Asus ROG Zephyrus GX501: best gaming Laptop!

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The Ultra-thin, Powerhouse Gaming Laptop

By @georgegodwin
January 11, 2017

Recommended

The Asus ROG Zephyrus gives a high bar for powerful, thin gaming laptops with top performance, and a truly ultra-modern design.

IN AGREEMENT:
Astonishingly powerful
Innovative and quiet cooling
Sharp, futuristic aesthetic
Excellent display and speakers

IN DISAGREEMENT:
Laughable battery life
Poor keyboard ergonomics
No SD card slot

Until the Asus ROG Zephyrus GX501 arrived, there were just two kinds of gaming laptop: big, powerful desk of a top or the ones thin and portable enough to fit in your backpack. Neither have been especially quiet while running games.

However, now that we have entered a new generation of Nvidia Max-Q laptops with technology that enables them to be up to three times thinner and faster. The Asus ROG Zephyrus GX501 stands at the top of this new breed of gaming laptops and offers the power of a high end desktop in a package that is almost as thin as the average Ultrabook.

It might sound impossible but, believe it or not, Asus has pulled it off with ROG Zephyrus GX501. It might compromise a bit on its battery life, but this gaming laptop still comes in at the head of its class with a brilliant, innovative design, a color-rich display, amazing speakers and most importantly, the gaming performance.

Benchmark:
3DMark: Sky Diver: 29,816; Fire Strike: 13,892; Time Spy: 5,474
Cinebench CPU: 737 points; Graphics: 100 fps
GeekBench: 4,577 (single-core); 14,713 (multi-core)
PCMark 8 (Home Test): 4,031 points
PCMark 8 Battery Life: 1 hours and 57 minutes
Battery Life (TechRadar movie test): 2 hours and 14 minutes
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (1080p, Ultra): 18 fps; (1080p, Low): 118 fps
GTA V (1080p, Ultra): 68 fps; (1080p, Low): 166 fps

Price:
The Asus ROG Zephyrus comes at a price of $2,699 or AU$3,659 (about £2,105).

Design:
We have no idea that this could be done, but the Asus ROG Zephyrus GX501 actually inserted an Nvidia GTX 1080 into a 1.79cm-thick (0.7-inch) laptop. That is not only surprisingly thin for a gaming laptop, but it’s slimmer than most traditional laptops.

Asus came with an innovative design, which sees the bottom panel drop down just like a ramp for better airflow. The mechanism engages automatically as you open the Asus ROG Zephyrus, creating a 6mm gap.

That might sound like a small space for airflow, but Asus has engineered and designed a high-air chamber to give this ultra-thin gaming laptop the cooling capabilities and possibilities of a much thicker machine.

One disadvantage to this expandable panel is it ends up feeling flimsy. The underside extension bends to the touch and there is slightly springy step to the laptop when you set it on a desk. That said, you might not really notice the issue outside of carrying around the Asus ROG Zephyrus GX501 from beneath while the screen is open.

The Asus ROG Zephyrus GX501 is a damn beautiful piece of machinery. Asus went for a uniquely squared-off design for the metal chassis. Then, the all-black exterior with copper trim adds up to a sharp, good looking, futuristic style. The screen lid of the Asus ROG Zephyrus GX501 draws your eyes in with a distinctly geometric design paired with a brushed aluminium finish that fans out in two different directions.

Branding on gaming laptops is usually something I tend to just ignore, but the use of the prominent Asus ROG Zephyrus GX501 logos over text on the exterior and interior of the laptop are nice touches, too.

Between the overall aesthetics of the laptop and its transforming design, the Asus ROG Zephyrus GX501 looks like a gaming laptop pulled from the future, and we love the way it looks.

Business in front, Party in the back:
As part of the Asus ROG Zephyrus GX501 design, Asus move all the components and cooling system to the rear of the laptop while migrating all the inputs to the front. It is an arrangement we have seen on the MSI GT83VR Titan and RazerBlade Pro, and like those previous systems, it works well enough but not without compromises.

The keyboard feels roomy with large keys despite having to share space with the side oriented trackpad. There is a decent amount of travel when hitting the keys, and a soft, mechanical note that goes with it. However, the Asus ROG Zephyrus GX501 lacks the mechanical bite we have experienced typing on the Acer Predator Triton 700.

Since there is no room for a palm rest, Asus included a rubber wrist rest that sits right up against the laptop’s front lip. Unfortunately, this extra accessory gets grimy very quickly even after just a few minutes of using it.

The extra palm rest also does not make it any more comfortable to type with the laptop on your lap, due to how close the keyboard is to the end of the laptop.

The right-side touchpad will also take a little bit of getting used to. We still catch ourselves accidentally stumbling over the keyboard instead of the pointing device we want to use. The touchpad itself is also a little small for our liking and will requires multiple swipes to move the cursor across the screen.

It is good news that Asus went with a glass-lined Microsoft Precision Touchpad that tracks perfectly, and handles multi-touch gestures well despite accommodating not more than three fingers.

We much prefer this to the Acer Predator Triton 700’s touchpad, which is fixed directly to the center and behind the keyboard. The pointing device on the Asus ROG Zephyrus GX501 also comes with the handy feature of converting into a digital number pad with just a press of a button.

SPECIFICATION:
Here is the Asus ROG Zephyrus GX501 spec:
CPU: 2.8GHz Intel Core i7-7700HQ (quad-core, 6MB cache, up to 3.8GHz)
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 (8GB GDDR5X VRAM); Intel HD Graphics 630
RAM: 16GB DDR4 (2,400MHz)
Screen: 15.6-inch, Full HD (1,920x1,080) anti-glare, wide-view panel (120Hz refresh rate with Nvidia G-Sync)
Storage: 512GB M.2 PCIe x4 SSD
Ports: 1 x Thunderbolt 3 (USB Type-C), 4 x USB 3.0, 1 x HDMI 2.0, headset jack
Connectivity: 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth
Camera: HD webcam
Weight: 4.85 pounds (2.2kg)
Size: 14.9 x 10.3 x 0.66-0.7 inches (37.9 x 26.2 x 1.69-1.79cm; W x D x H)

Hope you are now familiar with the latest Asus ROZ Zephyrus GX501, and hope you enjoyed the post. Thanks for Stopping by.

By @georgegodwin
January 11, 2017