Customer Ratings & Reviews

This laptop is very limited in the upgrades... only one M.2 SSD slot total, only one memory slot total. This limits what a user can upgrade. It's a great little package for what it does, but I wish it was more upgradable. I am also disappointed that it only came in white at this price point. I really wanted black, but not for hundreds of dollars more!

Great product!!! Highly recommend. Will probably be purchasing another

This laptop is incredible. It is the third one I have owned. My previous ones were a macbook pro and the Eluktronics P640RE 14 inch gaming laptop. I've been using this laptop for about 2 months. Breakdown From best to worst my personal ratings are Amazing, Great, Good, and Okay. Nothing about this laptop is horrible imo so nothing lower than okay is needed. Bootup: Amazing This laptop could take laps around my old one for days. It is incredibly fast thanks to its Ryzen 9 processor, 16 gb ram and the 1 tb SSD. Bootup time is less than 10 seconds and is made quicker by the fact that the built in fingerprint reader will register your finger when you first turn it on, meaning once its booted you don't have to scan your finger again or put in a password as you are taken directly to your home screen. Gaming: Amazing For many Triple A games that have vast open worlds and long load times, you'll find that this laptop loads things exceedingly fast. Load times for games like Skyrim, Fallout, and Dark Souls takes a couple seconds. All games will be played at 60 fps minimum, and will be played at high or ultra settings. If you're a small streamer you can easily use OBS and whatever game you play without a drop in performance. If you like to heavily mod your games you'll be able to do so easily without overwhelming the system. Cooling: Good This laptop is incredibly small for a gaming laptop. It runs real hot real fast. Playing a demanding game for an hour will guarantee that the fans are running at max speed, but even still the edges of the laptop especially around the battery get dangerously hot if you place your hand there for too long. A program called Armoury Crate which comes pre-installed allows you to adjust fan speed, monitor CPU temperature, as well as set up custom profiles for when the laptop is plugged in or not, etc.. When the fans are running at max speed which they usually are while gaming, they will sound like mini plane engines. It can be quite loud and interfere with whatever you're doing if you don't have headphones or a speaker. The second you're done doing a demanding task however, the fans work quickly to cool everything down. Battery: Amazing* The battery life is amazing under the right conditions. Light internet browsing, typing, low brightness, etc... will ensure it lasts for hours. I can't say for certain it will last 10 hours like advertised but certainly a long time. Intense gaming with high brightness, max fan speed, etc... will quickly drain the battery in less than an hour. There are probably some games that would allow the battery to last longer but I mostly play large open world games so I couldn't tell you. For convenience and best performance I only game with the charger plugged in. Build: Amazing Please note that I do not have the version that has the backlit LED cover in case that matters. It is small and sturdy. The aluminum casing is really nice, its smooth and cool to the touch (unless you're gaming of course). Extremely lightweight, easy to carry and travel with even with the charger as the charger isn't incredibly bulky. Keys are solid they have nice impact to them when you're typing/gaming. I don't have much to say on the trackpad as I usually use my mouse but it's alright from what I can tell. It works. The lid is very thin and very flexible to the point its almost concerning. Also the further back you push the lid, the higher the back portion of the laptop will raise as the bottom of the lid works as a stand. The lift is barely noticeable and won't change how you type or anything like that. Its purpose is to help with air flow and cooling (although I couldn't say how well it fulfills that purpose) Sound: Great The built in speakers can get very loud. They're also good enough that sometimes I prefer to use the built in speakers over my headphones or external speakers. It is enjoyable to listen to music and watch videos with them. Like I mentioned earlier though for gaming the fans might be too loud to use the speakers. Display: Great You aren't getting the best display as other laptops have higher refresh rates but what you do get is still very good. Color levels, brightness, contrast can all be as vibrant or saturated as you want as the previously mentioned Armoury Crate not only lets you customize performance settings but display settings as well. There are various preset ones ranging from the default, to vivid, to a blue light filter and more. It's nice to be able to experiment and adjust levels until you find what suites you best. With custom profiles you could have a display setting for watching movies and another for playing games. It is quite convenient. The laptop has a good brightness range as well as an adjustable back lit keyboard making it easy to adjust for gaming during the day or at night. In indirect sunlight like through a window there is some noticeable glare but not to the point that it becomes impossible to see or even need maximum brightness. I haven't used this outside so I can't comment on direct sunlight. I also have not played any games that use ray tracing so I haven't tested how that looks either. Additional Features: Okay This will be the weakest area of the laptop and the reason why I give 4 stars instead of 5. The built in microphone is okay if you're just using it to talk with friends. Would not try to use in a professional capacity. There is no webcam which means if you need a web cam for say streaming or zoom calls then you will have to waste a usb port for an external webcam. Speaking of usb ports there is only 2 of them which makes things very limited. If you're the type of person to use external mic/webcam, mouse, external hard drive etc... you'll need to get a usb extender that adds more ports for you to use. If you're a competitive gamer or pro streamer working from a laptop you might not like the lack of an ethernet port. You'd have to get a ethernet to usb connection. Bottom line: Lightweight, highly portable, great for everyday casual gaming, good for some streaming, fast and high performing

I bought a returned unit for a 20% discount. This machine is FAST and still has decent batter life. I'm dual booting Windows and Fedora. There is good community support in Linux (no fingerprint scanner). The only warning is that this machine runs HOT. There are plenty of articles out there to tell you how to manage it. For me, it's worth it.

Great laptop with nice speed especially for some one who as to try razen

I am very impressed with this laptop! Would recommend to anyone!

This laptop is fast. It's pretty close in FPS to my other laptop which has a 1660 ti and and I7. Now here are the cons. The backlit keyboard is terrible. So terrible that I turned it off. The biggest con is that it overheats and your game will lockup. It's fine for short gaming sessions, say 15 minutes at a time. Go longer and it will lockup. The chassis gets get so hot you can't touch it or you might get burned. You'll have to use this with an separate keyboard and mouse it's so hot. So, I will be returning this unit as I don't feel comfortable with the heat. Also having to use a separate keyboard and mouse kinda defeats the whole purpose of portability.

Crazy powerful laptop in a small portable size and amazing battery life!

So far its great. Blazing fast. Renders my 3d drawings instantly.

Fantastic laptop. Everything works great I love this laptop.

Great intro gaming computer. Runs fast, smooth, and great graphics!

My 1st gaming laptop and my 1st Windows system in more than 12 years. So far it has taken everything I've thrown at it with ease. Be aware that it did require some tweaking to get VR working properly as it wants to automatically use the built in graphics driver on the chip before using the Nvidia. There are instructions on YouTube for how to address this.

Fast and easy to use. Awesome gaming laptop. Great graphics.

Awesome product! Amazing laptop for gaming. Highly Recommended.

Laptop is really nice and runs pretty fast. Would definitely recommend it

Runs all my games great. Had no isssues at with my laptop

Great computer, great specs for the price. Only negative is no webcam.

This laptop is amazing! I had purchased a Dell XPS 13” and used it a few months until it started having issues. So I got another one, and it had different issues. Neither one of them could play my games on ultra graphics. This thing plays all of my games on full graphics and does it with full FPS, AND was $700 cheaper! Absolutely NO regrets buying this laptop!

There is absolutely nothing to dislike about this computer. I believe ASUS did an amazing job incomporating style and performance in this little peace of heaven. It runs everything I throw at it flawlessly and it keeps surprising me everyday. Totes to AMD for the beast 8-core processor! Thank you ASUS!

Great laptop lots of potential and you can’t beat that great CPU power.