Customer Ratings & Reviews

I bought this one because my main laptop had to have the monitor and case replaced. I didn't know if it would work properly. I have it back now, so I don't need this one.

EVERYTHING NEED IS EQUIPPED IN THIS UNIT. WORTH EVERY PENNY AND IT IS NOT HEAVY FOR 17.3". LOVE THE RED/BLK CONTRAST. GOT LOTS OF COMPLIMENT FOR HOW MODERN IT LOOKS. ASUS= A PLUS

For the money I payed for this laptop it's great. It don't have all the thrills but it dose have the possessing power of a laptop that costs much more best buy for the money.

There are a number of great deals this black Friday. I was torn between this laptop at $999... MSI G63 at $1300... Gigabyte Aero at $1749... Ultimately decided on this because of the value just too good to pass. And believe me when I tell you I have done a tons of research of deals on all sites. Before I go over the goods and the cons. Let's go over a basic hardware calculation so everyone understand what an amazing deal this is... GPU 1060 3GB: $200 + CPU i7-8750: $300 + PCI SSD 500GB: $120 + A Cheap 24inch IPS 1080 Monitor $140. + Windows 10 $100. + 16GB DDR4 Ram $120. The total come out to be $980... This does not include the keyboard, AC Router, Webcam, the case, oh yeah and putting the laptop together. Which only a very, very, very few of us have the ability to do... On a value perspective, this is an amazing deal. Now onto the review... This is perfectly for me as I will mainly use this laptop for the following: Excel work, web browsing, video watching, and a portable VR device. And the 5~6 hours of battery life is sufficient for my need. If performance is extremely important to you, and portability is not than MSI G63 might be a better option at $1300 If portability and battery life is extremely important to you than you might want to bite the bullet and check out the Aero 15x v8 at $1749. Monitor: Good: 17.3inch, thin bezel, IPS display. This is more than sufficient for Netflix, and excel work & creative work. (The 17.3 inch monitor is really helpful when it comes to duo tasking vs 15.4 inch, this laptop is one of the only one that is portable, good battery, sufficiently powerful, yet has a 17.3inch monitor!!!) Con: 60hz only. If you want to become the next best Fortnite player you'd want to get a monitor that is 120hz or more. At the very top level even a bit of advantage will make the difference. CPU: Good: i7-8750H this is by far one of the best CPU currently out there for laptops. Unless you want to shell out $2,000 plus for a desktop replacement. GPU: GTX 1060 3GB Good: Perform much better than a 1050ti, roughly 30% bench mark, and only a bit slower than a GTX 1060 6GB, roughly 5% benchmark. I tried running Arizona Sunshine, which is a pretty demanding VR Game, and the auto setting for it was on high, and the game play was smooth as butter. Weight: Good: For a 17.3inch laptop this beast is only at 5.73lbs and 1.1inch thin. Battery Life: Good: 5~6 hours on light work. This is on part or much better than most of the 17.3inch laptop out there. Ports: Bad: No SD card reader! Only USB 3.0 Gen 1, no Gen 2 ports, or Thunderbolt. Build: Neither: Rigged Plastic instead of Alumni. You are not going to find Alumni build at this price point with hardware this good. I do not see this as a Con as the laptop feels solid. Keyboard: Pro: Keyboard feels solid, if you push on it very hard it will bend, but even with really hard typing it did not bend at all. Touchpad: Con: By far the worst touchpad I ever used. but I plan to bring a mouse with me so this does not bother me much. Webcam: Pro: Regular webcam placed top side of monitor instead of under the monitor which is what you want unless you just want other people looking up your nose. LOL. I am an entrepreneur, and I find this is the perfect laptop to me. Not having the 120hz+ display makes me not want to play games on it. Yet the screen is good enough for everything else. The battery life is decent enough where I can spend a few hours at the coffee shop for a change of environment without having to haul the charger with me. It is also powerful enough for me to bring it to my girlfriend's to show her all the latest VR title. But everyone is a bit different be sure to choose the laptop that matches your needs and not just mine. Good luck out there, and may the force be with you this Holiday season to score everything you need :).

Watching Netflix, wifi suddenly stop working, asus customer service is real y good, they ask me to do several attempts to restar it, nothing work, but, when packaging to take it to service.... it reboot again and wifi start working..... PC looks really good, I bought it to try some CNNetworks programming, had many things and it is upgradable, which its really good this days. Manufacture defects are not common in reviews, so Just Hope does not happen again.

I Bought this laptop for my son. He’s been playing games online for years and needed a better laptop so this was an upgrade. He is very happy with it so far

using this laptop mainly for scanning photographs to archive, so don't know it's full capability - it's sufficient for what we're doing.

Can't say much for other games, but it runs World of Warcraft at full settings and no frame drops. Speed is fast. Audio could be better but it's not bad.

We bought this for our 19 year old who left for basic training in the army. We wanted him to have something that worked well when he started his AIT.

My son needed a high end laptop for his Mechanical Engineering program he is in at college. This fit the specs needed and was still reasonably priced.

I got this on sale. I would've like to have had a graphics card with more memory, but so so far I haven't any issues with any of the games I play.

I enjoy playing on steam with this laptop, thebonly real issues I have with it are the minimal USB ports and it not having a lightning port

Great gaming computer for a great price! The graphics are awesome, the speed is great, but my favorite feature is the red backlit keyboard!

Good for semi high quality games, has Cortana capabilities, has trouble finding Bluetooth headphones but that's fixable.

Met all the specs my son wanted in a new laptop. Only hope the hard drive is big enough. Might need to use external for files.

So far so good, haven't had any issues. Use this machine as a backup for the office staff, they like the way it looks.

My son loves it. His only issue is that he can't use the headset speaker with it. Came with game and security software.

Not the best computer.. lacking in many areas.. no cd . Not enough usb ports.

Was great to use fast cpu but the quality was a little cheap and the GPU was ok for medium gaming

Awesome laptop for video editing, it rips through Adobe premiere and does a decent job holding up in After Effects.