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**When Our Friends at ASUS Reached Out**
The following conversation began when our friends at ASUS reached out and wanted to sponsor a video on a mystery laptop.
**My Approach to the Review**
I figured let's do this old school. I'm not gonna yell at the camera, nor am I going to jump up and down. If I may end up on the table at some point, it's going to be very organic and authentic to the story. My goal is to go in completely blind, without any prior knowledge of the laptop, and show you my reviewing chops to see if I know what I'm talking about.
**The Challenge**
All right, ASUS, show me your incredible within! (As an aside, I think that's such a bad slogan – sorry!)
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WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- When our friends at ASUS reached outand wanted to sponsor avideo on a mystery laptop,I figured let's do this old school.I'm not gonna yell at the camera.I'm not gonna jump up and down.I may end up on the table at some point,but if it's so, it's gonna be very organicand authentic to the story.I'm gonna go in completelyblind to see what the deal isand show you my reviewing chopsto see if I know what I'm talking about.All right, ASUS, show meyour incredible within.That's such a bad slogan (laughs)."Incredible within."- The power within.- The power within.- My first impression,I think they're goingfor like eco-friendly.Look, even, like, the tapethat holds it togetheris like paper tape.There's no plastic or anythingthat I've seen whatsoever so far.So it is a Zenbook,and we have accessories.So we have a laptop sleeve.We have the box for the laptop itself.- Why are you talking so low?- I just wanna be calm and reasonable.- Incredible comes from within,but your voice certainlydoesn't sound like it.- Okay, don't get me upset, Ken.Oh. (laughs)What kind of laptop do you have?You'll never guess.The Zenbook S 13. Oh, how convenient.All the specs I need.I'm not gonna look at that'cause that's cheating.This bag is made from plantfibers and is 100% recyclable.Oh, I'm sorry, I'm not gonna yell.I'm not gonna yell.It's like a matte finish.This is gonna be a reallybad way of describing it.Almost like a stone kind of texture to it,but you've got these,like, sort of silver linesthat kind of split it all up.That is so nice.Also, this is, like, stupid thin.Like, I don't know whatit actually weighs,but it is so small.And we've got ports.We've got two, I assume,Thunderbolt ports.We've got a full-size HDMI.And we've got even a USB-Aand the headphone jack.Let's see what this laptop is all about,'cause I am absolutely lovingthat material on the outside.- It's calledplasma ceramic aluminum.- Plasma ceramic aluminum?- It's aunique manufacturing process.They use only water and electricity,no chemicals at all.- Oh, neat.There's a huge amount of emissionsand chemicals and stuffthat go into creating these devices,so if there's ways to makereally unique looking finishesand without having to use anythingmore than water and electricity,I'm out here for it.That looks legitimately really cool.I've been helpfully gifteda pair of digital calipers.It is just over 10 millimeters,so that is an incredibly thin device.Let's see what this weighs.Slightly above one kilogram.- I can't hear you.- I'm not always like this, Ken!Sometimes I can have areasonable and calm conversationabout technology that I'mreally passionate about.- Well, now you've done it.You've yelled in the video.- Actually, yeah, I did.- Poop.- So a bunch of stuff I'm seeing here.First of all, I like this color scheme.So we've got that sort of two tone.It's kinda like the graywith the darker gray for the keyboard.I like that.That track pad is absolutely massivefor what I assume is a 13-ish display.So it's actually not like a completelylaminated piece of glass.So the screen itself isactually slightly inset,so if you look really closely hereyou can see there's actuallya little bit of a bezel.I actually like that.A lot of laptops these dayshave a single sheet of glass here,which looks nice,but the problem is thatyou get kinda, like, grimeand whatnot on the keyboard,you'll oftentimes have, like, keyboard,like, imprints on your display.We also have a bunch of stuff up top here.So I see a webcam.Actually, no, there'stwo little cameras there,and it looks like maybe, like,an IR light or something.So I assume that's for Windows Hello,and two microphones.No, three microphones?Yeah, so there's a bunch of stuffgoing on on the top of the display.First impressions are solid.Also it's definitelygot the ErgoLift hinge.So you can see, when it'sflat, it's quite thin,but when I actually go to open it up,it really kicks it up to the pointwhere you've got significant airflowthat's gonna be going on onthe bottom of this laptop.Oh, okay, that's OLED.That is an OLED.Yeah, I think it's an OLED.Pretty sure it's an OLED.Okay, is it a touchscreen?Negative, Ghost Rider.Okay, look, everyone knowsthere's really one wayto find out if it's a touchscreen,and it's to touch it.The smart move would be to evaluate thisand then open it up at the endin case I had ran into problems.I'm instead going to open it up right now.For a laptop that'sputting a lot of emphasison the eco sustainability angleof, you know, using lots ofrecycled materials and whatnot,if you really wanna be eco-friendly,you should make it upgradable,so it's not e-waste when something breaks.All right, let's see what'sinside the S 13, battery.Wow, that's a batterywith a laptop attached.Okay, I got it.So this is a 63-watt-hour battery,which is very reasonable,especially for a 13-inch laptop.And you can see that they did a lotof engineering to fit this in.So if you're looking at itjust from first impressions,this is the motherboard.So you've got yourself dual fansand a couple of heatpipes on the Intel CPU.The RAM is soldered down,which is unfortunate,but is pretty much par for the coursefor any of these ultra thin laptopsover the last couple of years.But there's actually alot of stuff going onwith the cooling solution.So they've got themselves two heat pipes.So one goes here, one goes here,and you've got yourself a little heat sinkand these various tiny fans.But based on the design,especially how many blades they have,these are probably gonnamove a fair bit of air.And if you look at the otherside of the laptop here,you see that this is wherethey're gonna be intaking,and I assume they're justgonna exhaust out the top here.So I bet you that whilethis won't be, you know,a powerful gaming or editing laptop,even though it's so thin,especially because the ErgoLift hingeis gonna give this a littlebit of extra airflow,I'm gonna take a guessthat the performanceis gonna be pretty solid.Compared to a lot of verythin and light laptops,which are basically justnot even worth opening,because there's nothing you could ever do,it does look like youcould at the very leastupgrade an SSD,and quite easily upgradeor swap out your batteryand whatnot down the line.Just would've been nice tohave some upgradable RAM tooto give you a little extra performance.All right, we've got theS 13 put back together.Let's evaluate.The first thing I do with every devicethat I get my hands on, Task Manager time.Okay, so this is a Core i7-1355U.So that is two Performance coresand eight Efficiency cores.So as a U-series processor,this is not made for,like, super heavy work,but you've got the reallyfast single threadsof those two Performance cores,which on this boost to five gigahertz-ish,if I'm right.And also you've got the Efficiency cores,which is what you'regonna be using the vastmajority of the time,but you, as the user, thisis completely seamless.It's got 32 gigs at 5,200megahertz RAM, very fast,and we've got ourselves aone-terabyte Samsung SSD.These are all very good specs.And also, of course, the Iris Xe Graphics.So it is a 2880 by 1800 display.That's nice, and, in fact,it also has adaptive color.So I'm assuming that one ofthese sensors up top hereis an ambient light sensor,which is nice.Typically the way it works with OLEDsis that they have some pros and cons.So the pros are that theyhave excellent color accuracy,pretty much perfect contrast,and certainly with this,it's very high resolution,but the downsides oftenare that you don't have amassive amount of brightness.550 nits, that's actually plenty bright.All of my thoughts so farare based around the ideathat this is a fairlypremium priced laptop.What does this actually cost?'Cause that's gonna determine a lot.I'm gonna guess $1,300.So this is the Zenbook S 13 OLED.Oh, which version is this?Does it say?What have we got here?The UX5304V.1399!Okay, but let's actually see though,what do you get for that 1399?'Cause that's gonna bea big question here.I have been blocked.I got blocked from the ASUS site.I'm too suspicious.What did I do that was suspicious?♪ Don't be suspicious ♪♪ Don't be suspicious ♪♪ Don't be suspicious ♪♪ Don't be suspicious ♪♪ Don't be suspicious ♪♪ Don't be suspicious ♪- Is that Austin Evans?- Go!- There are definitely somenice features that I'm noticing.So the touchpad is reallyquite nice. It's large.It also has a really nice click,which it doesn't...It's still, like, the diving board,so it clicks a lot more onthe bottom than the top.But there's a reallynice sort of travel to itand you hear the click.(touchpad clicking)Yeah, so I will say initial impressionsare quite nice on the keyboard.It's not loud,which I think for a device like this,I would prefer it to bea little quiet anyway.Considering how thin the device is,there's a surprising amount of key travel.Like, usually I expect a super thinand light device like this tohave a pretty shallow click.But I mean that's...I don't know, I'm not no LTT Lab,but I mean, that's a pretty decent amountof key travel there.Let's press the ASUS button.So we've got Battery Care Mode,which limits the battery to 80%.That's great, especially if you're someonewho spends a lot of timewith your laptop plugged inor plugged into, like, adock or whatever the case is.Your battery staying a hundred percentfor long periods of timeis not a good thing.So the fact that you canlimit to 80% is great.We've got fan profiles,which is Whisper,Standard, and Performance."Dynamically maximizes cooling performancefor demanding tasks."Okay, but it does not workwhen you are running on the battery,which, fair enough.AI noise canceling microphone.Ah-ha! We finally foundthe AI part of the video.So this does have AI noise cancellation.Well, you know I gotta try that, right?Pure first impression. I'mgonna hit the record buttonWe'll see what it sounds like.So obviously right now you'lllisten to the microphoneon the camera,but if I hit the big red button,now you are hearing methrough the microphoneson the S 13.So this is using the AIOmnidirectional Mode.Although while I'm recordingI'm gonna try change it tothe Unidirectional Mode.I don't know if that'smade any difference,but this is what it sounds likein the unidirectional mode.The unidirectional modesounds a lot better.So essentially the differenceis that the AI processing,it will try to, like, listento everything around the room,or it will focus more on you.I would definitelyrecommend turning that on.Okay, we have a bunch of sound modes.So we have Dynamic for Atmos,Game, Movie, Music.Let's do dynamic.(upbeat music)Wait, that's actually not bad.I mean, it's not super rich,but it's a thin small laptop.But, like, the highs areactually really quite clear.I'll say, speakers areactually pretty decent.Okay, so this is usingthe ASUS AiSense camera.I'm gonna list you the thingsthat I have as options here.Lighting Optimization,Background Blurring,Gaze correction toautomatically detect your eyesand make it look like you'restaring at the display.Motion Tracking and Appearance Filterto smooth out your skin.All right, so this is anexample of what the webcamon the S 13 looks like.For a webcam on a laptop,not a lot to complain about.So when you look at a laptop like this,I think it's clear to me that ASUShave gone for a couple of main focuses.So the eco-friendly sideis certainly a big one.The fact that it is fairly repairable,especially consideringhow thin and light it is.You got yourself a very solid keyboard,excellent track pad, goodperformance, a huge battery,and, importantly, you've gotsome great port selectionon a device which is incrediblythin and really quite light.If you want a devicethat seems like it willreally last long termand has an incredibly nice finishthat really does standout, I've gotta say,I am pleasantly surprisedby the Zenbook S 13.And if you'd like toknow any more about it,definitely be sure to go check it out.Link in the description.Huge thank you to ASUSfor sponsoring this video.If you'll excuse me,I'm gonna go back to yelling now.I wanna go jump on the table,flop like a fish.♪ Flop on the deck and flop like a fish ♪♪ SpongeBob ♪- And scream about expensive mystery tech,'cause that's where I'm most comfortable.Subscribe for Austin's Quiet Tips.Wait, no, no, no, no, no.No one wants that. No one wants that.(upbeat music)