ASUS - ROG Zephyrus 15.6" QHD Gaming Laptop - AMD Ryzen 9 - 16GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 - 1TB SSD - Eclipse Gray

The size and weight of this device are exactly what I want in a laptop of this caliber! Insanely fast in every benchmark & daily usage task it performs. Really really insane performance for the price (on sale under 2k with tax!) However that performance comes with a cost and the battery life while downloading games and watching some videos has a little to be desired, I can only get about 3.5/4 hours with the laptop in its default state, however lowering the refresh rate and making a few other adjustments you can squeeze just about 5 hours, but still not as much as I was expecting even with a hefty 90kwh battery! The CPU while doing normal tasks on & off battery power regularly exceeds 80C & while gaming reached a maximum of 89.3C playing Halo Infinite multiplayer (the main game I plan to play on this device) for around an hour, while it’s not the worst, it definitely limits clock speeds so don’t expect anything passed 3.2ghz out of these 8 cores. But luckily it doesn’t throttle, since the ceiling is so high (105C!!) so at least the performance doesn’t degrade while using the device. The GPU stays in a very comfortable temperature range of 70-73C while gaming in Halo Infinite multiplayer. Settings are default that puts at high quality & runs at about 100FPS which is super smooth and looks amazing on its screen. For me the device does not get hot enough not to touch it, but does feel a little uncomfortable on the lap, definitely a “desk” laptop and not a couch gaming device. Sometimes on some surfaces for some reason the device doesn’t feel perfectly level, and the right side wobbles a few millimeters making me feel like the device is warped. My only real QC complaint is that it seems slightly off like a chair that isn’t perfectly on the ground at times. Biggest negative I hope ASUS listens to is please stop soldering RAM to the motherboard, as it is typically one of the most common points of failure in any PC, and if one module fails the whole device is rendered unusable. I can only hope for the longevity of this laptop but I have a feeling it will be rather short. I would maybe look to other options in the future if this devices fails but for now I put my faith in ASUS for hopefully making a laptop that lasts 3+ years

Good computer but bundled software sucks. Fans can start at 100% and need restart to fix.

If you work and play on the move then this laptop is excellent for you. It fits right into a professional environment. Nobody would suspect you're spending your "lunch break" gaming.

amazing computer for gaming/work. I have been using it for more then 3 years now

Purchased this gaming laptop 2 years ago and it works just as great as the first day I bought it. Runs all of the games very smoothly even the new games they have come out recently. Great to us for students and for business purposes. Great purchase. Highly Recommend this laptop.

Amazing laptop , 3080 video card is perfect . I’m glad to get something powerful and portátil . And it so light weight .

This is ridiculous. Asus is a garbage company that makes garbage products. This is legitimately my 4th try to get a non defective laptop from them and my 4th defective laptop. This one arrived with dead pixels on the screen. They claim there is no known issues, yet this is my 4th try. Spend your money on something that wont be defective out of the box. They will also have their staff do some damage controll by commenting on this post, but they are of 0 help. Avoid this headace and get something that works correctly.

Bought this laptop on 1/26/22... 4/20/22 Computer is overheating running excel or chrome... Turned it to Best Buy, going to see if they can fix it. Out at least 2 weeks, if not more if they decide to just replace it.