Customer Ratings & Reviews

I have to say that the image quality of this laptop looks insane and it is not even the mini-LED version. This is a great laptop for the money. Excellent performance, great quality and it doesn’t cost 3,000 dollars. If you are looking for a gaming laptop that has good performance and visuals without spending a crazy amount of money then I recommend this one. Obviously, this laptops is even better if you use it while is plugged in so it doesn’t drain the battery quickly and be limited by power. If you want all the juice then use it while plugged in. You can use it unplugged but I recommend you plugged it in if you are going to run any heavy tasks or games.

I've been on a Mac for 18 plus years so it was a shock switching to a PC. I wanted to make sure whatever I got would be powerful like my Mac but I needed it to be more for gaming than designing. I went back and forth on what brand to go with and in the end, my choices ended up being the Lenovo Legion, the Alienware, and this ASUS. Price is a factor but this time around I decided that I would go all out and get a specked-out machine as I wanted to make sure it would last for a long time. ASUS had the best laptop for what I was wanting. I knew the i9 14gen and the 4080 was a must. I would have rather had the 4090 but this laptop had the best bang with the 32gb ram and 2TB hard drive. The only way to get the 4090 in an ASUS was switching to the Scar and the spec difference in the two didn't justify the price for me. This 240hz screen is super bright and has a Beautiful color array all my games so far just looks stunning. I don't know what they're doing with their display or the software but they got it right. The laptop starts up extremely fast powers up when it needs to be. The battery is not the best. I'm used to extremely long battery life with my Mac. The battery life on this is actually pretty sad but it's a gaming laptop so it's expected it has a good amount of ports but I think I would've preferred a few more thunderbolt or USB-C ports as that's where everything is going the one flaw that I have with this laptop is its design. The hinges seem strong, but they're ugly. The body isn't bad but it's not sleek when you look at Apple laptops or razors laptops you can see what I'm talking about with a design even the Lenovo legion has a sleek design. Everybody's different and I'm sure people will find the design of the laptop to be stunning, but for me, it just sticks out like a sore thumb, but on the other hand, the performance justifies this weird look to me if you're looking for a powerhouse laptop that can play anything you throw at it and probably will be able to for quite some time at an affordable price. This one right here is by far amazing.

BEAST of a PC. Powerful, quick and relaible. Battery life not perfect but what can you expect from a 4080? Got this laptop for Architecture school and I couldn't be more pleased. Handles Lumion, CAD, Sketchup, Revit and others with EASE. The RGB keyboard could be a bit brighter and the speakers could be louder as well. Also, 2 USB A ports is a bummer. Overall, the ROG Strix G18 a massive BANG for your buck.

This laptop honestly handles pretty much everything ive thrown at it. I wanted something asus partially for sentimental reasons, dumb I know. But my father had this ASUS gaming laptop he got back in 2013, massive machine, that still runs to this day. Maybe not for games from today, but it still runs well. When he got his I knew one day I’d want my own, so it has been kind of a dream of mine since I was a child. But anyway, I first got the ASUS Zephyrus g16 I believe, but the 2023 version. It ran so hot, but thats to be expected with such a thin laptop with even a 4060 in it. I then moved onto the Alienware M16 r2 which I kind of hated. I loved it and hated it. I didnt like the software. It wasnt a bad laptop by any means, I just didn’t like it. That one had a 4070 in it and one of the intel ultra chips so it ran a lot cooler. But it still didn’t have the power I was hoping for. So I finally decided to just spend the money on the one I wanted all along, and there are no regrets. Ive had this laptop since around May or June and its been my daily driver for everything but work, mostly just because the screen is so nice I like to have movies or something on in the background while I work. I use this for gaming as well, and I have had everything set on the highest settings with no issues. I dont play FPS games, but I have zero doubts anyone who does will have any issues either. The only issues I reallt run into are with the RGB and the ASUS armoury crate and aura creator clashing with windows. Sometimes a windows update will leave the RGB useless for a while unless you uninstall the update and wait a while to update things. Or sometimes there may be issues when updating armoury crate and aura creator, so a vice versa kind of thing. But it happens often enough where the RGB isnt on. This is kind of a bigger deal for me personally because I customize the lighting of the keyboard in a way to match the controls for the games I play and have various different ones set up I switch between. Even some that will show me by color roughly how hot the cpu/gpu is or how used those components are. Besides thet issue, its amazing. That really is just a software issue over a hardware issues though. The fans are loud, but I personally don’t mine that like others do. And it pushes out A LOT of hot air, but that is to be expected given the machine itself. The only other thing I would recommend is getting a keyboard cover. There are some issues that come with using one, but if you have pets I highly recommend this. There is a fan that pulls hot air through the keyboard to keep things cool and it does a wonderful job. That being said however, as I am sure you can imagine, it pulls in dust, hair, etc in the process and it is hard to get out of the keyboard. Best advice is to keep it clean from the get go. I tend to remove the keyboard cover when gaming on high settings. But anyway this is an amazing device, and if you can get it discounted its even more well worth it if you like asus products and asus software.

I bought it back in Jul 24, 2024 Not going to lie its prolly the best gaming laptop I have ever put my hands on. -Call of duty 200+fps -Fortnite (ultra 120+fps /low-mid 200+fps) -Star Citizen FPS varies 30-70 depending on location -Gray Zone Warfare 80-140 fps depending on location and foliage -Marvel Rivals 180-200 fps I did my research prior to purchasing the laptop with my previous Gaming devices being a Allienware 2070 super (Desktop) & console (ps5/series X) & the G18 does not disapoint! Extra note: Battery is good for eco mode with GPU off and in silent mode (5 hours of web and video NOT GAMING) -other than than when gaming i always have it plugged in and in performance mode or Turbo (fans speed up)

So far I've loved it. ASUS app can set the battery capacity to 80% max even when plugged in so that it preserves the longevity. Similar to my Tesla. I play World of Warcraft and then have Dkayed YouTube replays on the other monitors. It works wonderfully. I have the laptop screen and two 1440p monitors. Laptop size is somewhat larger size but nothing unreasonable. Wish it had more USB ports, but nothing a dongle can't solve. Overall I'd recommend it. I've had it for 3-4 months. I did buy a laptop fan, again to preserve the laptop's longevity to take care of it.

It really seems well built, good materials on the plastics and the keyboard. Loved the screen and the power of the graphics

Very nice computer. My gamer husband whom is also an engineer needed a new travel computer. I did alot of research and almost paid twice as much for a custom built one. I am glad I choose this purchase he is happy and no complaints. Paying for anything more would have just been expensive bragging rights.

good service, good product. i like the laptop performance. It is good choice for whom interested in heavy games, heavy engineering software and programming

This is my first gaming laptop. Received this open box because it was a fairly good deal considering the hardware. I immediately installed a '96 GB crucial ddr5 RAM kit 5600, as well as heatsinks on both sides of the RAM sticks and heatsink enclosures on both SADs ( had a Samsung 990 Pro 4 TB in it when I received the unit). Everything has worked great so far, I primarily use it for school, running multiple different simulation and programming softwares for electrical engineering and robotics coursework, but I have also ran a few games off Xbox game pass and cloud gaming just to see how it performs and haven't seen any issues off the bat. Overall from the reviews and research I've been seeing it seems like the best deal on the market right now since anything on the market with my current specs is over $3,000.

Display has a dark line going down from top to bottom in the left hand upper corner. I havent had it for very long. It plays games pretty well with max settings. Everything else about the laptop was good. Tried syncing refresh rate. I will see how they handle this issue and I may update the review. Here we go.

Good Fast Good price next time I will buy another one very good gaming laptop

Nice gaming laptop for gaming! Has all the write hardware for gaming and priced right!

Best bang for the buck, especially if you can catch it on sale. Worked perfectly out of the box and super simple to set up with Windows 11. All ASUS ROG STRIX parts inside how can you go wrong, paired with more than ample storage and memory and a stunning display. 5 out of 5

It's really a good product, gaming experience feels so good, in love with this!!! No issues faced till now.

The laptop is definitely worth its money! The only thing I noticed is that it definitely needs a stand with coolers! I play on maximum settings!

Bought this laptop open box for over 2 grand with tax. I went for store pickup the person handing it off said I can add warranty after pickup but it will have to be from the app. I said that's fine. I was going to just activate manufacturer warranty. Here comes the twist. I go home to register product for manufacturing warranty and I was told it was already registered. So basically whoever registered it already left me without a warranty. Reached out to best buy, Agent Samrat picked up the online chat and told me I'm covered. I asked him, how does that work when the person who registered the laptop has completely different credentials such as email and address? He referred me to some links and to call best buy instead when he realized he doesn't know what he's doing. Talk about passing the buck. The link led nowhere special. I ended up just deciding to deal with the best buy incompetence by throwing more money at the $2000+ problem and adding to add geek squad protection for 3 years for a whopping $459 or whatever they wanted and they denied that, saying I need to come in store to take a look at the laptop first. I literally picked this up barely 24 hours ago. Yesterday. And after this major screw up, they keep screwing up by not even letting me add warranty and giving them more money unless I jump through this extra hoop. So this means the Agent who told me "you can just add warranty from the app" doesn't know what he's talking about. I used to work for best buy many years ago. This level of incompetence is not tolerated well, it all falls back on the sales manager and live chat managers not training these people correctly. Train your people. Quit relying on those online modules to train them in store they aren't that effective. I honestly am just going to stick to Amazon in the future. They don't bother me nearly as much as Best Buy has with their incompetence.

I ended up returning it because i found a better deal.

Amazing purchase. This laptop is a beast. I can play all games with ultra graphics and many fps

Great vr performance. Really enjoy the crisp display the gpu output.