 Calling it now, in my hands is the best gaming laptop of 2022. This is the all new Zephyrus G14 and it's one of the seven laptops, eight laptops that Asus sent us over for CES 2022 that run the gamut from incredibly practical all the way to, well, I sure hope the engineers had a lot of fun making it. Like I had fun telling you about our sponsor, AMD. Thanks to AMD for sponsoring this video. Their Halo Advanced Combat Exercises Contest is on now and gamers can watch live streams or enter via email for a chance to win an AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Halo Infinite Limited Edition graphics card. Learn more at the link down below. ["Halo Infinite Limited Edition Graphics Card"] ["Halo Infinite Limited Edition Graphics Card"] Out of the gate, we're gonna fix a recent screw up of ours that was caused by a communication snafu. This is the Asus Mothership Concept, something that I had honestly assumed sort of died as a weird Skunk Works project never to be seen again. But boy was I ever wrong by removing these four screws. That's right, you have to unscrew it. Sorry. We find the conclusion or at least the next evolution of the mothership saga, the Asus Flow Z13. It's a 1.1 kilogram tablet that's just 12 millimeters thick and has a core i9-12900H. That is 14 processing cores with a maximum turbo of five gigahertz. It's got an RTX 3050 Ti featuring a MUX. This is a 40 watt GPU. And the craziest part of this is Microsoft has been struggling for years to cool the Surface Pro. How the heck did Asus manage this? Well, they've got a vapor chamber that apparently has 44% coverage of the main board as well as liquid metal for the cooling system. And using the kickstand allows for even more airflow. Asus claims it will be only 32 decibels under heavy load, 40 decibels max, which is incredible if true. And I can't wait to properly try it out, but I can't because this is just a dummy unit. It'll be available with up to 32 gigs of DDR5 5200 megatransfer per second memory and up to a one terabyte SSD. Well, there is one that's working behind you. There's a working one? Yeah, it's right there. Well, then what was the point of sending us this mock-up one? That's a good question. We're not allowed to use it? Well, you can't run games. You can use it. We're not allowed to run games? No. But we could run games. Yeah, you could. But they'll yell at us. Yeah. And it's not like Asus will yell at us. Nvidia will yell at us and that's not a good time. There are two different options for the touchscreen. Although if you get a 4K panel on a 13 inch device, well, that's not a very nice thing to make. Alex says you are all bone from the jaw up. I am not gonna take a stance on that either way, but I will agree with him that the 1080p 120 Hertz panel will be more than enough resolution while offering a much better gaming experience. And with 100% coverage of sRGB and 500 nit brightness, it shouldn't look too shabby either. For IO, it's got Thunderbolt 4 with DP 1.4 running off the IGPU and support for power delivery. It's got an EGPU port with support for up to an RTX 3080 mobile. That's right. Just like the Flow X13, it's got a type A USB 2.0, which is weird, micro SD, HDMI 2.0. Man, this thing is absolutely loaded for bear with IO. And it finishes things off with a 56 watt hour battery. No idea how long that'll last, given how powerful this thing is, but it's pretty impressive given the size. My question while looking at the Flow Z13 though, is who would buy it over the Flow X13, which is basically the clamshell version that has a much more usable keyboard and a better sort of weight balance. And the answer is, according to Asus, people who don't type very much. The Z13 is lighter and easier to cart around. So if you primarily just plan on gaming and consuming content, it could actually make a lot of sense. No word on pricing, but I'm confident that it will have a high dollar to gram ratio and arrive sometime in late Q1 or Q2 2022. As an aside, can I just say that I fully support a return to transparent and translucent electronics? Yeah. This is so cool. I love it. Got the window into the back. What even is it showing? Nothing particularly important as far as I can tell. We'd have to open it up to find out for sure. Moving on, let's circle back to the Zephyrus G14 here and talk about why I think this is gonna be the gaming laptop of the year. The specs are freaking exceptional. This is an AMD Ryzen 6800HS. So that is eight core 16 threads up to five gigahertz. It's a six nanometer CPU. It's stopped working. It's got an AMD Radeon RX 6800S that has 105 watt thermal envelope, which means that in spite of the thinness of this thing, it should be pretty darn impressive in terms of performance and maybe even more efficient than an Intel and video combo thanks to AMD's control over the entire platform here. Though we'd have to test it to be sure because the only other thing I'm sure of is that you should shop at lttstore.com for your water bottle, your indoor hoodie, all that good stuff. Actually, one other thing we know for sure is that for the size of the laptop, these components will be well-cooled. 48% of the motherboard is now covered by a vapor chamber and it's got liquid metal on both the CPU and GPU. Up to 32 gigs of 4800 mega transfer per second DDR5. One DIMM is swappable and support for up to a one terabyte M.2 SSD and it's an 80 millimeter one, which means you could basically put in whatever you want. We're not clamoring over this laptop because of its power though. I'm excited by the G14 because of its incredible versatility. The screen is now 16 by 10, making it much better for productivity. And there's a new QHD plus 120 Hertz panel that sounds exceptional with 100% coverage of the DCI-P3 color space and 500 nit peak brightness. Although to be clear, I don't think you'll be disappointed if you go for the full HD panel that we've got right here. At 13 and 14 inches, 1080p is pretty good. The track pad is also 50% larger and the magnesium chassis has been massaged to give it more of a premium appearance rather than a gamer one. Rounding out the practicality, they gave it a webcam. Hey, and not only that, but it has Windows Hello facial recognition and a 76 watt hour battery. That might be enough to pry Alex's Dell XPS from his hands or dare I say my framework, even though I'm invested in the company. That's my disclosure right there. No word on pricing, but I hope it isn't too much higher than the last model because that one was very compelling and we're gonna see this in late Q2 2022. What is still full on gamer though, is the Strix Scar 15. This bad boy is now available with up to a 150 watt RTX 3080 Ti. That's right, NVIDIA's new 3080 Ti features 16 gigs of GDDR6 memory and 7,424 CUDA cores. That's a 20.8% increase over the standard 3080 mobile. That means that NVIDIA's claim that it is 20% faster checks out at first glance, but you will have to be careful since of course, the TDP of a laptop potentially makes a bigger difference to your performance than the exact model of the GPU chip inside. I'm really glad that ASUS has published an article showing the TDP and GPU clocks of their gaming laptops. So I can easily go in and find out that, ah, yes, this one is not the fastest one. It is in fact, this one right here, the Zephyrus Duo 16. It has an eye watering GPU TDP of 165 watts, putting it at pretty much the limit of mobile hardware with up to an RTX 3080 Ti and an AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX. This thing, I mean, it doesn't matter what you try to do on it. Gaming, content creation, it's an absolute beast. The upper display is now 16 by 10 with three panel options that all frankly sound amazing, though my favorite has got to be the mini LED option with 1200 nit peak brightness, 165 Hertz refresh rate and QHD resolution. This is one of the few laptop displays that will give you a proper HDR experience. Also available is a switching mode display that can be either 120 Hertz 4K or 240 Hertz 1080P. And you can check out our short circuit where I look at that display in a little bit more depth. I mean, it's crazy when the worst panel available on the laptop is 165 Hertz QHD with 500 nit peak brightness. Like dang, oh yeah. And that's just one of the screens. This being a duo, there's a second one down here where our video editors really like to put their timeline while editing on the go. That is, if we were going to see ES 2022, we might have brought a couple of these. Finally, we've got a bunch of tough family laptops. Are these the Fs? Yeah, those are the Fs. F15 and Fs, no, what's this? I didn't even look at them because they're budget laptops and you don't have pricing yet, so. Oh yeah, you can't really say much about a budget laptop that you don't have a price for. Well, but at any rate, they're also introducing the Tough Dash F15 and F17, which are at least assuming that, you know, they are priced like budget gaming laptops, surprisingly well-built. They should be available this quarter, so hopefully we'll be able to properly evaluate them soon and tell you if they're actually a good deal. What I can tell you is a good deal. It's our sponsor, Ting Mobile. 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