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[dfgatorfan]

AMD's new naming convention is going to take a guide book in order to decipher it. Most people won't know what the heck they are buying. Intel isn't much better with theirs.

[davitdavid]

The zepherus, strix and flow x are what i am interested in

[mookgotit]

Is there no longer a Zenbook Pro line? The premium body and oled with a dedicated gpu was a nice spot for me. The ROG line has this but the Zenbook Pro was nice to avoid the gamer RGB aesthetic. A zenbook pro 14 with the Strix halo chip would be interesting as well.

[nicholash]

The worst design of the 2024 duo is that the SSD is inaccessible from the small cover on the back. The bottom screen must be removed which is extremely difficult to do without cracking it; and the display ribbon cable is extremely difficult to re-insert, and just forget about removing the power connector which has a metal clip that is also easy to damage. Mine flung off and shorted the motherboard. Mine got into a blue-screen "SDD inaccessible" loop after an update one day and even a factory reset or BIOS update could not fix it, nor altering BIOS settings, however, the SSD was accessible in a recovery prompt, go figure. I even removed bit locker and tried several workarounds from ASUS. All the well-known boot recovery tricks could not correct this either (dism/sfc/bootrec/etc). I basically broke the laptop trying to get the SSD out to remove classified client data before sending it into repair. $1700 mistake because of a terrible design. Beware of the same issue for the 2025 design.

[TnyRaccoon]

The asus A laptop, according to Dave2D is a feather-light 870g, compared to a normal 14 inch laptop's weight of ~1200g

[F]

Arrow Lake mobile doesn't have the much faster Battlemage graphics that Lunar Lake does, instead it uses a slightly updated 'Alchemist+' architecture, which is essentially unchanged iirc from regular Alchemist, save for the inclusion of XMX units.

[RodrigoLobosChile]

Thanks for the update.
So glad to see the channel grow. Congrats!

[VicharB]

Got my wifey Z S 14 258V notebook for USD1, 500, she is happy as is into photo editing and that OLED is perfect, plus light to carry. Myself, I am waiting for HX 370/375 from Elitebook or ThinkPads 13/14" in order to consider upgrading my Elitebook 7840U/32GB; for me keyboard matters a lot but am hoping for much better battery life.

[LodeStarYT]

By changing the naming scheme, intel only made understanding their CPU model harder

[kkirk]

When you say Lunar Lake S16 is coming this year, could you be just a bit more specific please? January? December?

[BlazeGrid]

Look forward to seeing you get your hands on the Dell Pro Max

[Gustavo_St]

This was amazing! First video I ever saw showcasing a given company’s entire lineup, and in a super orderly, logic way. Very helpful! Hope you do it with all major brands as well.

[Arkan_Fadhila]

thank you for the guide josh. this is very useful. i saved this laptop in my specific bookmark

[kanishkbanker]

Great video.
I'm looking forward to the Zenbook A series and that Vivobook Pro skew.
Looks interesting!

[nth_to_see_here]

I loved form factor of the S16 with AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and was waiting for the CES to see if anything else comes out. I'm looking for a 16" for photo / video editing. Do I understand correctly that nothing new was introduced which would rival the S16 (apart from the P16 studiobook) and S16 is still the best option for light photo/video work?

[Elric]

Would have preferred a Proart refresh or a Zenbook 16 style unit with a dedicated GPU. I think ill just end up getting an existing P16.

[zaraboz]

Thanks for the summary. So no more Zenbook 14 flip? I've been waiting 2 years for an update on this model :(

[svta_]

Hopefully the last gen zen5 cpus drop in price this year!

[rhoderzau]

Would love to see a new revision of the ASUS Zenbook DUO with a AMD AI 9 HX 370. Great device but they should never have put the Intel Ultra 9 185H in it

[gomikomi]

Just bought a discount zenbook s 14 not too long ago, but thanks for the update Josh!