Gadgetory

hey guys this is Austin and this is one of the coolest gaming laptops I've ever seen so this might not look like anything all that special rights just like a fairly chunky big gaming laptop but I flip it over this was just a little bit different and by a little I mean a lot different this is the rog mothership if you saw a video we did last year on the rog g7o 3 you know that was hands-down the most ridiculous overkill gaming laptop we've ever taken a look at we'll take a lot of what I said about that and put it into this form factor we've got some fun stuff so this is a bit thinner than the G 703 what's interesting about it is that they've really rearranged all the components so I flip it around what you'll see is that all the main stuff like the CPU and the GPU they're all around back so as opposed to a normal laptop where you pretty much have the keyboard that's blocking it instead we have full airflow here as well as on the top and this has some serious specs when you're talking like a core i9r checks 2080 I mean this has got a lot of stuff and it's able to keep cool with a slightly unusual design there's even RGB underneath the kickstand so that everyone can see just how cool you are now I get that this is not a standard laptop form factor but honestly that's kind of ok right you're talking about a very high-end gaming laptop which is a little bit more portable but it definitely does not stop there so if you want you can use the keyboard and touchpad like a standard laptop or you can actually detach the entire panel and then it will flip over to wireless mode so what's cool about this is that you still have your keyboard you still have your touchpad and of course if you want to you can just put this away and you know use another set of peripherals or you can even use this wire because it does have a USB C port to charge as well as to use a wirelessly or wired lis wired plea wired wired this is a really good example of why this design actually makes some sense right I mean of course you could do a standard laptop and have all the components on the bottom but because of this I mean it's kind of like the most overkill - and one ever this is a big laptop it has a 17.3 inch panel that is a full 144 Hertz with a three millisecond response time and on top of that what's kind of cool about the keyboard design is that we actually have a ton of room for the speakers so I start praying this up it's super loud so it has four four watt speakers that are all blasting directly at you and it even does have RGB because of course it does of course it does surprisingly exactly no one this thing has ridiculous specs so it has an overclocked core I nine processor 64 gigs of ram three one terabyte SSDs in raid because obviously that's important and we of course do have that brand new Archie X 20 80 GPU but this is as good as it gets for laptop GPUs right now but unfortunately I'm not at liberty to show you gaming on this particular system so you just have to take my word that it can definitely definitely play for tonight and like Crysis I guess or whatever the kids play can we just all just just pause for one second this thing is ridiculous like straight up I've seen a lot of 201 designs and usually it's much more on the ultraportable side which is great right I mean it's nice to have something that's super thin super light but this is so like it's cool right I mean look at this so we have the kickstand you also have all the ports I've even gone over that yet so we have not only 2.5 gigabit ethernet we also have Wi-Fi 6 you've got Thunderbolt you've got USB a you've got HDMI I mean this thing is loaded with cool specs but I really appreciate that that's all loaded into a chassis which is legitimately different right I mean of course I won't actually get my hands on and spend some proper time to see how well it thermal throttles or anything like that but you can look at just how much space you've got we were able to do a little bit of our once once over on some of the components that are on the outside to see kind of like the CNC aluminum and the heat sinks and stuff but I just really appreciate that this is a gaming laptop which is obviously very powerful but it's actually really cool you might be familiar with the rog Zephyrus s which came out a few months ago well this is a super cool 15 inch design they now have an updated 17 inch version so with it closed it's incredibly thin at only eighteen point seven millimeters but with the active aerodynamic system which is a very a Seuss name we do get a little bit of extra cooling thanks to the bottom panel opening up and this is similar to the last generation model however it has even more power inside with a full r-tx 2080 max-q inside like the other Zephyrus models it is a fairly understated design and that's something I appreciate in a gaming laptop I'm sure you've got all the RGB you want you've got perky RGB lighting on the keyboard you've got the logo the under glow but if you want you can turn all that stuff off and you get yourself what's actually a fairly subdued laptop especially considering that it does have that full 17 inch screen as a laptop with the core i7 and an RT X 2080 inside it does come with a fairly beefy power brick what's cool is it does also support USB see charging and mind you you won't be able to use a brick like this for say gaming but if you wanna get a little bit of juice on the go if you're not doing anything all that intensive this does work what's interesting about the Zephyrs is that it does come with an external webcam as opposed to cramming a very small camera and the bezel instead this is something that is at full 1080p 60fps which you can not only mount to the laptop itself or if you wanted to you can use the included stand and put it off to the side now our G was tell me a little bit about the idea that obviously a lot of people are buying this for something like say twitch streaming or whatever so the idea that you have a better webcam that you could place off to the side and it still comes the laptop is a nice touch although I don't know those cameras are cool right the 17-inch version of the Zephyrus will be going on sale later this month and they refreshed 15 and will go on sale just a little bit after that I don't have a price for you as you might imagine art CX is not going to be particularly cheap anyway hope you guys enjoyed definitely be sure to stay tuned to the channel for lots more other CES 20:19 coverage i'm alyssa 2018-2019