There is no confirmed pricing or availability of most of the products in this list, but they’re confident they’ll all be released in the coming year.
There is no confirmed pricing or availability of most of the products in this list, but they’re confident they’ll all be released in the coming year.
Asus brought seven laptops to CES, including five old designs that had been bumped up from GTX to RTX, and two new designs. By far the most exciting of the bunch is the outrageous Asus ROG Mothership (second photo below): a king among gaming laptops, and an experiment into what the future of mobile gaming might look like.
As Asus points out, the laptop form factor was not designed for the heat output of an RTX 2080 or i9, let alone both. To combat this problem, Asus shifted all the components of the laptop behind the screen, to give them “unrestricted access to airflow” and thus better temperatures. It also allowed them to shrink it down to 29.9mm, and it still runs quietly when pushed to the max.
Because it’s a flagship device, naturally, it also has to be made of overkill aluminum unibody. It takes nearly 20 hours to CNC the skeleton alone, no doubt raising the as-yet-unannounced price sky high.
If you prefer your laptops clamshell or your wallet less empty, Asus also has the ROG G703. It’s the standard desktop replacement; large and heavy but very powerful. Rounding out the high-end segment is Asus’ two new Zephyrus models, the 15” Zephyrus S GX531 which has received an internal upgrade to RTX, and the brand new 17” Zephyrus S GX701.
While the GPU is the only change to the 15” Zephyrus, its bigger brother received more than a few interesting new features.
Asus claims it’s the world’s smallest 17” gaming laptop at 18.7mm thick. Top and side bezels are very thin, so it doesn’t have a built-in webcam, instead you can plug in an external 1080p 60fps one that can clip onto the top of the screen when it’s opened.
