Customer Ratings & Reviews

Light for a gaming laptop, with a bigger bathery than most orhers in this size. Lots of ports. Bluetooth and wifi. Display is above average/pretty good for this price range. Bottom cover is easy to remove, and the spare M.2 slot is easy to find. I added an Acer 2tb gen 4 pcie drive there. As with any computer, you will need to create a partiton and format the new drive in order for Windows to recognize and use it. Don’t forget to change the default installation path in your game launch center (i.e., Steam, Epic, EA, etc.) to the new drive letter once you’re ready. The RAM is tucked away under some insulation, but still very easy to swap. I removed the 2 Samsung 8gb modules from the factory and dropped in a pair of DDR5 4800 16gb sticks from Team Group. I dont think I’d pay full price, but when it was on markdown mid-December, I couldn’t pass it up. My teenage daughter is just starting to get more serious into gaming, and this is a great laptop to explore that world. I would suggest a cooling mat for under this laptop, as the fans have to work hard enough to keep it cool without air flow restriction from clothes or blankets. Naturally, it can do the daily homework, internet/email, and other office-type stuff, too. And with the larger battery, it can stay off the charger for quite a while when doing those non-gaming things. Overall a very solid choice. I actually prefer this one over the Gigabyte G6 KF laptop I got myself last year.

I got this laptop for $750 on sale and at that price I don't think you could do better in terms of mid range performance. I'm docking this laptop 1 star for a couple reasons. The thermals can get own of hand in its high performance modes and requires tuning in armory crate to get things running sustainably. And even once you get the gpu cpu core temps under control, the vram runs very hot 90c to 95c which I suspect will hurt the longevity of this device. The screen quality is decent for just being a basic 300 nit sdr display. Although not very bright, the contrast ratio and backlight consistency is very good so it makes for a solid gaming experience so long as the ambient lighting isnt too bright. Freesync works great on the latop display, gameplay inputs feel responsive. Outputting to my portable external monitor I've had some issues getting freesync to activate properly but when it works it makes for a smooth experience. This pc can handle 1440p gaming but performance can fall off a cliff if you get too close too vram limit so 1080p is definitely where it shines. And forget about 4k. Bottom line, when on sale this laptop is a budget 1080p beast. At its MSRP it would still beat a lot of its nvidia competition for price to performance so long as you dont care about raytracing. Regarding UE5 games so far so good, 1080p high preset with 90% tsr and frame gen I'm playing Black Myth Wukong in the 75 to 90 fps range.

I’ve been using the ASUS TUF A16 for a few weeks now, and it’s been awesome for gaming and everyday use. Games like Cyberpunk run super smooth at high settings, and the 165Hz screen makes everything look crisp. It stays cool for the most part, but the fans do get loud during intense gaming. Battery life is surprisingly good when not gaming. Build feels solid and it looks sleek. Great value if you catch it on sale!

Performs very well, able to run the games I want at a high level. The only complaints I have is the storage, however there is slots inside for additional storage to be added. Easy to add a tb of storage. The fan on mine does make a weird noise every once in a while but based on faqs and online forums it seems to be a somewhat common problem. Overall would recommend for someone looking to play with more power.

I recently purchased this laptop, and I must say, it has exceeded my expectations in every way. The performance is outstanding, thanks to its powerful processor and ample RAM, which make multitasking a breeze. Whether I’m running multiple applications or working with complex datasets, this laptop handles everything with ease, showing no signs of lag. The display is incredibly crisp and vibrant, offering true-to-life colors that make working, watching videos, and editing photos an absolute pleasure. The battery life is also remarkable, lasting well beyond a full day on a single charge, which is perfect for those long workdays or travel. One of the standout features for me is the build quality. It’s clear that a lot of thought went into the design; the materials feel premium, and the laptop has a sleek yet durable design. The keyboard is exceptionally comfortable, allowing for long typing sessions without any strain. Overall, this laptop delivers a powerful and well-rounded experience that I can wholeheartedly recommend to anyone in need of a reliable, high-performance machine. It’s an investment well worth making!

Good budget laptop that can run most modern games at an acceptable frame rate and graphics quality. The only issue that I have is that the battery capacity is rather small, as well as the storage capacity. With 556gb of storage you can really only have 3 modern games downloaded at a time, maybe 4. I’ve had to use an external hard drive to keep all of my games available which is the only reason for 4/5 stars. The cooling capacity is great for a laptop, it gets very hot under heavy load but never breaches 90 degrees when the chip is rated for 95+ degrees. The screen is also very crisp, however I just enjoy large displays so when I’m not traveling I plug it into my 28” monitor as the screen is just too small for me to use all the time. But otherwise it would be too bulky. So I think they got a nice ratio of size+display.

I’ve owned this laptop since August. I’ve dropped it while open so many times it just bounces. The armory crate software is basically bloatware and does some weird stuff but if you replace it with Ghelper it makes it run so much smoother. I can get an hour of high graphics on battery. I haven’t run into a game I can’t play due to any sort of constraints, even the currently new Lost Ark with all of its high demand runs smooth, It runs emulators like a boss and will go for hours plugged in without any sort of performance issues. If I had to say I didn’t like something about this machine it would be that it can get HOT and is LOUD depending on what kind of settings you are running it with. The fans blow out of the side not the bottom so it stays generally cool on the surface though the keyboard and top plate get very warm to the touch. This is an 8.5/10 for me.

I mostly purchased this as an everyday laptop since my old one finally gave out. Didn't plan to do much gaming but wanted the option from time to time. Honestly I didn't expect much for the price but figured browsing and stuff would be nice on it. I have definitely been extremely impressed with the overall speed. Websites load as fast as you can press the but, excel is lightning fast, videos streams look amazing, and the gaming is actually amazing so far. I have even pushed a few high demand games on it and it handles them easily. Screen is phenomenal, keyboard and overall construction is excellent. Only negative for some is this thing is a tank. It is the heaviest laptop I've owned but that can be a pro for some like me who want something that will last. Overall great buy and couldn't be happier.

Before buying this, I had a MacBook Air. I bought this laptop to use for school while also being able to play games every now and then. Let me tell you, IT DID NOT DISAPPOINT. This laptop outperforms my Xbox Series X and is portable!!! This little beast is worth all of $1,000, and if you can get it for a steal when it’s on sale. Best $700 I’ve ever spent in my life. Highly recommend, would buy again. It is a gaming laptop, so it doesn’t get the MacBook’s battery life, but after tweaking some settings in AMD’s Adrenalin software, Asus’ Armory Crate, and the Windows setting, I can get it to last through all my classes if I don’t boot up a game. I wish they made an easy setting to make the dGPU stay turned off when not plugged in, but it’s nothing I couldn’t handle myself. The display is only 1080p, but with 165hz it looks pretty dang good.

The laptop works great. I upgraded from a 2022 MacBook Air and I do not regret it. Battery life is pretty good, lasting around 6-8 hours just browsing the internet. Performance is great, the 7700s has great performance for the price. Overall I would recommend. I bought this on sale for $725 after taxes and for that price you would have a hard time finding a better laptop. The display is clear and the keyboard is nice to type on. The frame is nice and sturdy but does get oil marks from skin after use due to the matte black finish. I don’t mind this as I regularly clean the device.

Bought this for my sister so she could game with me from across the country. Got this on sale, so for me it was an excellent value. This laptop is a workhorse! People might not like the battery life or the fan noise, but those are to be expected with a gaming laptop. You can't really get around that at this price range. It has two M.2 slots so I threw in a 2TB M.2. My sister will be gaming on this for years to come.

We bought this laptop as a Christmas gift for my son in middle school and it is excellent especially for the performance vs value. We got it on sale for $680. He is able to play all of the games that he has been wanting to play like Stray, Hogwarts Academy, Palworld, CoD, etc. and this laptop runs them all at max or high settings without issue. The laptop feels very sturdy and the build quality is excellent. The keyboard feels good and the screen is amazing. We will be upgrading with a second SSD in the second M2 slot and possibly replace the RAM to 32GB in the future but otherwise we are extremely happy with this purchase.

The ASUS TUF Gaming A16 laptop. Comes with Ryzen 7 7735HS, 16GB DDR5 (upgradeable) and RX 7700S, with 512GB M.2 SSD worth of storage (also upgradeable). So far i've been in love with this laptop. Despite being the first one ive owned in about 5 years its definately a step above my old ASUS Rog with gtx 980. It runs cooler and plays all games i've thrown at it at acceptable (+60fps in Dragons Dogma 2) to exceptional (+165fps in CoD BLoPs 6 with FSR set to native-quality depending on map). As i said temps are pretty good for this platform i rarely see it hit its cap @ 93 C only when cpu is 100% use while compiling shaders or stuff like that. Gameplay-wise never hits more than bout 85 give or take 1 or 2C. This is with a cooling pad btw which i do advise getting if your going to be doing heavy gaming on it (most over $35 will do, mine was bout $35). Build Quality is on point for asus tuf brand at least on the outside. Almost all the frame with the exception of the bottom is alumininum im guessing pretty sturdy and rigid. very little flex. Reasons i would've given it 4/5 stars is due to the fact that i had a little bit of a tough time getting the advertised MUX switch to work properly. In the end i gave up and just switched the display to the dGPU for consistant performance at the cost of battery life. FWIW its not hard to do and it will put it up there with most $1200 gaming laptops. Another reason, is the display. Probably the worst aspect of it in terms of brightness and clarity. Don't get me wrong its not terrible and with some tweaks in AMD Adrenalin display/color correction, you can make up for alot. But overall im very satisfied with the product, mind you i got it on sale for bout 760 after tax and at that price point its hard to complain about anything. Which is why at an adjusted price score im giving it 5/5 stars if u can find this thing for under 900 def worth it! At retail 4/5 for issues listed above.

Whats not to like about it! The rx7700s handles highend games with no issue. Havent found a game it cant handle. I just slapped in a 2tb ssd in the second slot and upgraded the ram card which was a breeze. Like all gaming laptops, the battery life isnt isnt great unplugged but i dont mind finding an outlet. It charges very fast! We all get laptops instead of desktops for the portability factor and we know that means we will have to charge it. I can take it with me while visiting friends, family, work, wherever! That is a plus to be able to play any game i want, wherever i want. It can get a little warm depending on the game your playing but nothing unusual or unexpected. When at home it stays on my cooling station and stays nice and cool! You will definitely want a good cooling station. Dont get a cheap 10$ cooling station. It only makes sense to buy a quality cooling station. Its a 1000$+ laptop, make the most of your investment and take care of it with a trusted proven cooling station that will keep the laptop in good condition for long term use.

Solid laptop. great for work and gaming. Good battery life with the igpu. Games that push the RAM tend to studder. SO i would recommend upgrading to 32GB. MY games smoothness after doing this increased. Also 512gb is almost not enough. Upgrade that too in the provided second bay. Overall great laptop. i would pick up on sale again. Not full price though since it is 2023 and you can get 2024 for same price. My only complaint is that i wish the display got brighter.

I purchased this laptop when it went on sale after Black Friday for $780. I looked long and hard at competition such as Lenovo, HP and even ASUS's other models and I think at the below $800 price point, this is as good as you would get in terms of raw performance. But let me start with the downsides first. Even though this machine has a USB4 port, this particular model does not support PD charging on this port (DP only) and I'm still waiting for my AKiTio Node Titan dock to arrive so I can test whether or not it supports eGPU (I'll post an update when I find out). The other USB-C port does support PD and DP-ALT mode as expected (I was able to use my HP Thunderbolt G2 dock) with this port without any issues and it recognized my Logitech G903 mouse and G915 keyboard without any issues through my old dock and was able to drive my Samsung Odyssey G9 Neo monitor at 120Hz (plug in the dock after you've booted into Windows, otherwise sometimes it would not connect properly). Ironically, on the USB4 port, I would get intermittent signal loss on my monitor even when I decreased the resolution down to 3840 × 1080 and at 60Hz. Finally, the biggest downside in my opinion is that if you opt to use USB-C PD charging because you don't want to bring the huge barrel power brick, keep in mind this laptop does not support passthrough charging but rather charges the battery to the max (you can set it to 80% max to reduce battery wear if you use this charging method) and uses 1-2% of battery and then charges up to the max setting again. Now onto the positive, this laptop is capable of having good battery life easily over 6 hours off the wall (I stopped paying attention after 6 hours, it probably had another 2-3 hours if I recall correctly) and it's cooling design is fairly adequate. The display is decently bright, fairly decent color gamut coverage (not muted) and response time is good (not the greatest out there) in my subjective experience. I think the FHD+ (10% more vertical space) resolution is the right pairing choice in terms of battery life, pixel density (text is clear) and what the RX 7700S can drive well for games. Build quality is definitely above average (bottom side is plastic, but the rest of the laptop feels well built). Some might complain that the CPU is merely a Zen 3+ refresh, but its efficiency and performance are good enough where you're not gaining anything noticeable even if you paid more for the Zen 4 Ryzen 7 7840HS version. All in all, I think for the price of less than $800 that I bought it for at the time of writing this review, this is one of the best deals you can get, but I would not pay more for this since at its full MSRP there are better options. Side note, there are reported issues with sleep, but I have not encountered them yet (I usually shutdown the system which reduces the likelyhood, too).

Exceptional laptop for sale price. Laptops overall Performance. Cooling and storage made it the ideal choice to use. Quiet while under load. Keyboard ergonomics was great. Screen and it's resolution are great for GPU performance. Battery and kwh at 90 watts all you need. Hands down recommend this model.

Recently got this on sale for $780. I am a fairly avid computer enthusiast and have put some machines through their paces in the past for gaming. I am impressed with this machine for the price. First thing I did when I got it was to disable ArmouryCrate and install GHelper, update to the latest drivers and make sure every setting was exactly where I wanted it to be. After getting it completely set up, I began to put it through the ringer. Timespy benchmark; consistent 10500 overall. I saw the CPU and GPU temps creep up over 90C for the CPU and 95C for the hotspot on the GPU (typically the overall GPU stayed 10-15C cooler). The fans seemed pretty capable of keeping up but, I would HIGHLY recommend this machine be placed on a laptop cooler when doing intense gaming. I never saw temps go over 100C when it was being stressed but I'd hate to chance it especially if your purpose for this thing is running high-end games. With cooling in mind, it did a good job. The fans aren't screechy and don't get obnoxiously loud. I do wish AMD would allow some customization of the fan profiles through their Adrenalin drivers. But, that is a typical complaint of AMD GPUs--driver support. Hopefully the Adrenalin suite develops to allow greater control. Userbench scores were consistently fantastic and Superposition scores were actually superior to 4060 laptop (Full power), 3070 (full power) and approaching 3080 (Full Power numbers with a score hovering around 6700. All of that to say that this little GPU (7700s) sits firmly between a 4060/4070 or a 3070/3080. Ray Tracing on this machine does leave something to be desired. I did notice a hit when RT was involved but could easily make up for it by adjusting other facets of a game to get performance where I needed it. The screen is phenomenal at this price point Color is fantastic and depth is wonderful. I don't think you'll find a better screen on a $780 machine. The build quality is up to snuff and what I would expect from a mid-high machine. The laptop seems sturdy and the layout of the ports is decent. Having nearly everything on the left side of this machine could make it get a bit crowded but unless you are using this machine as a server I don't think the potential for clutter exists. For $780, this machine is an absolute steal. Most 4060 machines at this price point are not full power 4060s so you lose a significant amount of graphical power compared to this. This machine really competes above even a full powered 4060 and at the same price. All that to say, I wouldn't pay retail for this machine. It is the only reason I am rating it at 4*. If you are in $1100 for a machine, find a 4070 on sale and pay a bit more but if this thing goes on sale again and your budget is near it, it is a must get. There is absolutely no better deal on the market than this machine at <$800

I am a laptop power user. I use one for work every day, and now I have 2 personal laptops, not incuding my Lenovo Legion go. My main laptop has been in RMA due to a failed 4080 GPU waiting for a new Motherboard to arrive. In the Interim I attempted to use My Legion go docked, however it lacked a lot of the power I needed. It also became very unportable when I had to hook all the peripherals I use up to it. Long story short, I needed a more powerful laptop and didn't want to break the bank. I found this on sale for 750 and is boy is it worth every penny. I have seen people complain about the screen, and I must be lucky because my unit has minimal screen bleed. I feel the resolution is perfect for the screen size. My only knock on the computer is I wish it had a 1TB hard drive. I did add an extra 2tb ssd and upgraded the ram to 32GB before even booting it up. I feel the power to performance is perfect and the ram wouldn't need to be upgraded for the average person however for me navigating between photo editing software such as lightroom, photoshop, and Topaz Photo AI, they take up a lot of ram. I know we all wish to have top of the line, but that's not what I needed. My other laptop is already just that, it has a 4080, I9-13980hx, 4TB hard drive space,a dn 64gb of ram. When gaming this unit averages roughly 70-80fps on any game on a mix of high- ultra setting at the full resolution of 1920x1200. This includes games like Rachet and clank rift apart, cyberpunk 2077, and helldivers and even call of duty. Less demanding games will run at higher FPS. Im not quite sure how to rate battery life on a gaming laptop. I bought it for the performance/portability not battery life. I feel a battery in a gaming laptop is essentially a UPS. If you want battery life, a gaming laptop shouldn't be your first choice. Look at apple they are king when it comes to battery. I think this laptop has plenty of power for the average user and could do anything you throw at it. It may not be as efficient, but it will get it done at a great price. if your on the fence grab it , its a great unit.

It is a decent entry level laptop, it is sturdy and sleek, it is one of the few gaming laptops that has a numeric keyboard and the key placement is spot on, only thing missing is backlight color customization. Nothing feels cheap on the built. Processor is fast, it can run multiple apps without any issue and boots up super fast. Graphics look great and computer runs quiet while playing games yet it gets quite hot. There are lots of customization options to keep you tinkering for a while. Make sure you get the 1 Terrabite drive, I got the 512 gig one and ran out of space. I had been looking to buy a gaming laptop for months and there are so many options out there that make it hard to decide, even after you do you still keep double guessing on your pick. I just decided on one that’s mid-range with great specs and I price I could afford and so far I’m happy with this one.