Customer Ratings & Reviews

Possible hardware issue caused random freezing, but can't be absolutely sure it was hardware. Definitely has the high pitched noise at some points, but not sure that's actually abnormal as some people have said.

Great laptop but there are others with better value and construction

I have a desktop with but i wanted a good laptop and i bought an Alienware at first with a 4070 and i dont know but the battery life was horrendous so i returned it and bought this one and it was a day night different i highly recommended this laptop

those comments about the screen are true, but to be honest it's not noticeable at all during normal use. I found out about mine by turning off all the room lights and closely examining the screen to see those, so don't worry about it. Good price, superior performance.

This is such a great computer for both gaming and work. I use illustration software and also play MMOs and it has handled everything I have thrown at it so far. Saying that, I DO want to upgrade my RAM as I may need to run more intensive programs in the future, and this would also be preferable when handling larger files. It is a very quiet computer and haven't had any issue with whine as some have stated. The screen quality is also excellent. The only issue is that very occasionally when switching from integrated to dedicated graphics, the screen will appear black, but if I press the power button briefly it will come back on the load screen and I just press out of it and then all is good. Based on a month of use I would definitely recommend, and look forward to how well it will perform with a higher ram installed.

This laptop is probably one of the best value deals out there. It was an easy upgrade from 16GB of RAM to 64GB and I added a 2 TB nVME drive to get some more storage.

I travel a lot for work, and I bring this beast with me every time. This bad boy is able to run most AAA games on medium- high settings. Don't let's the jet engines beneath you worry you, just means this bad boy is blasting your gaming experience into the stratosphere

A really powerful gaming laptop for way cheaper than comparable specifications from other brands. I have seen some poor reviews because of coil whine. My own unit barely makes any sound besides the fans blowing and certainly not enough to be a bother. I can tell that it is on but it makes maybe 1/10th the noise that my ps5 does. I did read online that some updates to the software and a different power supply is now added with it that solved the issues people had. Overall though it looks great. feels great. sounds great. The screen being 16:10 (less wide more height) is something that you may not be used to but i prefer it. I am really happy with my purchase despite being a little worried by the reviews before i bought it. It runs all the games i play on top settings and the screen is so vibrant compared to my alienware r4 m17. its a lot lighter and less bulky aswell despite being an 18" screen.

Its not the 4090, but this is a sweet laptop! Plays any game with superior FPS compared to my 1060.. major upgrade! Clear picture, fast, and surprisingly very light weight! Highly recommend if you cant afford the 4090!

I am really picky when it comes to gaming electronics and this laptop excels beyond all of my expectations from the vibrant display to the gaming performance. This laptop is flawless for those who are looking for the best gaming experience they could get their hands on.

Let me preface this review with the fact I bought an "Open box - Excellent condition" unit. It was missing all the "new experience" things like plastic on the unit and clearly looked like it had been handled by end users/techs. Using it for less than an hour initially I can see why it was a return. When I started it up, it was locking up and stuttering and would not allow even app installations or driver updates. I ended up giving it a clean install of Windows 11 and most of the problems went away. Kudos to Asus for having all their drivers available for download. Armory Crate is as large and bloated as always but it is required not only to control your lighting but it does extend other functionality for GPU overclocking (if you so choose) and SOME CPU control but not enough to tame the outlandish 100c thermals of this monster. On paper this thing is an absolute beast. You get a full power 4080 pulling 175w. You get the top dog Intel 13980HX chip. You get a monster 18" display that is bright and gorgeous at 2560x1600. Temps out of the box are fantastic even under sustained load for multicore. The 13980HX chip is giving you out of the box performance same as a 12900k or 13700k which is crazy powerful. The mobile 4080 is clocking in at DESKTOP 3080 level performance and is a truly worthy upgrade over last gen 3000 series GPUs even the mobile 3080ti. Even under load the fans aren't super loud which was a pleasant surprise. Audible? Most definitely, but I've heard much worse on much less powerful laptops. It isn't even that heavy for all the power you're getting. Asus clearly did their homework taking care of the cooling and offering some serious power at a great price point. I spent several weeks with it not only benchmarking it but playing a lot of World of Warcraft Dragonflight and Fallout 76. WoW is very GPU intensive now especially at higher resolutions so I found many spots (especially in Valdrakken) that really pushed the FPS down at Ultra 10 settings into the 60s and 70s. It ran Fallout 76 pretty well keeping a rough average around 100fps which is nice. I absolutely adore the keyboard. It is large and well spaced and felt well when typing on it. But all that good is wiped away from several cons for the Asus G18. Two of these are deal breakers. For starters, the display. The ghosting and bleed is ridiculously bad. The entire bottom of my display is lit up along with the sides and top corners. Any dark display and the bleed is just not acceptable. It seems to be a problem of the panel itself and the display bezel is attached extremely tight further increasing the bleed. I tried for weeks to get over this issue but it was eventually one of two issues that is making this a return. Second is the lack of memory options. This laptop is not only stuck on 4800 rated DDR5 but it balks at most dual rank modules or faster timings. If you want to run 5600+ memory, most dual rank modules or faster timings on 4800 modules the system either won't train/boot or fails memory diagnostic tests in Windows. I was lucky to have access to many makes/models of DDR5 modules from 4800 to 5600 speed to test while trying to find the fastest pair and the limitations in rank, timings and speed were disappointing. This was tested with the G306 BIOS update. I did not get a chance to test the 307 BIOS with various kits of memory as I no longer have them in my possession. Third, is coil whine. Don't let companies tell you it is, "normal." It is not. I've owned plenty of laptops and desktops and I will not settle for a card rife with coil whine. I will return it and try another till I find one greatly minimized or not at all. If it was normal, they would all whine. The fact you sometimes get whine and other times do not just doesn't fly with me. Fourth, the PSU adapter plug is awkward and for the size and heft I feel it puts a lot of pressure on the power port. Having seen too many laptop power ports fail after time due to stress, I am not a fan of the design nor placement on the left side. I would have preferred it on the rear of the unit. Lastly, temps. When gaming where fewer cores are in play, this unit will consistently push to 5.1-5.5ghz and temps will peg to 100c with fans going full. I waited and installed the G307 BIOS update and while that allowed a full -0.080 under volt, the unit still would peg right back to 100c when gaming. The GPU also hit thermal max every time which is 87c. This all adds up to a hot and bothered unit and heat and noise. There is no way to adjust core frequencies down per core. Even turning off e-cores doesn't help. Yep, right back to 100c. There are several other laptops on the market powered by the 13900hx-13980hx range of CPUs that do not hit even in the 90s under load. For a laptop that only comes with a 1 year warranty, this was the second major issue that is causing a return. As powerful as this unit is with a large, expansive display the negatives outweigh positives. Even with BIOS updates, nothing will negate the deal breaking bleed/ghosting of the display, CPU and GPU temps or coil whine. I will give Alienware or MSI a try next.

The big screen is excellent and the main reason for my purchase. The only thing I didn't like right away is that the arrow keys are full sized compared to other laptop keyboards, so other keys had to be shortened, but it was designed to be that way as this is a gaming laptop.

I have had this computer since January and I have been using it as my daily work station as well as my weekend gaming station. I haven't experienced any issues at all and the fit and finish is overall good. There is a little bit of backlight bleed in dark areas but most of the time is isn't noticible. The keyboard is enjoyable to type on so I had no issue coming form a mechanical one to this one. For the money you really can't beat this computer especially if you can score it on sale like I did. overall 9/10.

Great laptop, but as all laptops they do tend to be on the hotter side sometimes I have audio bugs but I think it’s just the stuff that I have. Still runs all games great highly recommend. Screen is great I think it depends if you get a faulty one for the screen tear

This was a great laptop for the price and specs, it's a shame that the coil whine and screen bleeding issue exists though.

Excellent laptop that is a work horse and there for you during off work gaming. Truly a one PC I use at work and at home gaming due to 18 in massive screen.

I got this laptop as a desktop replacement going from a 11th gen i7 and 3080ti. This laptop blows my desktop out of the water. I was getting higher FPS in all my games on ultra and the 18" screen looks great. Now that all sounds great so why the 3 stars you ask? well.. this is my opinion but this computer could be better, the cooling on this laptop is not great costing you lots in performance. You would think with the larger footprint the fans could move more air but they are just not large enough nor they run fast enough even in turbo mode. I ended up with the Acer predator 16 with the same specs 13th gen i9 and 4080 and as an example I'm getting about 130fps in cyberpunk with all the setting on ultra and DLSS on performance, if I switch DLSS to quality I'm at 100-110 on turbo. On the Asus I was getting 90fps on performance and 70 on quality. Few other notes, the 18" screen looks great but the laptop is bulky and heavy and good luck finding a bag that would fit this thing, also the Armory crate software is pure garbage and was giving me stutters during game play that I spent hours trying to figure out why till I found it was the armory create. If you end up with this computer and you have glitches, lag or stutter in your game then consider something like "G-Helper" its a replacement software, you can find the source code on github.

Awesome, son loves. Looks great, works perfectly for engineering college, plus great for gaming. Definitely expect to last thru the next few years of college

Cool, quiet, and unyielding power. The lighting effects are smooth, the design is sleek, and the overall weight is low. Switches to the iGPU to save battery when needed.

Owned a couple ASUS gaming laptops from a couple generations ago. Had siniliar issues with those, too. Bought this one to stay relevant with more demanding titles. ASUS does have the most reasonably priced tech compared to others. This experience was a rough start similar to generations past. 1.) Gotta get over the known black screen of death a couple of times and past the Windows start up process, 2.) Spend a couple hours researching how to fix issues, 3.) Update BIOS and change display to use Nvidia GPU only cause switching betwen integrated GPU causes black outs and power shut down and finally 4.) Restart and ready for use. So far so good?