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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