hey guys how's it going so in this video
I will be looking at a thousand dollar
laptop so this laptop is primarily for
college students but it will also be
good for people who just want to get a
good quality laptop more like an
ultrabook or Alto a thin laptop but a
laptop which does not sacrifice on
anything for being thin and light so the
laptop that I'm talking about is a soos
zine book 13 and this is the smallest
13-inch laptop that you can buy and this
is one amazing laptop for $1000 it's
little more expensive than the previous
laptops that I have reviewed in my
channel but this laptop $4,000 it
punches way above its weight and it's
better than far more expensive laptops
that you will find in the Ultrabook
ultra portable category Asus Zenbook 13
it has a 13.3 inch full HD display 1920
by 1080 but what differentiates this
laptop from other laptops is the bezels
the issues has really trimmed down the
bezels on all four corners so this gives
it a 95 percent screen to body ratio so
the top bezel is only five point nine
millimeter and it holds a camera for you
know that chatting and stuff like that
and this is really nice because some of
the other laptops in this category like
the Dell XPS they put the webcam in the
bottom of the screen and that creates a
very awkward angle so I'm very happy
that asus has put the camera in the
right place so the camera is more like
at you at the level of your eyes so if
you are doing video chat it won't look
weird or awkward the side bezels are
only two point eight millimeter and the
bottom bezel is three point three
millimeter so that gives it a 95% screen
to body ratio which is amazing and there
are very few laptops in this category
which gives you such a high percentage
of screen and because of the minimized
results even though the screen is
thirteen point three millimeter the
physical size of this laptop is very
small the laptop is only sixteen point
nine millimeter thick and it only weighs
two point six pounds and so this is
really thin and light laptop so now
let's talk about the screen it's a full
HD 1920 by 1080p display the screen is
actually very bright 225 minutes of
brightness so if you compare this laptop
with the other laptops in its category
like XPS 19 or the HP Spectre laptop you
know the high end laptops or even the
MacBook the screen brightness is
comparable to those other laptops which
is really nice so this laptop has a
viewing angle of 178 degrees which makes
this laptop screen look very crispy at
all angles which means that if you are
lying down in your bed or couch and
looking at this laptop like in its you
have folded it around and you want to if
you are watching a movie or reading a
text it will still look this it's not
going to lose its contrast or brightness
when you are you know looking at the
screen at a little awkward angle and so
that's a really nice feature now let's
talk about the build quality the build
quality of this laptop is fantastic this
laptop has a spun metal finish on the
lid and there is a gorgeous Asus logo on
at the center this is a very glossy
laptop and so it is a fingerprint magnet
and that is something a negative the
build quality is very solid and it feels
very nice enhance it doesn't feel cheap
plasticky laptop and that's what I
expect at thousand dollars but I was
very impressed with the build quality
considering the fact that it is only 2.6
pounds heavy so asus has done a really
good job with construction of the laptop
so issues claims that this laptop has a
military-grade durability and
reliability and they claim to have done
extensive drop tests and humidity tests
high temperature test and whole bunch of
other criterias through which they have
certified this laptop to be like a very
reliable laptop not course companies
exaggerate and I am NOT going to drop
this laptop worried you know to put it
in high humidity conditions but I think
this laptop for ultra portable and ultra
thin laptop I think the construction the
build quality gives me a lot of
confidence and so if I am a student
buying this laptop I I would expect to
use this laptop for many years and you
know it won't crap out in six months and
that's really nice job done by issues so
something very innovative in this laptop
is actually the hinge right you would
think that hinges the laptops will have
a similar hinge but body issues has done
here is something which I have not seen
in any other laptop so what they have
done is
the lid of the laptop actually extends
little farther than the keyboards when
you open the lid the keyboard kind of
releases and you get a nice typing angle
because the keyboard is slightly tilted
and that angle makes it very comfortable
to type it's very ergonomic but it's not
just the ergonomics what is happening is
because you are getting an angle that
creates a very good airflow and so the
thermal properties of the laptop it
actually helps the laptop remain cool
and also the speaker's sound better
because there is more gap within the you
know the bottom surface on which your
laptop is residing and because now the
keyboard is little tilted the speakers
actually sound much better so talking
about the speaker's the Harman Kardon
branded speakers they sound good now
this is an ultra portable
ultrabook kind of device so it's not
going to sound like your gaming laptop
and what I found was that the speakers
were okay they sounded better than some
of the other ultra books in this
category and especially you know the way
the hinge is designed I think that
really makes the speaker sound a little
better because of the extra gap that it
creates and so overall the speakers are
fine and if you are watching a movie or
if you want to get really good sound I
would still reuse a headphone now
talking about the keyboard the economics
of the keyboard like I mentioned is
great but what I really like about the
keyboard is also the construction and
the experience of typing because it's a
backlit keyboard and this is really
great for students because if your
professor is projecting slides and if
you are taking notes in the classroom
the backlit keyboard is going to be very
convenient and I thought the typing
experience first pretty good so on a
thousand-dollar laptop I expect the
keyboard to be nice I don't want the
keyboard to have that mushy feeling
which you get if you buy a Mac you know
Mac Pro or Apple computers I think the
keyboard is very good backlit keyboard
is always I love the backlit keyboard
especially for students because you can
type in any environment whether it's
dark or whether it's a bright light room
so something unique issues has done with
the touchpad is that the touchpad
doubles up as a numeric keypad so there
is a button which when you activate you
get the number the numeric keypad so if
you are entering data or if you are
typing if you have to enter a lot of
numbers in a spreadsheet or something
you can activate it and it's kind of
nice because it's right there on your
fingers and you don't have to move your
finger away from the keyboard so it's
again an urban
my thing I think it's a nice innovative
design I'm not sure how many people will
use it but I think these kinds of
innovations are always good okay now
moving on to the most important thing in
a laptop and that's the performance so I
think the performance of the laptop and
the battery life those two things are
really important for students right
because you want a laptop which performs
really well you want a laptop which has
a good battery life and then the input
device the keyboard and trackpad we have
already talked about those but those two
things are important so if any of these
three categories if the laptop falls
short then in my opinion that laptop is
dead on arrival
so this laptop clearly qualifies the
keyboard and the trackpad test now let's
look at the performance this laptop has
a core i7 8 5 6 5u processor this is a 4
core 8 thread processor the base
frequency of the laptop is 1.8 gigahertz
and it can overclock itself to 4.6
gigahertz so from performance
perspective I think this is a fantastic
processor core i7 zalta premium
processors will find in laptops and
issues has not skimmed in this
department let's look at the performance
the benchmark results of this core i7
chip so the average CPU mark is eight
thousand nine hundred fifty seven the
single thread rating is 23 49 if you
look at this CPU and compare it with the
other chips it is sitting at number two
position with eight thousand nine
hundred fifty seven score and since this
laptop runs at 1.8 gigahertz it's
actually very good because if you look
at all the other chips out there they
are all running at a higher clock which
means they will generate more heat and
they will suck up the battery on the
other hand this laptop has a fantastic
battery life asus is actually claiming
14 hours of battery life but you are not
going to get that you know the
manufacturers always exaggerate that but
you can expect to get around 11 to 12
hours of battery life in a normal use
where your Wi-Fi is on and you are you
know surfing internet or doing something
so in my opinion 11 to 12 hours of
battery life makes this laptop and all
they use laptop this means you can take
this laptop you can charge it overnight
take it to the class in the morning and
you will be able to use it the whole day
without charging it which makes it
fantastic right you can take it to
various classes you can write your
lectures you can type your lectures in
your free time you can also surf
internet watch videos and you will be
able
last through the whole day so let's look
at one more benchmark for the overall
laptop this is the Geekbench 4.1 test
and this just gives you a comparison of
how this laptop performs with the other
ultra portable ultra books in its
category so in this chart you can see
that it's actually performing better
than at Mac aerbook the Dell XPS 2019
it's better than all these other laptops
and it's actually sitting at a very good
15,000 1,110 performance so a really is
who's has done a fantastic job so one
drawback in my opinion is that this
laptop does not have a discrete graphics
processor it is using the Intel HD 620
graphics so this is the Intel built-in
graphics chip so the Intel processor
comes with its own graphics core and
that's the one which is being used so
that means it's not going to be a very
good gaming laptop don't expect to play
high-end games on this laptop but
because we are using an internal Intel
graphics chip that's the reason why
you're getting such a good battery life
for all the media playback your Netflix
YouTube 4k video playback for all those
things you are going to get fantastic
performance no problems because the ust
620 chipset it supports hardware
acceleration for all the popular codecs
so all the chordates like the vp9 which
Google uses on YouTube or what Netflix
uses the h.265 all these video codecs
are hardware accelerated so you will
have no problems no dropped frame
everything will work smoothly but if you
are planning to play high-end games then
you will be disappointed and you know
this is at the end of the day and
ultrabook so don't expect it to perform
at you know the level of gaming laptops
if gaming is your main intention then I
don't think this is the right laptop for
you now even though this laptop is so
thin and there is not a whole lot of
space and other companies like Apple
have used that excuse to give you one or
two ports Asus has done a fantastic job
and I'd always loved companies when they
are able to create light and thin laptop
but still give you all the ports so this
laptop has a USB type-c port it also has
a USB 3.1 port you know the old-school
USB type a port there is also a USB 2.0
port
in addition asus is giving an hdmi port
to connect it to your monitor and then
there is a headphone jack which is
always important these days everybody is
getting rid of headphone jack so I am
very happy to see at phone jack here and
they are also giving you a micro SD card
slot so lots of connectivity
and really this in this department asus
has done a fantastic job it's really
nice to see companies making thin and
light laptop but not skimping on the
ports coming back to the performance of
the laptop your processor is important
your graphics chipset is important based
on whether you want to game or whether
you want to have a good battery life but
something which is also important is the
amount of RAM the system memory which
the laptop is having and this one is
having 16 gigabytes of system memory
which is really more than enough frankly
speaking and it's great for students so
if you are an engineering student or if
you are like doing programming or if you
are running multiple applications at the
same time and you want to switch between
them quickly you want to have your notes
in PDF maybe your book is open in PDFs
you have a bunch of PowerPoint slides
open you have a word document open you
have excel sheet open you have a browser
with 10 12 with tabs you can have all
those things open and you can quickly
switch between them because 16 Giga RAM
is more than enough for handling these
kinds of tasks another important thing
is the SSD so if your laptop has a
physical hard drive then that's dead on
arrival in 2019 and I will never
recommend any laptop which as a hard
drive this one does not it has a PCI
Express SSD nvme SSD and it's a 512
gigabyte which means you will get a
fantastic laptop performance including
the boot time 16 gig of ram plus 512
gigabyte of pci express nvme SSD will
give you very fast boot times which
means if you start your laptop from
scratch it will it's going to boot up
very quickly suspend and resume is going
to be very fast and hibernation and you
know resuming from hibernation is also
going to be very fast and this is
important I mean these little things
make a difference you suspend your
laptop you walk into a new class you
know your professor starts his lecture
and you want your laptop to quickly come
back and so that you can start typing
the lecture right you don't want to sit
there and your laptop is taking five
minutes to come back that kind that is
not acceptable so overall in summary
what I am going to say is that if your
budget is thousand dollars if you are
willing to spend a little more money and
you want to get a thin and light laptop
but you don't want to sacrifice any
performance this is the laptop that I am
going to recommend I am going to
recommend this laptop over other
completing laptops like the Dell XPS 13
the HP and V Series or the Mac you know
Mac air or any of the Apple laptops I
think this is a better choice than all
those laptops and the reason I am saying
this is because you are getting
fantastic performance but then you are
also getting a very good battery life
you are getting very ergonomic laptop
with some innovative things which issues
has done like the ergonomic keyboard you
know the hinge the way it bends and
lifts the keyboard and gives you that
optimal typing angle and the thermals
are also nice this laptop does not heat
up and that's because of the way the you
know the hinge is designed but also
because the processor and the graphics
internal Intel UHD 620 graphics that
that is being used I think everything is
done very thoughtfully Asus has done a
fantastic job with selecting the right
components to give you an ultrabook
which gives very good performance we saw
the benchmark results it's a very good
performance but simultaneously very good
battery life and for students I think
battery life is very important and you
don't really want to worry about
charging your laptop between lectures
and that's not acceptable because
sometimes it's not even possible right
you have may have back-to-back lectures
and you don't want to have a laptop to
be running out of juice now I'm mostly
talking about students but even if you
are not a student if you are like just
thinking of buying a laptop which is
thin and light and you want to use it
for daily day-to-day activity it's just
in a very good laptop the only one thing
that I don't like is that it doesn't
have a touchscreen and you can't fold it
360 degrees and you can't do the kind of
things which we saw with some of the
other laptops which I reviewed and you
don't have a pen support so those are
some of the drawbacks right that's one
of the things which I wish this laptop
had because I do believe that for
students at least sometimes you you want
a pen support so that you can scribble
something write notes right you know
maybe draw a diagram and unfortunately
you can't do any of those things here so
if that is a must for you then
unfortunately this laptop is not for you
if you don't care about a pencil or a
pen or stylus support for the laptop you
just want a solid laptop with a
fantastic keyboard great performance
great battery life and something which
looks gorgeous
then this laptop is the one for you so
anyway guys I hope this review was
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