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all right so a bunch of really cool laptops just got announced at Computex we should be seeing these things over the next couple of months some of them sooner than that I thought I'd just go through some of them and give you my thoughts and opinions on them the one that is most interesting to me and I think this is actually one of the coolest laptops I've seen in a very long time is the new Asus Zenbook pro duo this is a laptop that now has two screens the secondary screen is smaller and it's located on like the keyboard deck but we've seen attempts at this type of technology right some kind of like second screen with functionality when the MacBook Pro did it in 2016 I call the read the beginning I was like I really don't see this thing being particularly useful and then Asus last year did a secondary screen in the touchpad or trackpad area of their Zen book Pro and I commented in that review about how as interesting as it was and how it was a better version of a secondary screen than the MacBook it still wasn't like super obvious as to how people would use it right it was still something that I thought would have to develop over time but this new implementation on the Zen book produ is I think they crush and I honestly don't even think Asus recognizes how useful it is they're talking about how like there's first party apps that they're working on or how developers can create custom UIs for that extra real estate forget all of that the moment you need a developer to go out of their way to create some functionality for an app like that's stupid the reason why this screen is so awesome is that it's immediately intuitive as to exactly how you would want to use it everyone's gonna have a different usage case right if your streamer you're gonna use it a different way if you're a content creator if you're a writer if you're doing whoever looks at the screen can already imagine how they would use it if they can actually make use out of it like for me personally I'd find like two or three fantastic uses out of it it's obviously not for everyone but this is by far the best implementation of a secondary screen we've ever seen on a laptop and they've done a really good job at it they've basically added 25 or 30% more screen space to your laptop experience and it's like usable screen space right it's not just like widescreen stuff for content consumption its productivity space like the vertical stuff which is you don't get that on laptops and now they can deliver that now there are a couple issues that come up with design like Asus developed the I mean this is their Zephyrus product but they've done the whole keyboard shift down like the Zen Book Pro duo and when you do that you have a slightly awkward keyboard typing experience like it's something you can get used to but it's not like a traditional laptop with a wrist rest and you also have your trackpad on the right which is something that again I think most people can't use to and because of what the Zen book produ offers I feel like that shift is totally worth it but the problem is thermal management when you shift the keys down like this on the Zephyrus you get way better airflow on the hottest components like the CPU and the GPU are located right on the top here and because the keyboard is no longer in the way you get unobstructed or less obstructed airflow going to cool off the components on this Zen book Pro duo because they have a screen there you are just inherently restricting airflow through the top of the device it does have the ergo lift design just like this so you can get better airflow underneath the laptop but it is a thermally restrictive design super cool and I'm like I'm more excited about that product than anything else I've seen this year I want to get one into the studio as soon as I can but yeah that thing looks awesome the second thing I want to talk about are the Alienware devices that are shown the new em 15 and em 17 these are fully revamped they look very much like the area 51 em in terms of design language normally I prefer my laptops to look relatively clean and simple I like the way that the razor blades look but there's something about the design language of those new alien wares that just does it for me and both of these laptops are supposed to be running the new thermal system so the same kind of thermal design that we saw in the area of 51m a very well cooled and well thought out system so hopefully the performance on these two new alien wars are gonna be awesome now I also want to talk about the screens just gonna bring this in real quick this is a Alienware m15 that we saw like this is a previous generation but this is running their new OLED panel now I got this 13 days ago and the moment I got it well the day after I got it I turn this thing on set the background to white and I put one black icon right in the middle of it hoping to simulate burnin I just checked this thing before I film this video there's no burnin 12 days running with the screen at max brightness with no screensaver no nothing white background black icon and I'm gonna shift AddThis away I expected to see some kind of visual artifact or something nothing super clean now that doesn't mean that there's no burnin on this I think the nature of OLED panels the nature of OLED panels makes them have some degree of visual wear over time but I can't notice it and I also noticed this as well on the alien were 13 like the very first OLED panel laptop that ever did a review on in 2016 I believe after a year and a half of use none of that thing when I checked it and I did another long burnin test like this as well didn't notice a thing so that's not to say that there's no burnin at all I do believe in it with enough use there will be some kind of degradation but I think the concern that I had I think a lot of you guys have as well if you're interested in an OLED based laptop I think they should be okay I think they're just way better than I thought they would be considering how bad some phones can get OLED burnin the last announcement I want to talk about is the new studio lineup of the razor blade so they have a 15 inch and a 17 inch that come in mercury white and so I'm someone who's interested in this product line because I like the color I obviously like razor blades but there's something about the way the I mean this is more invidious announcement more than razors I mean Nvidia launched this studio laptop lineup which is kind of cool a bunch of companies are making these studio laptops razors one of them MSI Acer I'm sure I'm missing a half a dozen of them but a bunch of companies are making laptops geared towards creators and I get it it's cool you know obviously as a person who creates things on the internet I like I prefer using Windows laptops for my stuff because they just have better performance and I think that's one of the angles are going for like they're comparing it with Apple's new MacBook Pros and they're just saying that geforce and Quadro based devices are just crushing the MacBook Pros and it kinds of performance but it's it's strange to me that in videos doing it like they've never made a big deal about their Quattro and just kind of studio based products before but I mean as long as you understand what you're buying like not everyone's gonna benefit from quadrille cards understand what you're using the hardware for before you purchase anything because a lot of people the regular GeForce GPUs are actually better than the Quadro stuff and it's a little bit cheaper obviously if you're doing stuff like workstation graphics or 3d stuff that can benefit from Quattro go for it but for a lot of creatives myself included GeForce is the better option okay hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs we liked it subs if you loved it see you guys next time