"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthe Asus Zenbook 3 is basically the windows version of the 12-in MacBook beautiful to look at ridiculously thin and light and a great travel companion but like the MacBook it's also flawed so Asus has once again raised the question of how thin is too thin you have to agree this is a great looking machine though it comes in quartz gray rose gold or royal blue like this one but it's not just pretty to look at you could cut butter with this thing it's so thin and Light weighing just over 900 G you'll barely notice this 12 1/2 in Ultrabook in your laptop bag or your backpack but I think Asus has opted for form over function the keyboard's shallow the battery life is poor to average and aside from the headphone jack there's one just one USB C Port just like the MacBook and I know you can buy an adapter and there are plenty of workarounds but it's just really frustrating and in my mind unnecessary the D XPS 13 and 15 for example are almost as small as this but they manag to fited USBC and a dedicated charging port normal USB 3 and SD card Port so I don't think there's really any excuse for just going for USBC maybe Asus is being courageous like apple the good news though is that unlike the MacBook you get some pretty decent specs in this thing with a Top Model supporting a 7th generation kbl Lake i7 16 GB of RAM and a 512 GB SSD the dual core i5 and i7 processors are more than fast enough for most tasks you can even do a bit of light photo and video editing or perhaps even a touch of gaming if you drop the resolution to 720 I think Asus has been sensible sticking with a full HD resolution on the zook 3 considering it's only got a 12.5 in screen so that's all good but what's not so good is the fan noise this thing is noisy even when you just browsing the web on Chrome it's more than just a slight word I find it distracting it kind of puts me off using actually but what I do like is the screen it's quite bright pushing just over 300 nits and covering around 110% of the srgb color gamut it's pretty accurate and colorful and vibrant too colors really pop thanks to that glossy screen but as you'd expect it's also very reflective and actually for a minute I thought it was a touchcreen but it's not that was just me being stupid as for the keyboard well it's fine it's decent but it's far from a great typing experience the problem is it's just got 0.8 mm of travel and travel isn't the be all and end all of keyboards Apple showed that with a MacBook with its fantastic butterfly mechanism but it's not as good on the Asus Zenbook 3 the whole thing feels too cramped it's too shallow and it's just not particularly satisfying to type on again there's nothing wrong with it but it just doesn't feel nearly as premium as it should do for a laptop costing this much the touchpad is a little more interesting not only do you get a fingerprint reader at the top right which supports Windows hello and it's really responsive but it's also wider than most trackpads the glass surface is smooth and feels great under your finger it's reasonably responsive too and supports lots of gestures but what doesn't feel so good are the left and right buttons which feel really spongy and weak the whole trackpad depressed presses in if you press a little bit too hard in the lower left or lower right corner moving on to battery life ases claim you'll get 9 hours out of this thing with its 40 W hour battery but in my experience it's nowhere near that I reckon you'll get around 5 hours with light use but honestly there may be something wrong with my model because I played a 2hour Netflix movie with brightness at 50% and power saving mode on and the Zenbook dropped from 100% to 16% which is terrible and the fan was worrying the whole time I genuinely do love how thin and light this thing is but I would definitely trade a couple of millimeters for a bigger battery that can get me through a full day or at least a couple of movies as for the price well you know this thing is going to be expensive the cheapest Zenbook 3 you can get is a little over £1,000 or $1,200 with an i5 and 8 gigs of RAM but if you're up for the top spec you're pushing two grand and that's an awful lot of money and if I'm honest there are better options out there like the XPS 13 from Dell so there's good things and bad things about the Zenbook 3 but the main reason I wouldn't buy it is because the Zenbook 3 Deluxe which Asus announced at CES is better in pretty much every way it's got a 14in screen and a 13in footprint it's still incredibly thin and light but has a bigger battery better keyboard and more responsive trackpad you also get more USBC ports on the deluxe which is a bit more useful so I think if the Zenbook 3 here was cheaper perhaps around 700 lb I could Overlook some of its faults but the fans annoying the batter's poor the key keyboard isn't particularly Pleasant and the lack of ports is just frustrating so I really can't recommend the Zenbook 3 but don't rule out the Zenbook 3 Deluxe just yet until I review it as I think that could fix most of the problems and be a genuinely great laptop so that's what I think but what do you reckon am I being a bit too harsh on the zbook 3 or has Asus made to many compromises to get that thin and light design let me know in the comments below thank you very much for watching guys please click that like And subscribe button if you did like the video and I'll see you again next time right here on the tech chatthe Asus Zenbook 3 is basically the windows version of the 12-in MacBook beautiful to look at ridiculously thin and light and a great travel companion but like the MacBook it's also flawed so Asus has once again raised the question of how thin is too thin you have to agree this is a great looking machine though it comes in quartz gray rose gold or royal blue like this one but it's not just pretty to look at you could cut butter with this thing it's so thin and Light weighing just over 900 G you'll barely notice this 12 1/2 in Ultrabook in your laptop bag or your backpack but I think Asus has opted for form over function the keyboard's shallow the battery life is poor to average and aside from the headphone jack there's one just one USB C Port just like the MacBook and I know you can buy an adapter and there are plenty of workarounds but it's just really frustrating and in my mind unnecessary the D XPS 13 and 15 for example are almost as small as this but they manag to fited USBC and a dedicated charging port normal USB 3 and SD card Port so I don't think there's really any excuse for just going for USBC maybe Asus is being courageous like apple the good news though is that unlike the MacBook you get some pretty decent specs in this thing with a Top Model supporting a 7th generation kbl Lake i7 16 GB of RAM and a 512 GB SSD the dual core i5 and i7 processors are more than fast enough for most tasks you can even do a bit of light photo and video editing or perhaps even a touch of gaming if you drop the resolution to 720 I think Asus has been sensible sticking with a full HD resolution on the zook 3 considering it's only got a 12.5 in screen so that's all good but what's not so good is the fan noise this thing is noisy even when you just browsing the web on Chrome it's more than just a slight word I find it distracting it kind of puts me off using actually but what I do like is the screen it's quite bright pushing just over 300 nits and covering around 110% of the srgb color gamut it's pretty accurate and colorful and vibrant too colors really pop thanks to that glossy screen but as you'd expect it's also very reflective and actually for a minute I thought it was a touchcreen but it's not that was just me being stupid as for the keyboard well it's fine it's decent but it's far from a great typing experience the problem is it's just got 0.8 mm of travel and travel isn't the be all and end all of keyboards Apple showed that with a MacBook with its fantastic butterfly mechanism but it's not as good on the Asus Zenbook 3 the whole thing feels too cramped it's too shallow and it's just not particularly satisfying to type on again there's nothing wrong with it but it just doesn't feel nearly as premium as it should do for a laptop costing this much the touchpad is a little more interesting not only do you get a fingerprint reader at the top right which supports Windows hello and it's really responsive but it's also wider than most trackpads the glass surface is smooth and feels great under your finger it's reasonably responsive too and supports lots of gestures but what doesn't feel so good are the left and right buttons which feel really spongy and weak the whole trackpad depressed presses in if you press a little bit too hard in the lower left or lower right corner moving on to battery life ases claim you'll get 9 hours out of this thing with its 40 W hour battery but in my experience it's nowhere near that I reckon you'll get around 5 hours with light use but honestly there may be something wrong with my model because I played a 2hour Netflix movie with brightness at 50% and power saving mode on and the Zenbook dropped from 100% to 16% which is terrible and the fan was worrying the whole time I genuinely do love how thin and light this thing is but I would definitely trade a couple of millimeters for a bigger battery that can get me through a full day or at least a couple of movies as for the price well you know this thing is going to be expensive the cheapest Zenbook 3 you can get is a little over £1,000 or $1,200 with an i5 and 8 gigs of RAM but if you're up for the top spec you're pushing two grand and that's an awful lot of money and if I'm honest there are better options out there like the XPS 13 from Dell so there's good things and bad things about the Zenbook 3 but the main reason I wouldn't buy it is because the Zenbook 3 Deluxe which Asus announced at CES is better in pretty much every way it's got a 14in screen and a 13in footprint it's still incredibly thin and light but has a bigger battery better keyboard and more responsive trackpad you also get more USBC ports on the deluxe which is a bit more useful so I think if the Zenbook 3 here was cheaper perhaps around 700 lb I could Overlook some of its faults but the fans annoying the batter's poor the key keyboard isn't particularly Pleasant and the lack of ports is just frustrating so I really can't recommend the Zenbook 3 but don't rule out the Zenbook 3 Deluxe just yet until I review it as I think that could fix most of the problems and be a genuinely great laptop so that's what I think but what do you reckon am I being a bit too harsh on the zbook 3 or has Asus made to many compromises to get that thin and light design let me know in the comments below thank you very much for watching guys please click that like And subscribe button if you did like the video and I'll see you again next time right here on the tech 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