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this video is brought to you by CM storm preferred choice of mice headsets and mechanical keyboards of curse gaming visit www.samhsa.gov/dtac Singh this time we're gonna be checking out something that I personally am very excited about this is the Asus Republic of gamers g-46 notebook so this is a premium notebook that comes with their 360 care package two-year international warranty meaning you can take it anywhere zero bright guarantee two-way free standard shipping in the event of an RMA and 24/7 tech support it looks like this one doesn't include their accidental damage which only the very very expensive notebooks do but that's still a very strong included warranty compared to the offerings from other guys on the market and they soos has been making it a habit to do that with their notebooks so why do I care about this notebook you guys might be asking yourselves well number one is that I like gaming notebooks I like powerful notebooks I don't play as many games as I used to but what I might find myself doing is editing video on a notebook or just generally being a power user and wanting something that gets closer to the desktop experience that I can have we've got a nice protective paper sleeve here for the notebook itself just gonna tuck that away and what a gaming notebook typically does is it delivers a bit of a thicker overall form factor but it is able to deliver better overall experience a better overall performance and a better experience for power users so check this up in terms of the thickness here's an HTC One phone for size comparison you can see it's not that thin but it has powerful cooling and that's part of the reason it has to be thicker you can see through these grills the huge heat sinks that are cooling the GPU and the CPU because this notebook does not skimp on the specs it actually uses a core i5 30 to 30 mm which can turbo up to 3.2 gigahertz and a gtx 660 m so what you'll notice about this is that unlike other sort of massive gaming laptops this one actually fits in my lap it has the same kind of style and aesthetic that we've seen from other asus rog notebooks such as the g 75 so you can see we've got an illuminated a Seuss logo on the back with a shiny Asus logo so that's sorry an illuminated ROG logo the overall notebook has a matte finish so you can see I can touch it like this and it actually doesn't show any fingerprints which is great for something you're gonna carry around with you which this one is actually possible to carry around I'd rather have thicker than bigger in this case the hinge is extremely robust so you can see it's uh it's attached here not quite at the very edge of the notebook but that gives you a comfortable distance between the keyboard and the screen itself so let's just go ahead and give you guys sort of another angle of that we showed you the back enough already so on the bottom you've got easy access to memory upgrades the hard drive that comes in this particular one is a 750 gig Drive with an 8 gig SSD providing a caching functionality that gives it a boost in performance without without actually having to have two separate drives it's got an SD card reader on this side HDMI out super speed USB 3 as well as VGA this is probably the most flexible display output that I like to see on an Opel is er this is this is the flexibility I like to see because between these two you can adapt to pretty much anything else that you need to run however things do get better so there's your power in there's your given Ethernet there's two more USB three BAM mini displayport love to see that so you can actually drive multiple displays off of this notebook very very easily it's got microphone and headphone jacks that are dedicated some some smaller thin and late notebooks are starting to integrate these into one I think I what is it 3-3 pull jack so the ones that have both microphone and headphones on one and now that we've opened it up you can see it has a very sleek look to it so the bezel of the monitor part is matte again which I think looks really clean really really good there's your webcam but down here you've got what appears to be brushed aluminum now you guys if you've been watching my videos for a while will know what I think of brushed aluminum on places where you have to rest your hands because it will stain pretty much instantly but what Asus is actually gone with here for the material is that brushed plastic that looks gorgeous it looks just like brushed aluminum except you can actually clean it unlike brushed aluminum so it'll come clean and it'll always look good whereas brushed aluminum will look terrible pretty much immediately on the keyboard layout itself they haven't committed any cardinal sins so they've got long shifts long enter' and long backspace meaning you'll be able to easily reach all of those buttons should you desire it and all of your usual hotkeys are built into the top here so brightness up and down for the illuminated keyboard wireless on and off that's wireless AC so it has the very latest wireless standard brightness up and down for your screen itself as well as external display options turning the touchpad off which is an important option for gamers because the last thing you want is to be using your keyboard and then a separate mouse which most people don't game on a touchpad and then accidentally brush the touchpad with your palm and then have that accidentally move you around inside the game other than that there's not too much to say about it it does feature Nvidia Optimus which is a basically Nvidia and Intel's way of using their drivers well I guess Nvidia developed it more than Intel but invidious way of using their drivers to turn the dedicated GPU off when you're not running a 3d application and then back on when you are running a 3d application that way you get the power benefit of using on the on-board GPU with the performance benefit of using the 2gig GTX 660 M GPU for actually playing games so here in summary this is what it'll look like when sort of a slightly small homunculus style person actually holds the device and it's just ah so much lighter and more portable than your typical gaming brick so I was really excited when I saw this at CES and now that I have it sort of in my hands in person I am no less excited about it oh well maybe a little less excited about it because I've seen it already but whatever I didn't get to show it to you guys in as much detail I didn't actually show the accessories so it comes with a power cord comes with a notebook warranty card which is important make sure you hold on to that keep that information because it does have as I mentioned before a very good warranty battery notice telling you about the warranty on your battery drivers on a disc as well as a user manual there you go and last but not least presumably is the power brick so this is a little on the bigger side because even though asus has packed all that power into a small notebook form-factor well it still needs to actually get the power somehow so you end up with a bit of a bigger bigger power brick so again this is a 4.3 inch phone we should give you some idea how big that bad boy is don't forget to subscribe slyness tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos and i'll see you guys again next time so there's a couple things I missed there's some optional configurations it's available in a variety of different config so number one is you can either get it with a 1366 by 768 screen this particular model comes with a 1600 by 900 screen which is definitely the one I'd prefer because at that 14 inch size 1600 by 900 delivers a compromise between a good gaming experience because you're not pushing quite as many pixels as 1,900 by 1080 but also getting that desktop real estate that you need you can also change up the storage config so this is a 750 gig drive with an 8 gig SSD however you can get up to a 1 terabyte drive with at 128 gig SSD using a combination of the two and a half inch bay and the M SATA spot that is available and another funny observation that I made that I didn't even notice when I was doing the regular unboxing is that there's no battery I couldn't find the battery it has a non removable battery so my thinking for this because normally a chassis this thick you'd see a removable battery of some sort but my thinking is that what Asus actually had to do in order to fit this kind of performance and this kind of heat dissipation in such a small chassis is they had to go with a non removable battery that's uh that's built into the to the device so there you go now I think we're actually done thanks for watching this video was edited on a workstation powered by kingston memory oh it actually uses a core i5 32 oh crap one more time