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hey how's it gone Dave 2d here and in front of me is the Asus GL 7 0 to Z C's the easiest name in the world to remember there's actually a bunch of 7:02 devices this is the most powerful one because it's got an 8 core CPU so if you don't know that much about CPU cores the average Ultrabook has two cores the average gaming laptop has a four core CPU this thing is rocking a new 8 core CP from AMD called the Verizon 7 1700 it's actually a desktop class keep you super powerful and they were able to stick it into a laptop that's not like super thick or super large it's still a little bit bigger it's not like the thinnest laptop out there but it's a very portable device for an eight-core Windows PC now the design isn't my favorite it's not the color or anything I mean there are some red accents but it's more just the actual aesthetic it's more of a dated Asus look the current Asus laptops like the ones the end of 2017 look pretty clean they're more like brushed metal with silver and gray accents this is more like the classic block with a bit of red the port selection is pretty standard for a 17 inch laptop there is a USB C port but there's no thin about three support the build quality is not bad it feels kind of like average Asus laptops not bad or anything it's just not ultra premium now to get inside this laptop it's not the easiest thing it's doable there's a bunch of screws but you have to put quite a bit of force to get the plastic off but once you're inside the RAM and the drives are user replaceable interestingly the CPU looks to be replaceable as well I think I see a little bit of a socket on the motherboard it's not just soldered right on the battery down here is 76 watt hours and battery life is not great we're looking at an hour and a half like 90 minutes of battery life for the screen of 215 it's with everything I just like normal settings it's actually one of the lowest battery life syv seen on a laptop and the AC adapter is also pretty large it's a 350 watt brick but keep in mind that this is a desktop class CPU it literally is something that they pull from desktops and they stuck it in here and it's an AMD GPU so you're missing things like Nvidia Optimus so a battery consumption is going to be high but the other thing is AMD could technically improve on this stuff with some software updates over time the keyboard and trackpad feel pretty similar to ACS laptops I mean it's a very standard looking ACS keyboard coffee type on slightly mushy ER keys than I'd like but it's good otherwise trackpad windows precision drivers plastic surface it's a good trackpad I think most people like it the speakers are actually way better than I thought they'd be these are actually one of the best possibly the best AC speakers I've seen on a laptop I guess it's because it's a bigger chassis there's like more room for stuff in there but they sound good not super Lateran thing but the clarity is there and the base is more pronounced than you'd expect alright performance in this machine can be very impressive single core stuff is kind of rounded the villain nothing super special but the multi-core stuff is crazy good this laptop flexes so hard on basically every single other laptop that I've tested before in the Cinebench CPU test this thing scores over 1,400 points that's like 40 percent better than even desktop-class CPUs like the 7700 K the thermals on this thing are actually not bad as well temperatures are good cooling eight active CPU cores at once it's obviously not easy but they're able to do it but fan noise isn't super quiet it's not crazy loud but it's definitely audible the gaming performance gives me mixed opinions it's not bad per se it's running at rx 580 the mobile version and that's similar to like a laptop gtx 1060 s a very respectable on the 1080p screen I'm still getting very good frame rates even on Mac side graphics but this is the kind of performance if you'd expect for like 11 or maybe $1,200 gtx 1060 laptops aren't super expensive this thing starts at $1500 and where this thing shines and quite frankly this is what people should be buying this laptop for is video editing this thing crushes so hard in Adobe Premiere so premiere has always been a relatively weak performer a lot tops it's a very CPU hungry application and even high-end gaming laptops with four core CPUs don't do nearly as well as desktops that have like eight or ten core CPUs this thing keeps up this thing's actually faster than a lot of the systems that I've used in the past year it's actually faster than like the $10,000 Mac Pro in Adobe Premiere which is crazy it's a $1500 system the screen is okay it's good for gaming it's a 10 DP panel it's bright but I wish it was high-res because that's what I would use this computer for I wish it had like a 4k panel with really good color accuracy and stuff but that's just not the case so again I feel like Asus made something that's a little bit niche but this time I feel like it's a little bit confusing because they have components in here that are very gamer oriented so I mean it's the rog brand it's got some red accents it's got a tan DP screen and I think they're actually making a 1080p 120 Hertz screen option but at the same time the the strength of this device is seriously in multi-core stuff which most games in 2017 or even like early 2018 won't be able to take that much advantage of this thing really shines in video editing but it's stuck with a non 4k panel and not a super color accurate panel either so if you look at the price of this thing it's actually a pretty good value for people that are editing videos to be able to get this kind of performance in this kind of portable form factor for $1,500 like a year ago this would have been impossible but right now if you're trying to pick up this thing for games I wouldn't recommend it it's not a bad machine for it but for fifteen hundred dollars you can get devices that even ones made by Asus that are just 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