Customer Ratings & Reviews

Awesome. Quiet, fast, responsive. A little heavy but otherwise very happy with it.

The computer works well, the display also looks good. I wish the battery life was a little better but with about 3-4 hours of battery life it’s not too bad. You can run pretty much any program and not worry about performance issues.

I like the design and the fast specs for the build. I love that I could switch between school work and gaming.

With a week of use I'm convinced this is a great laptop for games, office tasks and video production. Performance is spectacular, though of course not quite up to desktop level. I didn't expect that, anyway. But for my favorite games (MW5, Baldurs Gate beta, Divinity, etc) I can run this thing on *silent* mode with everything turned on highest settings except ray-traced shadows and water reflections and still get 60fps+. Granted, those are not the most intense games, but still, its running on silent mode. A few others need more power, and can get it, at the cost of fan noise and heat. Yes, heat on Turbo mode does get high, but not out of spec for the intel chips. Frame near power button gets hotter than I'd like. But then, I seldom ever run on turbo, don't need it, and a laptop stand with fan helps manage that a bit as well. Given all that, for me, its great combo work and fun machine that is portable and will last me a LONG time. Your mileage may vary. Pros: Wonderful screen (res, brightness, etc), I like the 16" screen esp for office work. 2nd M2 slot for another drive I've ordered. Performance great, as stated above. Keyboard quiet. Camera is decent. Sound is superb. Cons: Can run hot, but you might find you don't need Turbo all the time. 8+8 to 8x32 memory thing is a bit of a disappointment, but was not a major factor for me anyway. Battery drain is fast on high power modes - then again, seldom run on battery, and when I do, it is typically portable biz tasks that i run in silent mode and battery will last a long time in that scenario.

I was wanting a gaming laptop and this one delivered. I got it on sale and its exceeded my expectations!

The good. The processor and cooling solution is INSANE. This laptop will push 130+W for a long time through the CPU. For a laptop this thin and light it is an accomplishment. Liquid Metal is indeed the way to go. CineBench R20 Scores are 7200. But that is the best that it has going for it. Screen is gorgeous and bright. Typing experience is actually enjoyable. The Trackpad is excellent to be honest. The bad: There are certain things that are simply unacceptable. Mouse lag is one of them, as its the device you use the most. I use an external mouse most of the time. Bluetooth mouse lag is TERRIBLE. After spending many hours scouring what this could be, I went through the rabbit hole of. Wipe everything and reinstall. Same lag. Drivers everywhere. Same lag. Every single possible solution that was available on the internet, nothing made it better. Installed insider previews, same thing. Couple things i noticed. Having a usb thumb drive would make the lag/stutter worse and unusable. Depending on the location of the mouse lag would get better or worse but never truly go away. This lag also shows or gets "injected" into normal usage of this laptop making it utterly unenjoyable. Screen would jump around as you are dragging it and very annoying. Like if you had a 15hz screen. I believe that either a bios issue and power management with wifi card is literally the problem as also the WiFi6 performance is TERRIBLE. Sitting 10 feet from the router max thruput was 600-700mbit/s. I have a 1.2gbit connection. For the sake of comparison my GS76 yields 1190-1280 consistently on a side by side test and has ZERO lag using any of the bluetooth mice that I have. While the usage of a USB receiver solves the lag issue, this laptop has only 2 USB A ports thus having one of them occupied by using a mouse dongle is not an option for the usage I give this laptop. The lag gets worse if in balance mode, so only turbo mode makes it somewhat bearable. The hard drive performance is paltry. Luckily this is a part that gets replaced and Asus was nice enough to put PCIe4.0 on both slots which is a plus. The 16gb ram deal, while not surprising as last year had the same configuration, it is simply not enough and for 2199 retail this laptop should have come with the 32gb already and i bet NO ONE would have complained, or at least have the option to upgrade. As it sits with availability only 24gb is possible and windows simply hard faults all the time with it's own antivirus. I don't get this issue with the GS76 with 32gb ram. I really wanted to like this laptop and i was extremely enthusiastic about it. but simply unbearable the way it sits. Not sure if swapping out a wifi-card will fix the issue as this card is an intel card, which is the same manufacturer as the killer wifi card from the gs76 and I also have this same wifi card on a razer blade 15 and no issues. Not sure if I will return the unit yet, but looks like I will and wait for the GS77 to drop on Best Buy.

Keyboards get hot on fast laptops 8 gb of vram is not enough you will want to use acer Helios predator if you have to stick with 8 gb of vram

My first one that i bought brand new just kept stuttering at every single operation and continues to do so after resetting the laptop. The screen had very visible light bleed. Exchanged it for a new one and this only stutters sometimes but its not the pristine smooth experience you would expect for this price. There still is screen light bleed but its less so on this one. Its very powerfull but it has its drawbacks. I would rather reccomend a razer laptop due to the build quality even though it sacrafices a decent amount of performance. The battery life is meh. You definitely need to charge it during the day if you use it a lot at school

This is a great laptop. So thin and light for gaming laptop. 8+8 DDR5 On board is the only cons.

This laptop is amazing for the price. Excellent balance between noise, performance, and size.

As is the usual with Asus ROG devices it gives great power and performance with a consistent quality.

Very happy with this laptop. While it does run hot at times, it does an incredible job with performance and quality. I am using this laptop to write this review right now. The only thing I will say is the battery life is not super great. But, it will last enough for me to get through a class or two without charging it. Overall, a great laptop.

Great laptop overall, I really like it, very fast, good for gaming and editing stuff

The help and support I received from Best Buy, Treasure Coast branch, particularly Avery, was exemplary. I am very untechnical but they understood my needs and made a great recommendation for a laptop totally suitable for me. Did not try to sell me the most expensive product and were very focussed on what I actually needed and explained why I should purchase what they suggested for me. Would definitely recommend.

more than i imagine. It has all its details to perfection. and it works with videogames very well

Excellent Laptop, for work, for home, for games, I will recommend.

Fast and portable, I got it to play on the go and I am happy with the purchase.

Great performance for the price. I bought last year's model making the value that much better.

Great laptop! It runs games and programs well! Very nice design using quality metals. It offers a very pleasant visual experience with its 16" 165hrz display. I love that it has a extra m.2 ssd slot. All around a good deal and does everything you expect and more from a high end laptop. I would recommend taking a look at this one. Ive also noticed to goes on sale often

Item was good as i purchased it as a gift for my nephew n he is enjoying it.