 So we're coming back at you from CES 2019, where Asus brought the CES show to us. This is the Zephyrus S GX701, the latest in their lineup of hyper-thin and yet super powerful gaming laptops. You might not be able to tell from the outside or from its weight or even from the inside, unless you're like some kind of electronics engineer and or, you know, this heat pipe design means anything to you, but this is gonna be one of the most powerful gaming laptops out there. We're gonna show you all around it. And our CES coverage this year is brought to you by dbrand. You can check out dbrand's new second gen grip case. This is a drop proof case. We've got that linked below as well as their prism hammer proof screen protector. It the links in the video description. At the links, at the links. I'm standing by it. So from the outside, the new Zephyrus inherits a lot of the traits of its 15 inch predecessors. It's super thin. You've got your exhaust ports here, here, here, and here, because there is a lot of heat to dissipate. And you've got a actually pretty ample selection of IO with the one thing that's notably missing being an RJ45 jack because the thing is quite honestly, just too darn thin to fit it. But there are some really cool new additions that are obvious before we even open it up. So while it does have a power in jack, it can also accept, boom, right there, USB type C power up to 65 Watts. So that means you can actually top this thing up on the go or at the very least extend your gaming time by a little bit. Another thing that's really cool here is that they have made some not too obvious changes to the thermal design. They're not strictly speaking new to this generation of Zephyrus, but they're definitely worth mentioning. So these fans here are now made using a liquid crystal polymer, which is presumably to make them like super mega hyper thin and the shrouds for them have been redesigned as well. So right here, they've got like a dust collection chamber so you won't gunk up the fins of your heat sink and they've added kind of a little pout to it. That is to say they've got a little lip on the bottom that keeps, here we go, typical Zephyrus fashion, that keeps the cool air that's being drawn in from this flap that opens up at the bottom when you open up the screen from mixing too much with the hot air that's coming out here and here because it wouldn't do you a lot of good to exhaust the hot air if you just sucked it right back in. Now let's get it opened up and this is where things get exciting. These bezels are hyper thin. So even though it's a 17 inch display, the laptop itself is crazily actually not that big and there's a couple of options. There's a 144 Hertz, 1080P version and that guy is gonna be obviously for the gamers out there but even not quite because it's Pantone certified so you could do some light content creation on it and they're gonna have a 400 nit peak brightness HDR display with local dimming. So that's right, 400 nit peak brightness. It's HDR 400. Right, so. It could be a little bit higher but. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, yeah, good try. Now one disadvantage to this thin bezel approach that you might've picked up on is that I tried to launch the camera app and oh wow, it doesn't have a webcam. So Asus' rationale here is that most gamers don't care about the webcam anyway so they went so far as to not even include a crappy one down here but to rip it out entirely assuming that anything you could build into a tiny little bezel or anything like that wouldn't be acceptable anyway and they might as well just ship a standalone webcam and it appears that it mounts. That's the standalone. That's the standalone stand for it. Well you know what? I've had enough of your crap, Jeff. Ah, hey, it goes like that. Oh, look how much of your screen it covers. Can it kind of bite onto it like that? No, it can kind of. Okay, so it's an imperfect solution but it's better than nothing, you know? Which is quite literally what you have if you don't put this on. I've been informed it is at least 1080p 60fps so. Now let's talk specs. This little puppy is equipped with a 6-core 8750H. Our particular model has 24 gigs of RAM for some reason and you can get it with either a GTX 102070 or 2080 Max-Q. Did I say GTX the first time? Damn it. So this thing is equipped with an RTX 2070 which I don't know if it's equivalent to the desktop version because Nvidia won't tell us a damn thing about it or a 2080 Max-Q which I also don't know a damn thing about because Nvidia won't tell us anything about it. So I don't know how neutered the 2080 Max-Q is although presumably if ASUS bothered to do two SKUs it's either because Nvidia twisted their arm behind their back or because even with the Max-Q variant the 2080 is still at least a little bit faster than 2070. Either way what we know is that you can turn RTX on and have glorious 40 to 55 FPS gaming on this machine. And there's a few other extras. So the keyboard backlight is now brighter than ever. This wheel right here adjusts the volume and oh, it has a 50% bigger battery. Yes, my friends ASUS used a bunch of the extra space they have down here to put a 76 watt hour battery in this thing. So now you can gain for even a little bit more over an hour on battery. Now in fairness to ASUS it does include the same GPU switch button that'll actually trigger an entire restart of the machine and switch between G-Sync, discrete graphics mode and optimus mode where you can't have G-Sync. But our testing on the Zephyrus M yielded something like 54 minutes of battery life in the PCMark battery test even in optimus mode. So I'm still not expecting this to be like, you know the machine for meetings at the office or whatever unless your office has very, very short meetings. It's for gamers, come on, look at the logo, it's ROG anyway. What do people expect? It doesn't have Thunderbolt? No Thunderbolt. I disapprove. But I approve of this message from dbrand. Without dbrand our trip to CES 2019 wouldn't have been possible so a big shout out to those guys. Go check out their new second gen grip at the link in the video description. It's grippier than ever so no dropping even for me and it's 65% thinner than the first generation. It offers military grade impact protection along the full case and it's easy to customize the backplate. Also you can protect the front of your phone with dbrand now too with their prism screen protector that you can literally smack with a hammer and it won't break. Obviously there are limits to this technology, we don't recommend trying it at home but it's a heck of a lot better than nothing and it's got a nice glass-like feel even though it's an impact resistant screen protector. That's pretty cool, go check that out at the link below as well. So don't miss any of our CES 2019 content, I think the rest of it will actually be on the show floor so we'll like see you guys there. I'm gonna like warp in between this video and the next one to Vegas and by subscribing to Linus Tech Tips.