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The video, presented by Smarvin from techbureau.com, offers an in-depth review of the ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo 15SE gaming laptop, focusing on its design, specifications, features, and performance. Key specifications include an AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX processor, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 GPU, 32GB RAM, and dual 1TB NVMe SSDs, along with a 4K IPS main display and a secondary 4K touchscreen display. The laptop, sporting a stylish dual-textured design and robust ventilation, comes with multiple connectivity options and peripherals specific to the Philippine variant.
The review highlights the laptop's unique secondary display, which doubles as a control center for multitasking and enhancing productivity in various applications. The main display is ideal for content creation due to its excellent color accuracy and high resolution, although it is not a touchscreen. The keyboard and trackpad, which also serves as a numpad, have been praised for their functionality and customizable RGB lighting. Enhanced thermal management and multiple performance modes ensure the laptop runs optimally under different workloads.
Performance benchmarks show outstanding capabilities in both synthetic tests and real-world applications like Adobe Premiere Pro and various high-end games, supported by high read/write speeds from the RAID 0 SSD configuration. Despite its prowess, gaming at 4K with ray tracing enabled is challenging, suggesting performance mode for a balanced experience.
Finally, the discussion touches on power consumption, battery life, and the dual power adapters. The laptop demonstrates remarkable versatility and power, making it a viable, albeit expensive, option for gamers and content creators, achieving a balance between portability and high performance.
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In this part of the video, the reviewer, Smarvin from techbureau.com, gives a comprehensive overview of the ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo 15SE gaming laptop. The video covers the unboxing, including bundled peripherals specific to the Philippine variant, such as a gaming laptop bag, headset, power adapters, gaming mouse, webcam, and the laptop itself. Key specifications highlight the AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX processor, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 GPU, 32GB RAM, and dual 1TB NVMe SSDs. The laptop features a 4K IPS main display and a 4K IPS touchscreen secondary display. The design includes dual-textured materials, a Republic of Gamers logo, robust ventilation, and quad Dolby Atmos speakers.
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In this segment, the video reviews the physical attributes and input/output ports of a gaming laptop. Weighing around 2.4 kilograms and being 20.9 millimeters thin, the laptop includes ports on various sides: an ethernet port, USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A port, HDMI 2.0b port, micro SD card slot, power port, 3.5mm audio jack on the left, and a USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C port with power delivery and DisplayPort 1.4, and two additional USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A ports on the right. It’s designed for easy lid opening and stability. The notable secondary display has a unique hinge allowing tilt and elevation, though limited to around 13 degrees, with a 3840×1100 IPS 60Hz panel featuring decent color accuracy and brightness, despite a slightly excessive anti-glare finish.
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In this part of the video, the presenter highlights the cool boot-up animation of the gaming laptop, which gives it a futuristic vibe. The secondary display is multifunctional, featuring a built-in control center to toggle brightness, navigate apps, lock the keyboard, and customize various launchers. It’s also useful for dragging and dropping folders, programs, and windows and can enhance tasks like photo and video editing, gaming, and other apps supporting the secondary display.
The main display is a 15.6-inch IPS panel with a 4K resolution (3840×2160), 120Hz refresh rate, and 3ms response time. Although not a touchscreen, it is Pantone validated, ensuring excellent color accuracy with 100% sRGB, 94% NTSC, 98% Adobe RGB, and 93% P3 color gamut coverage. The 4K resolution and IPS panel make it ideal for photo and video editing, graphics work, and decent for gaming. The display offers good viewing angles, vivid saturation, and decent contrast, although OLED would have provided better blacks at a higher cost. The brightness can be adjusted significantly.
The presenter notes that the secondary display appears washed out compared to the main display in a dim environment. The laptop features slim bezels, lacks a built-in webcam but includes a dedicated external webcam (ROG GC21), several microphones, and AI noise cancellation. The laptop also includes a 60% keyboard and a trackpad with dedicated mouse buttons, maximizing the use of available space.
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In this part of the video, the reviewer discusses the laptop’s keyboard layout, which is almost standard with a few modifications like smaller function rows, a larger space bar, and dedicated arrow keys. The keys offer a 1.4-millimeter travel distance and tactile feedback, with customizable RGB lighting. The trackpad also functions as a numpad, but it cannot use both functionalities simultaneously, unlike Asus Zenbooks. Above the trackpad are shortcuts for the Asus Armory, secondary display toggle, arrow keys, and power button. There are also function row shortcuts for quickly changing power modes (silent, performance, turbo). Cooling is enhanced through 28.5 millimeter air intake vents under the secondary display, improving thermal performance.
Lastly, the video moves into performance benchmarks, explaining the methodology and showing significant differences in performance across various power modes using tests like Cinebench, Geekbench, and Blender. The benchmarks highlight the capabilities of the AMD Ryzen 9 5900 HX and RTX 3080 graphics.
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In this part of the video, the speaker discusses the performance benchmarks of the ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo 15SE. They start by showcasing a rendered image using Blender 2.91 and then delve into synthetic benchmarks with 3D Mark for Fire Strike, Fire Strike Ultra, Time Spy, and Time Spy Extreme.
The focus shifts to real-world performance, particularly in Adobe Premiere Pro with a 4K timeline. The laptop exports a 13.92-minute 4K project in around 10 minutes across three power modes, aided by two 1TB NVMe SSDs in RAID 0, ensuring smooth operation and fast read/write speeds (7107 MB/s read and 6020 MB/s write).
Gaming benchmarks are highlighted next, where the laptop’s performance is tested across different resolutions and power modes in games like CS:GO, World of Warcraft, Rainbow Six Siege, and Cyberpunk 2077. The laptop performs well, especially in higher settings and resolutions, thanks to its powerful hardware, including an AMD Ryzen 5 5900X and an RTX 3080 graphics card. Notably, CS:GO’s performance varies significantly in silent mode due to limited clock and fan speeds, while high-performance modes are recommended for gaming.
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In this segment of the video, the presenter discusses the performance and thermal management of the Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE while gaming with RTX and DLSS settings. They explain that while the laptop can handle games with ray tracing at 1080p and 1440p, it struggles at 4K resolution. Disabling ray tracing and setting DLSS to quality mode at medium settings achieves around 60 fps at 4K. The presenter recommends using the performance mode for a balance between performance, noise levels, and power consumption unless you don’t mind noise and have the laptop plugged in, then turbo mode is preferable.
The laptop’s keyboard placement minimizes heat exposure during use. In benchmark tests (Cinebench R15 and R20), it maintained decent average temperatures despite spikes in turbo mode. While exporting 4K videos in Adobe Premiere Pro, the laptop’s AMD Ryzen 5 5900HX processor peaked at 83°C but averaged 65-74°C, which is acceptable. The segment concludes with an overview of power consumption options for the laptop.
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In this segment of the video, the speaker discusses the differences between the two power adapters for the ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE gaming laptop. The 280-watt adapter enables Turbo mode automatically, while the 100-watt USB Type-C adapter limits the laptop to Performance mode. They compare the power consumption during idle and load states, focusing on the performance when playing Cyberpunk 2077. Additionally, battery life benchmarks are shared, showing how long the laptop lasts under various conditions—3.55 hours for productivity tasks, 3.48 hours for HD video loops, and 1.35 hours for gaming. A personal YouTube video loop test matched these results, demonstrating around 3.4 hours of battery life under maximum settings. Charging the battery with the 280 watts adapter takes about 1.33 hours. The speaker concludes by stating that despite its high price, the laptop is a versatile, portable, and powerful device suitable for a specific target market. They express gratitude to ASUS ROG and remind viewers to subscribe for more content.