ASUS ROG Strix G15 (2021) Gaming Laptop, 15.6? 144Hz IPS Type FHD Display, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050, AMD Ryzen 7 4800H, 8GB DDR4, 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD, RGB Keyboard, Windows 10, G513IC-EB73

Was playing a game on my laptop when it randomly crashed to a blue screen (blue screen of death). I’m not sure if something is corrupted or if there’s a problem with windows but after the crash it performed an auto reset. Now the laptop is stuck in a reset loop, installs to 63% resets, rinse and repeat. Tried safe boot/startup, can’t. Tried shift F10 method. Nothing. Don’t know what to do. Edit: my friend who is very computer savvy fixed my laptop back to its out of the box state. Turns out Windows 11 had crashed and caused the reboot loop. I am changing my review to 5 stars after realizing it was a windows error not the laptop hardware itself. After reinstalling all the proper drivers, it is back up to standard. The laptop itself runs very nice, I can play 95% of my steam library on max/high graphics and I don’t feel the laptop overheating or slowing down. I always play plugged in. Forza Horizon 4, Tarkov and Elden Ring are the only three games at the moment that I have to lower the resolution on to play at a smooth 60+ fps. But once I hit 60fps the games feel great and play well. The keyboard feels nice. Occasionally it will not pickup a key that I press while typing, but it doesn’t happen often enough to warrant a low rating. Screen brightness is nice and vibrant, RGB keys look great and can be customized. Speakers are little bit on the quiet side, but with 3 USB ports and a headphone jack this problem is easily solved. Would definitely recommend Asus as a brand. My only regret with this laptop is not spending the extra money to get a better model. 9/10

I just wanted to come and give my appreciation and thanks to this very laptop, it has really been a trooper. I purchased this laptop 4 years ago and still handling everything smoothly, between work, school, gaming, it handles it all and has been my daily workhorse. Granted the version I bought can't run cyberpunk on ultra but will run more intensive games that will surprise you. My ONLY gripe is even when I first got the laptop the battery life is not very good at all, maybe 1-2 hours... MAYBE. But that is plenty fine for what I use it for.

I really appreciate this computer as a gaming device. The display is awesome and it's way more powerful than I would expect for under $1k. Demanding games run great on medium to high settings, and it's usable for VR. The build quality is great as well. Despite it being mostly plastic, it's solid and has a quality feel to it, if not premium. The keyboard & track pad are nice to use. The battery is enough for casual use when I need something portable The issues I have are to do with connectivity and the awful RGB features. The wifi card needs to be disabled and enabled almost every time I wake it up from sleep mode or power it on. It just stops working. Additionally, bluetooth devices take a while to connect when waking up & powering on also. Also, when in sleep, the laptop's RGB lighting goes into some kind of demo mode after a while, and it lights up my whole room which wakes me up. One of the LEDs on the bottom of the case now flashes random colors unless I set everything to the color red. This is annoying, and the software that manages it is some of the worst bloatware I've ever encountered, and it's near impossible to uninstall it without running a utility from ASUS's website. All that said, I love this computer a lot and use it every day. lol

I purchased this laptop to upgrade to a laptop that can run most 64bit operating systems. I recently bought the 2021 model for my wife. One of the reasons I got this Laptop for her was, I presently own a 2019 ASUS ROG gaming laptop myself. I stuck a second NVME 1TB drive and a 16GB stick of RAM into this laptop. If you get tired of Windows, you can always install your favorite flavor of Linux on these ASUS laptops as they offer the Linux Community, excellent support for drivers. I gave one star for the camera as this laptop doesn't have a camera. It DOES have a built-in microphone however. I saw two memory slots underneath when I installed my wifes memory upgrade. So as far as I can tell, there are two slots for ram, so 16GB x 2 = the full supported 32GB of RAM. I set her up with 24GB as that should be more than sufficient.

Ok, so I was unaware that Asus removed webcams from their RoG series, but that's on me for not checking. This means that I can't use this laptop for my kid's classes, for my discord calls or zoom meetings. Aside from that, I had a few minor issues, eg. Bluetooth not turning on, WiFi dropping, that were solved with updates. Ok, now on to gaming; it works amazingly! In DotA2, I can see the grass moving in the wind as I get ganked. In Civilization 6 I can see the fish and crabs on the coast as Barbarians pillage my fishing boats. In Halo 4 I can see the expression on that Elite's face as he bitch slaps the life out of me. Overall, once you don't mind the webcam being absent, this laptop is perfect. The battery life so far is perfect and it does not get hot, even after 3 days consecutively of being on; updates and installing so many Gigs of games.