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hey how's it gone Dave 2d here I think for a lot of people this will be the laptop that they want so a lot of people are looking for that laptop that's thin and light that doesn't cost too much and can play some games this is that one so if this is what you're looking for stick around this is the new laptop from Asus it's called the UX 3 3 1 it's their Zen book and what makes this thing special what makes this video what it is is the fact that this thing is running an MX 150 in a very light and portable package now it's not the thinnest laptop out there obviously there are thinner ultrabooks than this but this thing is relatively thin but they've give it enough room to allow for a proper thermal solution because there is a decent GPU inside this thing ok I'm just going to go through some things that I do like with this laptop and then maybe touch on some points that I don't like about it in no particular order the build quality on this thing is quite good it is $1000 device so you expect devices like this to have good build quality and it does deliver the screen has a little more flex to it I feel than the older UX 330 but aside from that great build quality other things I like the trackpad this is one of the better trackpads have seen from ACS it's glass great texture super smooth with Windows precision drivers you can't get much better than this on a Windows laptop there's also a fingerprint sensor on the side if you're into using windows hello to log in and the screen is also surprisingly good it's really bright it's pretty color accurate and the viewing angles are good I do wish the hinge was a little bit stiffer it's just got a little bit more play than I would like but good screen otherwise it's a little bit of work to get inside you do have to remove the bottom feet and remove some screws but inside you can replace the SSD the one that they include is a little slow it's a SATA Drive so if you want to you can switch this thing to an nvme Drive but there's not much else that you can replace in here the battery down here is only 50 watt hours it's not particularly big it's kind of weird because you look at a device like this with a 50 watt hour battery and then devices with 60 watt hour batteries with similar screen sizes and this is actually getting slightly better battery life which is right it doesn't really how they doing this I think it's through software optimization I'm not sure exactly what they're doing but I'm getting a 9 and a half hour battery with the screen at 215 it's the speaker's also sound quite good it's got Harman Kardon branding and the thing is we've seen a lot of bad speakers hiding behind Brandin before not to diss the brand or anything but Harman Kardon at this point means nothing to me on laptops but this time around this sounds really good it's a clean sound with good range and good volume I do wish that the speakers were located on the top and set at the bottom but it's a good sounding speaker the webcam is pretty much garbage it reminds me of the one on the 12-inch MacBook if you use your webcam frequently then you're gonna have to get an external because this thing is just terrible alright the feature that makes this laptop the most special is its GPU it's running the NVIDIA MX 115 you've seen my previous reviews I'm actually even done a dedicated video on the MX 150 it is a very impressive card it's not like the most powerful GPU that someone it is but it doesn't require crazy heat sinks or fans but it still pushes out of decent frame rates in games you can comfortably play basically any popular title right now as long as you lower the graphics quality a bit so if you're a casual gamer you know what let's not even use that term even if you're enthusiast you're gonna be fine on an MX 150 as long as you don't need really high quality graphics now if you're someone wants to play GTA 5 with like 20 mods running then no this is not the system for you but for most people you're gonna be happy with this the cpu they're running is intel's 8th gen kb lake art and for the right application like if you're running stuff they can take advantage of extra cores performance is great the fans on this thing are kind of a mix on idle it's completely quiet it's literally silent they don't even come on but when you're doing some more intensive stuff they kick in and they don't get too loud or anything but when you're playing games they get quite loud and it's actually one of the louder ultrabooks that i've seen in 2018 now that's honestly a good thing because remember if we're dealing with a device that puts out a decent amount of heat if you're not pushing it out quickly you're gonna have problems now I did not notice any thermal throttling on this laptop when I was playing games which is you know it's promising it's good but when I ran some stress tests I did notice throttling and it's not something that I think will appear for most people's usage scenarios it does seem confined to stress tests but it is there and depending on what you do and how demanding your tasks are it may or may not be an issue but if you really need some really intensive CPU or GPU stuff then this is probably not the best laptop for you for most people there's no throttling issue that I can see now it's not all sunshine and rainbows there are a couple things that I don't like first is the port selection so it's got an okay port selection it has a USB C port but it uses a regular barrel plug for charging and I just feel like that was a missed opportunity because Universal charging on a device like this order an awesome it also does not support the unbolt 3 on that USB C port so I don't know again a missed opportunity I'm sure it keeps the cost down but it would have been nice another thing I don't like is the top surface so this has this kind of glass looking material I'm not sure if it actually is glass but it just looks tacky and it makes the whole thing look cheaper and it attracts fingerprints like crazy so you're gonna get smudges and stuff on the top there older one the UX 3 3 2 just had like a plain stainless steel finish and I like that but well this you know what this looks like a Chromebook to be honest like one of those cheaper Chromebooks come on ace you got it done better on this one okay another thing I don't like this is a big one the keyboard this is a keyboard that has a great layout but it's not as comfortable to use as I would expect the keystrokes are a little soft I feel like the mechanism for the switch isn't the best but I think most people can get used to this keyboard given enough time okay overall I like this laptop a lot I think it's a great fit for a lot of people if you're looking for some that's thin and light that doesn't cost too much money and can play some games on the side with decent battery life when you're not playing games this could be the one okay hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs be liked it subs you loved it see you 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