Every Laptop Should Have A Knob! - ASUS Zenbook UX5400 & ProArt H5600

[@paulaguiar3106]

I love how crab rave is being used as a sound test for all the laptops

[@jonaslinter]

Probably a licensing thing.

[@PixelSheep]

@Quantum dude - be careful - you might already know too much!

[@gk2011]

@Not RickRoll 👇ᨆ When will we get a side by side comparison of all the Crab Raves tho?

[@SpunkyGo0se]

Welcome to ShortCircuit. First time here?

[@XiGlove]

@Quantum their intro song on linus tech tips is from the same music label with crab rave

[@ryanbrunette3870]

Color correction was a bit over done. Some of the red in Alex's skin just straight up turns magenta.

[@edzo29]

I was wondering if anybody else was seeing this. Two of my monitors have bad color, but not *that* bad.

[@RichardServello]

I think maybe your screen is overly tuned. I’m watching on an iPad Pro m1 and it looks excellent. All the tones are very natural.

[@haydenweir6416]

I’m having the same issues, particularly his hands in shadows during the closeups when he’s talking about the ports. Also, when he pointed out how black the OLED was in the corners, I could distinctly make out that the screen was more grey compared to the black bezels, so I’m not sure what happened with the colour correction here

[@real_dddf]

I think he was just bleeding... dry weather causes skin to crack

[@randommcranderson5155]

You’re just racist against red people.

[@Voltaic_Fire]

More powerful than I'd ever want? No, no, that's not how this works.

[@xGaLoSx]

my laptop is super powerful and i almost never use it to it full potential lol

[@BillyBraga]

Exactly! We have to work on laptops at work, so it's never too powerful!

[@Bob-of-Zoid]

Exactly my sentiment! (

[@joshcharlebois5264]

I love the idea of having a knob to like zoom in and out when doing CAD modelling.

[@firstNamelastName-ho6lv]

The middle mouse button is also awesome for CAD

[@nickgreene5301]

I’d love to see a full laptop roundup for a range of different budgets and use cases done on LTT

[@brettbaker7049]

This ☝️

[@nen848]

Original Title: "Every Laptop Should Have A Knob" Never knew a dick joke could be executed so smoothly

[@graceforged84]

Clever. My lap top has a knob

[@CreativityNull]

I mean, they're clam shells... So we're getting into interesting double entendres here with all these cunning linguists

[@MrGamelover23]

Current title as well.

[@CoasterMan13Official]

My laptop doesn't have a knob (it does, but it's not as big as the one in the video.)

[@fuseteam]

it is still the same at the time of writing

[@ajmt13]

I used to pronounce ASUS correctly before I "learned' it from Linus when he keeps saying Asooos, thanks Linus

[@mineland8220]

For english i think its "Aye sus", but as a non native english speaker i do pronounce it as "A sus" in my lang.

[@punkshoo]

Been working in the industry since 1998 and up until the last 5 years or so it had always been commonly "Asooos" everywhere I worked. Until social media platforms came along to educate us I just think us nerds didn't know any better.

[@AaronShenghao]

To be fair Asus NA manager (the bulky looking guy) even pronounced it wrong… so I don’t blame him

[@emperorblade]

He also says Cjuupon instead of Coupon

[@Engkushaini]

A sus

[@megacartfr]

The ASUS Zenbook 14X actually has a touchscreen option with the OLED screen (both the AMD and Intel version)

[@jeroenvermunt3372]

True, I'm thinking about etting the ryzen 9 version with touch screen

[@madson-web]

"Every Laptop Should Have A Knob!" Strongly agree with that statement

[@KnobFeel]

I agree!

[@nahhImBetter]

Seriously agreed

[@foreverd4nk796]

Absolutely agree

[@IbbiAhmed]

Definitely agree

[@tardvandecluntproductions1278]

As someone that never uses them. Never have had one in my way so I see no reason why not.

[@kikmi1900]

Is this video like hyper saturated or am I high? Alex's finger nails looks like he dove in to the world of the pink fairies, but with vigor

[@litapd311]

i thought he was bleeding from his fingernails before i realized it was the colors being weird

[@HowardYing1]

I think it's mostly the b cam that's off to the side, cause from the wide cam, all the colors look fine.

[@mini9503]

@Nom You watch YT videos on TV?

[@orangy57]

ltt videos have been hyper-saturated for like 3 years but this vid seems even brighter

[@TheWunder]

@@mini9503 plenty of people do. Is that weird? Most TVs have KZbin built in nowadays

[@PapaJuan]

I currently have the older version of the zen book and I use the touch pad display all the time. It is especially helpfully in class, cause you can put notes on it, and instantly with a three finger tap, make the touchpad goes black. Plus it’s nice for music apps.

[@PabloR277]

Its not cheating, it’s resourceful

[@SrikarMaddula]

I still feel it's a niche use case

[@nawarelsabaa]

The XPS 15 blows my mind more and more every time Alex compares it with anything else. The small one comes very close though!

[@matu1181]

Alex, thank you for taking the little tip about muting instead of pausing when showcasing audio

[@britishthought4018]

I have the UX345 and I love it, the trackpad is good for watching videos while writing I find. You get used to that keyboard after an hour or two.

[@Hi_Its_Akira]

I love how Crab Rave is now the official LMG sound test

[@PixelSheep]

It always has been and it's truly beautiful :D

[@Rockmaster867]

It got highs, it got base, it got crabs, it got everything

[@PixelSheep]

@@Rockmaster867 so true!

[@SpunkyGo0se]

Copied comment, nice! 😃

[@ExtraWasabi]

I wonder when did they switch from supernova to crab rave

[@dav2mai]

*Linus uses 2 hands on touchpads?!* Well I'm glad that he can't review laptops anymore /s

[@AlexWent]

Your remarks on astigmatism and OLED screens are welcome. I have always had this problem and am hoping that there will be some solution as more and more screens go this way. As you say, the problem is more acute when reading text on white backgrounds. If IPS screens ever disappear completely, my job as a writer and editor could be numbered.

[@ericg9107]

I have the Asus ZenBook 14 (no touch screen trackpad but mine has the numpad with LEDs) i7 1165G7 and 16gb ram it's the best laptop I've ever owned. Very happy with it

[@gamechep]

My god, the editor is having a field day with the editing and I love it 🤣

[@beezrow]

No 💩 lol

[@yourtechweekeveryweek6321]

I have a slightly lower end zenbook with a MX350 and a 4500U and I’m extremely happy with it!!! Extremely low temps even when gaming and a great battery life! And don’t tell anyone. But it can run battlefield 5 on low settings, shhhhh don’t tell the enthusiasts a budget laptop can run AAA games

[@kaneki1056]

16:13 i can really hear james pumphrey screaming GIVE IT THE BEANS from here

[@gabrielevento6527]

Ahaha yeah

[@KhromTX]

>ShortCircuit >18 minutes long You were suppose to be the chosen one!

[@richardrisner921]

Keep in mind that the sound profiles on the speakers are usually changed by a software layer, such as Dolby compression, which will affect how things sound through the speakers. A lot of the difference that came through KZbin compression over to me sounded like it was just a different profile of how the systems compressed and amplified the middle frequencies vs. low and high frequencies.

[@sonicjhiq]

tbh I hook up a mouse to all my personal laptops so a track pad being good or bad doesn't matter to me

[@V0r1c]

7:00 - Those keys are something quite useful for code editing where you have to navigate a lot instead of just type. It is very frustrating that most laptops are made with keyboards with Page up/down, home and end combined with the arrow keys which they also make smaller. I'm not sure if anyone else would agree but I'd like to see you include such things in your reviews. Maybe make a video about good laptops for software developers?

[@TigroGumi]

The rotary knob is great for way scrolling when doing productive things…. Scroll and still able to move the mouse would make flow on the computer so easy for everything… even business stuff

[@ItsPikablu]

Thanks for the bright red arrow and highlighting, I wouldn't have been able to see the knob with you only literally pointing at it.

[@masterpig5s]

This means we can play Doom on the trackpad

[@tmboz18]

I have the Flow X13 with the 3050Ti (no egpu) and I absolutely love it. I do loads of writing on my device and I can also run CAD and games well.

[@NeverlandSystemZor]

It amazes me that laptops lack a button to disable the trackpad and it's buttons. That used to be common to avoid the accidental tap/drag from the palms. I LOVED that on several laptops I used to have... along with "automatically disabled with mouse plugged in". IMHO these should be essential features for laptops, especially with massive trackpads we see today.

[@OniResurrect]

I have a Sony vaio with a Jog dial as they called it it was used for media function and quick navigation for the start menu. Knew laptops needed a knob back in 2000 glad to hear it now.

[@CerealKiIIer]

Assign the middle and right trackpad buttons to left and right click. Use the left one for a custom function.

[@sorenslothe]

A surprising amount of computers already do have knobs. They're mostly positioned about 40cm from the screen.

[@mini9503]

What? I can't read ur comment my screen is blurry

[@bastosluis244]

The sound looks like a matter of EQ it, one of them has more high-end, the other is more middle focused

[@SirDragonClaw]

Many of the things that you don't like about those laptops are the entire reason why I like those laptops. For instance the 3 physical buttons and keyboard layout look like they might actually make portable game development viable.

[@charlieroebuck4240]

That ProArt laptop is 1999USD for that many features. That's crazy value for what it's packing.

[@SlyMcfly]

I own the Asus pro art with a Quadro 3000, definitely upgrading to the new pro art! The screen is 16:10? That's amazing!

[@fairyball3929]

A 3:4 display?

[@SlyMcfly]

@@fairyball3929 aspect ratio. So it's not a traditional 16:9. So you get a taller 4k display and supposedly it's the first oled display of it's kind. Kind of impractical. But for design work, in my eyes it's great.

[@fairyball3929]

@@SlyMcfly For portrait works? Huh, I didn't think there would be a market for such equipment, but, neat.

[@SlyMcfly]

@@fairyball3929 it's just the size difference that helps having a taller screen helps with more multitasking vs for video consumption. It's basically why all the surface models come with that same aspect ratio. For business it's awesome, for gaming not so much. Combine that with the color accuracy that the pro art series have and you get an on paper amazing display and workstation laptop.

[@fairyball3929]

@@SlyMcfly I would imagine that extra vertical space would be handy. BTW, just curious, did you mean to type 3:2 instead of 3:4? 😯

[@Thisandthat8908]

You can enjoy the knob doubly, because of the mirror you and it look at all the time.

[@igoresque]

7:55 there's no such thing as "eye stigmatism", it's astigmatism, kinda like when people say "logrithm" instead of logarithm

[@graceforged84]

ATM machines. NIC card... they just keep going don't they?

[@igoresque]

@@graceforged84 that's a separate issue

[@its_jjk]

Ok nerd

[@graceforged84]

Oh, I agree. I just got on board noticing people saying things incorrectly. Or, redundant, if you prefer.

[@Wayne-fe1ed]

Using the term stigmatism actually means there is no astigmatism.

[@conflictfree88]

The editing on this episode is God damn perfection

[@srdjanrudic]

Regarding Home, End, Pg up, Pg dn buttons... They are super useful as a separate keys and not as a function-arrow combo, especially if you do programming on a laptop. For me personally, if a laptop doesn't have these, it is a deal-breaker, no matter the specs and price. I am glad to see some companies, especially HP and Asus keeping these as a separate buttons. I know that Alex mentioned a couple of times how he doesn't like this because the keyboard is slightly moved to the left, but this is VERY important to some people.

[@joebizzarro2054]

Reflection on the screen is brutal. You hands were SO visible.

[@denvera1g1]

Like, that little trackpad screen, can EASILY be great for a dedicated chat window

[@maxil6191]

I'm noticing a large difference in quality to your content over the last few months good on yall keep up the good work. From meme channel to my favorite tech tuber, love yall thanks for the quality vidoes im glad to have a one stop shop for tech.

[@nishanthvemula3852]

It's really a big surprise how they screwed up the speakers on the bigger one but got it so good with smaller one.

[@joecarl5473]

Knobs are the best!!! Ever since I had my first little red knob I was hooked!!!

[@kevinprimex]

I swear ASUS makes the best downfiring speakers, bounces off the table and amplifies the sound like crazy

[@zizimugen4470]

Knobs/wheels should’ve been standard on a lot of things ever since the Corsair k70.

[@SapioiT]

I also want more laptops with dual-screen like the Zephyrus Duo (aka. ROG Duo), but I'd like them to have 2 joysticks per laptop (joysticks like the ThinkPad's knobs, not like the rotating knob of the laptop in this video). to be gaming-ready. A knob can be to the left of the Up key and above the Left key (or to the right of the Up key and above the Right key if you have a numpad without the trackpad), and the other between Esc and the ~ key, or you could have the Esc moved to the right, to make room for the joystick. This way, laptops could double as pseudo-consoles, and using FN keys one could turn each joystick individually into either an analog controller, a cursor, or a scroll (both up-down and left-right). Please mention this in a few videos, so laptop manufacturers and keyboard manufacturers start doing that.

[@spontanioussponge]

Glad to see a premium laptop with a trackpad and buttons instead of a rotten clickpad, and I love the knob. Wish it wasn't super premium professional material though so I could justify it.

[@FlergerBergitydersh]

I can see the lower screen being useful when you have a mouse plugged in. You could use it as extra real estate for video editing like that, which is probably why you can bring the cursor down there. I imagine having a hotbar for Photoshop or something you can touch might also be useful, and you could use it for fine control in certain applications like with the knob on the larger one. While using it as a trackpad, it might be useful for quick shortcuts, and control of background tasks while in a fullscreen task on the main screen. It really should automatically disable moving the cursor to the trackpad screen unless you have a mouse plugged in, though. There is no reason you'd ever want to bring the cursor down there while your meaty paws are covering it, and I can imagine losing track of the cursor sometimes when you accidentally move the cursor down there. I'm pretty sure certain types of OLEDs can have a dirty screen effect that is easily noticeable to anyone, but it depends on the unit. Having dirty areas that are only visible in certain shades is just an OLED thing, thought I guess it would be more prevalent on OLEDs with smaller pixels, like laptops and handheld devices. Personally, I have only seen this effect on my PSVita. Not that LCD's don't have their own screen uniformity issues, but they tend to be different.

[@builderbbob]

ASUS is really the company with laptop innovation! The Zephyrus and ZenBook Dual and these come to mind!

[@azuthal]

love how its so hard it find a place to buy these laptops if you wanted one

[@robertm9906]

Maybe it's just me, but does Alex's finger tips look like they are red when unboxing and handling the laptops? I never noticed that before and it stands out in this video.

[@itsdeonlol]

Alex is a LEGEND when it comes to unboxing laptops!!!!

[@saturnotaku]

3840x2400 is just 4K at a 16:10 aspect ratio. Nothing weird at all about it considering that this has been available on the Dell XPS line going on two years now.

[@DigitalJedi]

I hadn't really heard of the MX450 before this video, so I did some digging. It's apparently similar to the GTX 1650 max-Q, but with a 64 bit memory bus and a TGP of 12W to about 30W. It uses a PCIE gen 4 x4 link. It should be between the mobile 1050 and 1650 in performance.

[@mini9503]

It's not. This is MX450 "Max-Q" version which is roughly 10% better than Intel XE Integrated GPU.

[@DigitalJedi]

@@mini9503 So this is the 12W version then. I didn't expect that to have much behind it, but 30W (28.5ish) seems ok.

[@mini9503]

@@DigitalJedi Right, but according to Notebookcheck there are no known laptops that use the 30W version of MX450, they are all 10W with half the cores and half the speed. I think it's not an improvement over the igpu.

[@coffeepup4107]

The only workplace you could call out "Cut his hands off", talking about your boss, and to be completely okay xD

[@beetman26]

ProArt Studiobook 16 also has 2K 120Hz LCD version and at about the same price of M16 here, WOW!

[@RDProStikz]

Every laptop does have a knob, its usually located between the chair and the keyboard, and is also usually where the problem exists (PEBCAK error message)

[@ylandry0783]

That 14 inch laptop would have been a very solid choice if they put something like a 3050 class card instead of the mx.

[@SvenMazet1973]

regarding the mousepad screen on the Zenbook: at work, where I'm docked with mouse and keyboard, I use that screen as my "inbox" screen... something I need opened but not taking up other screen space ;-) (I have the previous version of the Zenbook)

[@TheWilliamSnfrd]

a knob would be a gamechanger for working in a DAW, I wish they would have tested to see if the knob can be easily configurable for Ableton and the likes.

[@boffyboydj]

Guessing you can map it quite easily, get them attacks and releases knobbed up :P

[@yuvrajsingh099]

Alex is now the official laptop guy in LTT. Good to see variations of different people rather than only linus.

[@denvera1g1]

10:43 You can have palm rejectoion for a click, as long as the palm is also touching the track pad, or if there is capaicitive sensors where your palm would rest on the palmrest while typing, making the physical buttons inactive My guess is that the reason these were included is because its hard to be precise with a trackpad, and even harder to have a precice click with a trackpad without moving the mouse when you click

[@boffyboydj]

Holy sheez, I never knew about that palm retention stuff until now, my Elitebook seems to be doing it well.

[@shannonmcconnell9203]

Finally looked up the Crab Rave song with my Bose and Sub Woofer to find out what it is really supposed to sound like. Thumbs up!

[@tossancuyota7848]

that knob is more useful than it looks like specialy for artist video editors and gamers as well

[@galgrunfeld9954]

My dekstop keyboard also has a knob-like wheel. And unsurprisingly, it was also made by Ay-soos.

[@dbrank28]

Whatever the very subtle beeping tone was around 3 minutes had me hitting pause a million times thinking something in my office was doing it

[@dbrank28]

It got louder at 4:20 mark and now easier to figure out where it was from lol

[@Itz_Wojtek]

The new ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED (H7604) specs are AMAZING for the price rn!!

[@joseperez-ig5yu]

Alex just did a magnificent job reviewing so many different laptops! And don't you love the way he says "it's a 14 incher"?

[@AlexNZL]

Wow that black looks so much better than my laptop

[@WePC]

"doesn't mean it's a good chassis, it just means it expensive" 😂😥

[@YearsOfLeadPoisoning]

They have touchpads with screens now!? Holy moly.

[@DanielVDGarde]

The Fujitsu Lifebook s760 had an extra round touchpad that was specially meant for scrolling. That was 10 years ago!

[@Clove_Parma]

I feel like the display under the touchpad would be more useful with a wireless mouse so you could assign app specific macro keys to it. At least then you can get some benefit from it?

[@detective_mitch_conner]

I wish Alex and Jake would just adopt a child already. You guys are the cutest couple. Start a family already!

[@sacriledgy7130]

Dang, the Flow X13 is becoming the new Thin and Light standard.

[@technologynewsreviews200]

I think there was more to that touch screen pad,maybe in gaming it has graphic buttons(4×4) or being able to swipe through your weapons, video or music production be able map your own board, be able to swipe LR select and UD to adjust.

[@antonlee0]

10:17 could've moved trackpad to the right here so it would be under arrow and num keys

[@zoeyharshman2658]

You've gotta be able to remap that touch pad cause I feel like about 60% of people would vastly prefer the first two buttons to be left and right and the third to be middle mouse click and only about 40% preferring the middle button to actually be middle mouse click

[@AlexPrevost]

Was kind of disappointed we didn't get to see Photoshop or Illustrator used to illustrate the knob's usefulness. It looks like it'd be perfect for quickly changing brush sizes without breaking your workflow.

[@smarthousetech8593]

Considering GPU prices today and the prospect of components skyrocketing next year...Thanks TSMC. A Gaming laptop is most definitely a good investment for gaming if you want to get into PC gaming.

[@gamethecupdog]

5:36 It looks like it's using the trackpad as a second monitor. If you tried, you could probably bring a program down to it lol

[@xtreamchance]

The little one! Who needs a touch screen? I have an ipad for touching things. Zen books are sweet. You know what else is sweet? Alex Clark & Lois, the reviewer who puts the rave in the crab.

[@regwsx]

cool shoes ad! apperciate that they're so minimal ;] First ad that I commented on since the beginning of youtube :O @ShortCircuit Thumbs Up!

[@astral16]

Red is really saturated in this, re-up almost necessary, Blue on the deskmat is literally sparkling as well

[@TesseractileDysfunction]

Gotta love a nice set of knobs

[@randombrit13]

I personally love the fact that every keyboard and laptop review refuses to call them dials and insists on “knob” Really makes me giggle in British

[@sanjacobs6261]

I hate trackpads that press down and love physical buttons. This makes me very very happy.

[@notmedude]

You gotta be kidding me. How did I not learn about astigmatism and those weird vision things. I have it in my left eye and thought I am going blind or someting.

[@SmokeyVibez]

I remember when he was so shy at first. It was so cute.

[@caliqm2199]

Linus like 2 years ago: "Do you really need a warning to tell people not to touch the screen?I guess some people are doing it,it's the younger generation"

[@Spiralem]

I like using both hands for touchpad. The issue with ProArt is probably because of how wide the touchpad is.

[@paulpietschinski3282]

I like this guy, I wish he did more videos. Speaking of videos, when the hell is Linus gonna do another PC build stream.

[@m4nc1n1]

My Gram 16" has the i7-1165G7 and it is fantastic!

[@andrewarmstrong5266]

Being British knob has a different meaning here so in that context most laptops do have a knob, they are usually the ones holding it 🤣

[@LegaliseWater]

Did make me laugh reading through the comments

[@John_1920]

I would say the small Asus one is better in sound than the XPS one, so long as you don't really care too much about the base, while the XPS is for those who enjoy the base more than they do the overall audio quality. Though I am comparing that to what I can hear through this video, so take that as you will.

[@mwaithephoto]

I’m definitely getting the ProArt