ASUS ROG Strix Scar 15 Gaming Laptop, 15.6” 240Hz IPS QHD Display, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, Intel Core i9 12900H, 16GB DDR5, 1TB SSD, Per-Key RGB Keyboard, Windows 11 Home, G533ZW-AS94Q

Para uso exigente, programar, compilar, jugar e incluso como server de gran rendimiento sin mayor problema, nada le pesa y se nota la gran diferencia con generaciones anteriores de procesador, sin embargo su gran pero es la bateria, he hecho pruebas con el maximo ahorro de bateria posible navegando en internet y escuchando musica con audifonos y la verdad es que no logro llegar mas alla de 2.5 hrs de duracion. Es una pena que Asus indique duraciones de 5 hrs o mas cuando esta muy lejos de llegar a eso.

Black screen on unboxing moments ago.

Strong in small package

Compré el equipo y dejo mi reseña clasificada en varios puntos que para mí considero importantes:

Just incredible. the feeling to the touch is just pleasant. I feel like typing on the keyboard all the time. The only downside is the lack of a built-in camera. But I stay Asus.

This thing is a beast. I have run a few benchmarks on it.

For a laptop, this is extremely impressive. The i9 12900H can outperform my previous desktop pretty easily and the RTX 3070 TI can handle most 2k gaming without struggling. This laptop comes with performance tuning and RGB adjustment right out of the box. The keyboard is nice, I personally dont like the number pad and had to disable that function because its just to easily activated, having the number pad to a keybind instead would have been perfect though. Additionally, only16gbs of RAM and 1tb of storage in a $2000+ laptop is kind of underwhelming and 32gbs RAM and a 2tb drive for the OS would have been more ideal, but at least they are fully upgradable with and have an extra m.2 slot available assuming you are willing to open up this thing.

I am surprise it did not have numpad. But so far I am fine with it. The brightness is a bit low.

This laptop is a speed demon. I get 12550 on 3dmark and that’s stock out of the box. You can get as high as 14k if you overclock. The Intel cpu scores way higher than amd as well. They did awesome this generation. The only thing is I didn’t get a soft case like I see on many reviews. I am in the USA and got it from Amazon on Black Friday for 1600 usd. I used the saved money to buy a 64gb memory upgrade and bought a 2tb wd black 850x that scored 6900 read and 6700 write. That’s a great score since you never get as high as most advertise. The advertised speed is 7300. I have been using this laptop for 3 months and it hasn’t crashed yet.

Running Debian Linux with the NVidia drivers, I was able to (thanks to the community Kernel contributions, and no thanks to ASUS) dual boot Windows and Linux with only one issue so far: Sound doesnt work. Bluetooth and wifi works (need the firmware on your install media to do a netinstall), my gaming headphone dongle works as a workaround, but the onboard sound is no go. Primus works. Performance in games is good. But theres no audio output yet.