Customer Ratings & Reviews

This thing performs way better than I expected, and the Asus Armoury Crate makes me wish my gaming desktop was an Asus based machine as well. I got this mostly because I want to get out of my workshop from time to time where I both work and do most of my gaming and making. Being in there 24/7 made me start to hate it. I play mostly Minecraft and Apex Legends, when on my laptop, and this does that magnificently on highest settings for both. I also fired up the Xbox app and started playing games like Just Cause 4, Forza Horizon 5, and Gears. It handles all of them beautifully. I figured the Nvidia card only being a RTX 3060 would send me back to my desktop for any serious gaming, but suprisingly I haven't found it lacking yet. You do have to set the refresh rate to 165hz in Windows settings, which I wish you could do via the Armoury Crate (maybe I just haven't found it yet), but everything else, including switching from iGPU to dGPU is so smooth. The keyboard feels excellent, the sound is decent, and the touchpad is the best I've used (my other two laptops are HP Spectre x360 and an M1 macbook, and this touchpad IMO is better than both). I did at least 2 weeks of comparing machines, and budget wasn't really a limiting factor, I just wanted to get the best value that I could considering my other machines. I had 2 other machines that were $1.8K and $2k respectively, and I'm super happy that I went with this machine instead of the others, which basically the only difference being a more powerful graphics card. It has both types of USB ports for both modern type-A devices, and traditional type-A gaming devices. Anther nice touch is the microSD card slot, which makes it easy for me to format cards for SoC and embedded devices, and GoPro cards. I can finally throw away all the adapters. I'm also ordering a new M2 SSD, since this has an empty expansion slot. One last thing; I thought the rainbow colored stippling on the lid looked kinda dumb in the pictures, but the pictures can't really display them correctly. In real life you can't see it unless there's a light shining on it, and then it refracts color in a rainbow pattern, and the overall effect is very similar to paint on cars that shift colors as you look at it/light hits it from different angles. Wound up being very cool.

Asus really made a good laptop here. The battery life exceeds 8 hours doingn regular things like sreaming video and 10 if you're just on google or word docimetns. Gaming performance is pretty good out of the 3060, I can get 60 fps with ray tracing on medium in watch dogs legion with dlss enabled. also install ghelper xd

This is just MY experience with the laptop, so please take this with a grain of salt and buy at your own discretion. I don’t have any photos of it, because it’s already back at Best Buy. I purchased my first laptop of this one and when I brought it home, I absolutely loved the laptop. The fact you can customize your keyboard, you can sign in with Face ID similar to a smart phone, how many taps and apps you can keep open, the quality of the display, how smooth it ran bigger games, it just felt like a quality laptop. The only three things I wasn’t keen on before it starting having actual issues was the battery life, for one. If plugged in, you can run it on performance mode at max brightness with the keyboard also at max brightness (obviously, it’s on the charger so no power is being taken away). If you were to play games on it off of the charger, I highly suggest running it on battery saver, which you’ll loose SOME graphics power on games and I was only able to get about three games of WarZone in, and that was with the brightness down a little below half and the keyboard lights completely off. My second issue is Windows 11, I’m completely aware there’s nothing to be done about that because it comes with Windows 11. Windows 11 just has a lot of kinks and bugs itself that still need work and time. If you want to know the nitty gritty of why people are preferring Windows 10 over 11, ask a friend or an expert who has way more knowledge on that than I do, all I can say is prefer Windows 10 way more. The third is it feels like DECENT build quality. If you press down slightly on the top of it when it’s closed it feels flimsy. I suggest when opening and closing it, use two hands, one on each corner on the top. Now into my issues. The first laptop I purchased started running into issues about a week and a half to two weeks of me owning the laptop. It just started to not turn on and not respond, I thought no big deal, I’ll just go and exchange it for another one just like it. I wanted to go with a different device but unfortunately I was financing it through Progressive Financing. Which, is just a me issue not necessarily anyone who buys one out and owns it themselves and can exchange it maybe for something cheaper and get a small refund. Anyways; onto the second device. It worked well for maybe a week and I got more issues, when I plugged it in, my display would just go black. I thought well, no big deal I’ll just plug it in before class so it’ll be fully charged, which is what I did. I’ll just keep the brightness dim and the keyboard off, and keep it on battery saver the whole class period, which my class was about two and a half hours, so I wouldn’t need to charge it. I pressed the power button, the power light blinked on then off. Did it two more times after that and it did the same thing. Pressed my power button a fourth time and it finally came on. It powered on for maybe ten to fifteen minutes, and it happened again; the display went black. Didn’t plug it in, didn’t do anything different, just went black. The power light stayed on, keyboard stayed lit, just my display went out and didn’t come back on. I brought it to Best Buy, of course when the guy turned it on it came on, but sure enough when he plugged it in the display went unresponsive and wouldn’t come back on. So, he removed my contract with Progressive and got a cheap $109 Asus laptop for now to do schoolwork. I think the laptop itself is amazing power wise and it’s capabilities, however the hardware issues I had made me not want to get it or anything similar. I think any (and this is just MY opinion, just do your research before spending the money) I think any high end laptop that uses that much power and resources is bound to have issues because everything is compacted into a slim case. I believe it has to due with a high end graphics card mashed into a slim case that produces majority of the issues, but again that’s just my opinion. PLEASE do your own research before you drop this much money on this. Now, pros and cons. Pros: -Display is crisp and clean -Ram, graphics, and cpu power is adequate for most gaming and software capabilities -Rgb keyboard -Face ID to log into the laptop -Really nice design of laptop and box that it comes in -Accessibility to change the rbg lighting and change if you’re using the cpu for graphics for the gpu Cons: -Liable to have hardware issues -Battery lift isn’t amazing -The build quality of the top panel, where the display, also doesn’t feel $1600 worth Overall, if your device doesn’t have hardware issues and you’re okay with running it on the charger, 10/10 laptop. But with my issues, giving it only three stars.

Exceptional gaming performance, Best for gamers and those looking for top-tier performance.

Fantastic computer, i got it at a great discount buying a open box model. Nothing wrong with it. Had it over a month with no real issues. It does run very hot if you use it for alot of gaming. Id recommend getting a cooling mat for it for sure. After i purchased that it cooled it down.

Great product almost 2 years and it’s still going strong

Very nice :>) would recommend. Excellant screen and performance. Muy bien

Pros: fast, efficient for the price. Cons: loud fan and heats up pretty fast.

Bought this for my lady to continue her work on, she does a lot of video editing and design and after I myself tested it for a few pretty enduring sessions I am impressed and so is she. This is an amazing laptop for any need I can think of (let me say gaming on this is no problem). Have not had any issues at all with this laptop and it looks nice to boot.

out of the box, the fans tend to run alot because it gets hot easily. there are optimization guide on youtube to stoo the fan from overworking and overheating. it seems to be the common problem among the gaming laptop.

This thing is premium in every way, but the battery life is a joke. I mostly keep my laptop plugged in with the battery setting that only allows a 60% charge to keep the battery alive.

This laptop is of pretty good quality. I upgraded the RAM and installed a second hard drive and the process was very easy. I'd recommend this laptop to anyone that doesn't want to run their games at 4k. If you are happy with 1080p then you can get most modern games to run at 60-100 fps with no issue. I was able to run Forspoken and had no issue with framerates.

Im a bit of a miser and dread making any large purchases, but when my laptop died on a buisnesss trip I needed something the same day and this is what caught me eye. For it's cost, it was nice to get something that is able to play the majority of my steam library and still be functional and professional looking to use for work.

Great laptop for the price, can run the latest games but expect the fans to start making some noise

I is a gaming computer, so it has a lot of extra lights and interesting features. The startup sound can b disabled (thank goodness). The graphics card is great. Lots of RAM and storage for compilers and emulators. The touch mouse pad has lots of functionality beyond point/click.

Pretty good, got this as a gift. Heard no complaints, although the design is a little plain.

The Asus ROG Zephyrus has been my trusted companion for the last couple of months, and it's blown me away! I've been tackling the latest games with zero lag and the graphics are just stunning - it's like I'm right there in the game. It's not just a gaming beast, it's my ticket to an immersive gaming universe!

Very fast and runs smoothly. Screen is clear and crisp.

Solid computer at a somewhat fair price point. The computer needs some tweaking in the configuration before you can utilize its full potential, but when that’s configured it is a smooth session. The 1440p display is great but the 3060 leaves much to be desired paired with it.

Solid performing gaming laptop for a reasonable price. Decent build-quality. Screen could be a little brighter (especially if you have a window and the sun at your back), but it's good enough if you close the window shades. Side rant... I'm not a fan of all the bloatware and useless cruft, but I guess that's what ASUS marketing thinks gamers want? Do we really need several apps to design and manage the backlight color of the keyboard? And why in the world do I need to update the firmware of my keyboard? I've been using computers for 37 years and never once have I had to update my keyboard firmware. Just goes to show the unnecessary engineering and time that went into things that don't matter.