ROG Zephyrus M Thin and Portable Gaming Laptop, 15.6” 240Hz FHD IPS, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070, Intel Core i7-9750H, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 1TB PCIe SSD, Per-key RGB, Windows 10 Home, GU502GW-AH76

**1-year Review**So, I've been owning this laptop for almost a year now and my impression has not changed. Solid laptop for work, gaming, and coding. The touchpad has a few glitches here and there with the zoom-in gesture but that doesn't bother me most of the time. Since the purchase, I've upgraded the storage to 2 GBs and RAM to 32 GBs (which is solely for the purpose I use the laptop for). If you just want to use this laptop to play games and do school work (or pretty much 95% of the jobs out there), the stock performance is more than enough.Overall, I still recommend 10/10. If the laptop gets hot and the fans bother you then I'd recommend you get the KLIM laptop cooler (costs about $30). All problems solved.I've had this laptop for 4 months now and I gotta say I am very impressed. Yes, fans are loud but this is a thin and light laptop so it doesn't have room to put in additional heat sinks like a thicker, regular laptop. At the end of the day, you can only fight physics so much.The performance is excellent. I hook this up to a 43'' super-ultrawide monitor for work (and occasionally gaming) and this little laptop handles with no problem. I can play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare at max settings on the 43'' inch monitor and get 70+ FPS most of the time. I think if you use this laptop for gaming, 16 gb of ram should be plenty. For me personally, I use it mostly for work and always run multiple sheets of excels + a heavy financial software, and I had to upgrade to 32 gb ram.The keyboard can be customized to per-key RGB and you'll have to download software from Asus for it. I personally didn't care much, so no complaint there.Battery-life: I work on the plane with the laptop all the time and the battery usually lasts about 5 hours. With that said, I don't spend a lot of time watching Youtube or gaming on battery, so I don't know how long the battery would last under those applications.Would recommend buy 10/10. Only complaint is that Asus should get rid of the "Republic of Gamers" logo and the sound (which you can turn off) when booting up. Some people, like me, need a decently powerful laptop for work so gaming laptops are the way to go, but I don't need to have that logo showing up when I start my computer in front of other professionals.....

So I have been wanting a new laptop for awhile now, finally got around to looking for one. I had a Alienware 17R2 from 2010, so this is a huge difference for me and a major upgrade. The difference in graphics is night and day. When I play my regular games I notice the fans are on full speed, but that doesn't bother me. My wife and daughter says it sounds like someone left the water running, but informed them its just the fans on the laptop. The laptop does get pretty warm, so I would recommend a cooling pad, I just ordered one. Making sure the pad blows air up, and location of fans are near the top row as that's where the laptop vents are sucking in air. The laptop is light weight and very portable.I do worry about the screen/lid though, it seems very thin and could be damaged when thrown into your backpack/laptop case without keeping in mind what else you throw in with it. Like the power supply, that thing is a brick, so I make sure to put it in another compartment, don't want it pushing down on the laptop during travel. Price wise, me personally its worth it for the power and size. I plan to add more storage and maybe upgrade the RAM, not a need just a want. Only had it for a week, so if anything changes, I will update.

Not mad, just weirded out. This machine runs like dream and the screen is fantastic. (240 Hz)However, it's full of designs decision that are just baffling to me.Firstly, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, there is only ONE single DDR slot. Meaning you can't upgrade the RAM by adding another stick, you need to replace it. This discovery was unfortunate, because I ordered another 16 GB Samsung DDR that I can't do anything with now.Secondly, if you order the 240 Hz screen, the backplate will look different than on the pictures. I think there are programmable pixels on it but I haven't looked into it properly.Thirdly, the CPU and GPU are very close together, I know that this, much like the the single RAM slot, is trade off for portability, but they are basically heating each other. Most of the heat actually comes from the CPU so unervolting it is a good idea. Anyway when the CPU heats up, which is almost immediate, it pushes the fans to extreme rpms and they sound like turbofan engines. I am honestly not sure how the magnesium alloy housing affects the heating problem, I know it's for durability but it seems like an overkill to me. Also the bottomplate is still plastic.Finally, the touchpad sensitivity, both for moving the cursor and clicking, is just simply disappointing. It's entirely usable, but it can't even hold a candle to my 4 year old Lenovo's touchpad which I had abused to death and it still works brilliantly.I wish this machine was more cleverly designed, but I can't be mad at it because of the friendly price. It runs games very well on med-high settings for a laptop of its size, and it seems to be perfect for people like me, who only play games very casually and do not expect extreme performance and fidelity. I mainly bought it for CFD and FEA scientific simulations, I'll see how it handles them tomorrow, but I guess that's not really a factor for most people. I might need to replace the RAM after all. Let's hope the sounds won't bother my colleagues too much.