This device is SO COOL. After seeing it, I think folding laptop screens are gonna be the future of this space. 20”+ laptops can be a thing! Would you want a monster screen like this? Does that crease/ripple bother you?

Asus' engineers are given permission to do the f they want, what a dream job! While other companies talk about their "cool patented hinges" (yes, Alienware..), these guys actually come up with exotic out of the box high tech stuff. Nice!

I can't wait to see where this device goes in the future. I hope Asus sticks with it. I work in the manufacturing and engineering industry, where something like this would be GAME CHANGING in the development and quality rooms.

Aside from the whole folding display thing making me heavily question the durability of this thing, this is actually a very neat product and i'm glad we're getting some actual innovation for once. This very much feels like a spiritual successor to the thinkpad x220t, which is to this day what i consider far and away the best laptop design.

Finally, a practical use for foldable screens. I find laptop screens to be really small, so having a big screen wherever you go is something I can really appreciate.

This is the first foldable device I’ve actually been genuinely impressed by. I’m excited to see how this technology evolves.

This is an amazing design, I’d personally never really buy something like this but if it ever gets small enough it’s definitely something to consider

Asus missed an opportunity for this device to also be a *Portable/mobile monitor* not having DP/HDMI in. What if you already have a more powerful laptop/desktop? This could be used as a second or third monitor option on the go What if you want to plug your Nintendo Switch or Valve Steam Deck into a bigger screen? This could have done that as well.

This looks incredible! I would love to see a month update to see if the folding crease gets bad

Such a sweet and fun design! Can't wait for Apple to launch a folding MacBook in 20 years and call it groundbreaking 😅

this is sweet! Hoping they release laptops like this which also have good graphics cards, that would be the dream, being able to use it as a large tablet for sketching, and also as a large screen with the keyboard for adobe work, 3d modelling/rendering, and gaming!

I appreciate Asus for making such bold moves in laptop industry cause from few years we see that only smartphone industry is getting serious innovations....but looks like laptops are catching up too.👍 Btw loving your videos...dude seriously your explanation is beyond amazing ❤️

I'm actually curious how does this compare to Lenovo's X1 Fold. Can't wait for Asus to release this for benchmark

Asus is absolutely slaying this time with their really bold and unconventional line up! And that too with no compromise on specs!

The awesome thing about it is that, if you want to use it in traditional laptop mode, it truly is a no-compromise laptop experience. No wobbly hinge, upper center of gravity, unlappability. It’s essentially a traditional laptop until you decide you want something more, and then boom, big-ass tablet mode for you.

Love to see a 27-inch screen on a laptop in the future!! Good for ASUS. ps: Lenovo really did it wrong on its Thinkpad X1 fold. Too small for productive work.

Ok this is the first Foldable that is genuinely useful. A portable compact 17 inch screen is a killer app.

what you're saying towards the end is what I've always been saying about foldables. the idea is to have a large screen (for those of us who need them) that you can just fold down into something more portable when you're no longer using it, or when you no longer need that large of a screen

Love your videos as you cover both the pros and cons in a fairly unbiased manner. One thing about this video though, I'm surprised you didn't mention the Thinkpad X1 Fold which was released in Nov 2021 preceding Asus by over a good 1.5 years. The two devices are virtually identical in size and differ only perhaps in cpu, ram and storage config.

I LOVE that they put the taskbar on the crease when the keyboard is on, maximizes the perfectly flat screen realestate for the important stuff!

Have you done a setup tour before? That room looks so sick.

It would be smart to have gold contact pins for the keyboard to charge and cut down on latency for this sort of device. The lenovo fold is a similar device to this, and has me thinking this sort of device will be coming into popularity in the future. I hope wacom hops on this train for the stylus support, or for windows stylus support to continue to improve, something like this would be ideal for artists.

this is some really great engineering. i would love to see a 2.0 version of this that cleans up those bezels and brings the cutting edge QOL improvements to foldables tech like the galaxy fold 3 has.

If that foldable screen fails, it would be a really expensive mistake

Earlier in the day, I was seeing this device on Asus India's website and wondering why didn't Dave make a video on it yet, it's so cool. And here u r today itself. What a timing Dave! T hanks for covering this. I'm hoping u will also check out the upcoming Galaxy Book 2 Pro series from Samsung this year as well. Cheers!

I’ve always likes Asus, reliable products, always with great design. This time, they hit the ball out of the park. I only hope the hinge really is as durable as claimed, with no premature wear before the 30.000 fold mark.

First foldable device I'm actually impressed by and don't think it's a useless gimmick but actually useful!

0:54 Who's holding the camera? I never noticed before, but I just assumed Dave was a 1-man team.

this looks cool for normal tablet stuff, but as an artist, I feel like the crease is still an issue. I'd probably just use on half for the pallet and UI and the other for canvas.

technology has come so dang far lately. I'm stoked that laptops are adopting the folding screen, I feel like this could be the push to making it more of a thing.

while my ad buffered i read the description and thought dave had just lost it, all laptops fold in half!

This actually looks incredible! This is the first thing that's legitimately made me want to upgrade.

This kind of device needs easily replaceable screens. It is soft, it bends, you put stuff onto it (like the keyboard), dirt can damage it from behind .... the processing hardware will outlast the screen easily.

I'm really interested in a mixed use case, where you have it standing half-folded (like normal laptop) with main content on vertical screen, scratching/drawing/notetaking pad on the horizontal screen and keyboard down closer for the need of typing.

this concept is so cool. A super portable laptop which extends when you need to, as most people use laptops on desks a lot. My only concern would be the flexibility of the OLED panel and longevity as mentioned in the video. And I'm guessing these panels arent going to be easy to replace if damaged and the starting price of this laptop is probably going to be around £2000 if I had to guess.

ASUS using that "old" Lenovo design. I really hope this catches on and more companies do this. It is a really neat solution.

Love the no nonsense approach of this channel

your excitement is contagious homie

In a few years, we're going to look back on this laptop and other foldables and wonder how we used such thick and outdated looking devices. Crazy how tech can advance so quickly!

this is honestly so cool just from a coding perspective, would love to use this as my main display on my desk with my mechanical keyboard then be able to just grab and take it to a coffee shop with the asus keyboard

It makes so much more sense to integrate a folding screen into a device like a laptop that already folds, rather than inteoduce an unnecessary fold to a device that doesnt need to like a phone

The fact that it comes with the keyboard instead of charging you extra for it is a huge PLUS already.

I literally said when folding screens came about that they should be used as a way to make proper large screen real estate more portable - FINALLY people are doing it. I think I'm working in the wrong industry.. 🤣

Damn this is so cool!! Asus has been on fire last couple of years! I really respect the creativity of their designers and engineers!

this computer is A PIECE OF ART . i love the innovation

This is what I alway wanted the surface to become. Every laptop should follow this and make keyboards like that. It’s a great form factor and can’t wait to see future models

bruh i just want a regular laptop w 3070 for less than a whole kidney

I like the size of the screen, other than that it is IDENTICAL to the Lenovo X1 Fold from 2 years ago - which i have been using when I travel (I guess you never got to try one of those?).

For an architect, when I want to present a plan for a client, this would be a dream!

I really like this report. I’ve been looking to get a folding device. I did wonder how long apple or samsung was going to take to get it happening. Apple offring a 20” is a bit much, i’d prefer 15” that folds down to fit a small carry bag just for portability. Unfolding into a 20” screen is not meant for handheld outdoor usage, it requires a table, it requires a full backpack or briefcase. 15” is large enough to be handheld, small enough to fit folded in a neat little notebook sleeve or handbag. So perhaps apple will offer a somewhat smaller device along with the 20”, a mini which would be perfect for me. I really don’t want a wrist breaking keyboard with flat chiclet keys, as none are ergonomic unless it is angled to ease wrist twisting and concave keys for good finger placement. If it’s not done right, i’d rather buy a folding bluetooth keyboard that fits my ergonomic needs.

I could see this screen in a "laptop" in the future, being place in a stand-angle of our choice, without ugly middle spot, so that we will actually carry our home-setup with us wherever.

This reminds me of Microsoft's Neo project that never saw the light of day. I love the idea of the neo, pull the keyboard off and now you have 2 displays. I think this is cool too, but one large display is not quite as useful as two distinct displays IMO. With two distinct you can still have glass screens, for way more durability, easier management of separate applications, etc. My #1 use case would be one display for applications (the top display), and the bottom display to take notes. But there's plenty of other stuff that works great for dual screens, especially for programming. Dual displays > folding displays IMO.

I was so exhausted at the end of working day & suddenly saw this folding laptop thumbnail from Dave & immediate excitement kicks in, I want one, how much $$

Concise and informative as usual, thanks Dave.

Ideally I want the monitor to be a peripheral. For my CAD work flow 2 matched displays that are reasonably large are ideal. So 2 displays that are thin clients wireless or wired to a compute element that is seperable like the keyboard would be an ideal portable work station. An EGPU would also be a nice element. A modular upgrade and reuse path for each element. Folding to a half screen for on a plane or at a meeting table seem ideal.

I think you will find that Lenovo did this already… Different size, poor performance but same engineering…

This looks so dope and futuristic man

They can make bezels so thin these days personally I’d rather have bezels in the middle than a crease that eventually fails

I'm happy with my Flow X13 as a travel device. It's very small and it has an integrated mobile 3050ti for on-the-go gaming.

Very cool device indeed, for someone on the move to have the option for small or big screen is awesome, opens many new productivity scenarios. I just think that big crease combined with shinny reflective screen isn't a great visual experience, maybe final product will improve on that

I love stuff like this where they're really experimenting with the possibilities and innovating designs and ways that we can use devices differently

Very similar to the Thinkpad X1 Fold - hopefully the Zenbook Fold flies where the X1 Fold Stumbled (mainly performance and price). MrMobile has a great video on the X1 Fold if any of you want to see a previous iteration of this same idea

Cheers to Asus for keeping the innovation running!

This is a cool product and it's awesome that they're pushing the boundaries. That said, it's not for me as i'm much happier with a classic laptop and an iPad to accompany it.

1:16 Dave2D's hacking skills on the test LMAO

That thing looks awesome. One of the best implementations for a folding screen yet.

I'll be honest and say I have a cynical side to my brain that's being unnecesarily judgy of this. It looks like a great idea, and I love seeing companies doing different things with every-day tech. If we never did that, we wouldn't have had so many of the things we have now, and how many of those things had an initial reaction of "You want to put WHAT on the phone?". I will say- it's obviously not going to be the best product, straight away. I think things like this require that initial jump so they know what to work on in the future, the same as they did with 3-in-1 laptops, or things of that nature, tech that didn't do exactly as the rest of its kind did, so while I'm (I'd say, understandably) a little cynical of this exact model, I'd love to see what future this line is going to have.

Wow, imagine how cool folding laptops will be when the underlying screen and hinge technology evolves

already ordered one waiting for it now !!

I love not seeing ads on all of your videos

It looks like a prototype to me. Also, I'm a bit surprised that Samsung still hasn't released a laptop like that given how they've basically been working on foldable devices since 2010.

I'm not hyped that we devolved from using glass screens that could only scratch scratched with metals and higher in hardness scale. To using plastic screens that are so soft that I could literally scratch it with my finger nail

The thunderbolt 4 in the laptop is a bonus, you can run docks off the laptop with all the extra devices like external hard drives, LAN networks and extra monitors. One wonders with sitting the keyboard in the laptop position and changing it on a daily basis, would it end up scratching the unused screen surface? Or is there a big enough space between the screen and the bottom of the keyboard, would it warrant a sleeve over the unused half of the screen. These type of screen set up with touch control in mind tend to get very dirty quick. More ram and a i9 cpu and you could use it as a gaming laptop depending on the gpu.

Never knew I could be this early

Well, Yes, it is cool, but it's the same concept as the X1 Fold from Lenovo, that came out in 2020, yet it was only 13" (10" in "Laptop"-Mode). I would like to see more Companies do a thing like this

Here's the math for a 22" folding laptop screen that folds up to be the size of a 15.6" laptop. √((9×2)^2+12.8^2) 12.8" x 9" is the size of a screen with a 15.6" diagonal. The aspect ration when it's unfolded is a bit off, but close enough. There's also the potential of stretching things a bit to get to a 24" screen without making it too much bigger than this. Personally, I'd love a device like this. the keyboard that they slid into the middle of the fold (which was a great idea that Lenovo came up with) seems like the best way to store a companion keyboard, and a mouse (like the Microsoft Arc mouse) that could fold flat and clip onto the power brick for storage and charging would round out the package for a "larger" size folding mobile workstation. Larger size would leave more room for bigger battery (although I'd guess most folks would just want to plug it in), but more importantly, larger size would make it easier to fit a higher power processor and graphics in with the kind of cooling they would need. Asus seems like the company with the courage to build something like this. Let hope that they can improve the folding tech (i.e. the screen crease) as they bring out future models of this sort of laptop with bigger screens and more power.

I don't really care about any issues with this particular laptop - this concept is gonna be so awesome when someone makes an actual good version of it in like 5 years. Having a 20" screen on a laptop that can fold down to 14" is a game changer.

I don't mind the crease. But to me that starts to look more like an external monitor with a keyboard, than a laptop. :)) It's a cool concept! Let's see how many people would like to use such a crazy product.

I can really feel his passion when he talks about tech... It moves me as well

I am surprised at his enthusiasm for this. He must own a 3D television too. This "folding" craze has always seemed like a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

This is the thing man, this is the thing

we are not far away from having hologram laptops or screens that we see in futuristic movies, its all going to come soon.

3:35 That animation though!!

By looking at the title, it looks like an Asus laptop. I wouldn't be wrong thinking about who would be making it.

Love to see tech innovations moving forward.

I like the cover design, the reflection effect is so dope! The rest not really, it looks like super thick leather agenda/organizer.

You are awesome I've been tired of searching a lot

Putting the keyboard ON the screen make me feel the scratchs coming

This awesome I cant wait, just imagine filliping it horizontally and kicking a 17" Gameing Setup

Came excited because I thought some manufacturer did a close to regular shaped laptop with a foldable screen without a touchpad but when folded it's much smaller. Not this silly thing.

This is way more practical than a foldable phone

I WILL WAIT FOR THE 4TH OR 5TH VERSION OF THIS.

That aquarium in the background is super cool

Asus hands down is the most creative computer company.. they are not scared to just make different devices.. they have so many to choose from

This device looks brilliant. Having a bigger screen is always favorable and if you can fold it to make it more portable then all the better. Will be keeping an eye on this!

Asus really has been popping off with their laptop innovations lately

Laptops becoming a portable 17 inch displays is so cool

I could actually see this being useful in the future. Once the crease is solved, if it ever is, this could be where laptops and foldables end up.

Very clever. Finally something that does not feel like a simple gimmick unlike many other "revolutionary" designs.

Asus is the pinnacle of innovation and a big competition for laptop companies.