you have a decent selection

of ports new Thunderbolt 3 but you do

have two USB see a micro SD card reader

as well as a full size USB a I'm really

impressed with the Zenbook s not only

has the bezels display nice but more

importantly for me you're getting a lot

of performance here without sacrificing

the form factor I don't have to carry

around a heavier laptop

to have my GPU as well as have my 14

inch screen the only downside here is

that price is not enough yet so as long

as this is reasonably priced I think

that they've definitely got a winner

here