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ChiakiDestiny Posted
The device is great for my engineering works and runs Solid Works flawlessly, the Strix Halo SoC have been treating me well so far. It also play video games quite well, on par with a Desktop RTX 4060 from my experiences. Good thing about a single SOC is I could allocate any amount of memories for either RAM or GRAM within the 64GB of ram available, so a bit similar to Apple Silicon, but manually. And I do find the overall stability to be better and more smooth since the screen do not flashes when unplug or transition between different power modes compared to dedicated GPU laptops, Battery life is fair, and I'd say 100% a step up than last year's model, as I do find the Strix Halo chip to be way more power efficient, and when charging using USB C, so long as you uses balance mode, the laptop stays charged(Performance mode will cause the battery to slowly drain on this Strix Halo model). One particular thing I love about is cooling for this device, even under heavy load, the keyboard area stays cools to the touch(in performance mode), and you can even feel a breeze just slightly above the keyboard, very nice. WARNING: DO NOT attempt to update the graphics or chipset drivers as it will cause stability issues, such as a silent built in speaker or BSOD, but if you use the driver it come with, it is absolutely fine and runs everything well.