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hay has gone Dave 2d here this is the Asus Zenbook s and it's got this interesting feature this hinge that lifts the keyboard and it gives it this what I would consider to be one of the most comfortable keyboards I've used in a laptop recently so this device is standard Zenbook quality it's aluminum all round with this chamfered edge that's a third bronze or copper depending on how you look at it I'd say it's more of a copper but that's just me and it's really well built it is a Zenbook flagship these are always well-made now if this hinge is what makes this laptop special they're calling an Ergo lift and it's not the first time we've ever seen a device do this like the whole idea of when you open the device it lifts up like we've seen other devices do it we've seen other asus devices do it we've seen XPS devices do it it's certainly not new but these guys do it better than anyone else that I've seen the idea is to lift up the keyboard so there's a bit of a tilt so it's a more comfortable typing position as well as opening up the bottom so it's not touching the surface of whatever you're typing on and the tilt is just right it's an awesome keyboard experience it's a great layout clean white backlighting the arrow keys are in the proper spot and each keystroke has this nice feel to it on these chiclet keys my only knock on it is that the page up and page down stuff there's no dedicated buttons for them and if you want to use the hotkeys for them up top they're in a weird spot you have to take your fingers off the cursor and push them in the function keys but still despite that odd page up page down positioning it's an awesome keyboard and it's seriously one of the best keyboards I've used if I had to type for a long period of time for like an essay or development or any kind of like extensive keyboard use this would probably my top pick the trackpad is also quite good its winners precision good tracking and button Kanaks the fingerprint sensors in the top right corner it's not my favorite spot but overall good trackpad the port selection is somewhat limited there's one USB GC on one side and then the other side has two Thunderbolt 3 s and one audio jack that's built into the screen component and that's basically it reports the speakers are well they actually sound really good just the speaker's themselves but they're positioned in not a great position so when you have it just kind of like in a regular laptop position that gurgle lift makes this almost like an echo chamber underneath the laptop and you can hear the sound just bounce and distorted a little bit if you just have the speaker's pointing straight up top they sound really clean but you're never going to use them like this and in the regular laptop position they don't sound as good the screen that I have in this model is a 4k panel it looks really sharp almost to the point of being too sharp like I've never really needed a 4k panel on a 13-inch device but that's what this one has it's bright its color accurate it looks good there is a 1080p option available which i think is a better choice for most people but if you're a photo editor or something they do have the 4k screen and the webcams up top in a normal position okay let's talk about performance this device can be equipped with some very powerful hardware looking at the 8th gen 4 core CPU and 16 gigs of ram you can deck it out pretty heavily and for short bursts that 8th gen CPU is really good but thermally it's not a strong performer and it casts a bit of shade on this whole device for me now depending on what you using this for this may or may not affect you but for me someone that looked at this as a potential video editing machine it needs better thermals at stock settings it will power and thermal throttle pretty quickly the fans are really quiet which is easy on the ears but it just limits what this product can do so an x2 you I played around a little bit cranked up some stuff and it can run boost for longer but it can't maintain it I really wish they'd just gone with more aggressive thermal solution I feel like the fans could have been louder I feel like the fans could've been bigger or maybe thrown in to fans the thing is this thing is so quiet that like it just I get what they're going for right it's a business laptop and you like those people want really quiet devices and they even have like this quiet mode which makes it run essentially silent but throttles even harder I just wish there was a way to crank up the fans and avoid any kind of thermal limitations but there isn't and also says something about the Ergo lift so the idea of this herb lift was obviously primarily for a more comfortable keyboard experience but it would have been nice if there was some kind of airflow through that gap but there isn't it does raise that hot surface away from your lap so if you're typing on the keyboard on your lap it's a little bit more comfortable but there is no airflow okay inside we're looking at a battery that's 50 watt hours not a huge battery but we're getting around six and a half seven hours of battery life which is pretty respectable the Wi-Fi card is built on board can't remove it same with the ramp can't remove that you got to configure it at purchase the nvme is removable and the one they were using is fast they're the PM nine six one drives from Samsung so the Zenbook s is a device in that premium Ultrabook market obviously it's not going to be a cheap device it starts at eleven hundred dollars goes up to like fourteen fifteen hundred dollars it's competing with stuff like the XPS 13 the Razer Blade stealth the LG gram they're all expensive devices and I would consider this one kind of reasonably priced considering the hardware that you're getting if you're looking for something that's like productivity base if you want a good keyboard and using for school or work or a photo editing this is a good pickup this makes sense but if you want something that's a little heavier like video editing or if you want to play games with an external GPU I would look at something else okay hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs we liked it subs if you loved it see you guys next time