I'm Not Supposed to Show You This...

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The Republic of Gamers (ROG) reached out and asked to sponsor a video on something they're announcing at CES. I said yes, but then they didn't tell me anything else. They said, "We're just gonna send you a package and you're gonna like it."

To my surprise, the Republic of Gamers isn't a real place - is it like a mystery or something we're supposed to solve? Let me give you some coordinates: 250729.39 25 degrees.

I'm just trying to find out the mystery, okay? Oh, so it's all ROGgers. That's Taipei. Whoa, whoa. Oh, do you smell this? No. It smells like high-end cologne, but not just any cologne - it's like eau de toilette.

We've got a computing system 2006. It's a metal boarding pass. Look at this (metal ringing). You're Earth's last hope. We sincerely hope your journey is a safe one. Welcome aboard. Yo!

Austin Evans is our last hope (all laugh). Wow, we're doomed. We are screwed. We're recording this at the end of December. So I think that has got to be their press conference to announce whatever this is.

I just realized there's a laptop underneath here. Is this one of the big chungus laptops? Oh my God, dude. Look at this box. Look at the box (Austin laughs). It's so heavy. So this has got to be the NR 2201. A lot of ports. Yo, what? Wait. I'm so confused.

Wait, is this a product that's already out? Something's underneath these vents. That's not a screen. They're pulling some shenanigans here. Oh, it's like cardboard. Are they announcing cardboard? There's something inside. Wait, hang on, wait. There's screws. There's screws. We can open this up.

It's the new version of the Mothership - that's like 20% smaller and it's inside the old one to show how much smaller it is. Asus sent me a mystery product. You'll never guess what happened next (we're all excited about this). There's definitely just going to be another plaque in there (surprise, you're right).

What if it's just like...

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- So when our friendsover at ROG reached outand asked to a sponsor video on somethingthey're announcing at CES, I said, yes.But then they didn'ttell me anything else.They said, we're justgonna send you a packageand you're gonna like it.To Republic of Gamers, it's the game,- Wait, are you tellingme the Republic of Gamersisn't a real place?- Is it like a mystery or somethingwe're supposed to solve?206006066066606.Let me give you you some coordinates.250729.39 25 degrees.(overlapping chatter begins)I'm just trying to findout the mystery. Okay?Oh, so it's all ROGgers.- That's Taipei.- Whoa, whoa. Oh, do you smell this?- No.- It smells like high end, like, like,what's what's not, it's not cologne.It's like eau de toilette.- Just say cologne.- No, no, no, no, no. Thehigh end French stuff.We've got computing system 2006.It's a metal boarding pass.Look at this.(metal ringing)You're Earth's last hope.We sincerely hope yourjourney is a safe one.Welcome aboard. Yo.- Austin Evans is our last hope.(all laugh)Wow. We're (censored) doomed.- We are screwed.- We're recording thisat the end of December.So I think that has gottabe their press conferenceto announce whatever this is.I just realized there'sa laptop underneath here.Is this one of the big chungus laptops?Oh my God, dude. Look atthis box. Look at the box.Oh,(Austin laughs)It's so heavy. So thishas gotta be the NR 2201.A lot of ports. Yo, what?Wait. I'm so confused.Wait, is this a productthat's already out?Something's underneath these vents.That's not a screen.They're pulling some shenanigans here.- Oh, it's like cardboard.- Are they announcing cardboard?There's something inside.Wait, hang on, wait. There'sscrews. There's screws.We can open this up. It's thenew version of the Mothership.That's like 20% smaller.And it's inside the old oneto show how much smaller it is.Asus sent me a mystery product.You'll never guess what happened next.- We're all excited about this.There's definitely just gonnabe another plaque in there.- Surprise. You're right.What if it's just like,"Hey, guess what? Stay tunedto the press conference."I'm really getting aforearm workout right now.- Wow. You needed ROG tohelp you with that or?- Oh, oh wait. I got someseparation. I got some separation.Okay. The reveal is, oh,yo, it's a baby tablet.New versus old. Are you kidding me?Yo, you can even see inside.Look, there's like a glass panel.You can see like the circuitboard and everything.The ROG Flow, that looks so sick.It's got a kickstand.Yo, it's got Thunderboltand it's got the XGMso you can actually connect thisto an external graphics card.I'll be right back aftersome investigation onwhat it is that I've uncoveredon my ROG boarding pass.Yo how good ofan idea was this though?Like, they have like the old versionthat's like enormous and chungus-y.And they've got this, which is like what?The size of a regular tablet here.- Here.Oh, the keyboard. This is included?- Yes.- Thank you very much toour kind friends at ROGfor thinking about the little guyand including the keyboardwith your tablet in the box.So I know that theywere being all secretiveon like what this thing is called.It says right here, theROG Flow Z13 keyboard.I wonder what the name ofthis product is, the NR 2201?Didn't think I was gonnafigure that one out. Did ya?All right. Yo. Oh, RGB.Okay.- Let's go.- This is an engineering sample,which means that there are a lot of thingsI'm not supposed to do with it.Like benchmarking, which I would never do.But I could have a little poke around.It seems, this seems fair.First thought, the bezelsare really small on this.All right. What are thespecs of this gaming tablet?So we've got a-(bleep)Yo wait, this is an(bleep) processor?That means it's got(bleep)core(bleep)logical processors.- on a tablet?- That's not announced?- It's not announced.- That's a, like a complete-- I'm gonna censor all of that.This is running a brandnew Intel processorthat I will tell you more aboutassuming that that's not under embargo.(Austin laughs)I saw (many) cores and(many) logical processors,like, wait a minute. That ain't right.I can tell you it's got 16 gigs of,oh, I can't tell you that either. Okay.- Is it DDR not four?(all laughing)- You know what I can show you.It's got an RTX 3050Ti inside.Of a tablet! It hasnot only Thunderbolt,but it does have the XG port.Which means that not onlyyou have an additional USB-C,but you can also plug inan external graphics cardand get double thebandwidth of Thunderbolt.So you do kind of havethe best of both worlds.You can just use thatas an extra USB-C portor you can use it to getadditional XG mobile gaming.What do I do with this?I feel like anything I do, Iwill get in trouble right now.- Can we play games?- No.- We're not allowed?- We're not allowed. We can't.This is an engineering example.Okay. So it's a 3840 by 2,400 panel.Dude, there's so muchstuff I'm looking at here.I can't tell you any of this.I want to sincerely apologizeto our friends at Asusfor blatantly doing thingsthat I'm not supposed to do.Okay. Let me just take a little look.I think I can do this, here.I'm just gonna do this.Stop it. Stop it.- Austin.- You're gonna get me in trouble. Hang on.- Just because things are embargoeddoesn't mean that you can't try them out.You just can't show peoplewhat you're you're trying oncamera and the specifics of it.- So are you pitching me right now?- So I think youshould play a game on it.I'll stand right here. Justtell me it's good or it's bad.- Should I actually go and seeif they'll tell me anything?They might actually tell me some stuff.Okay. So I've been given somevery limited specs on this.It has 10 hours of battery life,100 watt USB power delivery charging.It has both a full HD and a UHD panel.So this is the UHD version.It has a vapor chamberfor the CPU and GPU that,latest Intel H-series CPU.That's definitely been announced.- Man, my computer doesn't vape.- There are a bunch of thingsthat are interesting here.Now that I know a little bit about it.So first and foremost,there's a lot of performanceinside of this tablet.What you're getting hereis an H-series Intel(bleeps)Intel processor.Which is what you would typicallyfind in a gaming laptop,a beefy, powerful gaming laptop.The fact that they've gotit in a tablet, which is,I mean, look, it's barelythicker than a USB-A port.I mean, especially if youtake off the keyboard.This is far smaller than pretty much any,I'm gonna hide everything on display,any kind of small gaminglaptop that you're gonna find.Like that is an impressive sort of feat.But the fact that they'vealso got a vapor chamberand a 3050Ti,you're not gonna be playing at 4Kmaxxed out settings on that.But you got a lot of performancefor this kind of formfactors. Oh, look at this.You actually can access theM.2 SSD right from the back.That is a very nice touch.They're gonna actually get mad at me.They straight up said,"Do not game or benchmark on this device.It is an engineering sample."- You're not,you're not gaming you'reheavily Microsoft Wording.- There we go. I'm gonna openup a non benchmark. Non-game.- You're gonnaopen up Microsoft Word...- Microsoft Horizon 5.- Yeah.- Microsoft Word Horizon 5.- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.- And I'll tell you what the,- Words per minute,words per minute is.- Exactly. How many words. Okay. Perfect.(Ken laughs)- All right.- What's your linespacing. Is it ultra? Extreme?- They're gonna ban me from CES next year.- How's Microsoft Word going?- What you talking about, Microsoft?I'm so happy that they'veadded controller support.- What's your typing speed?- 60. A locked 60 all the time.It vibrates every time Itype good. See, look, look.- Oh, look at that font.I know. I like to goover the larger fonts,but then if you get a littlebit of bold right here.- Yeah, no, no kidding.- You can see that, oh, oh, oh.- Oh.- okay.- Is that italics?- I know, right?(both laugh)You know, the Wordperformance is great here.And also if you listen carefully,those fans not actually that loudconcerning that there aretwo fans directly exhaling,Exhaling? Exhausting, straightout the back of the tablet.Gaming laptop, tablet, all in one.So if you would like to learn more,I'll have a link in the description.I'll also have a apology emailsent to Asus shortly,on doing things I'm not supposed to do,but I'm kind of used to it at this point.