ASUS ROG Strix G17: Ryzen 9 5900HX, 17.3" WQHD 165Hz, 32GB RAM, RTX 3070 Expired

This has a 17" QHD screen (not everyone prefers 16:10, 16:9 is better for gaming), faster CPU than the Legion 5 pro, 32GB RAM, better battery life, way better speakers, better trackpad, per-key RGB, Etc. It's a more premium system overall.

Lenovo vantage also sucks, it has no manual fan curve, and Armory Crate has wattage sliders that you can use to get the best balance of power/noise because of dynamic boost.

You're really giving up quite a bit by getting a Lenovo, but they are a good bang for the buck if you are ok with making some concessions.

Yeah but this for $1900 is rough.. especially with shipping, you get no mux switch, inferior build quality, worse RGB, inferior display, inferior performance(wattage), worse cooling, ports, and design(do get better speakers though lol) vs superior legion 7 3070 $1550-1650 It's just a bit of a bruh, asus makes inferior gaming laptops, just look at strix and scar series and their TUF series. their zepherys series is good though

But the Legion 7 deal posted not long ago with a Ryzen 9, 3080 max wattage, 32GB Ram and 1TB SSD was still better overall, for about 150 more after cashback and coupon deals, correct? I'm asking because I just passed up this exact Asus for a Lenovo

If you can afford that price tag I would not regret your decision at all.

I'm not so sure now James, I just received my Lenovo L7 and I'm a bit confused

- Screen doesn't seem as bright even though L7 is spec'd at 500nit vs 300nit
- Screen on Asus seemed much brighter, sharper and more ' colorful '
- Legion 7 gets MUCH hotter than G17, could be due to 3080/3070 differences
- Battery life seemed much better on the G17
- Many keep mentioning ' liquid metal ' on the G17 being superior as far as temps go

Now I need to figure out if I'm going to be sending this Lenovo back lol

Seems obvious is it not

Is it just me or are gaming laptops just a mine field of being great at some things and terrible at a lot of other ways? How can laptop manufacturers not get this figured out by now? lol

I bought one of these directly from Asus when they first came out (march/april last year) in the first month I had to RMA it for a bad mainboard. When it came back, half of the lower LED bar did not light up, and you could hear something rattling around inside the laptop. Took about 5 weeks to get it back, and less than a month later, the rgb on the keyboard stopped working. A week later, i was using it an heard a pop and the laptop was dead again.

When I called support, I told them about the rattling inside the chassis, the pop and burning smell, and defective LEDs, they decided to escalate my ticket to just replace the laptop entirely. Initially since they didnt have that model in stock they wanted to offer me a replacement model, but all of the models they offered as replacements were much lower spec... like rtx2060 15" last gen intel models as the highest replacement offering which was insulting. I suggested that if they wanted to offer a replacement then it should have the same or better specs than I originally paid for. They had some 3080 models in stock at the time, and I was hoping they'd send me one of those instead, but ultimately they decided to refund me (which took another 8 weeks!).

I've owned Asus laptops. motherboards, and wifi routers almost exclusively in the last 15 years, and I've had to do some RMAs with them but experience sort of soured me to them. I bought a Legion 5 (non pro) with similar specs that has been running flawlessly since I purchased it like 5 months ago I even have it overclocked mining crypto (something I didn't do on the Asus which technically has a better cooling package) and its been extremely stable.

If I had to guess what's going on, it'd be that they don't apply the liquid metal to the Asus consistently and it leaks as it heats up and causes shorts on the mainboard. I didn't inspect it myself so this is pure speculation.