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really cool I might get one for the office it also controls all of your smart home devices from the desktop GUI or even remotely from the supported app there's also an option to create family member accounts you know with parental controls you can limit access things like that you can schedule backups to the cloud with a iCloud which is of course a Seuss's service and there's also a device intrusion technology built right in so if you were to try to connect a infected laptop or any infected device to your network for example it would automatically block it before any real damage could actually take place you get four Gigabit Ethernet ports on the back and according to the asus reps this thing is supposed to have really really good 2.4 and 5 gigahertz Wi-Fi performance and this is of course thanks to you a couple actually I think for antennas that are actually built in their internal antennas that sort of go around that middle blue part they kind of like wrap around it if you will and so they're positioned in such a way that they they give you the best possible signal in pretty much every direction on top of all that it's super compact so it can pretty much fit anywhere in your house not to mention I like the way it looks it's it's not it's like hideous like some other routers out there and this is launching in just a few days January 18th for a hundred and seventy-nine US it's a little bit steep for my tastes but at the same time you're getting a lot of functionality built in here so let me know what you guys think about that in the comments below next up we've got the XG station Pro which is an external GPU dock that's more or less aimed at the pro and workstation crowd but that doesn't mean you can't use it for gaming and we'll talk about that in just a moment asus has sort of designed this to work fluidly with something like one of their Zen books for example for anyone who's doing like 3d modeling if you're a CAD artist or something like that this is a really nice solution they've actually co-developed the case design within Wynne and it totally makes sense the matches the soul the sort of a design language that anyone usually goes with aluminum construction it's very nice and in person it looks beautiful it's professional-looking very sleek and modern I actually like the way it looks a lot more than their gaming --xg docks to be honest those are just a little bit too aggressive for me and this one just looks really nice on your desk Thunderbolt 3 is the connectivity of choice here and they have included a cable thank goodness this is also supporting not just pcs but Mac's as well if you're into that sort of thing a lot of graphic designers and you know CAD experts and stuff who are using Mac's so that makes sense it can also house pretty much the latest AMD and NVIDIA cards up to two and a half slots wide so that's fantastic lengthwise too it can actually fit an ROG Strix GTX 1080i in there which is awesome now this unit has a fairly small footprint compared to most other GPU Doc's that I've seen however there was a bit of a sacrifice they actually had to take the power supply and make it external which is gonna bother some people and others won't mind I I like the decision I think it makes sense it just looks nice and like nice and compact and probably easier to carry with you than just a larger enclosure overall the power supply is 330 watts so that's enough to drive some fairly high-end graphics cards bear in mind the PSU only has to drive the the actual card and not things like a CPU or your motherboard etc so that is nice on the right side of the dock you'll find two fairly large fans that are there resting right up against the the GPU back plate to help exhaust hot air when under load and then we've also got dust filters plenty of ventilation on multiple sides and this is gonna retail for 329 us which is actually a lot cheaper than their gaming oriented GPU docks but it is still a little bit pricey all things considered still very very beautiful and well thought-out design finally we've got the PQ tutu you see pro art 4k HDR OLED portable display that is a mouthful but this item is one of the one of the ones that piqued my interest most at the AC suite like the last item that we just talked about this is also aimed at workstation professionals who are on the go primarily so there's a twenty one point six inch 4k matte display very glad they opted for matte here at 60 Hertz with a point one millisecond response time this thing is lightning quick so is it meant for gaming no could you game on it comfortably most definitely I would say so obviously they didn't have any gaming demos set up on this panel because it's not how it's being marketed but I would love to get my hands on one of these and just test it out myself we also get high color saturation with 100% DCI p3 coverage and HDR 10 support so not only is this gonna be really great for media playback and such but also editing color grading graphic design pretty much anything that has to do with color you're gonna be sure to get some really accurate rich vibrant colors that are just very well produced here on the side of the display we find USB type-c and micro HDMI I believe the protocols or I would assume that the protocol is being used here are gonna be DisplayPort 1.2 for the types II and probably HDMI 2.0 B for the micro so but don't quote me on that that's just a guess this is a really cool lot of a lot of cutting edge technology that's crammed into this really portable design this is sort of portable frame it's only eight point four millimeters thick or thin I should say it's super thin you can pretty much take it anywhere you go and fairly light it's just 2.6 pounds that's incredibly light for a display included is a carrying case that also functions as a stand and if that's not good enough they are selling an optional hard foldable stand with tilt adjustment so if you want a little bit more flexibility there and just elevate or maybe you just want to elevate the the display off of your desk a little bit that's a great solution don't know what the pricing or availability is on this thing but I would like to get my hands on this and like I said try some gaming with it but I would imagine that with all the technology and the sort of form factor that we're dealing with here that this thing is probably not going to be super cheap but that's pretty much all I got for you guys right now for from from Asus for CES 2018 guys let me know if anything tickled you fancy in the comments below and feel free to toss me a like on the video if you enjoyed it you can also get subscribed for more tech coverage at CES 2018 right here on dead guys thanks for watching I will see you all in the next video