AMD's Best Laptop! // ASUS Zenbook S 16

[@MatthewMoniz]

What do you guys think of the new AMD Ryzen AI CPU?

[@HVLib]

53 db is too much, same as gaming laptop on creator mode right !

[@abc_cba]

I'll make a pass, Zen 5 doesn't appear that promising.

[@torpedospurs]

@@HVLib Agreed. And Performance mode only boosts the CPU to 33W from 28W in Standard mode, so it is not worth using Performance mode at all.

[@MrKentoNion]

Now I think that its trash. Either this laptop or this new ryzen 1st reason is, 53db only for 28w? Is there any good cooling? I guess not, cuz last year zenbooks had a joke instead of cooling system, asus does not care about cooling. 2nd why its only 28w, for a laptop this big, I'm talking about 16inch big with 2.fans why it can't run at least a 45w processor? It doesn't even have descreet GPU, whats the point of this ridiculous limitation on tdp?! 3rd noone needs Ai, at this point AI is just a marketing bullsht 4th this generation ryzen uses Mediatec wi-fi chip, which is just bad, it drops wi-fi, just as expected, mediatec modems had this problem in past and still didn't fixed it 5th no support so-dimm ram this isn't that bad if we mind new ram for laptop standard but asus want your money so they don't give you an option. 6th bad vent holes placing, id you close your laptop and try to use it with external display it will overheat, cus you covering up vent holes with screen This laptop and probably this gen of ryzen processor is 100% no-go for me

[@КириллПашин-р1ж]

@@MrKentoNion damn, I was looking for this laptop, but after reading this. 💀

[@SarimAshrafi]

No sticker guy is safe from Matthew Moniz 😂

[@piegangxbankroll8970]

The speaker is better than the Mac book

[@goobfilmcast4239]

not the MacBook Pros, tho

[@piegangxbankroll8970]

@@goobfilmcast4239 true

[@martoyo237]

I may be wrong, excuse me if I am, but the igpu in the eta prime testing showed to be in some cases 30% faster. I hope final drivers fix everything and we see some really good performance improvements. Can't wait to see the next generation of handheld APUs.

[@exherbatan]

The guy in the video doesn't know how to games benchmark.

[@Burbanana]

eta prime isnt a reviewer, he is a paid promo guy, cant believe yall even consider him as a reviewer. His benchmark methods are wack too. If you notice that guy never has anything negative to say

[@l3v1ckUK]

Did Asus get some sort of AMD launch exclusive? All the reviews I've seen today are the Zenbook S 16.

[@andyH_England]

Yes, same with the X Elite; they got first dibs. I assume they pay for an exclusive period.

[@rjpajaron]

Yes, Asus always get the preference. The last in line is the Intel (almost) only MSI.

[@demonworld6418]

FIRST TIME THE THE MACKBOOK LOST IN SPEAKER TEST

[@MatthewMoniz]

MacBook Air… if it was the MacBook pro it would win

[@mariussm7797]

I mean AIR always sucks on speakers.

[@ayushmalpeddi2793]

​@@mariussm7797sucks? Sucks is a strong word. For $1000 they are still one of the better ones lol

[@shaun1900]

@@mariussm7797 hardly

[@danielc3029]

@@mariussm7797 if you've used any Windows laptop in the past (not the ASUS recently released ones), you know Macbook Air's speakers are quite good already.

[@MW-mn1el]

Really appreciate you includes Mozilla Firefox compile time test in your review. As software engineer that's what we looking for and care about, and maybe some gaming, 3D rendering and photoshop stuff for design, where apple silicon still the beast to beat. Cinebench are heavily optimize for windows and x86 cpu, doesn't mean that much. Still prefer geekbench and speedometer score for general productivity tasks and responsiveness.

[@MatthewMoniz]

I'll add speedometer to future videos! Thanks for watching

[@mmadevgame]

agree with compile. All the reviews are saying oh you need to buy this or that because of video editing performance but I literally don't care about anything except coding/compiling and battery life. Which amd ticks all the points for me for quite a few years now.

[@anthonycruciani939]

Wait weren't we just told ARM is everything and x86 sucks? I'm so confused.

[@rjpajaron]

Yes, most utubers are confused creators. they change their tones in whims...

[@richi2870]

Next arm version will destroy x86, because x86 is on it limit. The future is arm 100%.

[@TrusteftTech]

@@richi2870 I have been hearing the same BS since the 80s.

[@richi2870]

@@TrusteftTech is no BS you see that FIRST Gen of Snapdragon x Elite is faster in some stuff than amd or intel

[@TrusteftTech]

@richi2870 As I said, I've been hearing the same for decades. Not the first time either there is a claim for faster performance. Under of course specific conditions and not running the same code. I m too old for this bs.

[@Tsunamisurfer29]

Thank you for using the 370. Fantastic work as always. Great info.

[@MatthewMoniz]

Any time! Thanks for watching

[@hdthor]

Uh.. the Zenbook S 16 is running at 28W while most other devices you’re comparing to is running at 50W. Even the ROG Ally is 45W. There are 50W laptops with Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 that are releasing, but Zenbook S 16 isn’t it. Linus tech tips talks about the watts difference: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kGm6fIVmi62ZgNk

[@TrusteftTech]

My like for your first two lines. Not for Linus.

[@AyaWetts]

Snapdragon is still a big red flag with Windows/Software compatibility ... I'd take this any day over one of those.

[@thenubianspeaks4329]

well will you take the heat and fan noise. read more reviews and you will find that this thing gets burning hot, even the keyboard gets uncomfortable warm according to reviews by Dave2d and others

[@christianr.5868]

Looking forward to seeing it in handhelds. Efficiency is most important there

[@SuperGiaqui]

"The leaning tower of pizza" Reminded me of those American tourists that believed Pisa is the Italian city famous for its pizza and named after it

[@DarkKnight2037]

I was honestly hoping to see a significant performance increase with iGPU, like get closer to low tier dGPU, at least close to low wattage 3050

[@MatthewMoniz]

ya me too! I mean maybe AMD will change the power limits and perhaps release something a bit faster later on but as of right now its sort of disappointing minus power draw.

[@_iczyzy]

I mean.. Its already a low wattage 3050. I have a laptop with the mx570, same chip as 3050 but with 30w tdp and lower memory bus. The time spy benchmark on the 890m scored almost the same as mine.

[@t.h.9897]

I like your reviews a lot! ❤ You somehow manage to deliver always what I want.

There are 2 more speakers on the other side of the speaker casing, those metal plates are the magnets for them 👍

[@Salehalanazi-7]

Thanks for the compile test

[@MW-mn1el]

Zenbook have higher volumn and crispy sound, and MacBook sound more nature and true to life. Still prefer sound from macbook air 15, but for windows laptop is a huge improvements.

[@the.spiderdan]

Can't believe that it sounds that much better than the MB Air 15, that's incredible, finally after an eternity we have a PC that doesn't sound like garbage, I've already had a Windows Laptop that somehow managed to sound worse than my phone...

[@NCXBOXx]

>Is it snapdragon x elite impressive? Based on 2-3 other reviews i've just read through performance per watt for the ryzen is kind of matching the x elite in multicore if both are set to the same powerlimits

[@MatthewMoniz]

Based on battery life the snapdragon x elite is much better. Performance is obviously better with amd or intel in most applications since they are all still x86

[@andyH_England]

The X Elite has diminished returns the more power it is fed, so at a point on the power graph it matches Intel and AMD. Before that it will be more efficient. So as usual it depends on the work you do. But I expect this AMD S16 will easily get you through a day of mixed work according to other reviews I have seen. But none match the M3 chips for efficiency at higher work loads. For comparison of 1080p Notebookcheck for 20h SOT which matches or beats most X Elite models. Of course, once you use WiFi or 4K then these drop substantially on both AMD and X Elite.

[@MattPayne1]

This might be a good option for developer linux laptop that has decent battery life/ performance and doesn't burn one's lap. The Snapdragon's still have a little more work to do before their is decent distro support. The Snap dragon's will eventually get there.

[@isbestlizard]

I'm baffled why Asus put a 12 core chip in a chassis so thin and with such crippled cooling and power delivery that it only gives the performance of 6 cores when running flat out. Feels like what Apple did with their intel chip macbooks... this thing CANNOT use the full 12 cores under multi core workloads. They're trying to run a chip that needs 50W in 28W.

[@andyH_England]

This is an ultrabook where efficiency>performance. The more expensive ASUS Pro machines will be reviewed next week, and they will be performance>efficiency but likely larger batteries to compensate for the higher wattage. The S16 has no dedicated GPU, so it is evident that it is not a performance-oriented machine.

[@rjpajaron]

@@andyH_England a lot of people not getting it. There are laptops line that are thin and light and there top of the line gaming rig and most in betweem.

[@fallinginthed33p]

Doesn't AMD have a more efficient chip with less cores that would make more sense in an Ultrabook?

[@knotsable]

there is still a benefit to having 12 cores in scenarios where they are not all at 100%

[@bhasselgren]

What. You are comparing gpu performance at different resolutions?

[@thenubianspeaks4329]

And also heat and fan noise which is key to demostrate we have option and some control over trading perfomance for less heat and fan noise which I personally prefer

[@gaminginstilllife9429]

i got this laptop, and i returned the snapdragon cause of incompatibility problems, same batt time as my snapdragon, 8 hrs- maybe 9 ... 10 tabs open multi progrmas and youtube all day, the only differance is this on gets a bit hotter. get AMD ryzen, this best laptops out there

[@dayvid38]

Congratulations on your work my dear, I really want a suggestion for a 4080 gaming Laptop with the coldest processor so far, thank you very much in advance and all the best to you.

[@aneebaba06]

Mine is arriving this Friday, but I'll be out of town so I won't see it till August 8 (delivering to Mom's house so no sales tax hehe).

[@JaspreetSingh-gg4vf]

How is your laptop working ?

[@pennell20]

Deciding between this or the MSI Prestige AI EVO. Mostly productivity work and school work, probably no gaming. Need a lightweight 15-16 inch screen. Preferences?

[@bryans8656]

Thanks for the review Matt. The Snapdragon laptops are so appealing these days that it's hard to get excited about any of the x86 offerings.

[@MrKar18]

Rightly said. I think the difference for X elite for gen 1 is just the poor GPU. For their next gen, I'm sure their priority will be GPU improvements. But we also need more devs to come to ARM ecosystem by the end of this year - That's Qualcomm and Window's battle for now.

[@GK-qc5ry]

The only thing is the number of Arm supported programs. Emulation is fine but you're not going to get the raw benefits of the SD chip. AMD do far better than SD when it comes to graphics.

[@fallinginthed33p]

​@@GK-qc5ryAt least we have a choice now. AMD for graphics power and compatibility with apps, Snapdragon for overall performance and long battery life, and Intel for lots of heat and broken CPUs 😂

[@Wilbur-em1hw]

@@fallinginthed33p Yeah AMD is really putting up a good fight from the x86 side. AMD is goated for taking on Intel, Snapdragon and Nvidia at the same time and still giving all of them a tough time.

[@akin242002]

I kind of like the Asus ZenBook 14x (Ryzen 7 8840H CPU) better. More portability and close enough performance. Also, full compatibility with all X86 software and peripherals. Great opportunity for barging shopping college students.

[@hsanjlal9727]

The wallpaper in thumbnail was slick dude. Where to find that?

[@user-vk7jg5yr3v]

This is the only review which says there is no difference between 780m. All other reviews like Anandtech, Tomsguide, Hot Hardware etc. says there is big jump about gaming performance. There must be something wrong.

[@iRockbard]

Is there a chance we can see all your noise test results on your website? I would really love to have this information in front of me when I'm choosing my next laptop.

[@lysdrom]

As soon as amd enters the 3nm realm of technological progress power efficiency and performance will skyrocket, I really hope and can't wait.

[@EconBobWong]

The battery life might be impacted by ASUS deciding to use the MediaTek wi-fi 7 BT 5.4 chipset

[@LearyS07]

Would you buy or wait for Halo Strix or something else?

[@anajuliaguimaraes5927]

Which gaming laptop do you recommend under 900 dollars?

[@serlleims7395]

I was going to buy this ASUS Zenbook S 16. I was in love with the aesthetics and the first impressions of everyone. But I finally decided to buy the Zephyrus G16 2024 and now seeing reviews like these, I know I made a good move.

[@ilovesummer9750]

Why is that?

[@Max24871]

That's a weird comment, considering the biggest difference between those laptops is the dGPU in the zepyrus - which you don't need a review for to know it will be several times the performance of an iGPU and cost +50% more

[@SidzM-i6o]

Hey Mat, love your reviews, could you perphaps do you a review of the new dell XPS 16? i am in the market for a new laptop, but they are so many options it gets quiet confusing

[@piyushvyas4334]

When you are going to review hp Elitebooks?

[@MatthewMoniz]

No plans too at the moment

[@greekthunder]

I want this, but in a 14 inch ish form factor. Surface Laptop 7 is a great size.

[@МихаилБадаев-э5ф]

Thanks for the review. I wonder what's the difference between the Zenbook S 16 and the Vivobook S16 with the same components inside?(AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX370, 32 Gb of GDDR 5 RAM). Touchscreen and ceramoluminium coating?

[@EduardLevesque]

vivobook can boost to 45 watts or 50 watts, no touchscreen, worse speakers, numpad, screen can go 180 flat on vivobook

[@МихаилБадаев-э5ф]

And Vivobook is also cheaper.

[@gregh2003]

Should I spend an extra $300 for the HX 370 or it's not worth it?

[@MatthewMoniz]

I wish I knew I don’t have a 365 model here. Hopefully I’ll get one in soon to compare

[@ianism3]

if you're just using it for "everyday stuff", probably not.

[@copymalty]

Compared with g14, what would you rather, Matthew? I mean what make it more worth it overall.

[@virgo3368]

g14 is way better

[@copymalty]

@@virgo3368 😍😍🙂🙂

[@lokes2008]

Wow this looks like a very good laptop for business use. 😮

[@rhoderzau]

If both the ALLY and the Zenbook were measured at the same wattage, why would you expect better battery in the next generation?

[@rhoderzau]

Thanks for the comparison with the ROG ALLY X. It may determine whether I get a new laptop or stick with using Sunshine/Moonlight to stream to an iPad Pro M4 for the improved gaming and work experience.

[@rob672]

This or the hp spectre x360 14-inch? Is the upgrade in cpu worth it? I’m a software engineering student

[@sarmadka]

Absolutely worth it. The HP Spectre has Core Ultra CPU. This one uses almost half the power for the same level of performance. This means longer battery life as well as being quiter and/or less warm.

[@dgillies5420]

You benchmarked the GPU wrong in timespy - you have to set the fanmode to "max fan" for 35w operation!

[@MatthewMoniz]

I did have it on full fan mode. I've tried it on both.

[@djayjp]

Waiting for Strix Halo spring 2025.

[@MrAdhiSuryana]

If battery life equal to Snapdragon then it's no brainer choice

[@hassb6348]

Sleep/wake battery saving is a huge thing

[@wheezel55]

​@@hassb6348 just turn it off lol

[@aashishnakarmi1690]

My intel laptop only sips 5 percent overnight. I dont care about anymore battery consumption while sleep.

[@christianr.5868]

It’s not equal though

[@Electriffy10]

Is it good for a CS student?

[@agentk9857]

I'd love to see Asus to put the Ryzen HX 370 and a RTX 5060 into the G14.

[@Denver_tld]

mmmm Strange... ETA Prime had the igpu of this laptop radeon 890M coming in at 30% perfomance boost over the z1 extreme radeon 780M he did however have a 32gb ram model and allocated 8 GB of ram to video memory in the bios though, so it might have been a memory related thing i'd be curious to know what you guys did different because if ETA prime is right game changing perfomance is on the horizon for handhleds. typo it was 8GB

[@MatthewMoniz]

Everything was left at default but if that is the case then that is fantastic. I'll give it a shot tomorrow

[@iikatinggangsengii2471]

1700$ is actually reasonable w the specs and design offer

[@aykyi2668]

The CPU that you wait for is the AMD Ryzen Ai 9 395 HX 55w. Thats 16 core 40 compute units. Comes Q1-Q2 2025 into laptops.

[@haseebtubing]

With like 2 hours of battery life? No, thanks.

[@aykyi2668]

@@haseebtubing You know its a APU which mostly gets a U version with half or less power usage? Its basically 2x Z1 Extreme with 3,3x its iGPU. These Z1 start at 10w.

[@Space97.]

​@@haseebtubingreal 😂

[@rjpajaron]

@@haseebtubing u dont know that yet.

[@haseebtubing]

@@rjpajaron we can reliably say so. The processor in the video is 30 Watts, and the one the comment mentions is 55 Watts. It will have a worse battery life than what is already worse than the X Elite and Apple Silicone.

[@beingsolo80]

Will the 14” be similar?

[@jeremykarlsson2684]

Can you check the backlit keys? A previous Zenbook would blind me from the keycap gaps when having the laptop in a lap and my feet on the sofa table. Does this one also leak?

[@vanvelt]

These Results differ from what I’ve seen on other channels. Especially in the GPU scores. Time Spy should be 4000+ on this machine.

[@MatthewMoniz]

Timespy is not above 4000 even AMD's own marketing materials have timespay at 3721. The highest I could get was 3675.

[@ericliberty1776]

Greta video Matthew! The PC looks very large and hard to carry around?

[@MatthewMoniz]

Thanks! Its big but its light so easy to carry around

[@manuelmacalinao500]

How much ram is allocated to the GPU?

[@snaggyak]

@MatthewMoniz can you please do a review on vivobook pro 15 oled n6506 with intel core ultra 9 and a rtx 4060 dgpu.

[@VamosCR7]

Hi! From the processor standpoint, the ryzen 9 HX 370, how does it compare to an intel i9 13900H in the asus zenbook pro 14? I was interested in this specific model. Who is faster between the two? I'm mainly interested in multitasking, having lots of tabs open at the same time, using tradingview, possibly connecting an additional monitor... no gaming, just multitasking and trading. I don't know if this use is more related to single core or multi core, if you could aknowledge me about it I would be grateful 🤣 Thanks and good week!

[@fahmikacamata]

The worst thing about this laptop is sticker placement. It definitely reduces the Geekbench score!

[@barakajk3804]

Where do you get the wallpapers

[@justinnl4332]

Can you do a comparison with asus vivobook s 15 snapdragon please?

[@mmadevgame]

awesome laptop. I will use it

[@lubomirdomansky5079]

I think we should avoid this laptop because of stickers🤣

[@HVLib]

beautiful laptop

[@janesung819]

I will consider to buy ones

[@mattrc77]

Matt with these units out now what 14inch would your recommend?

[@helensabadakh9503]

Hey:) I want to get a new laptop to replace my old 10-year-old laptop. What do you think is better Asus Vivobook s16 or this Asus zenbook s 16? I need to work in Photoshop, or other drawing programs, sometimes play games, well, in general, just a good laptop to live a long time with me:)

[@Wha2les]

Do you know how often Asus eShop restock in the past? I was waiting for reviews and hoping to find the 370 chip in the white body... But doesn't look like they will be doing that. Been hoping for this laptop.

[@andyH_England]

It is not ASUS. AMD still has supply issues, and because of that, many brands won't be able to release their versions until October.

[@Wha2les]

@@andyH_England good to know. But up to this point I bought my laptop from Amazon and new egg, so my original question remains. Assuming there are chips floating in the supply Chain, are they pretty good at restocking their e-store?

[@andyH_England]

@@Wha2les , you must monitor as they return in-store, but we'll be gone just as quickly.

[@Wha2les]

@@andyH_England I see. Do you know if the white color +370 chip exist? I can't find any in the US

[@andyH_England]

@@Wha2les I know they use different colours in different regions and in the UK we can only order the white version. So I assume that you will not get that in the early days.

[@SatyaPrasad2003]

Is there any 13'inch variant available?

[@くろ-v5q]

How do the speakers sound compared to the Zephyrus g14/g16?

[@chrism1051]

The Asus sounds better

[@petrmiskerik]

Hi, what about noise ? I really like this unit but I am don't wanna anything noisy. I am using ubuntu, light work. No compiling or so. Just office work and web browser. Will this unit gonna be silent ?

[@Sponsi_PL]

Wow, it sounds BETTER than MCB!

[@IOSHackzandSTUFF]

Apple laptops at the moment for the elegant simple look and the keyboard touchpad are still the best in my opinion , love the Apple software and how easy to use etc, butttt I am going back to college in a bit and am comp sci major so windows is just so much easier to use , Just stuck on buying this or the rephyrus g16 4080 32gb ram

[@daviddd99]

Those keys - the lettering on the keys is not contrasted strongly enough with the colour of the keys. Same problem with my Asus ViviBook. When will the ASUS designers realise this??!! Look at 7:23 onwards - can anyone see the characters?

[@David_Denali]

GJ 👍

[@thenubianspeaks4329]

What intel laptop has over 11 hours battery life. Name one!. i have been using intel and mac computers for 30 years. I can't count the number of intel base computers I have used and I have got 11 hours even with the most conservative settings. Only the Mac m1 computers did I get 11 hours or more. You spent so much time showing charts of all of the metrics we did not get much information on real world functions. Many users and reviewers have mentioned the thermals are just out of control on this laptop;. and that it gets very hot to the touch. It is interesting that you never metioned anything about it.

[@MatthewMoniz]

All the new intel laptops that are using the new lunar lake architecture have incredible efficiency. These just hit the market over the last few weeks. Intel has tsmc producing their chips now and have taken a different approach for their thin and lights. Performance is not as good as amd but battery life is right up there with snapdragon laptops. Also for thermals I show cpu temps and their exactly where they should be.

[@war_hammer144]

How come all the graphs only have the m3 and not the m3 pro, you know this cpu is not competing against a MacBook Air?

[@MatthewMoniz]

No need to show the m3 pro if the air is already beating it out minus Cinebench tests

[@ryanchris1048]

No performance gain? That's the worst take from all the videos I have watched so far.

[@edwardnoble9897]

I was interested in this until I realised there is no touch or pen support on the EU version. I don't understand why they leave those features off on models with the same name. That's really confusing and annoying, Asus! Even the sellers get the info wrong most of the time because of this!

[@gsp9838]

I smell Qualcomm propaganda here: "... is it x elite good? no" "It's good but not on that elite levels" haha

[@richi2870]

Zenbook sounds better, i thought amd would make a huge jump in performance of the gpu. Sadly it didnt happen ...

[@andyH_England]

Still considerably better than the X Elite in GPU (>50%) and similar to ARC which is likely to be similar in the upcoming new Intel machines. So for an iGPU, up there with the best.

[@gametime4316]

damn those Igpu testing made me sad... even counting for the extra 230,000 extra pixels the 890M was rendering 5 (10%) i was expecting more.

[@sbacon92]

why not review the ProArt16 w/4070?

[@MatthewMoniz]

I dont have it yet! I will when it comes in

[@davidtuel4444]

Will this laptop be able to handle architecture and design 3d modelling and 3d rendering software such as AutoCAD, 3D Studio Max, Lumion? Has anyone tried and how were the results?

[@shakilash11]

Even though it use less power than ultra 9, battery life is not longer than it, what's the point ?

[@andyH_England]

Battery life is similar to X Elite. So 20h SOT on 1080p video playback and 10-11 hours multitasking with non-intensive apps (per Notebookchecks).

[@masonspahn2386]

Is this cpu or the intel core ultra 9 better for power efficiency?

[@MatthewMoniz]

This cpu

[@speciala7826]

only the version with AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Processor comes with TOUCH. If you want touch dont buy the cheaper model with AMD Ryzen AI 9 365

[@123Suryasis]

The power limit is really low in this laptop. 28W for 12 cpu cores and 16 gpu core will never allow any of those to run nowhere near to their max speed.

[@isbestlizard]

RIGHT?? I'm looking at cinebench multi scores that are 4.7 times higher than single core... with a TWELVE CORE chip. Given the clock speeds it should be getting 9:1 if it was properly cooled and fed enough power. Utter shit, and not a single reviewer has even mentioned it so far. Obvious what side their bread is buttered eh

[@wojciechjabonski9118]

There's nothing wrong in having lower power consumption - quite the contrary.

[@123Suryasis]

@wojciechjabonski9118 I did not say that. I was saying that it should have a higher power limit. A higher power limit doesn't mean that it will always run on that power all the time. It means that when required, like during gaming, it can utilize it to increase the performance. Also, that can be very easily controlled by Power profile settings by adding an extra performance mode. You can simply choose a lower perfomode while doing basic tasks like office work and choose a higher performance mode when doing demanding works, enabling it to use higher power, say 45W. Applications that use both cpu and gpu together can have significant performance jump with slightly higher power budget. Example, gaming, video editing, etc.

[@wojciechjabonski9118]

@@123Suryasis As I understand, the limit is set by OEMs (ASUS in this case) depending on computer's chassis. This is a tiny laptop. You cannot just increase the limit without the chassis re-design. You should be judging the device for what it is (lightweight laptop, not a gaming machine/workstation).

[@rjpajaron]

I want to have this laptop but how can u buy to a non-existent one..... sad.

[@arturomolinamacias8989]

Hope lunar lake does not disappoint. Not quite sure it won't tbh, but hey better and better chips from every brand are great for the consumer, as it drives the market with more competitive prices. That's kinda one of the reasons why apple can charge so much for macbooks, they unrivaled right now. There are windows laptops that beat the macbooks in either performance, desing, or battery (surface 7) but not in all three. Not even two. At max they can win one category and tie one or tie in two Hopefully these new generations of chips help to dethrone macbooks as unrivaled winners, even if you are apple fanboy that'll be great news as they would continue to be great machines but probably a little bit cheaper.

[@graveyarddead753]

I don’t think the gaming benchmarks are going to reflect handheld performance. There’s no way it would perform the same or worse compared to the X. I know ASUS is able to customize how much power is allocated to CPU and GPU power in their bios for the Ally. Guessing there’s a mismatch of power allocation here.

[@zachkurdi3178]

The leaning tower of shawarma

[@DreamStateStudio]

how about the g16 with hx370?

[@MatthewMoniz]

Video soon!

[@vmafarah9473]

8:01 intel ultra is good in batterylife at videoplayback and sucks in other heavy duty tasks.

[@jarjarbinks8954]

do the speakers sound better than the macbook air 15?

[@MatthewMoniz]

The speaker test was with the MacBook Air 15. You tell me

[@jarjarbinks8954]

@@MatthewMoniz hard to say over KZbin compression, hence why I asked you :3?

[@exar8355]

If this has 4 large cores, down from 8 large cores in 8840 / 7940hs, is this going to be worse for games?

[@XDLfootball]

most games use less than 4 cores thats why modern i3 are better than older i7s

[@exar8355]

@@XDLfootball actually many already use 6-8+ and people will want this computer to be relevant for 4+ years.

[@XDLfootball]

@@exar8355 i agree with you on that, taking into consideration the only difference between the full and c cores is cache

[@Montytheolaila]

Your gaming performance benchmarks are wayyyyy off from everyone else's

[@MatthewMoniz]

You sure about that. Did they do it on medium settings or low?

[@christianr.5868]

Were they using frame gen?

[@Montytheolaila]

@@christianr.5868 no check out ETA prime

[@richi2870]

​@@MontytheolailaETA Prime says 30% more performance 😅 never !

[@Montytheolaila]

@@richi2870 sure but also 'the same or less than the Z1X' literally doesn't line up with anyone's experience