The zenbook for me almost never gets warm. They only times it is warm is when I'm gaming on it. What kind of settings were you using to get this thing to heat up watching KZitem?!!!??!!??!
@AveryCheng
3 ай бұрын
Interesting...it's been a while since I've had the laptop, but I think I used the default settings for most things, and probably tried using the "cool" setting in some Asus software, but the difference was negligible and it was still warm
@hardware20x
2 ай бұрын
This is mainly a thin and light gaming laptop. I have the opposite experience with this laptop. No mention of its gaming performance in this review or its pressure sensitive touch screen, which is great for sketching or filling out PDF forms. Although it does warm up under gaming sessions, it's virtually silent when just web browsing, working on excel sheets or general productivity. No issues with KZitem either. Perhaps you got a defective model?
@AveryCheng
2 ай бұрын
I most likely did get a defective model, but it doesn't change the fact that I don't play video games, so I wasn't able to go into any detail about that
@definingslawek4731
7 ай бұрын
I don't understand the glossy screen complaint considering macbooks exclusively come with glossy screens. Apple ships only glossy because it offers objectively superior image quality. Selling an oled display with a matte coating is a sin.
@AveryCheng
6 ай бұрын
I'm completely fine with glossy displays as I've used MacBooks in the past. The main point I was trying to make was that it was a lot glossier relative to MacBooks, and it's display just couldn't reach a high enough maximum brightness to compensate for it
@josephle2381
Ай бұрын
FYI, every laptop company advertises their laptop as having insane battery life, including Apple by doing the most light task so they can technically claim that it last those hours. No laptop can run heavy application for 10+ hours on battery with the screen brightness set to high so you can actually see the content
@AveryCheng
Ай бұрын
I do understand that, so it was still surprising that even with light tasks, the battery life was still draining a lot faster than I was expecting
@definingslawek4731
7 ай бұрын
What do you do on your macbook that you can 'get through a whole day' with it? I get 3.5-5 hours on my 14 inch m3 pro macbook pro with my light usage (I often leave one of my demanding applications open in the background but not actively using them.) I understand you could get a days battery life if just streaming netflix on a single safari tab but neither of us are doing that.
@AveryCheng
6 ай бұрын
I mainly use it for just video editing and having it plugged in, but when I do take it away from the charger to do schoolwork, office tasks, web browsing, and Zoom classes, it lasts me the entire day. But it's interesting to see that some people are getting worse battery life with the MacBook Pros...
@JaghataiK
6 ай бұрын
Count me as another one getting excellent battery life with MBP14 but with an m3 max. I actually took it on a flight for 4 hrs and after the flight full of light use over wifi I still had 70% left@@AveryCheng
@AveryCheng
6 ай бұрын
It's quite impressive how efficient the M series of chips are
@LikeTeeMO
5 ай бұрын
you can enaible: low power mode, for me its always on, and i get 10-14hrs every time
@epos_rising
25 күн бұрын
@@LikeTeeMOwhen you enable low power mode , in which ways do you notice lowered performance?
@syedmohdfaize7813
5 ай бұрын
Hi, i was planning to buy xps15. But it seems this machine has so many problems. Do you still recommend it or do you have any other suggestions.
@AveryCheng
5 ай бұрын
I don't recommend either of the XPS 15 or this ZenBook Pro 14 for my needs and usage, but it may vary for you depending on what compromises you're willing to put up with
@NickIvins32032
5 ай бұрын
@@AveryChengWhat laptop would you recommend for upcoming engineering students who need to use solidworks and autocad?
@AveryCheng
4 ай бұрын
I personally don't have much experience with many different laptops, but I do recommend this channel if you want laptop recommendations coming from real-life usage: www.youtube.com/@JustJoshTech
@whippedculture7633
4 ай бұрын
So what I should get now.. a Macbook ? 😭
@AveryCheng
4 ай бұрын
Can't answer that for you, all depends on what you're gonna use it for and what you prioritize
@monsifsakienah1044
5 ай бұрын
It's a high performace laptop!! what do you expect from the battery???
@AveryCheng
5 ай бұрын
I do understand that this is a high-performance laptop, but when I'm on battery power, I'm just doing light tasks (i.e. web browsing, school work, coding, etc.) and the battery life was still quite short, even for tasks that aren't using the high-performance components
@celestial2923
4 ай бұрын
@@AveryChengThis is going to be a really dumb question but did you use the MyASUS app to customize the battery settings like fan speed, performance mode, etc? If not that could be there reason for the poor battery life.
@AveryCheng
4 ай бұрын
I did my best to change some of the settings in the MyAsus app, but there weren't any changes that resulted in significant increases in battery life
@slowiedovie
3 ай бұрын
I have no problem with this machine, except of microsoft driver support, but after couple of updates issues dissappeared. fan noise isn't bothering me, battery life is not great, but much better feels than macbook knowing you have 4070 card for 3d rendering, which macbook simply cannot pull.
@AveryCheng
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing your experiences!
@bobheoh1932
6 ай бұрын
I read about someone with a similar issue where they had to reinstall windows? Maybe that would have fixed it but that is annoying to do. Maybe you had bad QC as I have not heard these issues from others. Thanks for the honesty!
@AveryCheng
6 ай бұрын
That may have been a factor, but it also could've been my relative experiences with other laptops that I compared this laptop with. Thanks for watching!
@sevginsali
6 ай бұрын
Thank you . honest review. Saved me from wasting money. I will be very happy if yo can share how to use cad programs on macOS.
@AveryCheng
6 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching! I actually don't use any CAD programs for any of my schoolwork at the moment, so I can't really share about it
@BDGT86
6 ай бұрын
Which gaming laptops you recommend?
@AveryCheng
6 ай бұрын
Unfortunately, I don't have any experience with gaming laptops (don't have time for games LOL). But I would recommend the channel "Jarrod's Tech" for good gaming laptop recommendations
@hashaamzafar487
7 ай бұрын
Nice review!
@AveryCheng
7 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@definingslawek4731
7 ай бұрын
By dropped frames in youtube did you mean from stats for nerds or do you mean you could see it stuttering? I just checked and my desktop has this many dropped frames, it has a desktop 3080, 54 dropped of 17568
@AveryCheng
6 ай бұрын
I could visibly see it stuttering when on battery power, and I did pull up stats-for-nerds as well and saw almost 50-60% of my frames being dropped
@unaplogetic
6 ай бұрын
I think your unit is faulty..I didnot have such problems
@AveryCheng
6 ай бұрын
It definitely was faulty, which is why I returned it LOL
@nnnnnn3647
5 ай бұрын
@@unaplogetic Nope. others also have this problem
@design-dwg5785
7 ай бұрын
windows laptops just can't compete with mac right now. It's kind of depressing. The only reason to even cosnider a windows machine currently is if you play games or absolutely require an nvida GPU for applications (which i do), otherwise there is no real value in windows laptops. The M1 macbook air, a 3-4 year old machine right now, provides far greater performance, battery life, and fan noise (none) than any equivalent windows machine. Windows laptops arent even significantly cheaper anymore unless you're happy to lug around a 2 kilo lump of plastic and an oversized charger
@AveryCheng
7 ай бұрын
I wholeheartedly agree, and I'm unfortunately one of the people that needs to use a Windows laptop because of the engineering applications that my undergraduate degree requires us to use. You can probably tell that my MacBook Pro 14 is the "favourite child" of all my laptops LOL
@SharpSKill
7 ай бұрын
Lenovo is the answer. Cheap and efficient
@definingslawek4731
7 ай бұрын
There absolutely is value in windows laptops. For just a bit over $2000 with this laptop you can have a thin, light and powerful laptop with 4tb of ssd and 48gb of ram. An equivalent spec from apple is pushing $5000. Macbooks are better value in base configurations but if you do anything besides access the web on your laptop/ need ram and storage then they become obscenely expensive.
@miniDrew4
3 ай бұрын
Problem is Mac OS is trash.
@epos_rising
25 күн бұрын
There are decent and free software that are not available for Mac and people are using. I think Davinci Resolve is not available in Mac and FinalCut is not free.
@younghova18
5 ай бұрын
Is this laptop good for gaming at max graphics?
@AveryCheng
5 ай бұрын
I don't play games on my laptop, so I wouldn't be able to test that out. Also, I only had it for about a week before I returned it LOL
@celestial2923
4 ай бұрын
Yeah. Not built for it but from the benchmarks i’ve seen it can game pretty well. If you’re looking for a pure gaming laptop though I’d advise against this & go for a more gaming oriented laptop.
@KINGDOY8000
7 ай бұрын
LET'S GOOOO
@AveryCheng
7 ай бұрын
🔥🔥🔥
@yathirmaharaj9840
3 ай бұрын
I went from a custom M1 Max Macbook to ASUS ProArt Studiobook 16 H7604JI. Worst mistake of my life. Battery life would last about 45 mins unplugged. Fans would kick in for anything, even browsing the web. As for perfomace - Pathetic...it's still far behind the power from a M1 Max laptop that's now 3 years old. Dolby Atmos sound is flat. There is no depth. I now changed to a M3 Max Apple Macbook and it's the best. I got a full days battery with silence. Don't waste your money folks. I sold my ASUS for less than half what I paid for it 7 months ago.
@AveryCheng
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing your experiences! Definitely feel the same way when I'm comparing the ZenBook Pro 14 with my M2 MacBook Pro
@HDRPC
7 ай бұрын
Sir when you will review Intel Core ULTRA series 1 meteor lake laptops?
@AveryCheng
7 ай бұрын
I'm not sure if I'll be able to get one in (I'm a broke uni student LOL), but if I do, I will cover it!
@HDRPC
7 ай бұрын
@@AveryCheng now Intel Core ULTRA series 1 is the most efficient chip on a Windows laptop and almost Apple M2/M3 Pro level of BATTERY LIFE. Intel really nailed it and it is just 1st series Core ULTRA. Core ULTRA series 2 will come later this year with more performance and efficiency gains.
@HDRPC
7 ай бұрын
@@AveryCheng "Andrew Marc David" got 15 hours 37 minutes of battery life from Zenbook 14 using Core ULTRA 7 155H which has best BATTERY LIFE out of any Windows laptop and also best performance overall in everything.
@HDRPC
7 ай бұрын
@@AveryCheng 15 hours 37 minutes of battery life from Zenbook 14 (3405) using Core ULTRA 7 155H which has best BATTERY LIFE out of any Windows laptop and also best performance in everything.
@user-vk7jg2so9v
6 ай бұрын
Thanks man. I was a click away from buying it. I just checked out your video for the charger's actual size and i realized why i am changing my laptop ( which is also asus ), battery life, fan noise and the weight of it ( it's ROG, so yeah, it's kinda heavy ). I will just go for MacBook then.
@AveryCheng
6 ай бұрын
Glad I could help!
@sammynochains3455
6 ай бұрын
@@AveryCheng Just bought it today .. for fcks sake.. the arc graphics one. 1600 dollars canadian.. will get it tomorrow.. so yeah .. messed up! However macbook m2 8/512 would have costed me 2000 canadian dollars
@AveryCheng
6 ай бұрын
Interesting...I had no idea there was a configuration with just the Intel Arc graphics and no NVIDIA dedicated graphics
@Makta972
7 ай бұрын
Man I'm so glad I didn't buy this laptop last year and went to the 14" MacBook pro M2 Max instead. Windows laptop just sucks.
@AveryCheng
7 ай бұрын
Smart choice and I totally agree with you LOL
@DANNY40379
Ай бұрын
Apple laptops are ok for creative apps only, for intensive apps like Inventor/Solidworks/Catia and also gaming Windows laptops are the only way to go
@tyrusjackson2185
5 ай бұрын
So I actully picke this up open box from best by for $1200 I think at that price I win LOL but I have the ROG Flow x16 that is 2000 and i will choose one of them.
@AveryCheng
5 ай бұрын
Hopefully one of those work well for you!
@remypascal4872
2 ай бұрын
A trend in design at this version with just ONE sustainable USB (A) port, the other two USB-C lives not so long because of the typical sensitive USB-C construction... 🙄 And the keyboard keys are breaking in a tendence at too much consumers while a normal, non agressive usage. And RMA companies want 300€ for the complete keyboard with guilt shifting to the consumer. They should just change keys as a general service for years and find the key problem... like too thin or so.
@AveryCheng
2 ай бұрын
Interesting...I didn't really experience too many build quality issues when I had this laptop (certainly not to the extent that you're describing)
@remypascal4872
2 ай бұрын
@@AveryCheng The USB C on every device take some time for losing the 'grip' of this tiny metal contacts and the keys, maybe it is just a material fail at some keys, but it needs time as well. But it is good, that it are 3 USB ports and not just 2. And this notebook is really good designed. Just the screen could have a better angle to lay it complete flat down on the table. Extreme important for an Asus UX6406V touch screen especially. And for some positions while usage. They should tune the super grandious speaker system with a tiny bass speaker to build a two way system that way and to get easy more loudness out of it. But the humble loudness is in extreme good "3D" sound quality, just the right calibration is needed. Better than a 3000€+ Macbook Pro.
@igzonhoti1443
5 ай бұрын
asus zephyrus g14 is the best ...In my opinion is better than a macbook pro
@AveryCheng
5 ай бұрын
It's probably be a good choice if you did some gaming on the side
@definingslawek4731
7 ай бұрын
It blew my mind that this pro laptop for 2000 dollars + has only one thunderbolt, but their $1000 macbook air competitor which in its previous generation had 8gb of ram (lol) has TWO thunderbolts... I want all my ports to be fast 😮💨
@AveryCheng
6 ай бұрын
Yes, I do agree that for this price, all ports should support the latest standards and fastest speeds
@michaelgrover1
7 ай бұрын
❤🎉
@AveryCheng
7 ай бұрын
❤️🎉
@nnnnnn3647
5 ай бұрын
laptop=apple sorry wintel.
@pffffttt7643
7 ай бұрын
I love you
@AveryCheng
7 ай бұрын
I gotta get u a gf bro...
@abhishekmahapatra5325
7 ай бұрын
sir i would really appreciate if you could giveaway it to me, i want a laptop to start off with my video editing journey but i dont have the budget for it. Thanks ;)
@AveryCheng
7 ай бұрын
Sorry man, I already returned it 😭
@abhishekmahapatra5325
7 ай бұрын
@@AveryCheng don't be sorry broski, you're a good man. Keep up the good work👍
@abhishekmahapatra5325
7 ай бұрын
@@AveryCheng you just got a loyal subscriber btw, waiting for the next review;)
@AveryCheng
7 ай бұрын
Thanks bro!
@akarna69
5 ай бұрын
@@abhishekmahapatra5325 stop asking for stuff on KZitem, get a job or make an OnlyF Account. 🤣
@forbandyson8921
7 ай бұрын
Give it to me pookie
@AveryCheng
7 ай бұрын
You can find it back on the shelves at Walmart :))
@carlosduran5460
7 ай бұрын
Stop buying laptops with X86. Wait a couple of months for ARM based laptops, they will be fanless and all day battery. Chromebooks and Windows laptops will have these new chips (Maybe Snapdragon X Elite).
@AveryCheng
7 ай бұрын
Unfortunately, I'm expecting ARM-based laptops to roll out for more consumer-focused laptops instead of for high-performance ones, which means I may have to wait even longer
@HDRPC
7 ай бұрын
X Elite in already DOA. You will learn when it will launch.
@HDRPC
7 ай бұрын
Watch "Andrew Marc David" channel he got 15 hours 37 minutes of battery life from Zenbook 14 using Intel Core ULTRA 7 155H which has best BATTERY LIFE out of any Windows laptop and on par with apple M3 pro etc. So now intel core ultra series 1 has great performance and great battery life.
@AveryCheng
7 ай бұрын
Interesting...I'll definitely check that video out
@HDRPC
7 ай бұрын
@@AveryCheng "Hardware Canucks" did video editing test and Intel Core ULTRA 7 155H is the FASTEST even at 25 Watt SoC limit.
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