The Laptop I've ALWAYS Wanted!

[@Dave2D]

these new AMD chips are phenomenal

[@horuslupercal3872]

Would you say Phenom-inal? 😅 sorry not sorry

[@Brunaan429]

The products appear to be exactly what I'm looking for: ultra-portable, with long battery life, and capable of handling gaming during spare time. I have a small question regarding the performance-at what FPS and settings does Valorant run? Additionally, would you consider it a "light game"? I always enjoy your content, and these options seem perfect for university use. I hope to hear back from you soon.

[@handlemonium]

Honestly the best part is the iGPU that matches the RX 590 in SKUs that feature the full 54W TDP. Can wait to get one next year with LPCAMM2 upgradable RAM and even faster integrated graphics! 😁

[@horuslupercal3872]

@@Dave2D still waiting for Strix Halo

[@MrKentoNion]

Now I think that its trash. Either this laptop or this new ryzen 1st reason is, 53db fan noise 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

[@CalQdeX]

"This is the year windows laptops stop sucking" - Dave2D every year

[@benjaminbong9214]

they have been ass since 2020 and arguably even earlier lets pray they arent butt this year

[@DanielDuedu]

Kaizen!!!

[@andrescarrasco1248]

They have been amazing since they got Ryzen

[@GrandSenator]

@@andrescarrasco1248it only last 2 years tho why waste money on a laptop when you can build a better pc also over a laptop id rather having apple tablet lol

[@Sakosaga]

​@@benjaminbong9214 depends on what you're looking for and what you're doing. At this point, laptop market is extremely competitive and windows with Qualcomm coming in is extremely great for consumers. I think the only bad options to be is Intel atm

[@techgroveusa]

As someone who values portability, energy efficiency, and quality, the new chip and thin design are particularly appealing. The heating of the keyboard under pressure is concerning though.

[@seangardner9884]

He mentioned maximizing clk speed at the beginning. I wonder if his analysis and feedback was under these settings?

[@togoxo]

why would it be concerning?

[@owen9273]

You can simply get a laptop fan stand and the chasis will stay much cooler when in performance mode and plugged in. Also use power saving mode when on battery for 12+ hours of battery life under office and light use.

[@burundianfamily2982]

you cant lift 5lbs?

[@togoxo]

@@burundianfamily2982 than carry a brick around everywhere you go 😛😛

[@ctrl_x1770]

The top looks exactly like a kitchen counter.

[@Dave2D]

it totally does! like one of those ceramic slabs. it def feels like that material

[@AmeyaShikhare_RR]

@@Dave2D i thought it looked like quartz

[@h_k_channel]

Could we like…. Cut vegetables on it?

[@syedsaim3470]

​@@Dave2Ddave do you think in long run and chips will be maintaining that performance reliability is the issue with these devices in long run

[@bhikhta]

They knew that this will go busy in 2-3 years and they just want users to use it as a chopping board afterwards.

[@mufeedtalukder4556]

3:00 drawing a boy from the written word "boy", got nostalgic seeing that great video as always

[@christomapher]

Lol I first read it as "MMM boy" when he was drawing it.

[@zeffmalchazeen3429]

boy is as universal as the super S. You thought it was unique in your area, but it is global

[@Merrychristmas567]

⁠@@zeffmalchazeen3429 he didn’t think that

[@saket37]

Today I noticed that the whole video is a single cut! He even changes the dual camera! Dave is a genius at saving editing time! Respect

[@user-kq6lb9hi7s]

Something about these nearly raw, uncut reviews that make it so refreshing to watch. Wished more tech YTers would do this

[@impulsesystems]

Agreed but it is difficult! Many presenter brains can't handle this kind of processing. Production quality here is very high.

[@maomekat2369]

no, id prefer less haptic/proper thought out, ith cuts, edits...not this uhh hmm oh and hmm uhh breathless semi random phone call style . scripted like a movie is better than this standup on the spot low quality

[@ojasmhatre9362]

It's been years after I came across this video of you. I used to watch Dave2D regularly back in the days when I had to get a system for myself. Lots of love man. Your content is helpful.

[@richardgunn796]

Ive been watching your videos for years, and can I just say that your presentation style and tech setup is just perfect. Being able to control the camera's and zoom and stuff all while talking is amazing. I know you went into it deeper with a video recently, but it is really impressive.

[@maomekat2369]

no, id prefer less haptic/proper thought out, ith cuts, edits...not this uhh hmm oh and hmm uhh breathless semi random phone call style . scripted like a movie is better than this standup on the spot low quality uncut

[@iikatinggangsengii2471]

too many touches it seems, hx260

[@Saturnius]

@@maomekat2369 Go watch MKBHD then. That is not Dave's style.

[@movdqa]

I'll wait for another manufacturer for these as I've had some bad experiences with Asus on their support after a year.

[@earthtaurus5515]

I had Asus accuse me of installing a motherboard m.2 heatsink ontop of m.2 heatsinks and that was their first response to a simple query about q-latches for a £700 motherboard.

[@movdqa]

@@earthtaurus5515 When you get investigated for customer complaints by Gamers Nexus, you lose all of your goodwill. " ASUS Scammed Us " by Gamers Nexus.

[@rustler08]

Yup, ASSUS can burn in hell.

[@aykyi2668]

I look forward to lenovos full aluminium laptop with a Ryzen 9 Ai 395 HX which comes next year. I dont buy a 12 core which is basically 4 weak cpu cores with 8 good cpu cores in 1. The Ryzen 9 Ai 395 HX 16 core 40 compute units in 3nm is something worth, everything else is trash. Look this 370 hx, its 16 cu... thats less than half of what is coming in 1 year.

[@movdqa]

@@aykyi2668 It's a thin and light. I imagine those with more cores will have better cooling systems. I'm looking forward to seeing full benchmark comparisons.

[@omash6839]

Waiting three years for the tech to get fine tuned and the prices for the second gen to come down

[@DarkAbyss9]

This mentality just means you're always waiting. Tech advances so quickly that in 6 months something new is only around the corner

[@kadefischer7849]

Yes and yes

[@Dave2D]

I actually think these are the best chips we've seen from any of the recent AMD launches. it feels strangely well tuned out of the gate

[@dechubasco830]

@@DarkAbyss9 That great, now I can keep saving money.

[@PlatinAviation]

@@DarkAbyss9I agree to both sides XD

[@stevens1041]

I had a zenbook around 2016. It was competent for a business laptop. Unlike my Zephyrus from 2019 (SSD failed and I had to replace it), it never had any problems I can't believe how nice the new ones look. Beautiful.

[@michal1693]

how a failed ssd have anything to do with a laptop. whas was the brand of the ssd? Zephyrus ssd 4gb? when a component fails in my DIY desktop, im to blame?

[@Roop283]

It might be an unlucky situation. My g14 from 2020 is still up and running tho the 1650ti just wasn't cutting it for me and so recent upgraded to the g16

[@michal1693]

@@Roop283 - my 2018 dell 7400 2in1 aged much better and is still a small usable work laptop with acceptable battery life. I can stream any games from my linux desktop windows VM if i like too. thats why i don' buy laptops with dGPU. Interested in zenbook s16

[@bosenngantor9160]

you have to look at what brand of SSD your zenbook using, it's obviously not Asus fault...that SSD brand is failed on you. SSD failure can be happened to any laptop to be fair

[@upsatwal]

Honestly the same thing happend to me. My 2021 Zephyrus M16 Samsung SSD (came pre-installed) killed itself for no reason. I was using the laptop and it suddenly froze after I did a force shutdown it stopped booting. And I had to install a new SSD, to get it to start. Else it was just stuck on a black screen.

[@DudeGamer8]

One of the reasons why Apple is so successful is because they named their product iPhone 5, iPhone 8, iPhone 15 etc and LG failed because LG G6 ThinQ, LG V60 ThinQ etc... Why manufacturer chose to put stupid name like AMD does here is beyond me.

[@XekTOr89]

I think it's because their development and marketing departments have little to no communication. Same happens with Samsung too. I think apple prioritizes those things to make it a bit easier for the average consumer to get into it, it's relatively easy for someone not into tech to tell which apple product is the newer one even in recent years.

[@marsovac]

Apple sells a product, AMD sells a platform with 10+ different SKUs, and they dont produce laptops, just chips. Yes the AI in the name is lame, but it still needs a category and model number unlike Apple that can just stick with the version and a "Pro" or "Max" for the other two versions. If you want to compare naming to Apple, you dont compare the name of the CPU but of the laptop: "ZenBook S16" to "MacBook Pro 2023". Not much different.

[@helloukw]

@@marsovac That's not an excuse, you can put AMD [3/5/7/9] [1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10] and you are done.

[@jrgarciab]

Preach, brother.

[@kpwnage97]

0 Marketing lol

[@FayeM9]

A few years back, I had a Dell. It was a pretty good laptop, and the keyboard was super comfy. But the battery was a bit of a drag. Now I have an ASUS and everything’s cool, except I’m trying to find a Windows key. I’ve had some bad luck with sketchy websites. Any ideas?

[@healerslighthelen]

Same here! I just bought my Lenovo laptop a couple of days ago and I need an Office product key. I’m stuck!

[@joshuaLLM1]

bnh software is the solution bro

[@joshuaLLM1]

@@healerslighthelen Hi Helen, you can find the office product key on bnh software too.

[@FayeM9]

@@joshuaLLM1 Finally!! Thanks a ton bro, It worked like a charm!

[@joshuaLLM1]

@@FayeM9 no problem man! I'm glad I could help

[@technologyexplained]

Happy to see windows pcs battery life matching MacBooks. I’m on my third MacBook (Air M2), but it’s thin and good performing laptops like these which might make me switch. Although, i might switch to Linux over Windows.

[@SKcdman]

hi that battery life is just fairytale. i work with tech and intel/amd battery life is always just HALF of what is advertized, so expect 4h in idle/office with this one. its simple math: apple m1-4 macs drain around 5W /= 15h of work/ of power in office use while best amd chips drain like 7-9w with everything turned off /wifi, backlight, bloetooth, brightnes to 20%/. Dont trust reviewers, real life usage is completly different /windows and linux tested with zillion power tweaks/.

[@uranblut]

​@@SKcdmanmy hp aero 13 was advertised with 10+ hours, even by the reviewers. I barely see 5 hours :P. 4 something is realistic. I feel betrayed :(.

[@technologyexplained]

@@SKcdman usually i’d agree. but with @dave2d i will make an exception. all his reviews mentioning the m1 and m2 MacBooks have been very accurate to my usage. + i’ve been following him over 4 years, and i trust his content to the core.

[@michal1693]

spend so much money to run some nonsense os - thats more stupid than windows bare metal. if x86 hardware will look like this zenbook s16 i see to point to swiching. and it has a real GPU

[@michal1693]

@@SKcdman - were you able to test zen5/zen5c chiplets? i own old dell 7400 2in1 and will probably own 16" ryzen ai apu. from what u wrote my 7400 have better battery life than all the laptops you have seen working in tech and im just running new linux kernel and basic power saving services

[@SurlyYerby]

Love to see AMD get a win. We need variety and choice in the market.

[@iikatinggangsengii2471]

hope the money can improve amd in gaming sector, be it games or gpu, their games are very potential and fun, assassins creed dirt gears of war call of duty etc will be very interesting if can manage to implement raytracing on those

[@DrumsBah]

​@@iikatinggangsengii2471 they already make the best CPUs for gaming but yes GPU options are pretty lacking

[@PeterRince]

The repairability rating must be quite high and that's impressive as well. Look how easy Dave disassembled the speaker part and put it back inside...

[@somnambulist6636]

Next time put a /s after sarcasm. ( If you were serious, let me tell you ALL the ram is soldered like MacBooks

[@DanKaschel]

​@@somnambulist6636worse, the chip doesn't even support unsoldered RAM at this time

[@PeterRince]

@@somnambulist6636 You're confusing repairability with upgradability. It's not 10/10, but still you can easily replace M2 SSD, the battery, and so on. And you can do it yourself using regular tools. Soldered RAM is becoming a standard, especially if you prefer (and I do prefer) unified memory architecture for CPU and GPU.

[@somnambulist6636]

@@PeterRince why is unified architecture better than standard seperate ram ? If ram dies , the whole motherboard dies , so much for repairability

[@PeterRince]

@@somnambulist6636 It's a better architecture efficiency and performance wise. In macOS you can use most of it as VRAM, so there are other convenient functional consequences. In terms of repairability, RAM is the most durable component and does not wear out like SSD, so I don't bother if it's soldered or not. Problems with RAM are very rare and even if you get a faulty module, it manifests itself in early years of usage, which are covered by the standard warranty.

[@wgvickery]

Any day with Dave is a win.

[@h4554n8]

I wish he was my girlfriend

[@kiki12basket]

That's what we all wish for

[@onerawartist]

Am i the only one that wants thicker laptops, better thermals = longer life battery, better speakers, and deeper keyboards? And all the ports ? . How thing is the laptop is the last thing on mind.

[@DanKaschel]

Those things exist. I want the lightest possible 16" laptop and am willing to make some compromises. There are lots of different customers. :)

[@michal1693]

so why u watched this review of zenbook s16? this is light and thiin work laptop, which will play simple games like DOTA2

[@DanKaschel]

@@michal1693 yo dota2 may be easy to run but it ain't simple

[@abdullahk0405]

@@michal1693 Hey genius, it is because coincidentally this specific laptop is the first one to use AMD's new CPU and we want to see how it performs

[@michal1693]

@@DanKaschel - true, was only talking graphic demands, not the game itself - its deep

[@mattvmani]

The news of this processor is cool but, not touching any Asus laptop ever again until we see them notably supporting their customers. Will be excited when literally any other brand offers an affordable build with this chip.

[@Candelus]

Gamer Nexus did a final interview with them and had them promise to improve, whether that stays in the far future is still debatable but at least for now Gamer Jesus had them 😂

[@mariussm7797]

That's only a US problem. In my country they are the best at support.

[@yippeeki-yey]

Whats wrong with Asus ? Idk

[@Candelus]

@@yippeeki-yey check Gamer Nexus' Asus scam video

[@Ezdiess]

@@yippeeki-yey they scam on the warranty

[@Dionyzos]

Soo, this is what we can expect from the next handheld generation? The 780M is equivalent to the Z1 Extreme and the 890M is 20-30% faster. Sounds pretty good to me. Btw, the ROG Ally X's battery is as big as the one in this laptop which is crazy.

[@theviniso]

Well, the Ally X is also much thicker so it can afford to be bigger.

[@keerthan7558]

Nah it's probably a 10-15% bump in performance

[@abdullahk0405]

Nah they will wait for Strix Halo

[@user-sf8du]

​@@abdullahk0405why strix halo? Doesn't strix halo start at 65 watts up to 130w? Wouldn't that over double their power consumption? Also the strix halo CPUs are not monolithic, which is generally worse for gaming.

[@keerthan7558]

@@user-sf8du AMD's high performance cpu are generally more efficient and can easily give good performance at 35-55w range too. Both Intel and Amd are heavily focusing on efficiency this time so u can expect that much atleast.

[@clemisch]

tbh I'm kinda skeptic after the X Elite launch. You were one of the really positive reviewers before bad (arguably real) reviews started showing up

[@Watchandlearn91]

Yep agreed. He just doesn’t put in the time to test them because his reviews launch right out of the gate. The real reviews come a bit later after people have spent more time with the devices

[@sydguitar99]

Same thing with linus. He will sponsored by Qualcomm so he gave an amazing review of the product when other channels had other things to say

[@FenrirAlter]

i mean its asus wouldnt trust them anyways with such an expensive item.

[@SixPathsOfJin]

I'd say x elite laptops are definitely some of the most positively reviewed windows laptops in a very long time. Especially the new Surface Laptop. Adding to the fact that (compatibility aside) x Elite still beats these brand new AMD chips in every performance metric apart from graphics and leaks suggest they'll beat the new Intels too. I'd say Dave was right.

[@sydguitar99]

@@SixPathsOfJin much of the Snapdragon performance has to do with how the company's configure them which is confusing to say the least and also what performance mode they're being tested on which also adds to the confusion. I've seen the lower and Qualcomm chips perform better than the high end Qualcomm chips just based on that alone

[@grandmachines]

This is SICK!! As soon as you showed the touch screen on top of all this..dude I’m buying

[@fangxu2]

I will wait for the 14" ZenBook version of HX370

[@jbcrib]

Same here. Any rumors?

[@mariussm7797]

The 14" comes with the new Intel CPU presented at Computex

[@fangxu2]

@@mariussm7797 Hope that's the only Zenbool 14 model

[@Andrey-il8rh]

​@@mariussm7797that's a bummer, but maybe zephyrus g14 will give us what we want

[@BellaBabe55]

Do you know when that is supposed to be coming??

[@devanshanil2468]

it has been so long that dave has given a proper review video for gaming laptops like he used to few years back.

[@maomekat2369]

because hes doing lazy fast review ..., id prefer less haptic/proper thought out, ith cuts, edits...not this uhh hmm oh and hmm uhh breathless semi random phone call style . scripted like a movie is better than this standup on the spot low quality

[@devanshanil2468]

@@maomekat2369 same, and he barely reviews any product. earlier he used to do some good mice, laptops , graphics cards , monitors and used to give good perspective, now it like those channel who unbox and talk specs. remember old oneplus video 6 7 era they were also good.

[@moonootoo]

The keyboard heat is gonna be a no-go for me

[@SoftwareManiacLSM]

Amazing candid review. I'm now feeling even better about buying the SnapDragon x7 Lenovo Yoga Slim model.

[@eudy97]

1:20 "Also the TOPS" AI marketing has rotted my brain

[@MainInternetUser]

Doesn't get any more real

[@casual_sky2]

That Black Color is fricking awesome! Wow, those silver highlights 🔥🔥

[@VladdyDaddy369]

My experience hasn't been great so far. Received it on Saturday and returned it yesterday. Ordered a new one hoping that the first one was just a defect. I really want to love this thing, keeping my fingers crossed.

[@arynbwr]

Come back and update us!

[@VladdyDaddy369]

@@arynbwr The new unit is better, doesn't seem to have the defect of the first one. But I still can't figure out how to enable Dynamic Refresh Rate. Seems to be either just 60 hz or 120 hz. When I click on the box for Dynamic, it instantly defaults the 120 back to 60 and the only way to change back to 120 is by closing and reopening the settings. Maybe I'm missing something... I absolutely love the visual aspect of this laptop, gorgeous design and screen, really good keyboard and trackpad. The build doesn't feel nearly as premium as SL7, GB4P or Mac. I think it's the bottom cover that makes it feel cheap-ish since it's very thin and flexes a lot when pressed.... A 16 in OLED SL7 would be my preferred choice but since that doesn't exist and the 16" GB4P and Edge trackpad is really bad with palm rejection, I'll stick with the S16 for now I think.

[@MooseWillard]

I just bought the ASUS Zenbook Pro 14 OLED (i9/4070) at the beginning of last month for college. I don’t regret buying it at all and so far it does not disappoint and runs just as great as desktop would. PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO REVIEWING THIS LAPTOP since I have not really benchmarked battery life and I feel like it does not match up with what other people say on KZbin or the Asus website

[@GojoBoiAlt1]

i9 With a 4070 ur joking right…

[@inevitable408]

Nice laptop but damn man you be better be plugged in all the time 😂

[@MooseWillard]

@@GojoBoiAlt1 nah, ima be doing everything on this laptop for 4+ years and and going for engineering

[@MooseWillard]

@@inevitable408 yea 😂 the battery ain’t that bad unplugged tho, but any windows pc with a GPU is gonna have crappy battery life unfortunately

[@lucifernebulae]

7 hours of battery life in light tasks is no longer enough. 10h is absolute minimum.

[@movdqa]

My M1 Pro MacBook Pro gets about 12 hours for casual stuff, 6 hours for my professional workload. Battery life is insane these days.

[@somnambulist6636]

It's a loop test....

[@ZedDevStuff]

Considering all my previous laptops i'd even take 4 hours lol. My two laptops (first one sold, second one stolen last month) didn't last more than 2 hours, and certainly not more than 1:30 if i'm using them for anything

[@movdqa]

@@ZedDevStuff All-day battery life gives you a lot of options for getting work done while you're traveling. Apple had the laptop market on the Boston to Washington Acela route and now Windows gets its turn.

[@JamesTechJackin]

I agree Dave!! Make this into a handheld w/ an 8.5 inch OLED FreeSync screen 90Wh battery and sell it to me NOW!!

[@j808010]

Based on the battery life testing, if battery capacity is also normalized, then the battery life is almost the same as core U7. This is kind of weird. I assume the behavior could come from peripheral power consumption like monitor.

[@4RILDIGITAL]

Windows laptops have seen a significant revamp, and AMD's tech is setting new benchmarks.

[@henninghoefer]

What's the point of a 12mm notebook? Make it 18mm and give me a larger battery capacity, bigger vapor chamber etc.

[@Dave2D]

there's definitely a market for super thin devices. it also helps keep the weight down. but I do think a 1-2 mm increase would have helped on this one

[@ArunG273]

You have to just wait for "gaming" laptops with these processors.

[@persto5794]

I was genuinely expecting around 1.7k to 2k for the price point, as a college student who had bought the XPS 13 back in 2020 and this just seems so much better for around the same price, lordddd

[@michal1693]

i recomended my sister dell xps 13 ~3 years ago - it was really reasonable (she owns a company and buy new stuff with tax etc). For myself I got 2018 dell 7400 2in1 for $300 one year ago. I believe those were reasonable purchases at a time. this zenbook s16 and ryzen ai are really amazing and most interesting from x86 and in general now IMO

[@persto5794]

@@michal1693 Oh absolutely, I don't regret my purchase at all, I still regularly use my XPS 13 without an issue

[@GarrisIiari]

Felt like the battery life section zoomed by pretty quickly. Was that considered good battery life? Looking forward to comparisons with the newest from Intel and the Snapdragon chips.

[@itzlion6529]

Yeah thats what i also was thinking

[@ChillyChip]

It will be very interesting to compare this to the Apple Silicon laptop. However, I think the difference between x86 and ARM is still significant.

[@2failepic]

No Battery endurance test between this chip and the M2 and Snapdragon competition?

[@itRemindsMeThatItNotSoBad]

bro 4 to 7 hours max, they are not even third the battery life time of the compitition, i feel like this was an ad

[@audiocalls2822]

Companies do not need to keep reinventing the laptop. Give it a good screen, a good keyboard, and latest specs in a premium chasis and thats all you need.

[@alpacamale2909]

Why are they so obsessed with slim laptops? many people just don't care they like the boxy design of the apple m3

[@JoeL-xk6bo]

...so buy the ProArt that's not slim?

[@hyposlasher]

Wait for another year or two and you will see all these manufacturers start copying the Macbook's boxy design

[@alpacamale2909]

@@hyposlasher I think razer did for a short period of time then brands went back to slim laptops. Even apple is going back to slim laptops.

[@PKperformanceEU]

I absolutely love the THICKNESS AND WEIGHT OF THE mb pro 16!!!

[@GoonyMclinux]

Thin laptops are weak and usually don't survive for long unless you baby them and don't take them anywhere. I've broken so many I went to rugged laptops so I don't have to worry about a light breeze taking them out.

[@johnnysong9781]

The ultimate laptop I’ve ever wanted is an apple silicon based Max-evel MacBook Pro which supports Nvidia graphics card via Thunderbolt for model inference and training

[@pcefbol6704]

These manufacturers generally always go in the wrong direction. Consumers want a bigger battery and a thicker design to help with thermals and minimize noise or be fanless, like the amazing Apple Silicon.

[@JamesShiloh-hg5in]

No ?

[@hardyharhardcore]

These things are WAY too hot to use on your lap. Ridiculously hot.

[@ant4686]

Keep up the good job, Dave!

[@Shouko91]

Hell yeah!

[@capriciousShmouse]

love your vids dave. the video quality is appreciated.

[@zigzag00]

Ngl Dave you deserve more appreciation for your clean aesthetic vids

[@McNuel007]

I think your lighting setup made the laptop look even more beautiful... Nice review too...

[@trainspoted]

and of course it's a totally INDEPENDENT review with exactly the same pros and cons like a dozen big youtubers had

[@gamerboy4566]

I have concluded that I no longer need gaming on a laptop. Having a thin and light laptop with full day battery backup is what I look for in a laptop nowadays. For gaming needs, I am thinking of finally buying an xbox or a ps5 instead of spending huge money for building a desktop. I am waiting for the next iteration of the snapdragon x elite devices, hoping they get full Linux support by the middle of next year. Also, I am interested in battery backup of upcoming Lunar Lake devices.

[@APEXGuerilla]

Maybe it's just me but I hate super thin laptops. They never last as long in my experience and the cooling is subpar.

[@Dave2D]

I 100% agree but we're normally dealing with much hotter chips. these run significantly cooler than anything we've seen before

[@alpacamix]

hate the naming scheme, but can't argue the performance it give and battery life it get

[@anifowosehabeeb4716]

As a software engineer, the reason I'm skipping every sort of tech product this year is "AI". It's just too over-hyped for what they actually are. Getting the pixel 10 next year and hopefully the SD chips get even better also. And this year will be the last time they try to peddle AI as the main attraction.

[@TankTheSpank]

Write me a essay about George Washington… Yea you know and I know that AI will help with that and more efficient than you

[@shahtayyib]

Honestly man good for you. I'm low-key sick of it but it's unhealthily exciting at times... Kinda like nicotine or some other poison

[@theviniso]

Although I'm very skeptical about AI myself, I tend to agree with 2kliksphilip on this regard: this is just the beginning of AI in general computing and it hasn't matured yet. Once the hype has died down and the hardware is powerful and widespread enough, then we might get to see actually good usecases for AI.

[@nintendork07]

​@@TankTheSpank or you can just do your own damn research and learn for yourself instead of relying on a tool to write everything for you

[@DanKaschel]

​@@TankTheSpankexcept you don't need an NPU for that...

[@EasyYoutubeAI]

00:02: AMD's new Ryzen AI9 HX 370 chip powers the Asus Zenbook S16 laptop. 02:34: The Zenbook S16 features a stunning 16-inch OLED touchscreen with high refresh rate. 04:28: Impressive performance from both Ryzen chips, but keyboard gets warm during use. 06:50: Good speaker quality and battery life, with efficient energy use during light tasks. 08:52: Priced at $1399, the Zenbook S16 offers unique performance in a premium package.

[@ABEiiiKU]

Hello Dave, can you make a video breakdown of your filming setup, step by step? Because I think your filming setup is simple, unique and intuitive.

[@azurebluegames]

I think he talked about it in a previous video? There's like 4 4k cameras and uses that apple device while recording in OBS.

[@ABEiiiKU]

@@azurebluegames He bluntly made a cue of that in a long video that wasn't about that. That's not a full breakdown video that takes it step by step through the process. Exactly what I am looking out for.

[@harrythehandyman]

Now I would really want to see a 14inch scale down version.

[@mariussm7797]

The 14" comes with Intel CPU.

[@moonkarma6403]

just a suggestion: i saw first is that you reach buttons during recording in order to switch to certain layouts and camera angles for the video. I highly suggest that you include foot buttons of some sort into your setup! this will look more natural in the long run. great content as always

[@Yielar1]

Lol, get a hobby dude. I love his presentation style and he can leave as is

[@moonkarma6403]

@@Yielar1 it is just a friendly suggestion, if he wants it that way then he can be. what harm has been done?

[@weiliao7642]

two things to change would make this laptop unbeatable for office work. 1. Reduce the size of the unnecessary speaker and give it to the battery to boost it up to 10 hours of light office work. 2. thicken it a bit to ad a bit insulation to stop the heat for getting to the keyboard that much.

[@SolarFlare307]

Always love the aesthetic setup and clean asf presentation

[@xxzmk]

I kinda want to see how the Business level Elitebook and ZBooks will be like with these AMD chips which came out now. Those have usually like low power 1000 nits ips panels on 1080p. That might give great battery life in total.

[@jakubedzior]

About these holes above keyboard... How are they supposed to be spill resistant if that's where the air gets sucked in from? Wouldn't that just suck in the water as well? Or does this apply only to when the fans are off? 😅

[@nattieCSH]

if the pitch is on the size, surface tension should kick in which means the water won't go anywhere else so fast.

[@9a3eedi]

The most impressive thing about this laptop is that it has a full size HDMI and USB-A port, AS WELL AS 2 type C.

[@seethruhead7119]

I couldn't care less about laptops, only here to see the Strix Point in action. Anticipating when it will arrive in gaming handhelds and mini pcs

[@javiasilis]

Dave, I like your battery tests. They're at least more real than most other KZbinrs. I don't spend 11 hours looping around on KZbin.

[@Abdulla77]

Great video 👍 keep it up !

[@Dave2D]

thank you! appreciate the SUPER THX

[@WhiteEvo6]

No amount of these Asus Ads are going to get customers back on board with ASUS until we see a fundamental change in customer support, not words like previous years. We want to hear exisiting customers with support issues have been made happy, the ones charged for bogus issues have been refunded and that going forward how ASUS handles support and returns becomes the industry standard that others follow vs the complete opposite. KZbinrs are pushing ASUS products like we are stupid to not see this is just trying to claw back some respect for ASUS.

[@shApYT]

Thank you Apple for the competition.

[@somnambulist6636]

Apple's competition is snapdragon , this is natural course of evolution of x86

[@helloukw]

@@somnambulist6636 Nope. He said it right. If you check before M1 and after you will see massive improvement in Intel and AMD. Snapdragon slept for 4 years.

[@NadeemAhmed-nv2br]

I love how deceptive Dave2ds benchmarks always are, For performance benmarks marks he shows ultra 9 and for battery life he uses ultra 7, a 1 letter difference to make Intel appear better than it is

[@touch--]

he’s probably just showing how different they are for comparisons sake. what does he seek to gain from making intel look better?

[@shush2534]

Humans in general just react; not respond. If the person just looked at their statement for a minute they would've realised​ he's comparing performance to the best AND battery life to the best and Amd still beats them. He's not making anybody look bad 😅@@touch--

[@lIllIIllIllIIllIl]

I'm never getting an Asus again after thr terrible experience with previous devices

[@roxamir]

Same. Was excited for the video, bummed when I heard it was Asus. Stopped watching.

[@shApYT]

And I don't know if we'll see it in a framework either.

[@stevens1041]

Can you please elaborate? "Terrible experience with previous devices", very vague statements.

[@MySonicDragon]

Minor thought but I'd consider getting a foot pedal to do the camera switch you do instead of having to reach over with your arm.

[@keerthan7558]

It's 2024 and windows laptops still don't have a 1080p webcam across the board and no type c ports on both sides for charging 🙂. Simple things that make life easier

[@RaedVS]

Priced quite fairly actually, I expected a way higher number given these specs and capabilities, my old 2017 or so ZenBook cost me around $1700 with way lower specs.

[@ProfestionalCrayonEater]

i was expecting 1800 tbh

[@Ex_Arc]

Want to see what they can do once they are in handheld PCs

[@ma5on2099]

Macbook Pro is about 16.8mm thick. I wish this laptop was about 15.8mm. That way they could have gotten a bigger battery, better cooling and better keyboard travel and still be thinner than Apple's best. Could have been the king...

[@internetuser4704]

What's the name of the mouse at 3:21?

[@samantha_t99]

Looks like an Asus ROG Harpe Ace Aim White Lab Edition

[@albertongoogle]

6:27 i agree. I prefer if it was slightly thicker, especially if it makes it sturdier too. 10% heavier also ok.

[@ACE112ACE112]

ASUS is still on my no buy list

[@bintururong]

I'm curious about what makes you say that. On paper their tech seems like amazing products. I myself own a g15 2022 and although I had some issues, after some restarts and updates it's been silky smooth since then.

[@envynoir]

their customer service is useless and really sh!t, even if the products are good.

[@bintururong]

@@envynoir I heard about their infamous customer service, but at this point which tech company doesn't... I heard no good about any tech support

[@rael_gc]

With an additional 1 or 2mm, they'll even be able to use upgradable RAM. But it's now allowed in current days.

[@PropaneWP]

"This is the year that Windows laptops finally stop sucking" - You installed Linux on them?

[@ZedDevStuff]

This statement makes no sense, if you use linux it's not a windows laptop anymore

[@2freeaustin878]

it is honestly how crazy it is the macbook is ahead of windows laptops in so many areas for so long, this should make it more interesting. Ive been saying for a while unless you game super heavy on laptops or need something from windows you couldn't beat the M series chips performance and build quality.

[@mydogisbailey]

I have no idea what tech stuff Dave is saying but I watch him anyway cuz he’s handsome

[@jarrodjob]

…and saves me time. Love language. 🤝

[@erwinlimawan3158]

I’m a bit disappointed you didn’t show the charger. I bought the UM5302 Zenbook, which came with a very nice, tiny 65w charger with a USB-C output, but newer Zenbook models ditched that for a bulkier charger with non-detachable cable, probably for cost-saving.

[@openbabel]

Is the new chip the same as the ZChip in the Lenovo which spys on the user and sends back your data to the server?

[@ZedDevStuff]

What????

[@esparda07]

The laptop everyone always wanted was an all-rounder razer with a lower price...which is exactly this!

[@mikatsuno]

Would you say the x86 simulations are better on AMD chips than the Snapdragon ones?

[@azenyr]

Hum... the AMD chips are X86 native so there is no emulation at all... only snapdragon needs emulation

[@mikatsuno]

@@azenyr oh, i thought these were arm based compared to the previous CPUs, cuz of them advertised with the new copilot pcs and extremely good battery life, thanks!

[@Accuaro]

It's this good, now imagine when AMD finally gets backside power or going to glass substrates. The power efficiency is gonna be insane.

[@thefryinallofus]

The laptop you've always wanted has Microsoft's AI spyware on it? Kind of shocking. Will never buy one of these.

[@DannyWelch]

Incredible price for the specs when compared to Apple laptops. Looks like you're getting comparable performance, battery life, and build quality. I personally prefer Windows over OSX, and it's great to see Windows laptops that truly compete.

[@humanbeing9079]

ASUS no thank you

[@orangeheartguy]

Why?

[@omrcz]

Garbage company with garbage products

[@neonmancer9945]

Why

[@user-kq2mz7gl2m]

Why

[@Philippe_Choquette]

Check the recent series of videos from Gamer's Nexus about ASUS and their practice of denying warranty claims

[@shouldbewritig]

That laptop is STUNNING. I want a new laptop but I know I absolutely don’t need it right now lol

[@michal1693]

its amazing. reasonable upgrade from my 2018 7400 2in1 14" FHD dell latitude. but what have you bought in the meantime that you cant buy this?

[@Razoronmd]

No views in 0 seconds. Bro fell off.

[@KCScorpion34]

Dave needs to get with a company & design a laptop. Would love to see what he comes up with.

[@martinseal1987]

Unsubscribed after probably five years

[@uranblut]

Why?

[@martinseal1987]

@@uranblut every video some sponsored shit he used to do cool stuff

[@MegaMijit]

there needs to be a blue version, and ceraluminum is not a bad name. it sounds awesome

[@dexdavd]

😂😅Dave is the only person allowed to take long to post, n we still super love him like crazy....

[@djvidual8288]

@02:24 Nice, but I usually don't buy a notebook with the expectation to spill liquid onto it... I rather have more airflow.

[@Hoekstes]

Asus quality is hot and cold. Keys on my G15 was shot after a year. The S-key even split in half.

[@cipherhB]

Dave defines what a review video should be. And that is not just iterating through the specifications page available at brand website.

[@ridhwwan]

My theory for the speaker grill holes is that they create an echo chamber effect for better surround sound and fullness 🔊🔊