ASUS Zenbook S 14 - The MacBook Killer!? [Intel Lunar Lake TESTED]

This video is sponsored by ASUS x Intel.

00:00 Intro waffle
01:12 Intel Core Ultra Series 2
03:29 "Ceraluminum"
04:58 Webcam
05:40 Design
07:00 Specs
07:22 Battery Life
08:45 Performance
11:17 Ultra 7 vs 9
12:40 Noise/Thermals
13:31 Wrap up

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[misakianimated]

Seeing this kind of battery life on a x86 system is mind blowing. I thankfully don't need to deal with an ARM SoC or switch to MacOS to get the battery life I've been looking for. 🤯

[chuck]

WHY IS THERE AN HDMI STICKER!? 🤣😂

It's almost 2025 and they still put these stupid stickers on laptops

[BilTekinYT]

Competition is a beautiful things. I was so frustrated several years by the x86 based laptops, while MacBooks and ARM based windows laptops have so many app compatibility issues! Nice to see that x86 based laptops are finally catching up.

[ohad]

in the battery life test its really important to mention that the asus laptops have oled displays which are much less power efficient than the LCDs in the surface and in the macbook

[shankthenoob]

Another episode of "so cool but you probably can't afford laptops" 😅

[pingpong]

They just gotta nail the drivers for the graphics, the arc cards were hampered because they couldn't run many games. This battery performance is very impressive tho.

[MaiyagyGery]

I can't believe Intel can made an integrated GPU that fast

[dera_ng]

Enjoyable content! Keyboard backlight being on for a lot of the video was rather distracting (especially when there seems to be daylight in the scene).

[joytech]

I think the sacrifice of multi-core performance is fine when the overall user experience is untouched but improved in other areas. Better graphics and battery performance is a wildly good trade off. The CPU performance is still fantastic.

[GoldPunch]

12:50 clean your infrared thermometer bro.💀

[EnochGitongaKimathi]

No integrated Thunderbolt 5 is a huge missed opportunity. Anyway....
It just needs 4 more Skymont efficiency core on the same fabric as the performance cores.
Qualcomm is using 12 Oryon Cores which are all performance cores in 3 clusters of 4 cores each.
Lunar Lake is using 2 clusters of CPU Cores, one with 4 Lion Cove Performance Cores and the other with 4 Skymont Low Power Efficiency Cores.
I'd love to see Panther Lake use 12 cores in a (4+4)+4 configuration, with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores in the 1st cluster and 4 low power efficiency cores in the low power island for the 2nd cluster.
Throw in 12 Arc Xe3 Celestial Cores for a 12CPU+12GPU 25W setup.
So far I have seen Panther Lake H with (4+8)+4 CPU + 12 Xe3 GPU at 25W
I'm hoping Intel 18A will bring in more efficiency.

[trickyrat]

Tom - stop letting your cat play with the thermal camera! :)

[zepoq]

I've always thought that the buyer is supposed to remove all stickers. Otherwise, they would not be made of "paper", but would be a sort of "engraved" on the chassis. I normally remove all stickers or move them to some plastic sheet and keep with the rest of documentation till I decide to sell the laptop. Then I stick them back on. Nothing like shiny new stickers to convince the secondhand buyer.

[ArjunGajjar]

The GPU is nice waiting for battlemage gpus now

[toasinhassan]

Will buy this at 2030 with 300 $ from Amazon.

[CrankCyclingChannel]

Would have been good to see a battery test under load, as this is where the snapdragon falls down.

[BigTylt]

I guess all the "x86 is dead, ARM is the future" folks are in deep hiding right now

[kushekpayev]

I want to see this Lunar Lake alternative for N100 processor with sub 15W TDP, with a little boost in performance and superior iGPU it would be great processor for most basic office laptops, but with great battery life and hopefully there will finally be variants with passive cooling for fanless enthusiast like me...

[kennytay]

The general observation is that reviewers are strangely all testing Shadow of the Tomb Raider which they never did in the past year or so. That's because of the age of the game which is not representative of the graphic requirement in recent games. Almost all the reviews I see follow this odd trend. Almost feels like Intel asked for specific games to be tested. I prefer to see a wider range of games being tested, instead of select few.

[dontpokethebear]

Need this Lunar Lake SOC in the S16!!!