I bought this laptop on Black Friday deal for $579 and for me it seems the best choice under $700.

Good gaming laptop for the price under $600 so far I play 3 games with max setting and everything is smooth and I'm using Samsung 34 inch 1080 monitor the quality is awesome super crystal clear A+ for me. I will recommended for the sale price under $600 nobody can beat that! Check out my new customized gaming desktop my own design not finish yet.. :-)

So far, this laptop has been great to me! I haven’t faced that many issues with it, and it’s pretty lightning quick with the responses.

As for me it's a cheap monster! PC Mark 10 score: 4 746 , 3DMark Time Spy score: 3 542, 3DMark Sky Diver score: 22 454. Converted a 2 hours long 480p DVD video located on a USB 3.0 flash drive which was inserted into a USB 3.0 port to the laptop's SSD in just 11 minutes! Which is 8.64 times faster than doing exactly the same video conversion operation on my previous laptop ASUS k43sd . Cooling system works effectively, not letting the laptop overheat and keeping keyboard always cool. Touch pad can become dirty if your fingers are dirty, but it can be easily cleaned 100% with a wet piece of a paper towel. Keyboard buttons are always clean, no matter what. All ports (3 USB, 1 HDMI, 1 3.5mm audio, 1 LAN, 1 power input) are on the left hand side of the laptop. On the right hand side there is only a Kensington lock port. On the left and right side almost near the corners there are small speakers. Laptop case is made of plastic, but what do you want for $579? Plastic is harder than in other laptops and looks stylish. 5 GHz wifi hotspot gives me a strong headake as soon as I turn it on, so i don't use it anymore. In old laptops you had to enter a few commands in a command promt to enable wifi hotspot, but in this Windows 10 laptop all is done via 2 clicks of mouse buttons. There is a Airplane mode available, which if on turns off all the radios (WiFi and Bluetooth). Specs highlights: FullHD IPS screen, i5-9300h 2.4 GHz that can scale up to 4 GHz during heavy load like video conversion, 512 GB SSD, 8 GB RAM upgradable to 32 GB (4 memory slots!) (i5-9300h processor supports up to 128 GB), entertaining LED backlight for keyboard, numerical pad on a keyboard, Bluetooth (no more usb bluetooth dongles, wasting a usb port!), latest WiFi AC (5 GHz), gigabit LAN, dedicated mid-range videocard made in 2019 with 4 GB of GDDR5 memory (I'm not a gamer, so it's well enough for me), no CD/DVD drive, combined microphone / speakers 3.5mm port, advanced cooling system. Windows 10 works fast and doesn't distract your attention during drivers setup, installing Windows updates and so on, although it requires you to set up a Microsoft account to track you. Sometime ago there were many reports that Windows 10 unexpectedly restarted to update itself. Now it doesn't do like that. It offers you to set up a time period, during which it won't be allowed to restart and update itself. In my experience it didn't restart itself until I click "Restart now" at the Windows update page of the Settings window. So no more unexpected restarts during important events :) NVIDIA added to this laptop its own software, that shows you a list of games, that are compatible with your laptop, so no more headache about game compatibility. This laptop's videocard supports DirectX 12 (not raytracing though). If you want to read, create and edit Microsoft Office documents, I suggest you to install Libre Office. Its interface is almost the same as of Microsoft Office and you can do almost everything that you were able to do in MS Office, but LibreOffice is free. It's not an advertising, I use it by myself and recommend to others. If you aren't a hardcore gamer, but need a powerful, but affordable modern laptop with average screen size (15.6"), than this laptop is definitely for you. Worth the money as for me.

Let me just start by saying that I didn't have the highest expectations for this laptop. There were a lot of reviews floating around saying that this laptop was cheaply built. Let me assure you that there is nothing cheap about this laptop. Yes the body isn't 100% aluminum, but the body is actually quite sturdy and attractive. The body itself that houses the keyboard and the parts is aluminum while the top and back covers are made of high quality plastic. I previously owned an Acer Gaming laptop and the build quality on that was garbage in comparison. This is also noticeably much sturdier and better built than the Dell G3 and HP gaming laptops that Best Buy currently has on sale. The parts are easily upgradeable by removing the Philips screws on the bottom cover. Fans are a tad noisy while gaming, but keep the whole system below 70c during gaming. The keyboard is backlit and has a nice feel to it. The only con is the trackpad, but who games with a trackpad anyway? Pick yourself up a DeathAdder Elite for $29 and a Corsair/Steelseries mousepad while you're at Best Buy and you're good to go. The mobile GTX1650 that it sports is on par with a desktop version GTX 970 which is impressive considering it was Nvidia's last gen higher end mainstream desktop card. It isn't as fast as my desktop which uses a GTX 1070, but the GTX1650 is a respectable card. I can run Overwatch maxed without any hiccups and more GPU intensive games such as Far Cry 5 and Witcher 3 at Medium/High settings without any issues. The i5 9300H is also impressive as well and is about the equivalent of an older desktop i7 6700. Still, very impressive at this price point. One thing that was also impressive was the vivid IPS display. Keep in mind that ASUS manufactures excellent IPS gaming monitors. This shines when watching films with vivid colors or nature documentaries. This is surprisingly something that isn't really advertised on here. You can also adjust the color settings to your liking using ASUS' built in program. Either way, you are getting a huge bargain for the price. I highly recommend this laptop for any gamer on a budget. For those who want to play their games on max settings, however, I would recommend the more expensive ASUS offering that has an i7 9750H and a 1660ti for $899.

Recently in to Best Buy looking for a new laptop computer to replace my aging Chromebook. I just built myself a high end spec gaming specific desktop PC a few months ago, so gaming on a laptop was not my primary reason or use, but more of a bonus perk. Truth be told, I had low expectations for a sub $600 laptop capable of gaming, but actually ended up pleasantly suprised. This laptop is capable of running Eve Online, World of Warcraft, Diablo III, Destiny 2, and Guild Wars 2 at mid to high range graphic settings with reasonable fps. This was literally just a snap purchase without a lot of research done before hand. I looked at the specs and the price and figured it would suit my needs. After taking a second deeper look later, I realized the RAM can be expanded from 8GB to 32 GB which is a great bonus. I would have prefered a 1TB hard drive, but the 500GB SSD drive is adequate but games will eat up space quickly. So far overall performance it really good. Muilti-tasking with chrome web browser open browsing 5 tabs with Netflix running in one tab, background processess running Discord, Twitch, iCUE, Gog Galaxy running installing 8 games, and my CPU usage is at 14-20% and RAM usage at 60% and Swap Usage at 85%. Windows 10 is still responsive and quick with opening and browsing the Start Menu and opening folders, copying small files, viewing pictures, etc. Being a gamining computer, this one has an app called Armoury Crate that lets you adjust and tailor the performace of the laptop, options like Cooling, CPU Performance, Noise Reduction, GPU performance, and Energy Saving. It also has AURA SYNC and internal fan settings. The TUG GAMEVISUAL app has a variety of presets for color temps for Racing, Scenery, RTS/RPG, FPS, Cinema, Eyecare, and Vivid. I really liked watching The 100 on Netflix on this laptop with the RTS/RPG setting. Screen was crisp, movie was clear. I am not an adiophile. The sound was good enough for me through the stereo speakers. This laptop has two GPU's. It has the higher performance Nvidia GTX 1650 4GB card and a on chip CPU intigrated Intel UHD Graphics 630 For those who care (Linux Users), wifi is a Intel Wireless-AC 9462 with the Realtek PCIe Gbe Family Controlle. This laptop does have Bluetooth. Cons: While I am happy with the overall performance, I'm not a big fan of the build quality. The plastic feels cheap and flexes a lot. From tapping on the left side of the mouse tough pad, it sounds like there is dead space and it flexes a lot through the keyboard. The keypad layout is small and cramped due to the inclusion of a number pad, which is completely unnecessary. I would have rather had an 80% TKL.

Overall is a great laptop, good materials it feels hard enough and the specs are more the enough for most of the games. The Good Stuff: Amazing keyboard (not all the Asus RGB keybord functions) Excellent performance for a lot of games without any frame rate drop M2-PCI 512gb SSD, this was a great plus and it has also a expansion bay for a SATA hard drive. Sound, i was expecting to have a bad sound on this laptop since my previous laptop had a great quality and a sub-woofer, but the sound quality was really good and loud for a laptop, it was a good surprise 9th Core i5 was definitely a difference i had the same processor but a 7th gen and I can tell the its a huge difference. -Battery life is just awesome i reproduced for about 4 hours a movie to my family and after that i still have 30% left The Bad Stuff: -Fan Noise, is awful coming for a lifetime of having gaming laptops I can say that this is the worse that i ever had, and you dont need to play games to this to happen if the computer if working hard on anything lets say an installation the fan turns on in a "Turbo" mode, you can turn on "Silent" mode but the performance is really impacted -Too many options to customize your performance, this will be an issue if you change from 1 mode to another since the computer says that made the change but you see the same frame rate, to fully finish the change you need to reboot once you change the modes -RGB Keyboard, is awesome and has different colors but you can only change from 1 color to another no color by zones, since this is something that you expect from a RGB keyboard this is not included As i said is a great gaming laptop the military grade components ensure that will last for at lest 5 years and it has great specs my only BIG complaint is the fan noise is just awful to play right next to an airplane.

I was lucky enough to get this gaming laptop during Black Friday 2019 for around $580. The price point is fantastic. The computer is fast and responsive to daily tasks (Watching videos, surfing the web, and editing photos). I was able to play Destiny 2 (High), Planet Coaster (High), Fortnite (High), and Apex Legends (Medium/High) without any issues. The cons for this are the display is a bit dim for my tastes. You can make adjustments but it will probably not be a laptop good for use in a sunny or bright environment. The laptop keeps fingerprints on the keyboard and laptop surface and the keyboard has a bit of flex to it when typing. I would recommend adding at least an 8GB or 16GB stick of RAM for the laptop. Installation of RAM is simple (removing the back of the laptop and putting the stick in the RAM slot) with no removal of anything other than base/back of the laptop. Pros: Good multitasking computer Can play AAA games on medium to high graphics with no or minimal issues. 512 SSD Simple to upgrade RAM and/or SSD Cons: Keyboard has more flex than I am used to on laptops You may need to add more RAM for faster computing processing Dim display (May struggle in direct sunlight) I would recommend buying this laptop if you are able to find it anywhere near the Black Friday listed price. It a great beginner gaming laptop as well as a decent workstation for photo editing.