Seeing this kind of battery life on a x86 system is mind blowing. I thankfully don't need to deal with an ARM SoC or switch to MacOS to get the battery life I've been looking for. 🤯
Honestly im more optmistic about x86/ARM translations get better rather them x86 surpas in eficiency, the amount of heat these chips produce were never meant to be portable
Competition is a beautiful things. I was so frustrated several years by the x86 based laptops, while MacBooks and ARM based windows laptops have so many app compatibility issues! Nice to see that x86 based laptops are finally catching up.
The reason the ARM based MacBook chips work so well is that the Rosetta 2 translation layer is awesome. It meant there were only a few apps that didn’t work, a handful of apps that performed worse, but MOST apps performed better on an M series than any of the Intel Macs, even with translation. Qualcomm just didn’t have that advantage in controlling the software
@@kamdenmcleanmovies For most of people I believe there is no issue with ARM based laptops. I am an engineer student and I bought M1 MacBookPro when they are released, but face so many difficulties with professional app compatibility issue. Even if some apps are supported, e.g. MATLAB, but the run time is not good compared to i7 12th gen. So I ended up comping back to windows. ARM based laptops are really not for engineers.
I think the sacrifice of multi-core performance is fine when the overall user experience is untouched but improved in other areas. Better graphics and battery performance is a wildly good trade off. The CPU performance is still fantastic.
They just gotta nail the drivers for the graphics, the arc cards were hampered because they couldn't run many games. This battery performance is very impressive tho.
in the battery life test its really important to mention that the asus laptops have oled displays which are much less power efficient than the LCDs in the surface and in the macbook
I've always thought that the buyer is supposed to remove all stickers. Otherwise, they would not be made of "paper", but would be a sort of "engraved" on the chassis. I normally remove all stickers or move them to some plastic sheet and keep with the rest of documentation till I decide to sell the laptop. Then I stick them back on. Nothing like shiny new stickers to convince the secondhand buyer.
No integrated Thunderbolt 5 is a huge missed opportunity. Anyway.... It just needs 4 more Skymont efficiency core on the same fabric as the performance cores. Qualcomm is using 12 Oryon Cores which are all performance cores in 3 clusters of 4 cores each. Lunar Lake is using 2 clusters of CPU Cores, one with 4 Lion Cove Performance Cores and the other with 4 Skymont Low Power Efficiency Cores. I'd love to see Panther Lake use 12 cores in a (4+4)+4 configuration, with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores in the 1st cluster and 4 low power efficiency cores in the low power island for the 2nd cluster. Throw in 12 Arc Xe3 Celestial Cores for a 12CPU+12GPU 25W setup. So far I have seen Panther Lake H with (4+8)+4 CPU + 12 Xe3 GPU at 25W I'm hoping Intel 18A will bring in more efficiency.
Enjoyable content! Keyboard backlight being on for a lot of the video was rather distracting (especially when there seems to be daylight in the scene).
The general observation is that reviewers are strangely all testing Shadow of the Tomb Raider which they never did in the past year or so. That's because of the age of the game which is not representative of the graphic requirement in recent games. Almost all the reviews I see follow this odd trend. Almost feels like Intel asked for specific games to be tested. I prefer to see a wider range of games being tested, instead of select few.
Exciting review! The ASUS Zenbook S 14 looks like a serious contender against the MacBook. I'm really impressed with the Intel Lunar Lake performance. But price.....
I was excited about Lunar Lake and expecially this laptop but honestly the different in runtime between 10 hours and 13 hours isn't material like how often is anyone in a situation where 10 hours isn't enough but 13 would do it? Very niche use case and HX370 at 35W multicore screams.. it seems lunar lake is happiest on 15W so I guess pick the power level you do most of your work at and get whichever is strongest at that wattage
I want to see this Lunar Lake alternative for N100 processor with sub 15W TDP, with a little boost in performance and superior iGPU it would be great processor for most basic office laptops, but with great battery life and hopefully there will finally be variants with passive cooling for fanless enthusiast like me...
guess not - this is made by TSMC and Intel paid big bucks for it. N100 is just too cheap to be sent to TSMC. Intel 3nm is for server. Possible some mini pcs can use Lunar Lake eventually - but I do not see that any time soon.
This won't happen as Lunar Lake is made with the very expensive TSMC 3nm process. Cheap CPUs can only be made with what Intel has in house and brings high yields. Edit: I just now read the previous comment
@@Satyajit-vm8nx it might not be as good as Nvdia in productivity but it will be decent in it I just need good gaming , productivity, and good price to performance card
I bought the Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro 360, similar specs but bigger and better screen and a stylus equipped two in one form factor. But the battery life is amazing and the performance is impressive. Nice to see Intel finally start catching up with these two laptops.
One of the best features is the lack of power leakeage while on sleep. Could you please test that over a longer period of time, too? This mean that charging every couple of days is here on X86.
@@lukaszklopotek Sure, some. Depending on the power profile, it might stay also connected. The idea is to turn off everything that is not essential and still have plenty of battery. The only way to have almost zero loss it to turn it off (or hybernate).
@@zacharylaiNot bad, but at that point it's a Windows issue. I've had my i5 with Iris XE graphics and 8 gigs of RAM and it varies between a couple percent to like 20 in sleep mode
Thanks for the review. If you added tests of autonomy in video viewing mode at maximum brightness, it would be more truthful to real use. Because on my macbook air, sometimes at 500 nits it still isn't bright enough
@Garrus-w2h and lack newer SIMD no SVM and SME + compatibility issues, Intel X86 is superior for now, battery test? It's IPS Vs Oled what have you expected?
Just for context: my son has a Zenbook 14 ultra 9. We ran Unigine Heaven at 1080p, best efficiency, 70% brightness, 60Hz. It only lasted 2.5 hours! So , no different to any other laptop. The laptop, in general, is very good. We did have a lot of trouble with the Arc 140v graphics. After the initial windows/bios update had an error code 43 on the gpu (Device Manager), meaning it didnt work. Tried everything including DDU before updating driver. Eventually it resolved itself - not sure why? Maybe a new release of device driver from Intel.
Great video :D I´m currently looking for a laptop, the Zenbook S 14 seems to be great for studying and everyday tasks while being able to have a good enough performance for more challenging processes. Also I´m very impressed with the gaming performance this thing has. After watching two quite bad test videos, where some AI generated voices talked over some AI written scripts while showing stock footage, this test video is fantastic XD Thanks :)
Just a note too, the Snapdragon was emulating the games. It's not that it really sucks it's just doing a lot more to make it work. I only say that because of you're to test an application that's native it would fair probably very well agienst the Ultra 9.
I want Ultra 5 with crazy battery life for a regular laptop so I can browse and consume media without every worrying about battery life even when I start the day with like 60%
Ultra 7 258V Lunar Lake have longer battery life by 30% than Ultra 9 288V, since Ultra 7 has lower clock speed and lower base tdp by default. It can break 24 hours for video playback.
Everyone talking about how intel is back but we're forgetting about the m3 pro and m3 max which would dunk on intel anyday. The only thing intel has on everyone else is gaming which is reasonable but then all the other arguments on where its better don't matter anymore (aka low battery life, cooling, portability) Hopefully windows laptops will someday get to m3 pro and max levels....
Absolutely beautiful presentation. Every section of the video was flowing from one to the next. Jarodtech also reviews laptops, but he is very difficult to follow due to the monotony.
More real world testing of the NPUs is mandatory nowadays. When I buy a new machine today I want to be sure that AI workloads will be running well. It takes just a few minutes for you to install Ollama and run a medium sized LLM locally to check the inference with a few standardized test cases. The strong focus to gaming performance does not reflect all use cases. I am wondering, who is really playing seriously games on such a notebook/laptop. But using inference with local LLMs will soon be omnipresent because many applications will come with locally installed LLMs.
I'm waiting on Strix Halo it'll have 16 zen5 cores and a gpu tile with 2500+ rdna 3 stream processors talking to memory at 240 GB/sec support for 128 GB ram that is HOT for a laptop/minipc form factor o.o
Looks good to me as on the go laptop, I love it. It would even better if ASUS would consider a 2tb storage with this one for a change and save us a lot of trouble since I/Os are limited! That would boost the sales too!
I have been waiting for ages for something with decent igpu from AMD and you can imagine my surprise that Intel actually beaten AMD to it. It seems like AMD been screwing us over with half hearted effort with their APU over the years.
Im using the AMD version of this, the only problem is the charging port through the USB and had to send it back to be repaired but its been perfect since. Im happy with it.
I wonder how the 7 would compare to 9 in that battery video playback test. The 9 has higher power usage than all other Series 2 CPUs, doesn't it? Also: when you say you left it for 15 hours was it putting it in "sleep" mode or shutting it down entirely? Because if it managed to stay at 100% during 15 hrs of sleep than that's incredible news.
I feel like the MacBook Pro M3 Pro was left out of the battery test for a reasons.. Everything is trying to be a MacBook Killer these day, lol. I love it!! Great video, I need a new windows laptop since my Asus G14 (2024) is a becoming a stove the more and more I use it. Might off load it and grab this one. Plus I need to give my Killer MacBook a break. 😂
@@Error_705 Yes. Intel was comfortable pushing the same CPUs with a little tweaking on clocks for almost 10 years, just now when competition arrived, we are seeing changes. There's a lot to squeeze in the x86, they just weren't willing to push it, until now.
@@_iczyzyYes, the same thing should happen to desktops, entire SoC instead of CPU + RAM, we also should get more SRAM and eDRAM instead of standard dram.
All of this is great, but I will not buy neither new intel nor apple laptops because of non upgradeable RAM. My choice is used Lenovo thinkpads on AMD with upgradeable ram. And gaming on ultrabooks is kind of ridiculous.
Hey good video but also would appreciate the performance difference when not plugged in intel chips are always lagging behind, please do these tests as well!
Does anyone know when macbooks will no longer have a notch on the display? I really like how the display on this Zenbook looks with no notch even with small bezels.
Could you test the autonomy of the ASUS Zenbook S14 and Macbook Air at maximum brightness in video viewing mode, how did you test the autonomy with phones?
I plan to use this docked/closed with an eGPU. I don't expect thermals to be a huge issue except when gaming - ar ethere no other exhaust vents besides top of keyboard? Does it exhaust out of the sides/rear at all?
I am in the process of maybe switching over from the Apple side. Lots to think about. My first question, is there a 16 inch version of this? I know there is one with the AMD chipset. But this seems to deliver more battery power and that’s what I look for in the everyday tasks. I have seen from various reviews that the 16 inch AMD gets hot. Does this one get hot too? I must say, these laptops are gorgeous. I would choose the Scandinavian white, it looks sleek and light. However, from the various reviews I experience the audio a bit tinny? Why cant these windows laptops makers put together one that covers everything? No tinny speakers, no flickering oled screens etc. Although the Surface laptop had good speakers. I’m not a heavy user, at most some light video editing and I might start creating fantasy maps with an online service called Inkarnate. Is that considered heavy graphics? My guess is no since its done on the web? I have always been an Apple person and my daily driver is still an Ipad Pro from 2018. But now I want to switch to a bigger screen like the 16 inch. I am impressed from what I see from these laptops as compared to Apple, the 120 hz refresh rate, Oled screens, 32 gb ram and all cheaper than macs. I feel restricted by Apple, and when I see all the customization I can do with a Samsung S24 ultra and how more compatible it is with a Windows laptop, I feel free. Especially to be free from the clutches of Apple that laugh all the way to the bank when offering a super expensive computer with a 60 hz refresh rate. Anyway, laments aside, it seems like cool times for tech lovers these days with more options. I am curious to see if Intel will release the Arrow Lake chips in these lovely Asus laptops. I would pick one up immediately if they do it with a 16 inch.
Thank goodness! It looks like x86 is performing well, so I won't have to switch to a Mac after all. In fact, I would even be willing to pay more if I could get better performance on x86. I think I'll wait for the M4 release to get a clearer idea of which ecosystem will be the best fit for me.
Considering getting this to replace my ultra portable. I will need it to be able to do edits in davinci resolve though. My question if the superior gpu translate into better editing performance in davinci resolve? 🤔
I just bought the out going Samsung Book3 360 13.3" i7 version with S-pen very cheaply last week. I like these type of premium 2 in 1 laptops and prefer them over premium tablets, like the Samsung Galaxy Tab 9 or new Tab 10.
I have just bought the HP Spectre ultra 7 with 32gb… but not sure if I should return it and get one of these? I wish I could find some good comparisons. But I’m at a loss. Help please! 🙏🏼
Some source that I have read, it's the same or even faster than meteor lake because the encoding and decoding hardware is much better on Lunar Lake. So, they compensate lower multicore with better decoding and encoding. You can flawlessly edit 4K video footage without any buffer on the new Lunar Lake.
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Seeing this kind of battery life on a x86 system is mind blowing. I thankfully don't need to deal with an ARM SoC or switch to MacOS to get the battery life I've been looking for. 🤯
just got a Macbook air xD too late rip
Honestly im more optmistic about x86/ARM translations get better rather them x86 surpas in eficiency, the amount of heat these chips produce were never meant to be portable
@@sophie6878i like x86 but macs are still viable (expensive but reliable). its just different
@@kartikpintu oh yea im loving it, no regrets here :p
People who like macOS and it's reliability don't give a shit about x86. The biggest issue with x86 now is Windows.
Competition is a beautiful things. I was so frustrated several years by the x86 based laptops, while MacBooks and ARM based windows laptops have so many app compatibility issues! Nice to see that x86 based laptops are finally catching up.
The reason the ARM based MacBook chips work so well is that the Rosetta 2 translation layer is awesome. It meant there were only a few apps that didn’t work, a handful of apps that performed worse, but MOST apps performed better on an M series than any of the Intel Macs, even with translation. Qualcomm just didn’t have that advantage in controlling the software
@@kamdenmcleanmovies For most of people I believe there is no issue with ARM based laptops. I am an engineer student and I bought M1 MacBookPro when they are released, but face so many difficulties with professional app compatibility issue. Even if some apps are supported, e.g. MATLAB, but the run time is not good compared to i7 12th gen. So I ended up comping back to windows. ARM based laptops are really not for engineers.
I think the sacrifice of multi-core performance is fine when the overall user experience is untouched but improved in other areas. Better graphics and battery performance is a wildly good trade off. The CPU performance is still fantastic.
I can't believe Intel can made an integrated GPU that fast
They just gotta nail the drivers for the graphics, the arc cards were hampered because they couldn't run many games. This battery performance is very impressive tho.
new arc drives have better compatibility, you're talking about an year old thing
Agreed
@@pingpong1727 They will run a LOT more games than ARM
@@LouisDuran sure but bad drivers could cause potential buyers to buy similar AMD thin and lights instead
@@pingpong1727like AMD drivers don't have their own issues 😅
in the battery life test its really important to mention that the asus laptops have oled displays which are much less power efficient than the LCDs in the surface and in the macbook
Exactly
Oled = better for graphics
LCD's= better for basically everything else
Stop the cap lil bro@@coprilettodelnapoli5466
@@coprilettodelnapoli5466wdym by everything else?
@@daluobi8717efficiency, durability, cost, etc
So the battery life could have been extended even more if Asus had LCDs? That's impressive!
WHY IS THERE AN HDMI STICKER!? 🤣😂
It's almost 2025 and they still put these stupid stickers on laptops whyyyyyyyyy
I keep a can of 3M sticker remover around and always peel off every stickers immediately upon receiving my new devices 😅
money, so they can (theoretically) make your laptop at lower prices
putting a sticker will lessen licensing costs
because to put HDMI you need to pay a license that's why something like GPU has only one HDMI slot and 3-4 display port
@@lost4356 displayport needs to be a bigger standard. hdmi stupid compared to DisplayPort
I've always thought that the buyer is supposed to remove all stickers. Otherwise, they would not be made of "paper", but would be a sort of "engraved" on the chassis. I normally remove all stickers or move them to some plastic sheet and keep with the rest of documentation till I decide to sell the laptop. Then I stick them back on. Nothing like shiny new stickers to convince the secondhand buyer.
No integrated Thunderbolt 5 is a huge missed opportunity. Anyway....
It just needs 4 more Skymont efficiency core on the same fabric as the performance cores.
Qualcomm is using 12 Oryon Cores which are all performance cores in 3 clusters of 4 cores each.
Lunar Lake is using 2 clusters of CPU Cores, one with 4 Lion Cove Performance Cores and the other with 4 Skymont Low Power Efficiency Cores.
I'd love to see Panther Lake use 12 cores in a (4+4)+4 configuration, with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores in the 1st cluster and 4 low power efficiency cores in the low power island for the 2nd cluster.
Throw in 12 Arc Xe3 Celestial Cores for a 12CPU+12GPU 25W setup.
So far I have seen Panther Lake H with (4+8)+4 CPU + 12 Xe3 GPU at 25W
I'm hoping Intel 18A will bring in more efficiency.
12:50 clean your infrared thermometer bro.💀
Haha I was about to write the exact same thing
👍🤣🤣🤣
It is so dirty. I can't believe he thought that was a good idea to show it in the video.
I think he has a cat so that explains why
@@aras_aras_aras_aras no it's pubeeees
Another episode of "so cool but you probably can't afford laptops" 😅
True! Although it does mean last years Meteor Lake laptops should get even cheaper
@@Thetechchapthats the best part
@@Thetechchap meteor lake is absolute trash though compared to competition
no one afford these laptops 😅😂
Ooooh yeah sad truth
Would have been good to see a battery test under load, as this is where the snapdragon falls down.
Enjoyable content! Keyboard backlight being on for a lot of the video was rather distracting (especially when there seems to be daylight in the scene).
The general observation is that reviewers are strangely all testing Shadow of the Tomb Raider which they never did in the past year or so. That's because of the age of the game which is not representative of the graphic requirement in recent games. Almost all the reviews I see follow this odd trend. Almost feels like Intel asked for specific games to be tested. I prefer to see a wider range of games being tested, instead of select few.
It's likely partly that it is a game that runs on Apple Silicon, allowing for cross-platform iGPU gaming comparisons.
Need this Lunar Lake SOC in the S16!!!
There's an S16 model with the lunar lake chips
@@newtonchutney not available for preorder and no release date!
@@dontpokethebear3893 ahhh
Would be a Macbook Air 15 killer.
Exciting review! The ASUS Zenbook S 14 looks like a serious contender against the MacBook. I'm really impressed with the Intel Lunar Lake performance. But price.....
Definitely a better balance than Snapdragon, but I'd still go for AMD Zen 5, for my needs, if I was going for a new one today.
I was excited about Lunar Lake and expecially this laptop but honestly the different in runtime between 10 hours and 13 hours isn't material like how often is anyone in a situation where 10 hours isn't enough but 13 would do it? Very niche use case and HX370 at 35W multicore screams.. it seems lunar lake is happiest on 15W so I guess pick the power level you do most of your work at and get whichever is strongest at that wattage
Tom - stop letting your cat play with the thermal camera! :)
I want to see this Lunar Lake alternative for N100 processor with sub 15W TDP, with a little boost in performance and superior iGPU it would be great processor for most basic office laptops, but with great battery life and hopefully there will finally be variants with passive cooling for fanless enthusiast like me...
On point! Waiting for the same setup. Fanless streaming machine.
guess not - this is made by TSMC and Intel paid big bucks for it. N100 is just too cheap to be sent to TSMC. Intel 3nm is for server.
Possible some mini pcs can use Lunar Lake eventually - but I do not see that any time soon.
Any Mini PC available with this setup?
This won't happen as Lunar Lake is made with the very expensive TSMC 3nm process. Cheap CPUs can only be made with what Intel has in house and brings high yields.
Edit: I just now read the previous comment
The GPU is nice waiting for battlemage gpus now
@@the-titan-sports same. I am also waiting for buy battlemage
future battlemage crew represent!
When they will be released?
Yeah, but how will they perform in productivity compared to nvidia
@@Satyajit-vm8nx it might not be as good as Nvdia in productivity but it will be decent in it I just need good gaming , productivity, and good price to performance card
I bought the Samsung Galaxy Book5 Pro 360, similar specs but bigger and better screen and a stylus equipped two in one form factor. But the battery life is amazing and the performance is impressive. Nice to see Intel finally start catching up with these two laptops.
One of the best features is the lack of power leakeage while on sleep. Could you please test that over a longer period of time, too? This mean that charging every couple of days is here on X86.
You mean hibernation, not sleep? The latter has to leak some energy to sustain the RAM.
@@lukaszklopotek Sure, some. Depending on the power profile, it might stay also connected. The idea is to turn off everything that is not essential and still have plenty of battery. The only way to have almost zero loss it to turn it off (or hybernate).
Didn't drop 1% all night in the test, it's probably fine
Was shown on maxtech review for 4 days from 86% -> 56%
@@zacharylaiNot bad, but at that point it's a Windows issue. I've had my i5 with Iris XE graphics and 8 gigs of RAM and it varies between a couple percent to like 20 in sleep mode
Great video! That battery life is sick
Great review; how is the webcam vs. the compared laptops?
I'm aware that the Snapdragon X Elite laptop does great in this area.
Will buy this at 2030 with 300 $ from Amazon.
😀
I dont see the ultra 9 version, only 5 and 7. Is this to be announced?
I want it's benchmarks against the Zen 5 AI HX equivalent, please 🥺
Bro these laptops cost $2000 that's like the annual salary in India
Pay disparity is insane in india
In most cities 2000 dollars for a laptop is a great deal @@Alan-ou8tf
Wait for Arrow-lake based laptops - 3-4 more months?
@@SeanLi-i7n they won't have xe2 tho..
They'll have alchemist based igpus
@@Alan-ou8tf the top 5% in India consists of tens of millions of people. even the top 2% are A LOT. We have a lot of income inequality.
S14 looks amazing Asus has given it a luxury look
Yeah, it feels/looks very classy.
Thanks for the review. If you added tests of autonomy in video viewing mode at maximum brightness, it would be more truthful to real use.
Because on my macbook air, sometimes at 500 nits it still isn't bright enough
I guess all the "x86 is dead, ARM is the future" folks are in deep hiding right now
The problem currently is Microsoft's contract with Qualcomm, wait for this contract to end and you will see
@@eguifwhat contract?
@@eguif I assume you mean there will be more arm chip vendors once the contract is done?
X-Elite beats out Lunar lake in battery life, and CPU performance (not to mention it's cheaper).
Arm is definitely the future.
@Garrus-w2h and lack newer SIMD no SVM and SME + compatibility issues, Intel X86 is superior for now, battery test? It's IPS Vs Oled what have you expected?
Just for context: my son has a Zenbook 14 ultra 9. We ran Unigine Heaven at 1080p, best efficiency, 70% brightness, 60Hz. It only lasted 2.5 hours! So , no different to any other laptop. The laptop, in general, is very good. We did have a lot of trouble with the Arc 140v graphics. After the initial windows/bios update had an error code 43 on the gpu (Device Manager), meaning it didnt work. Tried everything including DDU before updating driver. Eventually it resolved itself - not sure why? Maybe a new release of device driver from Intel.
Great video :D I´m currently looking for a laptop, the Zenbook S 14 seems to be great for studying and everyday tasks while being able to have a good enough performance for more challenging processes. Also I´m very impressed with the gaming performance this thing has. After watching two quite bad test videos, where some AI generated voices talked over some AI written scripts while showing stock footage, this test video is fantastic XD Thanks :)
Could you add series 5 along with 7 in the next video. It would also be good to see how ultra 5 compares to ultra 7 along with 7's comparison to 9.
How many years late when compared to Mac?
Just a note too, the Snapdragon was emulating the games. It's not that it really sucks it's just doing a lot more to make it work. I only say that because of you're to test an application that's native it would fair probably very well agienst the Ultra 9.
Tech chap does that trackpad have a vibration motor? or does it physically press down? thanks.
Bro, you are comparing with MacBook yet using Windows only benchmark?
I want Ultra 5 with crazy battery life for a regular laptop so I can browse and consume media without every worrying about battery life even when I start the day with like 60%
i had too many 'will in unknown time'
Ultra 7 258V Lunar Lake have longer battery life by 30% than Ultra 9 288V, since Ultra 7 has lower clock speed and lower base tdp by default. It can break 24 hours for video playback.
4:27 "Find the F key"😂
Totally get you, bro
Everyone talking about how intel is back but we're forgetting about the m3 pro and m3 max which would dunk on intel anyday. The only thing intel has on everyone else is gaming which is reasonable but then all the other arguments on where its better don't matter anymore (aka low battery life, cooling, portability) Hopefully windows laptops will someday get to m3 pro and max levels....
Absolutely beautiful presentation. Every section of the video was flowing from one to the next. Jarodtech also reviews laptops, but he is very difficult to follow due to the monotony.
How does the speakers sound compared to the newest G14
Is it a top option for heavy machine learning work, huge dataset, deep learning etc
The Zenbook S16" in black would be my ideal size and color.
More real world testing of the NPUs is mandatory nowadays. When I buy a new machine today I want to be sure that AI workloads will be running well. It takes just a few minutes for you to install Ollama and run a medium sized LLM locally to check the inference with a few standardized test cases. The strong focus to gaming performance does not reflect all use cases. I am wondering, who is really playing seriously games on such a notebook/laptop. But using inference with local LLMs will soon be omnipresent because many applications will come with locally installed LLMs.
I'm waiting on Strix Halo it'll have 16 zen5 cores and a gpu tile with 2500+ rdna 3 stream processors talking to memory at 240 GB/sec support for 128 GB ram that is HOT for a laptop/minipc form factor o.o
This laptop is only available with Core Ultra 9 in the UK. When will it release in the US?
What’s better than the 2023 Zenbook Pro 14 OLED w/RTX4070 without removing any features that come with it?
Can you compare it with S13 model? Is it big difference in size for travel purposes? What about battery and productivity? thank you.
4:59 They should also improve the ISP… Even with this 1080p camera, the video quality is less than my 6 years old mobile camera…
Do you know when the 16 will get the intel refresh?
Looks good to me as on the go laptop, I love it. It would even better if ASUS would consider a 2tb storage with this one for a change and save us a lot of trouble since I/Os are limited! That would boost the sales too!
I have been waiting for ages for something with decent igpu from AMD and you can imagine my surprise that Intel actually beaten AMD to it. It seems like AMD been screwing us over with half hearted effort with their APU over the years.
What are you talking about their apu are on par with discrete gpus
@@harryvlogs7833 AMD APU on par with discrete graphic? Hell no.
@andrekua2596 yeah they are on pc chips
@@harryvlogs7833No
@@harryvlogs7833 old discrete GPUs? Sure. But not compared to modern ones.
Dang this is tempting, and then I see the price, disappointed
@@mangkoeboemie It will be under $1000 by end of year on sales at Best buy
1500 quids
@@CutLemM 1000 if you give it 6 or 7 months
It depends on the model and what you want as the cheapest Is 1200.
plan smth good once in a while my friend, at least to make up for mistakes, it might have bad impact
Why can’t it be fanless like the MacBook Air? Isn’t M3 still better in performance per watt?
What about screen flickering ? Does it have it ??
Im using the AMD version of this, the only problem is the charging port through the USB and had to send it back to be repaired but its been perfect since. Im happy with it.
I wonder how the 7 would compare to 9 in that battery video playback test. The 9 has higher power usage than all other Series 2 CPUs, doesn't it?
Also: when you say you left it for 15 hours was it putting it in "sleep" mode or shutting it down entirely? Because if it managed to stay at 100% during 15 hrs of sleep than that's incredible news.
Have you done sleep mode battery drain test? After closing the lid and keeping it overnight. What much % battery it drains in 12 hours?
Where did you get the acrylic display piece and how can I get one?
10:20 are you for real, the cyberpunk upscaler on auto could mean on one laptop it's running on quality and another on performance.
yea that is not a accurate benchmark ,he should have used a setting without upscaling.
A question, a lot of people complained of keyboard heat on the amd version of this s14, is the lunar lake still has this problem? did you feel it?
Is there any link to buy this laptop? How much?
Great video as always Mr. TechChap. What would you say is the best 14 inch for gaming that does not have an RTX card?
Thanks Adam! I'd have to think on that question...
@@Thetechchap Not to slow please :). Gonna buy something soon.
I feel like the MacBook Pro M3 Pro was left out of the battery test for a reasons.. Everything is trying to be a MacBook Killer these day, lol. I love it!! Great video, I need a new windows laptop since my Asus G14 (2024) is a becoming a stove the more and more I use it. Might off load it and grab this one. Plus I need to give my Killer MacBook a break. 😂
How is it becoming a stove? Is a strix laptop? I have a strix g16 that idles at 50 degree.
It's been 0 days since @The Tech Chap has posted a video with the phrase "MacBook Killer" in the title. 😂
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It's in early development , if intel used arm structure like apple or Snapdragon , they're wipe the floor with them x86 is outdated
@@jab-gn3sw Chip design for x86 is outdated not x86 itself.
@@Error_705 Yes. Intel was comfortable pushing the same CPUs with a little tweaking on clocks for almost 10 years, just now when competition arrived, we are seeing changes. There's a lot to squeeze in the x86, they just weren't willing to push it, until now.
@@_iczyzyYes, the same thing should happen to desktops, entire SoC instead of CPU + RAM, we also should get more SRAM and eDRAM instead of standard dram.
@@_iczyzy 100% correct but this mentality is coming back to hurt them so bad, they're "targets" for takeover now. UNTHINKABLE even five years ago.
I want to know what laptop was in the background of that battery test
What about the speakers performance.... You didn't mentioned about them...
there was one model with stylus, right?
also can you review new galaxy book 5 pro 360
We trust you to do your own tests and releasing them unmitigated Tom! Cheers on.
Should I get this or thinkpad t14 gen4
does the text or white backgrounds have screen door effect? how bad are the screen reflections?
Is that Lewis Hamilton on the brand spanking new Lunar Lake CPU... , that's sick!
All of this is great, but I will not buy neither new intel nor apple laptops because of non upgradeable RAM. My choice is used Lenovo thinkpads on AMD with upgradeable ram. And gaming on ultrabooks is kind of ridiculous.
Hey good video but also would appreciate the performance difference when not plugged in intel chips are always lagging behind, please do these tests as well!
For work (excel, database), battery, fan noise and general performance, better this or zenbook s16 with amd h370?
You nailed it. The test of Battery backup
Is it different from those ultra core 5,ultra core 7 or ultra core 9
Is there any news for a zenbook flip 13" or 14" with these SOCs?
Does anyone know when macbooks will no longer have a notch on the display? I really like how the display on this Zenbook looks with no notch even with small bezels.
All I want to know is it any good at video editing 4k videos
Could you test the autonomy of the ASUS Zenbook S14 and Macbook Air at maximum brightness in video viewing mode, how did you test the autonomy with phones?
I plan to use this docked/closed with an eGPU. I don't expect thermals to be a huge issue except when gaming - ar ethere no other exhaust vents besides top of keyboard? Does it exhaust out of the sides/rear at all?
Please tell us what is the difference between Copilot plus PC Vs ultra processor in terms of using ai and other features.
I am in the process of maybe switching over from the Apple side. Lots to think about. My first question, is there a 16 inch version of this? I know there is one with the AMD chipset. But this seems to deliver more battery power and that’s what I look for in the everyday tasks. I have seen from various reviews that the 16 inch AMD gets hot. Does this one get hot too? I must say, these laptops are gorgeous. I would choose the Scandinavian white, it looks sleek and light. However, from the various reviews I experience the audio a bit tinny? Why cant these windows laptops makers put together one that covers everything? No tinny speakers, no flickering oled screens etc. Although the Surface laptop had good speakers. I’m not a heavy user, at most some light video editing and I might start creating fantasy maps with an online service called Inkarnate. Is that considered heavy graphics? My guess is no since its done on the web? I have always been an Apple person and my daily driver is still an Ipad Pro from 2018. But now I want to switch to a bigger screen like the 16 inch. I am impressed from what I see from these laptops as compared to Apple, the 120 hz refresh rate, Oled screens, 32 gb ram and all cheaper than macs. I feel restricted by Apple, and when I see all the customization I can do with a Samsung S24 ultra and how more compatible it is with a Windows laptop, I feel free. Especially to be free from the clutches of Apple that laugh all the way to the bank when offering a super expensive computer with a 60 hz refresh rate. Anyway, laments aside, it seems like cool times for tech lovers these days with more options. I am curious to see if Intel will release the Arrow Lake chips in these lovely Asus laptops. I would pick one up immediately if they do it with a 16 inch.
Does the S16 have power profiles too?
Thank goodness! It looks like x86 is performing well, so I won't have to switch to a Mac after all. In fact, I would even be willing to pay more if I could get better performance on x86. I think I'll wait for the M4 release to get a clearer idea of which ecosystem will be the best fit for me.
Considering getting this to replace my ultra portable. I will need it to be able to do edits in davinci resolve though. My question if the superior gpu translate into better editing performance in davinci resolve? 🤔
Between the Ultral 9 and the Snapdragon elite 🤔, which one is the best chip in laptop 💻. ? What should I go for
Depends on price of laptop, but I’d get the ultra
With AI, might be time for a desktop. 🤔
Any word on a Zenbook duo with a Lunar Lake chip?
When will be the S16 come with intel core 2 processor??
This laptop in the ultra 7 version is the same price of a m4 macbook pro. I don't understand how do they expect to be competitive.
I just bought the out going Samsung Book3 360 13.3" i7 version with S-pen very cheaply last week. I like these type of premium 2 in 1 laptops and prefer them over premium tablets, like the Samsung Galaxy Tab 9 or new Tab 10.
What would be your comparison of it to the Dell XPS 13 2024?
very nice review, thank you
you can make an x86 as efficient as an arm chip but you need macOs kind of optimization to boost it further
Intel arc is becoming something... Let's see the future
Yeah - great to see integrated GFX actually becoming competitive
I have just bought the HP Spectre ultra 7 with 32gb… but not sure if I should return it and get one of these? I wish I could find some good comparisons. But I’m at a loss. Help please! 🙏🏼
What about video editing? How does it perform?
Some source that I have read, it's the same or even faster than meteor lake because the encoding and decoding hardware is much better on Lunar Lake. So, they compensate lower multicore with better decoding and encoding. You can flawlessly edit 4K video footage without any buffer on the new Lunar Lake.