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

[@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

[@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

[@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! (

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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 ☝️

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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!

[@gamechep]

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

[@beezrow]

No 💩 lol

[@KhromTX]

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

[@kaneki1056]

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

[@gabrielevento6527]

Ahaha yeah

[@matu1181]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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?

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@CerealKiIIer]

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

[@bastosluis244]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@masterpig5s]

This means we can play Doom on the trackpad

[@charlieroebuck4240]

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

[@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.

[@conflictfree88]

The editing on this episode is God damn perfection

[@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? 😯

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@kevinprimex]

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

[@coffeepup4107]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@Thisandthat8908]

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

[@joebizzarro2054]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@denvera1g1]

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

[@zizimugen4470]

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

[@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

[@antonlee0]

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

[@itsdeonlol]

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

[@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.

[@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)

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@beetman26]

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

[@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

[@joecarl5473]

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

[@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)

[@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.

[@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?

[@Megalomaniakaal]

Gets a professional _art_ focused device, starts touching the screen to see if it's a touchscreen... Tell me, why would you want finger prints all over that screen again? How is that going to benefit or improve your work? This seems like a very odd expectation here, for it to have a touch screen. I just don't even comprehend.

[@freddieyeo1]

Is it just me but when they were saying the top level Asus laptop wasnt as good as the dell but it sounded better to me

[@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

[@yuvrajsingh15823]

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

[@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

[@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

[@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"?

[@CreativeSoul2025]

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.

[@IlhanNegis]

i sometimes really having difficulty understanding touch screen fetish on ltt, it is not a big deal as you might assume? may be?

[@naseemyasir]

17:40 not really, the m16 with 3070 costs around 2200$ and the H5600 costs 2400$ but it also comes with 64gigs of ram and a 2tb ssd and everything extra you get with the proart, I'd say its worth it, but if you are primarily gaming than the g15 would be much better, its cheaper than the m16 and a while back the 3080 version of it was just 2000$ without sale, which is cheaper than the 3070 versions of both the m16 and H5600

[@Validole]

You're maybe a bit too sure a full-size SD card slot is better. Many point-and-shoots use microSD. For me, working with raspberrys and arduinos, there is the constant search for the adapter, can't leave it in as it tends to come out when I bag the laptop (enough pressure to activate the clicky ejection mechanism). I'd very much prefer the micro-sd slot, don't remember when I last needed a full-size one.

[@Itz_Wojtek]

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

[@ThySovereignLP]

As one working with ASUS repairs i can honestly say they are hated by EVERY tech i have. They never work, the software is flimsy and you have to install it in a specific order to make it work... Its awful.... Any version of the touchpad display and even the secondary smaller LCD is bad. Why not just treat it as a secondary screen with a forced app, locked to second screen with specific size... Ye, the TP-screen and the "second screen" is not handled as a seperate LCD...

[@dsmyify]

Thank you!

[@WePC]

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

[@kudlatyplaygames]

In the zenbook the touchpad can be used as a second display if you look at the settings

[@darknessblades]

regarding the touchpad. The ASUS N76VZ had a option that you could disable it. but due driver issues with windows 10 this is not possible anymore

[@laurinneff4304]

> full-size Ethernet Is there a small Ethernet port?

[@builderbbob]

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

[@AlexNZL]

Wow that black looks so much better than my laptop

[@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

[@jakubp.6987]

So, what about disclaimer?

[@boffyboydj]

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

[@DanielVDGarde]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@xavoron1369]

4:30 i only double hand a track pad on Chromebook because the left click is so sensitive

[@rustler08]

I want the knob to just suggestively say, "Touch my knob" to all my friends and family.

[@galgrunfeld9954]

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

[@boburanus69]

ASUS has the tendency to add features that don't pan out well. We use ASUS laptops at work and they have numpads built into the trackpad, complete with calculator shortcut... on the trackpad. Using it enables the numpad frequently without effort. Then you have to mess with it to turn it off so you can use the trackpad without also typing characters.

[@sacriledgy7130]

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

[@Spiralem]

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

[@RayanMADAO]

Does LTT get to keep these samples sent to them?

[@jaghine]

Only me that thinks that Dell XPS was too bass heavy, compared to the two Asus review units...?

[@StefanBacon]

Am I weird for requiring a bare minimum of 3 USB a ports? I really need 4, but I haven't had that since my Dell Latitude...