ASUS - ROG Zephyrus G16 16" OLED QHD 240Hz Gaming Laptop - Intel Core Ultra 9 - 32GB LPDDR5X - NVIDIA RTX 4080 - 1TB SSD - Eclipse Gray

It is very light to compare with other gaming laptops. It has good OLED display, so it is good to watch or create videos besides playing games. Im surprised that the fan is not noisy even if I play honkai starail with full graphic options. Also, Ive heard that intel cpu (which is the only option for RTX4080 and 4090 models) is worse than HX370 of AMD, but trust me; it isn't that bad. The vapor chamber helps a lot. It wouldn't make fan cry for just browsing with multiple tabs on in chrome. Actually it's not that bad. With 50% brightness while working on System Verilog with mutliple edge and chrome tabs on, the battery lasted about 6hours. I think it is decent, considering that it is a gaming laptop. Also, I think the biggest thing that I'm most satisfied of unexpectedly is the speaker. The speaker is very great. It has rich sound.

Solid laptop, top notch build quality, excellent diaplay, with one huge problem. This problem is the Armory Crate software. It has a mind of its own. I just got the laptop 2 days ago, and I have already had to do a factory reset on it. Got every thing back up and running last night did all the updates, then did the proper shutdown powered it off and went ro bed. This morning powered it on, after checking emails and stuff thought to check Armory Crate just to be sure. I hit the Armory Crate shortcut button and nothing. So launched the program from windows and it doesn’t show any option for Slash Lighting, switch off the Bootup sound, OLED Care, or Aura Sync. It says no compatible device found. I mean from last night to this morning, I didnt change a single setting. It’s because of this I am giving it a 3 star.

I’m a content creator who does 4K flight simulator videos. I wanted to see if it’s possible to use a laptop for such a task but it can’t due to the ultra 9. I noticed that the CPU bottlenecks the 4080M SEVERELY. In cpu demanding programs, expect 20%-30% GPU usage, and 30-50fps at the full 2560x1600. However, in non demanding but still intense games like warframe, you can easily max out the game and get 200+ fps at max resolution. It’s very surprising how much fps this thin laptop can produce at times Build quality is the best I’ve ever experienced, can pick it up by the edge with one hand. No flex, can take a beating, Made fully out of high quality metals. But I’d say the BEST thing about this laptop is the screen, oh my GOD, talking about AMAZING. 20/10 on the screen. I had to return mine but ended up keeping it for a month just because of the screen. I’ll never be able to use a non oled device again after this. You can use it in the dark and if you have a black background, it’s like the screen is off and your applications are just hovering in space. I can’t recommend this laptop enough to regular users. Not so much for my fellow high end creators, you’ll need a 4090M. it seems the ultra 9 is up to par with a non overclocked desktop i9-12900k and this laptop’s 4080 is equivalent to a 2080, maybe a 2070 Something that is inportant to me is audio drivers/hardware. A lot of desktops/laptops I used suffer from audio popping. This one has none of that and allows for extremely high bit rate audio too. ASUS nailed it with this one, they should’ve just put an i9 or amd cpu in it though... Would’ve been the best computer I’ve used in my life and I’ve done 2 3090/4090 desktop builds. Some people complain about the gpu tsp on these laptops, from my experience the tdp wasn’t an issue on both the cpu and gpu, cpu would just hit max load fast and cause the gpu to slow down as a result.