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the master case each 500 M by Coolermaster sports dual tortor millimeter addressable RGB fans a USB 3.1 gen2 type-c port and 4 tempered glass side panels both sides top and front and the front can swap out for a mesh panel if you want maximum airflow it has a plethora of cable routing covers to keep things tidy too so click the sponsor link in the description to learn more what's up guys how's it going welcome back to Pauls hardware today I have JJ back in my garage one more time that's going JJ I'm doing good man excellent JJ offered to come back because he wanted to show off some laptops and I had this question that popped in my head that I've been asked a lot of times and maybe you guys have asked at home which is why can't you build your own laptop I build my own desktop computers all the time and aside from a very niche area where you can get some laptops that have some upgrade possibilities it's really impossible now this video is gonna be about telling you guys why it's impossible it's not going to be about telling you guys how to build your own because it's probably not going to be a thing we're gonna be featuring this new laptop from Asus which is the asus rog Zephyrus actually the Zephyrus s a new laptop in the Zephyrus line it's got the six core intel Kaktovik processor in there as well as a bunch of design work that's been built into it in order to make it a functional gaming laptop without like overheating and melting I guess so it's the world's thinnest gaming laptop and that in itself I think is really the reinforcement of what you're talking about is that when you talk about thin and when you talk about high performance they're generally exclusive and that's what we're hopefully gonna be able to give you guys some insight into is that how do we achieve being able to have this level of performance and something that is essentially you know point 7 inches in terms of the at its thickest point and you know four point six pounds it is very thin and with the amount of hardware in here which obviously generates Heat different techniques have been developed in order to help dissipate that heat and the original zephyrus which is a max cue laptop which is a standard that NVIDIA has developed to make sure that their laptops made for gaming with Nvidia graphics cards integrated can operate at high performance while not being incredibly loud but can also be thin and light and still function like a portable laptop should so asus with the originals i first had this design here where when you actually lift the lid it sort of creates some some gaps down at the bottom it spaces out and that just allows air and heat to dissipate from under there I like what's been with the cooling arrangement here because you also have a bunch of intake areas up here at the front I thought that these were like exhaust and it was gonna be kicking hotter up at you but what some of the considerations that have been gone in that have gone into creating this design so actually I think you talked about it already a little bit is that one of the key hallmarks that you have with the zephyrus is really about being quote-unquote like a ultra premium thin and light gaming laptop and this has traditionally not really been the case you could get kind of a certain level of thickness a certain level of performance but you couldn't really get to this I think a region I think the goal was always being sucked by pounce and now we're not just going about sub 5 pounds right we're really being definitely below that marker we're going very thin um but you don't want to compromise on things like the rigidity you don't want to compromise on the thermal performance so how do we achieve that well you noted one of the first hallmarks of the Zephyrs is gonna be the active airflow design and that's essentially when you go ahead and you open up the unit so if we go ahead and just drop down the panel and we pull up you see that that expands and once that actually expands that allows us to bring significantly more airflow into the system but that's really only one element to this right as we're bringing air flow in we also need to have actually a large actually thermal assembly or thermal solution and actually we have actually the raw thermal solution here which you can kind of get a sense of how this has been designed and developed so this generation actually is quite a bit more advanced than our previous generation the original is our first only had to actually heat sink assemblies and now we have a total of four heat sink assemblies 250 fins an advanced copper framework that goes here so there are shared heat pipes between the CPU and the GPU but also still independent heat pipe for the CPM GPU and even dedicated heat pipe and actually thermal coverage for the actual power circuitry so we've tried to look at really every single element to be able to ensure that the thermal performance on stays consistently Adar around about 80 degrees in some situations of the ambient even cooler or if you're leveraging the turbo performance option mode within the fan setting profiles you're gonna be able to get better than that but that's really the goal right is that if you're gonna be putting in such a high performance CPU a high performance GPU you don't want to be throttling you don't want to be losing that performance even though you've got this thin and light base design so then itself was quite challenging because when you go about something like this you have to really look at the density of the fence and 250 fins that we have in here so there's a lot of fins in there and Eve placement when you talk about essentially all the air points that you have here right you've got exhaust here we've got intake that's gonna be here right you've got a like she also exhaust exhaust over here is that we even have to carefully design the actual exhaust here on these heat sinks to actually be slightly angled invented at an angular level and the reason why you want to be able to have something like that is of course is that if you're gaming and you've got your hand let's say in this position you don't want to seneschal they have hot air creating sweaty hands right because so any hands you know you're you're trying to keep a hold of your mouth and it's just gonna be a bad situation all the way around we had to carefully look at all these subtle aspects and they really helped to provide I think a much higher level of performance and that's why we have this quote-unquote non-traditional design where you have of course the keyboard brought out to the front so that allows us to have significantly more intake airflow which complements the entirety of this thermal solution but you also didn't get other benefits you know one of the nice things about this type of design is you have more of a desktop stance where I can put my hand right here it's resting against in the actual table and it seems a little bit more natural than sometimes having to throw my hand all the way up here and then have maybe my mouse hand outside here so it just gives you a little bit of a different kind of design and placement that you got to get used to but you can see that everything we've consciously designed for a certain benefit a certain value I was gonna mention especially like if the laptop is heating up up if you're playing a long gaming session or something than having your hands off of the keyboard yep it might help keep them a little bit cool as well ya know sleeping your hands cool this in this area definitely is gonna be significantly cooler because of the way that we've done that design that thermal solution and continuing on a thermal solution before we go I think to some of the other kind of design hallmarks that we've got here is actually gonna be what work that we've done here with the actual fans themselves and so this is something that's really quite complex and challenging when you talk about notebook based design and so I know when we were talking about this just kind of giving you a little briefing an insight it was interesting because you were asking me are the fans essentially the same type of technology that you have in the new latest generation not to offense and the reason why we kind of brought that up is that the actual fans themselves are comprised of liquid crystal polymer and you need the rigidity of liquid crystal polymer because we've got 83 fan blades that are present here so these are 12 volt fan so they spin at a significantly high love our p.m. to be able to provide us more airflow and more performance but when you're essentially at that level of RPM right you don't want to have actually any misalignment or you don't want to have any type of deformation that might occur to the actual fan blade itself and so that allows us to maintain a really high level of performance so that's a really cool design element that we again had to kind of consider goes how can we help to maximize that airflow performance being provided to the actual thermal solution and so that was achieved by utilizing it and actually the first efforts was the first notebook ever to implement that type of design technology and so we've continued on with this generation we've just increased the number of fins compared to the original zippers which was they believe 71 or 73 now we've got 83 so even more so you're saying that if I wanted to build my own laptops that's I probably just couldn't go and buy this type of cooling solution off the shelf correct so the proprietary design it's it's made in such a way that everything is packed in very very close very tight but also you have to have cooling efficiency throughout so this is probably the main reason why you couldn't you know buy an empty frame leave looking like that and install your own hardware but the flip side is that you get the benefits of all of this design work in engineering that's gone into it so you can't have a laptop that you can actually game on you can take on the go that's you know it's gonna get warm well it's why you're gaming on it they're doing video editing and stuff but it's also gonna dissipate that heat and also direct it away from you I ended that and actually speaking a direction one of the other kind of cool design elements that we had here is again you know something that you might not necessarily think about but people think about like when they're building a traditional system is managing dust right and so even that's something that we have to think about here because in a lot of these situations you might not actively be cleaning this unit so how do you ensure that the thermal solution is gonna maintain it's a kind of level of performance over time and so we actually had to create a specialized essentially internal housing it's kind of a self-cleaning design where through the centrifugal force and the actual speed that you have in terms of that channeling effect for the air that as it comes in there's actually a separate channel that exists right here within the actual fan housing that allows the actual dust debris and particulate matter so like dust debris dander things like that will essentially be channeled and exhausted outside the system as opposed to resting internally inside of that fan assembly where you said she could be impacting the overall performance of the thermal Ellucian so so I've had I've had plenty of people with laptops come to me asking for help saying my laptop overheats and I can't use it anymore and I'll often find that you know if you open it up and you find where the fan is and you find where the heatsink is this is just caked with dust is I get layer of dust there's absolutely no air flowing through there so I imagine that would help alleviate that problem yeah definitely I mean there's still always you're gonna want to be cautious in mindful you know of monitoring things but this is kind of one of those things of trying to implement something that helps to just aid in ensuring better long-term performance over time let's talk a little bit about the actual manufacturer of the chassis it runs the show we actually have some sort of raw materials here which I thought was fascinating to look at so one of the cool things you'll notice is that this being an RG product it's really kind of a premium product a much higher grade in terms of the material composition so most of the time on most gaming laptops you're gonna find a lot of plastic but on this unit you're gonna actually have the predominant amount of metal that's gonna be on here so aluminum and magnesium are pretty much par for the course and this actually entire lid is milled from a single piece of aluminum which you can actually see right here so we actually have to use CNC machining for this to be able to actually achieve this plate and so this is actually an example of kind of like what you have right here hopefully it's not too too glossy right there Danny it is shiny this entire process to give you an example this one essentially a billet it's gonna take over about 70 minutes on a CNC machine to be able to actually machine out this one single piece then we have a dual anodization process which goes through to be able to give us different texture as well as the Sham furred edges I mean that two-tone anodization which also is a nice little kind of gold hallmark that you find on the RG series products but even when you talk about other kind of materials and construction you know we flip this over and we talk about the back of the unit this is gonna be a magnesium plate that you're gonna have here as well and that's done to be able to have before something that's super lightweight so this unit clocks in at just a little bit over 4.6 pounds and it's really about trying to strike that balance of being able to maintain the right level of rigidity and strength but also still have something that is truly light that when you throw it in your backpack you don't feel like you're really taking on you know a seven or eight pounds that you might traditionally have when you talk about these higher end quote-unquote gaming laptops cuz this is very capable gaming a pop when you talk about that 8th generation processor that gtx 1070 max-q right it's a lot of performance to be able to fit into this type of design and I really like just the contrast between these two pieces this piece of aluminum or aluminium for those of you over in the EU pretty substantial pretty heavy it's so much more lighter now that it's all milled and you can kind of see some of places here where the the CNC went through milled out everything but still like I mean this has a tiny bit of flex yeah really not much at all and I just so small little grooves in there yeah it's a really impressive process on I think it's you know just that attention to detail to be able to provide that quality so you know as we kind of like take a look through here in terms of the design constraints I mean what we've kind of done here in terms of dealing with the constraints of being thin and light this had to be all one single piece to be able to maintain rigidity that's important because this even ties into the excited experience that you have when you talk about the the monitor which is exceedingly well they the panel that's used on this and that's important because that's really one of the hallmarks of this this is it has our super narrow bezel design and this is 144 Hertz 3 milliseconds panel we actually had to work directly with auo who's actually a panel manufacturer and have a very close relationship with asus where would they even have to actually work with another company called Merck which helps actually make some of the actual polymer material which goes inside the actual LCD panel and to be able to achieve essentially all these operating specifications so right now asus is the only company that you'll find on the market that can offer you 144 Hertz with 3 to 3 milliseconds response time so it's again this is kind of one of those challenges to you know if you were trying to build your own you could do this you couldn't go directly to a company a request hey I want this ultra-low response time right you might be forced to just get whatever is available in the market and this is something that we've done in the past with like even our normal high end you know independent monitors where we had to Co work with the panel manufacturer to create specifications that don't even exist in the market and I think those are two extremely desirable specs for a gaming monitor whether you're talking about a laptop or a desktop and the really high refresh rate and the really low response time yeah and we were talking about bezels not you know everybody has a different opinion but it's nice to also be able to hang out have it with a super narrow bezel based design and effectively actually when you talk about the overall volume or footprint you've got this fifth eighteen inch category base notebook but in a 14 inch chassis so very impressive in that regard and even in the colorspace performance actually quite nice 100% srgb coverage in terms of what you have there so some cool stuff there now one of the other things I think might be interesting is if we take a look here in terms of them down we move down to the keyboard design and some kind of how do we have to account for doing things here even here again we have to figure out how do we maintain I think the the quality of experience so again we go back to metal in terms of the framing for the entire keyboard and that's because essentially because you have a much more compact space you want to be able to have a good amount of still structural rigidity present so that as you're go ahead and depressing those keys that they feel substantial and that you can actuate clearly and consistently and so even though specialized technology here we have called over stroke technology which actually allows us to make sure that it's 50 percent faster in terms of actually that register in that depression to be much more consistent so that even though you've got to reduce a little travel there right you're still getting an overall good keyboard experience have you turn the light this has multi zone RGB lighting on the keyboard so we should be able to go ahead and open up on par or are you actually new software we actually have our G Armory software which is actually be replacing our gaming center software now just for some of you wondering you know as you guys guys might get some secondary shots here you do want to keep in mind this is a engineering sample okay so the final version of this product isn't even gonna be a little bit finer sharper and cleaner you know but we're you know we're giving you guys a first look preview right here in terms of just kind of what's going to be coming here so here you can see that even though we've got this compact keyboard you still get your four zone RGB lighting and this course is fully supported in terms of you source sync so you can still synchronize this with everything from our keyboards the nice the headset even some of our external Artem's like excuse me external items like the RG spotlight or the ROG terminal which allows you to even connect us like a USB port and still have LED strips for like your your desk setup if you want to be able to do that stuff so some cool things there and we've got independent kind of layout here for your primary function keys and enlarged space bar based a set up in terms of that and then of course you've got the really interesting toggle based design for the touchpad and the numpad so you can toggle off the numpad when you want it and when you don't want it you're good to go and you still have full scissor based switches for your actual right-click in your left click which is nice because sometimes on these notebooks you especially and you go to more compact sometimes you lose those buttons altogether you just go with the touchpad and you have to double press on it or you don't have full actually mechanical base switches for the right click in the left click so I think that in that regard you still have a really really nice premium experience here yeah I think if switches are an option I I prefer having the physical switches there but I do like the ability to pull up the numpad there to your numpad is like when you need it you're really needed yeah it just makes things just move and I think that's the key thing here is that that's one of those design challenges again you know if you're probably trying to build your own being able to develop something like this which this again was kind of like a very industry unique based design implementation can be very challenging and so that's always kind of the benefit you know it's one of those kind of things that some users find challenging when you go about kind of the walled garden approach of designing something entirely internally but allows you to really try to maximize your engineering effort to be able to really design something distinctive and innovative it I think definitely when you look at something like this is up for you you know for a fact that is the case um some other kind of cool updates that we've got for this generation here in terms of that RGB lighting is that we've also extended that lighting effect to the rear lighting which you might not be able to see it as clearly appear on the back of those two zones we'll also still fully now support synchronization control which our previous generation Zephyrus didn't offer that synchronization and control so you can kind of tie it all together within that people people need control over their RGB LEDs yeah you definitely want it you've got of course that RGB lighting right here of course on the rgi as well on that guy and from an audio experience I know that this is kind of something they were talking about there was a little bit interesting as well so one of the things here is um on gaming notebooks as well a lot of times you find that the speakers are gonna be downward firing but actually here they're actually directly placed within the hinge base frame design and they're actually front firing so we've got two speakers there they feature a smart amplifier and what that does this helps us to monitor temperature of an excursion um so that essentially makes sure that we can monitor the overall distortion level of the actual driver and the the speaker this allows us to maintain overall better just clarity and a better experience when you have with your speakers so they pretty much you can go to the highest levels and you're not gonna have to worry about blowing out quote unquote the speaker which this was a little bit more of a problem in previous generations of notebooks if you wanted to get too aggressive you could have an issue I mean a trying to kill the stigma of laptop speakers yeah um you know I don't think you're ever gonna go with it you know when you talk about speakers in general you know it's it's about mass and it's about how big you can go so of course this is not gonna replace you know a high quality headphone or high quality headset or external speakers but I will definitely say that somebody who meet like me who I think I really appreciate audio it's definitely a passable experience that's it's quite solid um and it's got a good level tonality but I think the cooler part is actually what we've done on the software side of the fence okay um so let's yeah plug in yep let's go ahead and put it so we're taking a look at software now and this is probably another area that you'd have a little bit of a challenge setting up for yourself at home unless you're into software development programming I guess but having the software to play nice with the hardware in order to monitor temperatures increase or decrease fan speeds as well as do personalization stuff like changing lighting sound configuration I'm assuming all this is true right yes this is entirely par for the course but I think now the more interesting part here as well as trying to kind of understand how users use their headphones and the different type of audio let's say connected devices right and so what we found is that we've always kind of implemented I think a lot of a really interesting sound technologies into our notebooks as well as even on our motherboards but traditionally they're only going to be capable on an analog base connection so if you have like an analog headset or an analog headphone you are good to go but what happens if you're using a USB headset a USB DAC and you're using VR any of these other kind of pure digital basis devices you were losing I think a lot of them more customization options you might have had available and so one of the cool things that we've done with sonic studio 3 eases Apo injection which allows us to essentially be able to go ahead and manipulate and customize still all that even if you're utilizing a USB headset or you're using VR or you're utilizing a USB DAC you can still go in and customize things so here you can see we're in the interface we have different presets so you can see you got music movie gaming communication you got things like smart volume voice clarity bass boost treble you've got an equalizer you can go ahead and customize you can switch over to the advanced mode which the advanced mode is cool because you actually can have what we call device routing and then per application or per game based customization so example like you're here is that if I want I could go to say all applications you can see all your different applications you can assign what you want the actual output to be on in terms of the device in terms of what it's it's gonna output the quote unquote audio to and then from there you can go ahead and customize let's say your effects so you want to be able to set a specific mode so whether it's like music or gaming movies you want to customize the EQ for each one of those you can go ahead and apply all of those and you can also do things like spatialization so if you want to apply like reverb or like surround sound mixing to any one of those you can do that and that's per any open application so you know if you were going into a game take for instance there is overwatch you could customize override specifically or yet browser you had discord or Spotify whatever might be and go and make those adjustments and same thing even for the microphone which is pretty cool we have this technology here you can see what's called on my voice and direct monitoring where we can do things like post-processing we can stabilize volume we can help to kind of improve voice clarity minimize ambient noise interference and this can the cool thing about it is that it can work for incoming and outgoing audio so if you've got kind of friends that are talking to you and you want to clean up their audio a bit you can do that but same thing if you're maybe audio needs to be cleaned up a little bit or maybe you've got a lot of you got your AC running you know maybe in the same room that have got a little bit of whites always right you could leave that run in apply the actual post-processing I'll tell you from what I've tried it out it's actually pretty good at really helping to eliminate those kind of consistent tones that you might have they're kind of more white noise which are things like fans ACS hums that you might just kind of have in your environment it's a really nice little software that's kind of built in and I think we've all been like gaming and that person comes on the voice chat with like you know the five dollar mic if they got at the Walmart bargain bin or whatever and it just sounds horrible and you just want to know that yeah you can totally do that another option besides just meeting them I guess yeah I definitely you don't want to read your fan especially if it's gonna be affected yet your your opportunity in terms of hopefully winning okay if you guys are playing a more competitive kind of map or sunshine ski so another big one is and we won't touch on it too much but we actually have a brand new software suite that we call armory creat and so you guys will be seeing a lot more of this later on but this is actually a brand new oversaw a software overhaul that we're gonna have for asus rog based devices so this will be your new kind of front-end to be able to do everything that you're talking about you can make you know OneTouch adjustments so that if you want to be able to quickly make adjustments to your fan speeds you can a you can switch from silent to balance the turbo you can go ahead and see all your frequencies your temperatures you're gonna have per game profiles you can do process cleanup so if you want to go and get rid of whole bunch of programs at one time so you can free up all your system resources you've got mobile monitoring built-in so if you just want to kind of be focusing on your game but then maybe still see your temperatures and other information or your smartphone or your tablet or something like that you can load it up kind of have it there off to the side so that you can be seeing your information in screen yes that way sometimes if you also don't want like an overlay that's running on your system if you your overlays kind of eating up some of your HUD space or something like that you have to worry about that how does it connect to the smart phone Bluetooth this bluetooth bluetooth based connectivity and you mentioned our other energy products is it's gonna be coming to the desktop as well yes we won't go too much into that but you'll definitely be seeing more of our Marie crated in the future so you definitely keep tuned that if you like this interface and if you guys have feedback on it definitely drop it in the comments I'll do my best to definitely try to pass that over to our team keep in mind though that everything we are talking about from the software in the hardware this is an engineering sample well most things are gonna be pretty much complete there's always a little sick kind of subtle things that there might be some slight modifications for the final launch yeah I'm here you know issues are a sync like we talked about allows you to go ahead and have that control for your lighting for any kind of supported accessories as well would all show up in here as well we got you know keyboards mice headset monitors whatever it might be and then other you know options to be able to quickly launch you know things like xsplit our game first packet variety software so if you want to customize the experience in terms of your network adapter for the wireless or anything like that you have that ability to be able to go ahead and do all those things so a pretty nice and comprehensive I think software suite in here and most of the software suite really I think that we focus on ROG is going to be about trying to really improve the overall gaming experience and so a lot of that really translates into one being about networking because that's of course how you get online player games and then on audio and here you can see we are actually bringing up the brand-new version this is game first five but you can go ahead and and it actually by default will automatically detect the games that you have running and attempt to auto prioritize that so let's say if I was jumping to overwatch it's gonna set overwatch automatically as the highest based item and I will send that prioritization so if I've got other networks enter services I don't have to worry about that but if I wanted to I could go you know easy into manual take for instance and you can go in and you can manually set what you want to be at a higher level and you can even have different networking adapters if you wanted to kind of change things up you can go in and you can check your monitoring information there's even cool things like Wi-Fi analyzing built-in so that if you want to check like which channels or the right channels to connect to you that's nice you can kind of see that information you can see which applications are using the most bandwidth so definitely I feel that you know it doesn't meet the the quote-unquote adage of being bloatware I think this is actually useful functional software that I think an enthusiast and a gamer would appreciate excellent alright so several different software options for you guys to control your asus rog laptop I believe ginger you brought another laptop though that we might want to take a a quick look at I did so we've actually got something pretty special here so we're unveiling another first and this is going to be our 17 inch version of our Strix scar 2 and so um the scar series is really kind of our series that has been focused at kind of eSports gamers are kind of that mid-range enthusiast so people that really want to have hit that kind of sweet spot in terms of bang for the buck so they still want something that's got great build quality high level of performance eighth generation based processor GTX 1060 in terms of graphics cards still an extremely impressive thermal solution you know still all that same software that we've talked about um you know over stroke technology um nice high quality I think finishes here you're not dealing with metal but we do have actually a special 8 layer how it's called IMR process which helps to really add subtle textures and details into the kind of the fit and finish and I think a really immersive an impressive base unit as well because this is going to be same thing 144 Hertz 3 millisecond response time thanks but with super thin bezels as well so those super narrow bezels they really add like a whole nother level of additional immersion when you talk about having a 17 inch but pretty much in a 15 inch kind of body so I think that was the other thing that we kind of see is kind of something that's similar between the zephyrus and the Strix is kind of giving you a more compact base laptop but still an extremely high level of performance with some really cool design element we're talking as we were preparing for the video that I used to have a CSG 73 which is an old-school big old desktop replacement and that was a 17 17 inch I think 17.3 this by comparison is so much smaller and also so much lighter ya relative to that and you still got a very nice size screen yeah and you know you get a couple of course upgrades that you would expect when you go to a bigger chassis so you're gonna have a little bit more activity in terms of total number ports you get an SD card slot as well as on this unit which you wouldn't have on this model now one thing that we didn't also touch on in just kind of for some of your wondering which is another little cool point that we were talking about Paul I know you've always had like a little bit of an appreciation I think for some Wi-Fi technology and stuff like that likewise that both of these actually feature the latest generation Intel wave to a digital of an AC wireless chipset built-in board and the reason why that's important is because if you have a multi-user mimo compatible based router these are multi-user mimo compatible based clients so that can even offer a higher level of performance on that combined with the speed throughput of the chipset means that you can legitimately be seeing 500 600 700 800 megabits of wireless throughput so you're talking you know 5 to almost 9 times the actual throughput of 2100 Ethernet almost true gigabit class Wi-Fi um so if you're talking about low latency um you know low ping and just overall high performance wireless gaming you can definitely achieve that with these units and the other really cool thing here on this Strix unit is it features the specialized design that we call range boosts where traditionally on most notebooks you have a fixed number of antennas um so it might be like a 2 by 2 antenna configuration this actually features more than two antennas and the benefit of that is what it does is it helps the monitor kind of the location and the signal strength and again it could switch to the antenna that is receiving better performance um so it's a excusive technology in a cell for at the same time but it just switches to whichever one is physically and exactly in a better location to give you better performance so well it doesn't necessarily have the same premium ultra premium implementations that you're gonna have here I've got something on the Zephyrus s you still get a very capable high performance high quality based gaming laptop so some pretty cool stuff I think you know if you're talking about and hopefully you've gotten a little bit more kind of an insight there are definitely a lot of challenges when you go about putting in this much performance when you talk about the CPU the GPU the layout for the keyboard design you know the rigidity and all those different elements on how you kind of try to make them work you know all holistically to be able to provide a you know stable reliable and high performance experience and it's a combination of all those things it's not just the thermal design it's not just the panel design it's not just the specification implementation there's you know it's kind of some of the parts experience kind of thing and if I can ask you one last question that you might not be able to answer as this year of 2018 progresses we're expecting some upcoming launches on the CP GPU side is it reasonable to assume that these skews will be updated with that updated Hardware if and when it becomes available so I can't go too much into essentially any products that haven't been discussed or formally announced or planned out but what I can tell you is that these designs that you see here we have designed essentially as kind of our designs to move forward in the future with and they do have Headroom support for what might be coming down I think that was a safe enough answer but hopefully you guys know more about the upcoming stuff from Asus JJ this has been awesome thanks for stopping by again no thanks for having me and definitely I'd love to hear your guys's feedback you know we know that always there's a lot of different opinions on what's the right design what's the right ports what's the right type of specifications but I think that we've really done a great job of being able to try to provide two outstanding experiences you know something in that mid-range and then something in the ultra premium and the you know something really impressive with this the world's thinnest my gaming laptop here with the Zephyrus s um and that's and that's actually one last thing that I did want to touch on that I think I did forget to mention here that the zephyrus is really formerly kind of part of a family of products so some of you might be seeing that there's others there first models that's gonna continue to exist Zephyrus is really all about defining the expectation of what the best is in a gaming laptop when it comes to that ultra thin and light but gaming class notebook category or a gaming class laptop category so there are three models you've got the traditional zephyrus then the Zephyrs m and now these are SS so each one kind of is a little bit different than the other kind of the S being the slimmest the am being that balance of giving you the desktop class GPU part with a little bit more storage expansion and a traditional keyboard layout and then the original Zephyrus which has the non-traditional keyboard layout like this base design and a 1080 max-q base design but a little bit thicker so each one kind of two different users that are out there there's the servers for you all right well guys this has been a quick first look at the quick quick probably isn't the right word but an in-depth look at the new asus rog Zephyrus s coming soon they're actually coming soon or available now coming very soon coming very soon and also a quick look at the asus rog Strix Skaar - available right here 17 inch variety guys thank you so much for watching this video and hit the thumbs up button if you enjoyed it and JJ thanks again for stopping by today thanks for army all right and we'll see you guys next time have a good one