ASUS ZENBOOK 14 ‎Q408UG-211.BL

This is a very nice computer feels a little bit more angled than last year as well let’s get this off oh whoa whoa whoa whoa before i open this the top of it smells really weird smells like

metal shavings not a fan of it uh so let me go ahead and

lift this up for you guys so right off the rip i can already tell

that the keyboard is much better but this these are some very long keys over here uh let me flip this around and let’s talk about some of the first specs that we get so they’re boasting 12 hours of battery life with usbc easy charge fast and reliable wi-fi master i’m just sure that means wi-fi six fast face login with ir webcams so love to see that uh us military grade durability

that’s always nice low blue light no flicker eye care i don’t know why i said it like that but that’s also good and ai

noise canceling for clear speech and sound is by harman kardon great and the other thing that i want to show you guys is that this is the ryzen 5 5000 series so that’s nice to see that

we have that inside of the zen book this year and we have the i believe the mx 450 yep so before i turn this on actually i’m going to try and turn it on anyway let me try and get this booted up super quick wow look at these ports this is such

this is a way better design than last year oh my god it’s not plugged in you don’t all right now it’s getting booted up here

so before i talk about this actually let me talk about the ports real quick so we have two usb-c ports and both of them can

handle the ability to charge this laptop which is something that you couldn’t do last year and then we also have an hdmi

port full size and then moving on to the other side we

have a oops usb a port micro sd card slot and cortana god

well sign in here honestly so annoying sometimes like i

was saying we have usb a micro usd micro usd why do i keep saying that it’s a micro sd card slot and then finally we have a headphone jack okay so while windows is doing its finishing touches which i almost never know what that is let me bring out the old model real quick now i’ll have a  separate video comparing these two um side by side but this is just going

to be like a very brief overview so let’s see what the difference is between these two real quick so first off as you can see the top part the new one is on my left the old one is on my right the new one has the asus logo on the left hand side where this is in the center like most laptops but either one doesn’t really matter because that’s not what you’re looking at when you’re using othe computer um let me see that’s a lot easier to do with one finger and they’re both pretty much one finger

so looking at the track pads this one seems to be they both seem to be the same honestly yep they are pretty much identical it looks like the nah they’re pretty much identical um so i thought the keyboard would look better on the new one but it looks like it’s still kind of facing the same problem

let me turn off the backlight during the day oh it did it automatically so um it’s a lot more legible i would say

on the newer model i’m gonna have to see what it’s like during night time but it’s nice that they both have backlit

keys but that was the biggest problem that was holding back um last year’s model um as you can see this metal railing that they have right here are plastic i still don’t know what this is

um it’s gone on the new one it’s just like built into the actual bezel of the screen and it looks like we actually lose a little bit of real estate on the screen by incorporating this bezel so

that’s another thing we still have venting here but it looks

like we’re booted up into windows so let me go back into

doing our housekeeping on the new laptop uh like i said before the bottom is definitely more angled it’s not rounded off like the bottom i kind of like this looks more i guess modern almost like

military-esque

but let me go back into the laptop

windows hello

it’s kind of awkward probably have to be

like here

how much range do you need

this is actually kind of

let me close it

try again usually asus isn’t this slow

usually it’s instant

yeah that’s the way it’s supposed to be

um but let’s go ahead and do some

housekeeping so we have a ryzen 5

5500u processor we have eight gigabytes

of ram running at

4200. that’s pretty good

uh going on to the disc we have a

samsung drive that is 256. i’m assuming

it’s using pci

um not pci using the m.2 slot

uh wow this my router is definitely

pulling stuff out right here but

um we have a wi-fi six card as well and

then we have the mx450 which i’ve heard

is a much more improved chip than 350

but i hope so since it’s a 100 more but

let’s go ahead and start off with the

display and speakers and see how they

sound

[Music]

[Music]

it’s a pretty good speaker

the display is also

pretty good as well listen okay so

just like the g14 this laptop raises

itself up in order it also helps

i’m getting so excited i can’t even

speak so this laptop raises itself up

when you push it back this helps not

only in terms of airflow but all i would

say it could be a little bit more clear

at max volume but i

say this all the time i don’t think

they’re going to be disappointed with

the speakers that are inside this laptop

okay next up is a typing test and try

and move it actually let me move it over

here so you guys can see a little bit

better

i feel like they could use a little bit

more key travel it’s a little bit

shallow for my taste but um

if you buy a laptop and you use the

keyboard and you’re stuck with a laptop

to be honest you’re gonna

either love or hate it but

it’s a keyboard

what can i really say about it

i really don’t know how i feel about

this keyboard usually i say keyboards

are subjective and i love

asus keyboards but i don’t know compared

to last year’s the last year’s keyboard

feels so much more solid

yeah this feels so much better this is i

guess i just got to break it in this

just feels more

like there’s resistance when i’m

actually at the bottom of the keycap

when i press down this one just feels

more fluid when i type

um but yeah that’s just the only thing i

can really describe for the new keyboard

uh so what is next let me test out the

camera i know the camera was abysmal and

last year in dark settings so we’ll see

uh no thanks you’re not using precision

camera

all right in three

two one let’s go

all right so this is the camera of the

asus zenbook i don’t have the model

number on me but it’s the new asus

zenbook 14. um to be honest

um

it’s

decent you know i’m not gonna rip this

but

it’s

decent i

it’s decent actually me saying decent

this thing is

it’s below average by my standards but i

think from the way people are going to

be using this and you know what a webcam

is for you’re really just trying to see

the other person and that’s it you don’t

really care about the quality but

i mean it’s a camera it’s a webcam what

can you really say but

it looks

okay

it doesn’t look amazing or average it’s

like i’d give it a 4.5 out of 10.

it’s not a 5.

it’s a 4.5 so shall we open up the

laptop

what kind of screws do these use oh man

it’s the ones that the macbook uses but

it looks like there’s only one two three

four five six seven screws which is nice

where’s ifixit

uh let’s see this might be a t5

maybe

yep

it’s a t5 all right i always feel so

scared opening up laptops like i’m gonna

break something but it feels it looks

like these are screws or something like

right here

so i was right so under these two feet

grommets they have uh

little screws right here because it

really felt like i was gonna break the

laptop if i like kept pulling on there

i’m a gentle guy i’m a gentle giant

yeah right i’m like what five five

anyway we’re in the laptop now looking

inside this laptop here it looks like we

only have the option to upgrade

our m.2 slot that is already being used

so if you wanted to upgrade the memory

instead of using just

256 you can but i just want to see if

there’s anything underneath it

uh most definitely not

so it looks like we can just upgrade the

m.2 slot and that’s it the ram looks to

be soldered

and doesn’t look like the wi-fi card is

exposed

looks like this is it right here but

yeah

soldered onto the motherboard

so if you were looking to upgrade this

laptop you can only upgrade the

storage so do keep that in mind if you

were looking to pick this up intending

on upgrading the laptop

the best thing that you have to realize

or should say the thing you should focus

on the most is that the specs

are

upgraded so we have the new ryzen 5000

series and i’ll have it somewhere on the

screen whether this one is zen three or

not and then we also have the mx 450

instead of the 350 of last year

and i believe there are some times on

best buy where this laptop the new one

is actually cheaper than last year’s

model

and i also do like the new design

language of this year as well and the

fact that you can charge with usbc is

another game changer because it’s just

one less thing you have to carry around

and you can just utilize your usbc cable

even more

but that

pretty much wraps up

asus zenbook

go ahead and do my facial recognition

with windows hello i’m in like that

but hopefully you guys found this video

informative if there’s anything you want

me to test out or try like i said before

i will have the direct comparison to

last year’s and let you guys know some

of the major differences

but

i

really like this laptop um it doesn’t

seem like we have the issue with the fan

being on at 100 all the time

but

the other thing that i want to mention

real quick before i let you guys go i

sound like i’m in a meeting but um this

keyboard this right hand side seems to

be just so elongated for some reason

it’s like they want to take up the

entire

um top part of the keyboard which is you

know their choice but i would have liked

to have this zenbook

here

be just

i don’t know written somewhere on this

top part of the chassis because it’s

kind of a bummer that we’re losing the

full screen that we had last year not

full screen but the near bezel-less that

we had last year but

it’s still a nice display nonetheless

so with all that being said guys

hopefully you enjoyed this unboxing

experience and my first impressions of

the latest asus zenbook of 2021. i

appreciate every sub like and comment

and as always guys much love

it’s a great laptop and the usbc like i

don’t even need this how much wattage is

this 65 watts

that’s like the same as the oneplus

power adapter so i can just use that to

charge this laptop

but yeah