 Welcome to my ZenBook unboxing. This is very exciting and I am excited to bring you this exciting new unboxing from the exciting channel Linus Tech Tips, which does unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. This is an unboxing, but we're also going to do an overview of the unit in general. Here is some packaging, and here is other more different packaging. So the ZenBook is part of a new class of notebooks, which is called a thin and light. No, it's called a thinner and lighter. No, wait. It's called an ultrabook. Yes, so an ultrabook is thinner and lighter than a thin and light, and basically refers to a class of notebooks that is thinner and lighter than a thin and light. Yes. Totally circular blabbing right now while I get the packaging opened. So the most obvious competitor for the ZenBook is the MacBook Air, although there are other PC guys who will be releasing ultrabooks in the near future. Great packaging actually, reminiscent of the way Apple does the MacBook Air, which we also unboxed. So here we are. ZenBook. Ooh, I can already see it has USB 3, which is better than the MacBook Air, although the MacBook Air has Thunderbolt, which is better than the ZenBook. So let's just give them both some time to reveal their strengths and weaknesses, and we will go from there. So let's find out what comes in this little package here. We are going to find a USB connector attached to an ethernet port. Aha, so you can run a wired network out of the box on the ZenBook. Fascinating. Next we have, oh, look at that, a little mini connector to VGA. You can run a VGA external monitor out of the box on the ZenBook. Advantage ZenBook so far. Next we have a power adapter that looks a little something like this. Actually fairly similar to the way that the MacBook Air does things, except the MacBook Air does have the option to instead extend this cable and make it even longer and not take up as much space in your power brick. So advantage MacBook Air. All right, what else we got in here? Ooh, it comes with a case. That is a big advantage ZenBook because we all know Apple accessories are not cheap. So here we are. It comes, oh, you know, remember those commercials where they showed you the air fits in an envelope? Asus thought to provide you with an envelope so you can do that demo all day, every day for all of your friends. Just going to go ahead and slip that bad boy in there. And that is how much space an Asus ZenBook will take up. Okay, don't worry, we're going to keep going here. What else we got for documentation here? ZenBook. Some little branding there. Very nice. Okay, inside we find a battery notice. Hmm, something. Caution, do not dispose of in fire, do not put in water, do not eat it. That kind of stuff. Okay, next we have a cable tie. Thank you Asus. Very elegant, very not MacBook Air like. All right, next we have a notebook warranty card. Here's a big advantage Asus because you get, look at that, complimentary one year accidental damage protection plan. Bam. You must register within 60 days from the day to purchase and follow the simple steps, but you get accidental damage protection. That includes water, electricity, broken screen, and fire. Wow. Doesn't cover acts of God, however. Okay. Okay, so what else we got here? 12 month limited on the complete unit, 24 month new purchase. Okay, this is just general stuff. Okay, so that's not that useful. Beyond the accidental damage warranty bit, system recovery DVD. Fascinating. Next we have a notebook user's manual as well as an LCD cleaning cloth advantage ZenBook. All right, and let's go ahead and get the ZenBook taken back out of its envelope here and let's check it out. So it is also slightly lighter than the MacBook Air. So these are both, I'm comparing both the 13.3 inch models. So the ZenBook is, yeah, I'm cheating. I have a cheat sheet down there, is 1.3 kilograms and the MacBook Air is 1.35 kilograms, which actually holding onto the units doesn't feel that significant to be perfectly honest, but that's okay. I mean, every advantage counts, right? All right, let's check out the overall form factor. So I'm going to do my traditional iPhone size comparison. So there it is at its thickest point. Here it is at its thinnest point at the front of the unit. I'm going to go ahead and open it up here and then I want you guys to check out the, it's a little bit tricky to open. There we go. All right, so I want you guys to check it out on the screen here. Let's make sure we got it. Yeah, there we go. So that's the thickness of the LED backlit 13 inch screen. Actually, I believe it's 13.3 inch. Okay. And then there is the bottom of the unit. So there's that thickness comparison. So overall, yes, it is very thin and very, very light. All right. You know what? We're going to close it back up for a second and have... So let's have a look at what we've got in terms of IO here. We've got a USB 2 port, a headphone jack, an SD card slot. So far all of this is looking pretty familiar. Along the back we have a hinge. Excellent. Next we have a DC in. So there's your power. We also have a super speed USB 3 port. So that is to combat the Thunderbolt port on the MacBook Air. We also have, I think it's micro HDMI, as well as our fancy pants little one that supports... Where'd it go? Oh no, hold on. This is this. So this does HDMI and VGA. So cool. So... Okay, give me a sec here guys. I got to find out what this is. Got a little confused there guys. So this is the VGA. This is the micro HDMI and this is a light. Okay. So let's go ahead and up here. There's a little lip here, which is going to help you lift up the lid of the ZenBook. Look at how fancy pants this thing looks. Wow. Okay. So we have in traditional PC fashion, actual left and right click buttons, which will help you left and right click in the software that you use in your daily life. We also have... Check this out. So Asus actually got authorization to use altered branding for Intel Core i7, as well as Windows 7 in a monochrome kind of style so that it wouldn't disrupt the overall look of the machine. We've got sort of your typical Asus branding here, stereo microphone by the look of things, which is pretty cool next to the webcam, and then the keyboard layout. Let's check out the keyboard layout. So the keyboard layout looks very ideal from where I'm sitting right now. We've got long backspace, long enter, long shift, and a reasonably sized tab. We've also got a fairly ideal layout in terms of the arrow keys as well as pretty much everything else that I can see on here. You know what? It's pretty darn similar, in fact, to the MacBook Air, which I'm just going to run over here and grab because this reminds me of it so much. Okay. Here we go. So there. There's both machines side by side. So the only major differences look like the inclusion of a Windows key on the Windows machine. And yeah, that's looking like pretty much it. In fact, they even both have their power keys here, although it looks like the Asus ZenBook has not come pre-charged. So I'm not going to be able to turn it on just yet. Now I do want to take both of these notebooks and I haven't really done the finish on the top yet here. So this looks just outstanding. It's kind of a circular here. You might need to move to that side so that we can get the light on it. Can you see the circular pattern in it? Yeah, you can. Okay, good. So you can see kind of the, well, the circular pattern with the Asus branding in the top of the notebook here. And then on the bottom, very, very sharp looking, by the way, kind of like stainless steel appliances sort of thing. And then on the bottom, instead of a circle, it's more like a brushed pattern. And then we've got little plasticky rubbery feet on the bottom as well as ventilation holes all along the back. The unit can be opened up with Torx screws all along the bottom if you needed to, well, open it up for any reason in particular. So thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Asus ZenBook and stay tuned to my NCIX<|pt|><|translate|> N-C-I-X-COM channel for a more detailed comparison of these two notebooks head to head. And thank you for watching Linus Tech Tips. Don't forget to subscribe.