Gadgetory

so right here to my left we've got the asus rog g 703 and this thing it's pretty freakin sick like we were able to achieve 5 gigahertz overclocking all six cores concurrently but can you really call it a laptop when it doesn't fit on your lap and should we be making the sacrifices required to have a clamshell design for a machine like this when quite literally everyone is going to be using it on a desk well Asus thought not and over here at our early preview of CES 2019 here in our studio because Asus brought the show to us is the rog mothership a complete rethinking of the desktop rapoo it's still heavy though the desktop replacement category private Internet access I mean that's basically it that's exactly what you get with PIAA and it's got loads of other features as well check it out at the link below okay so I guess step one is to kind of open the thing oh I've been informed there are tabs on the bottom don't don't no I don't want the answer don't wait oh that's weird so here's all these vents on the bottom here with some very hefty looking dents copper fit Wow all the copper everywhere look at this freakin stuff and this ventilated perforated bottom here and I was expecting that this thick side was gonna contain the laptop and then this thin side was going to contain the screen that's like sort of the way that laptops have sort of traditionally where blow it's that no that's that is in fact the keyboard so quiet that so this piece comes down here and then this is what speaker grilles intakes what is this speakers hell yeah oh my god it's a surface for gamers how about that so instead of having the cooling of the CPU the GPU the SSDs and all that stuff choke down against the desk or your lap or whatever the case may be they put them all up here and the results well they claim they are pretty darn impressive my allowed to turn this thing on I can turn it on okay oh my god it came apart you can use it as an AI oh and you can just ditch the keyboard and like or you can just use the keyboard as more like a traditional keyboard and it's raised so check this shiz out you can either just kind of adjust it for a different organ on mcfeely you got your trackpad on the right you got your keyboard on the left and then run a type-c wire over to your your actual like a i/o computer with a screen that folds on to the front of it I don't know what to even call this thing anymore or you can just flip over to wireless mode here bebop and you can like use it from the couch and you can have that hooked up to your TV or whatever the case may be and then it's a pretty common use case actually for a laptop I will find the power button at some point this must be it okay this is a prototype it's not working a hundred percent here just gonna plug in this mouse having a little go freak out okay I'm not saying I broke it I'm just saying it's broken and I'm the last person who touched it that's all where was I so the original concept here actually came from basically like going like this with a G 703 and then measuring how much better the temperatures of all those heat generated components are once you're not restricting the airflow by having them sitting up against something so in actuality this new device even if it did have the same hardware wouldn't necessarily run any cooler because they've gone and they've made it thinner to eat up that extra sort of thermal budget that they made for themselves which isn't to say this gimped on the components because what's in here requires some pretty hardcore cooling so it's rocking a 6 core core I 989 50 H K and r-tx 2080 that they won't let me look at at all like not even in task manager they've actually gone and disabled it in the BIOS though given that we do know the model number and that is an RT X 2080 we're expecting full-blown desktop performance but computing isn't the only way that the rog mothership that's what they're actually calling this thing is insanely fast so this will be their first mobile machine with greater than one gigabit networking it's actually two and a half G which might feel kind of strange given that we went from 10 to 100 to 1,000 to 10,000 but then now also there's these weird Inbetweeners but that's still a really nice bump that's about 250 megabytes per second real-world to a server that is enabled for it so I mean it's not like you're gonna have to do that necessarily because it's got three nvme SSDs in raid 0 that also get additional cooling by the way due to the upright nature of the device so these are so fast basis couldn't put all of them running off of the chipset so two of them are directly connected to the CPU for a wild eight point seven gigabytes per second of data transfer speeds I mean just like you know it's not the most impressive demo but you know just like booting up like launching it you will definitely feel the difference it's faster than I can say shave and Freud I don't even know if that means what did I just say cuz I said like German joke I don't get got it the only problem though with the display is that when you have all of these components right up against the back of it all that heat can be a very bad time so to solve this problem no wonder this thing is so heavy they created this CNC machined heat shield so this right here is what actually separates the display and all of the heat generating components and guess what this takes 20 hours to machine not to mention it costs a freaking lot of money but I guess you know the monkey was just out of the bag and the engineers went hog-wild with the robots because actually pretty much everything about it this CNC machine out of solid freaking blocks of aluminum so this here is the back panel with the kickstand there where's the kickstand the kickstand ah yes I believe this is the kickstand beautiful needless to say everything here there's a cost to CNC okay both in terms of materials in time but there's a benefit even without the actual laptop in it this thing is incredibly stiff like this is as much flex as I'd expect from a finished device and it's just a backplate so that's pretty much all we can say about it for now other than a quick look at IO you got to power inputs so that should give you some idea how power hungry it's gonna be you got your VR port here SD and the HDMI all that good stuff other than to guess Thunderbolt 3 nice that this thing is going to be extremely expensive so let me know you guys want to see a full review this thing yeah you want to see a flow review of this thing you know what Alex I'm gonna take away your desktop right and so you're gonna see if you can learn to like this and I'm taking away your laptop FreshBooks is the small business accounting software custom-built for how you want to work so if you're a small business owner or a freelancer freshbooks is a simple way to be more productive more organized and to get paid faster with fresh books you can create and send professional-looking invoices in less than 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