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hey how's it going guys this is Dave QD and this is the Asus Transformer 3 pro now it looks very similar to the surface lineup in particularly the surface pro 4 it's always been inspired by that lineup but this has one big difference this device has a Thunderbolt 3 port so it allows external GPU connections now as of right now this is the only tablet that allows that future surface products and future tablets might allow it but right now this is the only one in terms of the build it feels pretty similar to the surface pro 4 glass up front magnesium shell the kickstand on the back can be adjusted to any position it's stiff it'll hold its position but I'm not sure about long-term durability the mechanism looks like it works through friction between two metal parts and I don't else that will wear down over time but it's been working great for the past couple of months so yeah I think it should be okay using it as a tablet it feels pretty comfortable to use it's a different shape from the surface product so those kind of have a bevel on the edge this doesn't have that it's a different feel but it's still very comfortable to use now I prefer using these two muscles with the detachable keyboard I find that I mean there are devices that have to flip around keyboards like the yoga products and the new XPS 13 I mean this is just personal preference but I like being able to use my tablet one hand without feeling the bottom of the keyboard underneath I like that some people going to be different it's just a matter of personal preference port selection on tablets is never amazing on one side you have your standard micro SD slot and a volume rocker and on the other side we have USB 3 HDMI port and that Center Bowl 3 port this model here is $1600 us and include the stylus and the attachable keyboard the surface pro 4 has a slightly stronger connection I think with the magnets are stronger but this is still pretty secure the keyboard is backlit it has a great layout like I wouldn't change a thing on it considering the smaller real estate it has to work with you can have it go flat or you can have it tilted on an angle both are comfortable use it's actually really comfortable to use on your lap as well everything feels solid the typing experience is good not amazing decent key travel but the keys are a little softer or just spongy ER than I'd like it to be and when you close it there's no magnet on the other end to keep it close like on surface products the trackpad could be better it uses Windows precision drivers so I had high hopes its glass and the texture is good but the cursor jumps around sometimes not often but enough for it to be a little bit annoying I don't think it's hardware I think a software update would fix it but as of right now in early January 2017 it's still an issue the stylus feels really similar if not identical to the stylus for surface products it doesn't attach magnetically though so you got to bring it around with you like a regular pen the screen is twelve point six inches 20 and 80 by 1920 pretty high-res there's letterboxing in most videos because of the aspect ratio but that's just the nature of tablet screens it has very good color gamut and color accuracy out of the box it's not as bright as I feel like it could be or should be I mean it's bright for a laptop but because of the tablet as well I kind of feel that in some environments like if you're outdoors it can feel a little dim it's running a sky like CPU you can get it in either an i5 or an i7 both with Intel HD 520 graphics 16 gigs of ram and solid-state drives the 512 gig drive in my unit isn't particularly fast I think it's a SATA Drive but I have seen units with newer manufacturing gates that had nvme drives in them you can't upgrade the RAM or the drive I mean you can configure it at purchase but you can't open it up and upgrade it yourself performance for regular use is good it feels pretty snappy particularly with the i7 now if you stress this thing hard like on benchmarks or if you want to edit videos there is noticeable CPU throttling and gaming performance on the integrated HD 520 isn't that good but when you connect it to an external GPU using the Centreville 3 port that is where this thing shines so if you're not familiar with an external GPU it's a box and you basically stick a desktop grade GPU in there so anything from Nvidia or AMD and then you get desktop GPU capabilities in your device so the Asus Transformer 3 pro was originally designed to work with the ACS XG station 2 that's not out yet it will be soon but in the meantime it actually works quite well with the razor core you got to install some Sun about three drivers and you need to get some software to run the whole Razer synapse thing but it works depending on the card you put in here you can get some amazing performance it's a pretty standard performance around ten to fifteen percent less than a desktop because of the central three bandwidth limitations but it's still good remember though that performance drops that ten to fifteen percent number is only if you're using an external monitor if you don't want to use a monitor and you want to pipe it back to the display on the transformer three Pro you lose even more performance we're looking at twenty to twenty five percent and if you're curious that sound about three capable power and charge the tablet so it's a pretty sweet set up something like overwatch doesn't have great performance on the integrated HD 520 but I connected to GTX 1080 and you can get some ridiculously good frame rates one thing to keep in mind this is a two core CPU there's plenty of game that will run great on a two core CPU but there are games that are more CPU dependent that would do better on a quad core so you got to research your game if you want specific benchmarks now in terms of a GPU recommendation because this is a two core CPU and because it doesn't get to clock full speed because of the CPU throttling I'd recommend maybe a GTX 1060 or even a 980 if you know your budgets a little bit lower but you don't want to just spend money on a card that you can't really make proper use of VR also had problems working I tried connecting an HTC vive had issues I'm not sure it was because like a port limitation there is only one USB port on the tablet the keyboard is actually not bad for gaming it's kind of strange because as I'm in a real keyboard it's a keyboard cover I mean it's not going to cut it for a 408 p.m. Starcraft player but it's a very usable keyword for games there's an exhaust up top it doesn't interfere when you're playing games but if you're using some more demanding applications while you're holding it in portrait as a tablet it gets pretty warm up there the fans don't spin when it's idle but when it kicks in it's audible it's not super annoying or super loud or anything but you'll know when it's on speakers are upfront Carmen Carmen branded but they're very average sounding they don't get too loud and the bass is pretty weak the front webcam is 1080p and it has infrared so it supports Windows hello for login which is pretty cool the back camera is 13 megapixel it doesn't look great but I doubt many people are going to use this anyways so whatever battery lights on this thing is relatively short it's a 39 watt hour battery normal use like doing work we're getting around five hours of life with the screen at 215 it's watching movies you'll get around 3 and a half hours which is enough to finish most movies but for a tablet the battery life is definitely on the end of the spectrum now overall I really like this setup I don't think that this particular model like the transformer 3 Pro is the perfect version of this particularly the battery life but this is the only one you can do it on right now I love the fact that it's a tablet when you want it to be you can connect a keyboard when you want to type or just go ham on a keyboard and even external GPU if you want to play game it's a super modular system I think this is a really good direction for mobile computing I think if I wasn't making youtube videos I would definitely try to make this thing my daily driver hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs if you liked it subs if you loved it it's a nice I'll see you guys next time