Customers express satisfaction with the ROG Zephyrus G16's overall performance, screen quality, and portability. The laptop is also praised for its battery life, processor speed, lightweight design, and ample port selection. However, some users have noted concerns regarding heat dissipation and fan noise during intensive tasks.
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Pros mentioned:
Overall performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great laptop
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Posted . Owned for 2 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Great computer. Able to handle anything I have thrown at it so far.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Overall performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Good computer
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I have been using this computer for one month and so far it has proven to be a Good computer
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
mac gaming
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Posted . Owned for 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
fast and sleek laptop
feels like something that shouldn't be possible
I would recommend this to a friend
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Screen quality
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great portable
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Posted . Owned for 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Outstanding computer. Beautiful screen pics. Highly recommend. Only negative was steep price.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Overall performance
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Works well
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Posted . Owned for 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
It works great! All my apps (AutoDesk, Inteilj, and GoDot) run smoothly. Battery is a tad short
I would recommend this to a friend
Cons mentioned:
Heat dissipation
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
Stunningly ineffective :(
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This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
The OLED screen is absolutely beautiful but unfortunately the poor heat management made being able to game on it without a table impossible. It gets burning hot!
My game, not even being played at max settings, froze a number of times.
Just not what it should have performed at for a laptop that cost and had the specs it did.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Brand response from ASUS Answers
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Dear Jovialjester1,
Thank you for sharing your experience with the ASUS GU605CW Gaming Laptop. We are pleased to hear that you found the OLED display to be beautiful. However, we sincerely apologize for the heat management concerns and performance issues you encountered. We regret that this impacted your overall experience with the device.
To help improve performance and thermal management, we recommend following the steps outlined in our FAQ guide linked below. If the issue continues, please contact our support team at https://www.asus.com/us/support/CallUs so we can assist you further or arrange repair service if necessary.
We stand behind our products and continuously strive to improve our products and processes to achieve customer service excellence. For more information, email us at [email protected] and include the case number "N2601026750-0001" as a reference. We will do our best to resolve your case quickly. Your feedback is very important to us and enables us to improve our support channels. Thank you for choosing ASUS.
Best Regards, Chantae ASUS Customer Loyalty US Support
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
It is a wonderful computer. I am waiting for high-speed Internet to start using it.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Overall performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This thing is amazing
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Everything about this laptop exceeded expectations. Its literally better than my desktop.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great gaming laptop
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Great gaming laptop! The fan can get loud when playing something that requires a lot of GPU power, but other than that I have no complaints.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Great laptop, but loud and pricey
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This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
You honestly can't beat the size, screen, and performance combo here. It just runs hot as heck so that makes the fans loud if you want the best possible gaming performance.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Overall performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great
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Posted . Owned for 2 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Everything runs great, make sure to get a cooling fan though
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
It’s a great computer.
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It’s great, it just gets a little hot. But it’s a laptop, it’s going to get hot when you play games.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Processor speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Fast and sleek.
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Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Great machine. Super fast and sleek. However its crazy expensive. If you got the money go for it.
I would recommend this to a friend
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Battery life
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Runs well
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This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
The 5080 runs incredibly well despite the small frame. Battery life is quite good in silent mode.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Overall performance
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Powerhouse in a tuxedo
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Flagship windows laptop. Its a powerhouse in a tuxedo
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Overall performance
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great gaming laptop
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This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
So far it has been great and has exceeded all expectations. No complaints at all.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Beautiful
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This product is a beautiful work of art. Very sleek and easy to transport
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Burns
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Posted . Owned for 2 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Good but get hot. Burns to the touch in certain games.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Overall performance, Screen quality
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Sleek, Crisp, Vibrant, Powerhouse
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Packaging The shipping package was overly large but had an ample amount of packing bubble and cardboard to protect the actual laptop packaging itself. The ASUS laptop box was sleek, minimal packaging. The laptop was protected well and came without any scratches or dents.
Laptop
The first thing I noticed was the power supply. It's so much smaller than Asus power supplies used to be! The brick is still a brick but a slimmer, more lightweight power brick. This itself made me really happy. Cabling was an ample amount to run it around my desk. The laptop is a glossy gray and makes the laptop look more professional but still has hints of a gaming laptop. It doesn’t scream gaming laptop, minus the diagonal bar on the lid, reminds me of an industrial gray color but not cold. The profile of the laptop is slimmer than previous Asus laptops I have had, but still has a bit of weight. I love the look of it and it's smooth to the touch. The mouse pad on the laptop is large centered and goes from the edge of the laptop to the bottom of the keyboard section and recessed in with light edges. It is sensitive to the touch, smooth, and very responsive when using. The keys are responsive, clicky/spongy, i would call it semi clicky, with a low profile. It feels like they curve in towards the center a bit but it is subtle and really can not see it. Dedicated volume control buttons at the top right are well placed. The power button is recessed in and sometimes takes a press or two to get the laptop to respond. I found better success when holding down the button for a moment. I like the low profile of the power button and the shape adds an element of design.
The laptop arrived dead, left it on the charger for a while and it powered up. There is not a dedicated ethernet port on the laptop, it's running on wifi right now. The available i/o ports are ample enough. I haven’t had the need to use a hub. The only time I thought about running the hub for the ethernet port was for game downloads. Smaller games downloaded rather quickly but large games hung at a quarter of the download, but eventually downloaded within an hour and a half. I normally download games through ethernet within a few minutes within a few minutes through ethernet. Startup/set up was simple and quick super easy, just uninstalled the few minor bloatware. Only had to do a few driver updates but those updates were quick.
The OLED screen is sharp, bright, with crisp text. While watching or reading through screens the colors are rich and bright. The games look amazing and lively while looking at the screen. I haven’t found the need to make any adjustments to the brightness, minus changing browsers/app to dark mode. The white on the browser was intense. Built-in speakers are loud and full, I didn't feel the need to hook them up to external speakers as of now. I normally use headphones anyways. Watching videos and movies the speakers were more than enough.
I did experience an issue with the laptop going to sleep and not waking up on the first attempt. THis happened a couple of times. WHen waking up the screen would stay plack and the mouse would appear on screen but the rest was black. After a min the screen would eventually come up but there was no option to input the password to login. Letting the laptop go back to sleep and waking it up again would correct the issue.
Game play i let the laptop do game optimizations. I did not set anything up custom. Gameplay was awesome. I had been having trouble and serious issues with some of my games on my previous laptop. I was finally able to launch and play one of my racing games, I didn't have any of the lock up, freezing, or garbled images or crashes. The game has been running smoothly with no hiccups. Loading times between launching and game play are super quick. I was super happy with it running at full ultra or epic settings, I did notice I had a smile on my face looking at how crisp all of the images were. The laptop picked up on my mouse and controller right away. The fans did kick on and run the whole time. The fan noise eventually faded into the background but the keyboard where you rest your wrist did get hot/warm. Not scalding hot but enough that I lifted my wrist off of it.
Summary
I am super satisfied with the laptop. Start up to launching Steam and getting into the game is fast and smooth. The OLED display is just wow and puts a smile on my face. The colors and the way the videos or gameplay just pop. I love it. My favorite things about the laptop would be, OLED would be my number one and the second would be the power supply being smaller and third is the size of the laptop, and last would be how quick and smooth everything runs.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Good deal
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Posted . Owned for 2 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Nice deal during Black Friday that helped choose this laptop