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00:00Hey what's up guys, MKBHD here. Welcome back to Dope Tech. I'm your host Marques Brownlee.
00:09Dope Tech videos used to have a theme? Yes. Does this video have any sort of theme at
00:14all? Absolutely not. This is three completely unrelated items, they have nothing to do with
00:20each other, and I'm going to take that as sort of a challenge to make the best segues between
00:27each of them, like a Linus-inspired game of high-tech chain reaction. So, let's begin.
00:35Okay, so I tweeted a picture of these not too long ago, and a lot of you had questions,
00:39understandably, what is going on with these hilariously huge AirPods. So, these are the
00:453X pods. And I don't know why they call them 3X, because they're clearly a lot bigger than
00:50three times the size of AirPods, but they are Bluetooth speakers modeled after AirPods
00:55Pro. They are the size of a camera and a lens maybe, or like a really big coffee mug.
01:02The point is, they're hilariously big, and weirdly enough, even though they definitely
01:06don't go in your ears, even if you are Shaq's size, they still have rubber tips, so that
01:11if you wanted to put them in an elephant's ears or something, they would have a somewhat
01:16comfortable fit, I guess. So, a couple things you may be wondering about them. One, yes,
01:21there is a black and a white version. They do pair quickly and easily via Bluetooth.
01:27And on that stem, you can see there's a couple controls, a power switch, some playback controls,
01:33a microphone, and sadly, a micro-USB charging port. And you can also play music from these
01:39from built-in FM radio, a USB flash drive, or a TF card. Yeah, I have to look that up
01:48too. It's called a trans-flash card, which is basically the same thing as micro-SD. And
01:53they sound like... You're not buying these for how they sound. Come on. These, if you
02:01are wondering, they sound pretty bad actually. They have very, very little bass. They don't
02:06get very loud. Maybe they are kind of sounding like giant AirPods. There are other speakers
02:11of this size that cost around the same amount that get twice as loud and sound much better.
02:16You're not getting these for the sound. But really, this is much more about the novelty
02:20factor. I mean, look at them. How is this not an amazing conversation starter? Just
02:24sitting on a shelf in your living room, you pick these up, they're super lightweight.
02:29And then just the fact that they actually function as speakers and all the sound comes
02:34from where you'd expect them to is pretty sweet. Now, I just want you to know, before
02:37you go out and buy these, they are 40 bucks right now on their site. So I guess I should
02:44expect this, but they are super cheaply built. And you can feel it immediately. You can tell.
02:51It says on their site that they are 3D printed, but I don't really know if I believe that.
02:57There are seams all over the thing. There are screws. The grilles that match the metal
03:02on the AirPods are just stickers. But even if they are 3D printed, it doesn't seem to
03:07help the actual build quality. So don't buy these for the build quality. Don't buy these
03:11for the sound quality. Buy these for the immense flex that not only do you have AirPods
03:18Pro, but now you also have the gigantic 50 times size AirPods Pros that actually function,
03:24which is wild. Although minus the noise cancellation. Actually, what's funny is when they ship these,
03:30you get a black and a white, but they're both left AirPods. But what they should have done,
03:35what they should do is give you one right, one left, and then have them pair up in stereo
03:42mode and let you really get into it. But maybe they'll save that for the second gen version.
03:49Speaking of the second gen version, this is the second gen Asus Zephyrus Duo. Okay, so
03:57you might remember we already had a dual screen Asus laptop in a dope tech video less than
04:02a year ago. That was the first gen one. And I think we can agree the main complaint about
04:07that first version was that screen up against the keyboard was kind of hard to see. It was
04:12a little off axis and that's hard for any display. And then light would reflect off
04:16of it. And you know, it was a matte finish and everything, but that was the problem with
04:20it. So boom, problem solved. So this is basically a sequel and you can see they've built this
04:26actually pretty simple hinge that every time you open the laptop, the second screen also
04:31rises up out of the laptop and tilts towards you a bit for improved visibility. And it
04:37works. And it's a sturdy hinge too. So since it's still a 4k touch screen, still has a
04:41matte finish. It just is that much more likely that you'll actually use it now that you can
04:45actually see it more and you don't have to strain your neck to look down at that screen.
04:49So it's smart design and it also has now this bonus of a little bit of air can flow through
04:53the back there for cooling, which is nice. And there's also the speakers down there.
04:57And then yeah, all the same stuff that I said about that first one, about how awesome
05:01it is to have a dual screen computer that of course applies to this one again too. It's
05:05like the touch bar on steroids, all the multitasking capabilities. But also keep in mind, there
05:11are still all the weird quirks that come from this unconventional form factor too. Like
05:15the fact that there's no palm rest built into the laptop from the keyboard being pushed
05:19so far down. Like the tiny mouse pad, if you actually use it without a mouse. The power
05:24plug is also kind of in a weird place in the middle of the left-hand side, which I
05:28thought was curious. And the battery life also still takes a hit since obviously you're
05:32powering two 4K screens now instead of one. It is a 90 watt hour battery, but you'll notice
05:38the battery depleting much more quickly if you have brightness up on both screens like
05:42I usually do. But hey, I'm happy to see Asus really doubling down on this concept that
05:48was already pretty sweet in the first version and really working to improve it. And this
05:52new laptop also has great specs. It's an unlocked 8-core CPU. It has an RTX 2080 Super
05:58Max-Q, 32 gigs of RAM, solid state storage. It's definitely a capable machine and they're
06:04not shy about what it is capable of, but I think the coolest part is that Asus is listening
06:10and is making stuff like this. And I think possibly the most telling part about how they
06:14expect you to use this laptop is in the ports layout. So like I said, power plug is on the
06:19left-hand side. That's along with the mic and headphone jacks, two full-size USB and
06:24one USB type C on the right-hand side. And then in the middle of the back, there's USB,
06:31Ethernet, and HDMI, which is pretty perfect if you're going to use it as a desktop replacement.
06:37That's the type of stuff you'd run down the back of your desk while attaching the whole
06:41thing to a monitor, which boom, brings us to our third and final item. That was smooth.
06:48This is the Samsung Odyssey G9 49-inch ultrawide gaming monitor. This thing is ridiculous in
06:55so many ways. So everything about this monitor is to the limits. First of all, it comes in
07:01this box, this insane box, and then it's a 49-inch diagonal monitor. So biggest monitor
07:07I've ever used. And then it's at a 5120 by 1440 resolution. So 5K wide, which doesn't
07:13make it the first monitor of that resolution, but I do believe this is the first one we've
07:18seen at a 240 hertz refresh rate with HDR 1000 certification, thanks to QLED. So it
07:24gets crazy bright if you need it to. It has a one millisecond response time. It supports
07:29Nvidia G-Sync over DisplayPort 1.4, and it's curved, massively curved. So curved monitors,
07:36there's different levels of the amount of curve you can have. This monitor is what's
07:40called a 1000 radius curve, which just means basically if you put these monitors into a
07:46circle till they all connected, the radius of that circle would be 1000 centimeters,
07:53which without any context doesn't really mean anything. But what they're trying to tell
07:56you with that number is it is very, very curved around that center point. And so it sticks
08:00out a lot from the base as a result. Apparently the curve matches the human eye. The bottom
08:05line is the experience you get sitting in front of this thing, right in the middle,
08:09right up close using it, and especially gaming on it is one of maximum immersion. I've never
08:15had a monitor get into my peripheral so much. And then it checks most of the rest of the
08:20other boxes from a high-end monitor. There's two DisplayPort, one HDMI, and a USB hub and
08:25audio jack around the back there. DisplayPort is definitely the best way to get the most
08:29out of this monitor. I also kind of wish there was USB type C Samsung, as long as we're trying
08:34to check all the boxes, but it doesn't have that. And then also around the glossy white
08:37back, you can turn on the RGB lights in the middle and this thing glows. It's pretty sick.
08:44It's kind of like this infinity void, even though you never have to really look at the
08:48back of your monitor, at least, you know, it's there and hey, maybe you get a little
08:51spillover onto the wall behind it. But what's actually nice about this back besides the
08:56cable management is this headphone holder, because even though it is kind of hard to
09:00reach behind a huge monitor like this, it's nice that they thought about that and put
09:04something back there because when you have this monitor on your desk, it's really hard
09:08to have anything else on your desk. So that is the price you pay for this huge, vast expanse
09:15of a screen. But hey, a lot of people looking at this right now are thinking, you know what?
09:19That's worth it. I want this. So if you are one of those people who literally wants to
09:23buy this, along with anything else mentioned in this dope tech, below the like button,
09:27I'll leave all the links to everything. This you'll find is 1700 bucks, which is definitely
09:33expensive for a monitor. It costs more than the equivalent of like buying two separate
09:3927 inch 240 hertz monitors. But I mean, the badass factor of having it all in one unit,
09:48the lack of a bezel in the middle, the HDR certification, the QLED, the image, the curve,
09:56it's kind of hard to match this. Now for me personally, like I've gamed on this a bit.
10:00I've never been a huge ultrawide person. I need the vertical pixels when most of the
10:05work I'm doing requires vertical scrolling. So ultrawides are ultrawide. They've never
10:10really been very tall. So 1440p, not enough pixels vertically for me, but for gaming,
10:15I mean, this thing is incredible and that's why it's dope tech. So that is the Samsung
10:21Odyssey G9. This has been dope tech. I hope the segues were up to par for at least what
10:27I set the expectations to be at the beginning of this video. Thanks for watching. Catch you
10:32guys in the next one. Peace.