The Best Laptop Hardware Yet #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin this might be

the nicest piece of laptop hardware that

you can buy Oh what oh that's cool as

you open the box it like presents the

laptop to you I mean no one ever needs

to do that you're only gonna open the

box once that's pretty dope what's cool

about this is this has a Susan's new

Peugeot lips hinge so when I open it

from the bottom it actually elevates the

entire laptop up that's that's actually

something kind of different now this

means that there are some interesting

quirks with the design so if you take a

look at the right side in addition to

having two full Thunderbolt three ports

you're going to find a headphone jack

pretty standard except that when you

actually open up the laptop the

headphone jack is attached to the screen

as opposed to the body of the laptop

kind of trippy but it totally works as

you would expect for a premium laptop it

is going to be entirely made out of

aluminum so I feel like this blue looks

pretty nice especially with the copper

accents what I really like is the red

model of the Zenbook s and it's a little

flashy but yeah before we get too far

into it though actually want to see what

else comes in the box so we have a power

adapter this guy is going to be using

USB C although I assume they will

probably work with other generic

adapters we also get a USB C to USB a

adapter as well as USB C to HDMI a nice

touch to including the box you can also

put the laptop inside the carrying case

that it comes with so it might not be

super premium or anything but it should

help to keep this from getting all

scratched up in your bag so after

spending some time with the Zenbook ass

one of the things that is still jumping

out to me is just how solidly it is

constructed so it is going to be about

thirty millimeters thick which is on the

very very thin side covert there's

basically no flex to it at all I mean

even something like the screen I mean

you can really torque it it's not going

to go anywhere and same thing goes for

the body I mean there's nothing we do

with most laptops but I'm putting some

serious torque on it this is staying

very very solid it's nice to see and

something that's going to be just this

thin or thick depending on your

marketing term of choice the keyboard is

also terrific not only are the key caps

nice and large and actually kind of

looks a little like a MacBook from the

outside but you're going to be getting a

decent amount of travel and importantly

because you do have that ergo lips hinge

the entire keyboard is going to be

slightly tilted up now this is not

something that's very common and well

pretty much any other laptop but I

really appreciate how it just gives a

little bit less strain to your wrists

the trackpad is a little bit on the

small side but it's going to be totally

fine and you're also going to find a

fingerprint

for windows hello support what's nice is

that you're going to be getting to full

Thunderbolt 3 ports on the right side

which are of course going to be able to

support not only an external GPU but all

the different adapters that can go off

of that where there's going to be

another USB C port on the left side of

the laptop all of which can be used to

charge USB video Al's it's a nice set up

even though it would definitely be nice

to have a USB a port the main issue here

is that while the laptop is literally

just too thin to fit any kind of bigger

ports so what there's not a lot to like

is with the speakers of the Zen book s

and that is a terrible transition but

I'm gonna roll with it

on the bottom of the laptop you're going

to find two speakers they sound ok but

first of all is it not going to be all

that loud

and second of all any time that they're

going to be facing on the bottom of the

laptop it just means that it's sort of

hitting the underside and kind of

echoing out there's just not that great

thankfully is Suze did opt to put the

webcam on the top of the display you

know like where it actually belongs and

it's only going to be 720p but it looks

and sounds alright most importantly

though you're not looking out my nose

right now so thumbs up for that the

Zenbook s is rocking a 13.3 inch display

with either a 1080p or a full 4k

resolution both are going to be touch

enabled and the main differences is that

while the 4k panel is going to hurt your

battery life as well as the performance

I have it here and it looks really

really nice not only is it going to be

very color accurate but it also gets

pretty bright with a full 315 it's of

brightness something that is very

helpful when you take this outside and

can still see the screen performance is

not only solid but it's exactly what you

would expect for an ultrabook of this

generation so inside you can choose

between either a Core i5 or Core i7 both

of them are going to be hñ in this case

I've got the eye 78550 you now the

actual benchmarks are well not exactly

surprising considering that it's exactly

the same performance of basically every

other Ultrabook we've taken a look at

over the past year totally solid a big

step up over the last generation if you

opt for the 256 gig SSD which is the

base model it is going to be a SATA base

drive however if you go for the 512 gig

which is what I have here not only is it

going to be a much faster m2 drive but

you also get the option of going all the

way up to a hole once here by the

capacity this guy has a choice of either

8 or 16 gigabytes of ddr4 memory my 16

gig ram option does have dual channel

memory which is helpful for the graphics

performance what isn't helpful for the

graphics performance are the

now it's not going to be that bad but

considering that you do have this ergo

lift design which in theory should help

the airflow and kind of cool things down

it does run a little bit on the warmer

side inside this guy is rocking a 50

watt hour battery now that's not going

to be that big it's a little bit smaller

than something like the LG gram and with

the 4k panel it means that you're only

going to be getting around 6 to 7 hours

of fairly regular battery life but the

screen is so nice that I'm actually kind

of willing to give up a little bit of

battery in exchange for a nice sharp

crisp panel if you stack the base model

up to similarly spec competitors such as

the XPS 13 it is going to be a little

bit more expensive however once you

start adding options such as the 4k

display extra RAM as well as a 512 get

gues SD and she tops out at around $1500

still a little bit on the pricey side

but it's actually not a bad value my big

takeaway is that it's hard to beat this

design seriously props to Sue's for

actually doing something different there

are so many great ultra books out there

at that thousand ish dollar price point

that the simple test with its server

left actually does legitimately stand

out