Asus ROG Zephyrus Is a Crazy Thin Gaming Notebook
ASUS’s latest gaming notebook is slim. It’s called Roger, the west wind (Greek zephyr), it’s just as light as air. We saw it for the first time at NVIDIA’s news event in Computex, Taipei, and got more information from ASUS. The top model, the zephyr gx501vi, will cost $2699 to launch in June 27th, although the cheaper models and wind gx501vs will be pre priced that day at $2299.
The Asus laptop is one of the first to use Nvidia’s Max-Q technology, which allows for efficient, quiet, super-slim laptops. Specifically, it measures 0.7-inches at its thickest point.
Perhaps the coolest part is the bottom, which, when the laptop is open, lifts out to reveal an exhaust port. Asus calls it the ROG Active Aerodynamic System and claims it increases system air flow by 20 percent. It reverts back into the PC when closed for easy storage. It’s easily one of the most beautiful gaming machines I’ve ever seen.
The Zephyrus’ keyboard is front loaded, and it has a trick we’ve seen on some MSI laptops of late: the touchpad also doubles as a touch-sensitive number pad. It’s a neat trick that saves some space. The keyboard is RGB backlit with the QWER and WASD keys in separate clusters.
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang showed it running the first ever demo of Project Cars 2 on the laptop’s Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 GPU. The Zephyrus is also powered by an Intel Core i7-7700HQ CPU,4400mAh of Asus a32-m50 laptop battery, has 512GB of storage and supports up to 24GB of RAM. The cheaper version uses a 1070 GPU and 256GB of storage
This gaming notebook features a 15.6-inch, 1080p, 120Hz display with G-Sync that Asus claims covers 100 percent of the sRGB color gamut. The laptop uses USB Type-C with Thunderbolt 3 for power delivery, data and 4K display output. Additionally, it has fourUSB 3.1 ports for peripherals.
The keyboard is Aura backlit and Asus claims it has 1.4 millimeters of travel. When we went hands-on, it felt fairly average for a laptop.
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