ASUS ROG: THE REVOLUTION OF GAMING LAPTOPS, LIGHT AND WITH RTX GPU
Years ago, gaming laptops were particularly thick and heavy. Think that the term " desktop replacement " was often used , since they were devices to be used mainly indoors. Portability was therefore confined to its own walls, an aspect that made the concept of a laptop a little less. Luckily, enormous progress has been made in the last period, even if "desktop replacements" have not yet completely disappeared.
However, ASUS ROG seems to have found a solution. During the
2021 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show, the Taiwanese company unveiled
the new lineup of gaming laptops , which includes some interesting devices.
ASUS ROG Flow X13 and ROG XG Mobile
The product that aims to revolutionize the concept of gaming
laptop is called ROG Flow X13. The latter is in fact a convertible with a
thickness of 15.8 mm and a weight of 1.3 kg . Equipped with a Full HD 120 Hz or
4K screen and support for Adaptive Sync, under the body the device has an AMD
Ryzen 9 5980HS processor and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 GPU. To keep the
temperatures at bay we find a cooling system liquid metal. The estimated
autonomy is 10 hours and the recharge takes place via USB Type-C up to 100W.
There is no lack of support for Dolby Atmos and noise cancellation technology.
Put simply, ROG Flow X13 is already able to offer a gaming
experience all in all of good quality, running as it should be some of the most
famous titles on the market. However, ASUS is well aware that the most
demanding gamers want to go far beyond the GTX 1650. For this reason, the
Taiwanese brand has decided to combine the announcement of ROG Flow X13 with
that of ROG XG Mobile, an eGPU with a thickness of 29 mm and weighing 1 kg.
Think of the classic eGPUs: they generally take up a large part of the desk.
In this case, though, we are talking about a device that can
potentially be stored in the backpack dedicated to your laptop. Under the body
we find a 280W power supply, a cooling system based on vapor chamber and above
all a video card up to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080.
Considering that ROG Flow X13 is a convertible and can be
used in a variety of modes, the portability and power offered by the
combination ROG Flow X13 and ROG XG Mobile can potentially create an excellent
portable workstation , far from the classic "bricks" to we are used
to in this field. Surely it is all to prove, as we have not yet had the
opportunity to get our hands on the products and the prices are not yet known,
but you understand that this could be a potential revolution for the sector.
ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE
Another laptop from ASUS that caught our attention during
the 2021 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show is ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE.
Going beyond its specifications, which include a processor up to AMD Ryzen 9
5900HX and a GPU up to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, as well as a 4K display at
120 HZ or Full HD at 300 Hz / 3ms, what is striking is the presence of the
latter. screen , located just above the keyboard.
The latter, called ScreenPad Plus, is able to show useful
information during gaming. It could also be useful for both multitasking and
content creating, also given the partnership with Xsplit Gamecaster. The price
is not known in this case either, but ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE is certainly a
product that stands out in the myriad of gaming laptops available on the
market.
ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14
You will forgive us if we avoid mentioning all the technical
features of ROG Zephyrus G14 here, but you can easily retrieve those. What
struck us about this device are not so much the specifications, which are
traditionally of high caliber for gaming, but the design of the lid. In fact,
ROG Zephyrus G14 attracts attention mainly for the presence of the rear LEDs,
which potentially allow the user to recreate the figures he wants. During the
press event, the Taiwanese company quickly showed some sort of
"Tamagotchi" functionality . Put simply, the ASUS ROG team plans to
implement a virtual companion recreated using the laptop's rear LEDs. We can't
wait to find out more.
The other laptops of the ROG and TUF series
Alongside the solutions that seek to innovate such as ROG
Flow X13 and ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE, ASUS has also presented other products
that have a slightly more "classic" vision . We refer to ROG Strix
SCAR 15 and 17, ROG Zephyrus G15 and ROG Strix G15 and G17. The latter have
high-caliber features for gaming and can be explored in our dedicated article ,
as well as through the official website of ASUS ROG .
If you want, there is also a free interactive experienceto
download from Steam. For the rest, we remind you that during CES 2021 the new
TUF series laptops were also unveiled. To learn more about the latter, or TUF
Gaming A15, TUF Gaming A17 and TUF Dash F15, you can refer to our report on the
event .