New Ryzen CPUs Make this Laptop SO GOOD - Zenbook S 16

The AMD Ryzen Ai 300 series have allowed ASUS to go ultra slim and ultra light for their new Zenbook S 16 while also offering new levels of performance. This is done through an efficient vapor chamber cooler and ultra quiet fans despite offer high performance 28W HX series Zen 5 CPUs.

This video is sponsored by ASUS. As per Hardware Canucks guidelines, no review direction was received from manufacturer. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

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[fastlanerc]

Quality of life as long as you don’t need ASUS scammy warranty. 😢

[Chriss]

I would appreciate metric measurements and gramm/kg weights when you put the text on the video as well, for us non-US people

[GeoStreber]

I'm not going to touch anything made by ASUS ever again.
Bought a Framework Laptop a while ago, just as a recommendation.
You know, if you wanna deal with a company that actually gives a shit about their customers.

[TimBatt]

Love the channel but man, hope ASUS paid a lot for this...

[Keiseru]

I hope we'll see some Frore Airjet Mini/Pro coolers in a Ryzen laptop this year! Thin and performant!

[tatsm]

Bring back RAM upgrades.. RAM upgrades improved my laptops' performance

[PaulChambers-GadgetMechanic]

Doesn't matter how good the design is if the company's reputation for customer support is as bad as Asus has earned. It's been deplorable for years. No company's products are perfect, so sooner or later customers are going to have to deal with support. I'd been a loyal customer, but the first time I needed support it was made clear how little they cared about standing behind their products or keeping a loyal customer.

[vldy]

Non upgradable memories on laptops should be illegal

[tellus.aflame]

Would be great to see size and weight numbers in human readable format.

[tienatnguyen]

Why is every big laptop OEM taking the dedicated Home/PgUp/PgDown/End column on the right side away this year? The HP Probook 14 inch line had the column, and this year they removed it too. This laptop is 16 inch, there is plenty of space for that, yet they didn't include. As a programmer I definitely will not buy these laptops solely because I use home and end a lot and I don't want to use Fn + Left for Home.

[LostinSpacetime]

“Pretty good for an AMD laptop.” This might be sponsored by Asus, but clearly not by AMD.

[Jammeone]

Can't wait to see how the battery compares to the MacBook air 15

[safcnono]

Sorry but Asus as a company is simply toxic regardless of products I wouldn't touch them with a barge poll.

[andrewfroedge]

no memory module upgradeability, no sale

[Epsiong]

Yeah I wouldnt buy from Asus for now no matter how good their products might be

[iLegionaire]

No upgradable ram in laptops is absolutely unacceptable

[DogwafflDan]

Yeah, no ram upgrades is a deal breaker, and I've been an AMD user for 25 years.

[SkaMacanan]

My favorite laptop ever my value packed 2020 Acer Swift 14. Full aluminum chassis, good enough number of ports, IPS display with good enough srgb rating for creative work, 1 sodimm slot which I populated with 16GB ddr4 ram, total of 24GB memory. Upgradable Wifi card and M.2 NVME storage. Good enough for Dota full 1080p, low, good enough for Photoshop, some Premiere, some light After Effects.

Asus and the rest of the industry must be joking when they've thought soldered RAM is good enough for 2024. Imagine sending in your laptop for RMA just because the RAM got borked. This is something we shouldn't be copying from Apple and we should be staying from. Also I don't want to overpay system builders for RAM that you can install yourself if given the choice.

[NootNoot.]

2:58 "AMD Strix Point CPUs officially don't support SODIMM slots" Huge bummer. Was hoping AMD would be the outlier as we knew Intel and QC went with soldered on memory before launch. Now AMD is following the rest of the pack in what seemingly means now ALL NEXT GEN laptops are all non-upgradable with RAM. Hoping this entirely isn't true tho.

That said, I'm sure we'll see upgradable ram with like we did with Intel and AMD packaging their desktop parts onto laptops.

EDIT: Forgot about LPDDR5 bandwidth. There's no consumer DDR5 SODIMM that can match it, and with AI and iGPU perf, you NEED bandwidth.

EDIT EDIT: As per AMDs website it does support DDR5.

[TheMaxAwesome]

Can’t trust Asus as a company now. Besides that, soldered RAM is so 2017. CAMM2 or GTFO.