ASUS ROG Strix G17 (2020) Gaming Laptop, 17.3” 144Hz FHD IPS Type Display, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2...

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https://amzn.to/3jOBWgi - ASUS ROG Strix G17 (2020) Gaming Laptop, 17.3” 144Hz FHD IPS Type Display, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070, Intel Core i7-10750H, ...

Really loving how smooth the computer runs. screen looks great!
Great for the price.
It's a great laptop with a nice design and a high-resolution screen so you won't feel fatigued.Memory is smooth and there will be no lag at all.
Before I got this laptop for the past 6-7 years I had an Asus ROG laptop with a Geforce 860m in it. It finally was on its last legs so I decided to buy another Asus ROG as it had been so reliable and tough to boot.
When I got my new laptop I liked the look of it....
ASUS ROG Strix G17 (2020) Gaming Laptop, 17.3” 144Hz FHD IPS Type Display, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070, Intel Core i7-10750H, ...
Really loving how smooth the computer runs. screen looks great!
Great for the price.
It's a great laptop with a nice design and a high-resolution screen so you won't feel fatigued.Memory is smooth and there will be no lag at all.
Before I got this laptop for the past 6-7 years I had an Asus ROG laptop with a Geforce 860m in it. It finally was on its last legs so I decided to buy another Asus ROG as it had been so reliable and tough to boot.
When I got my new laptop I liked the look of it. It booted up and did typical setup things Update windows..install programs I use etc. A few things I noticed that kind of annoyed me about this laptop...usb ports were put on the left instead of right side.
(I have many backup/external drives that are on the right side of my desk and due to the position of the chair/leg area I do not have much room on the left for those things.)
A minor inconvenience of course..also the reduction of 4 usb ports to 3 is a bit of an inconvenience too as I have both a wireless mouse and headset that I use leaving only 1 port free most of the time.
Though to be honest I knew about that to begin with but it would be nice to have more ports without needing an external hub. Again these are small inconveniences.
I do enjoy having the HDMI port on the back so its out of the way of things on my desk, same for the power plug.
My one real gripe about the HDMI is that whenever its plugged in the resolution changes to a lower one due to it thinking that my laptop screen is the HDTV that I have connected to it to watch movies/youtube on via my laptop.
Once I unplug it though it goes back to the right resolution for both video editing and gaming. This leads to another issue I ran into with this laptop.
If you want to play any high end games such as COD: Warzone you have to go into the provided software ARMORY CRATE to change your settings from silent to performance or turbo to get the performance needed or else things tend to lockup or crash.
(EDIT - after some driver updated and fiddling with the nvida software which was the problem in the long run as it was fighting for control all the time with the ARMORY software that is provided with the laptop.
I like the ARMORY but not enough to fight it so I disabled its control of the graphics decisions and said let windows do it which it in turn said Nvidia can play with things...which is what you really want as they know the graphics chip better than Asus does.
So it plays great now.) Im an experienced IT guy so for me it was an easy find/fix...but for the average gamer it would be a big thing as there is nothing saying to do that.
I will also say that though the laptop is thinner..the fans are louder when in performance/turbo mode its so loud you can barely hear things in game(EDIT: When in TURBO MODE/ARMORY) unless you crank the volume up quite a bit so I would suggest again that if you have the time find your way through to disable ARMORYs control of things and just let Nvidia and windows handle gpu controls as they are more efficient in doing it.
my last laptop even when the fans were going full throttle did not make this much noise, so that is a little disappointing to say the least. So I will say these are things that they need to address better In the future.
Personally I could careless about battery life all together due to my using my laptop as a space saving pc instead of a portable gaming rig.
I will also say to you if you are thinking of buying this model...get the one with the 1 or 2 TB drive in it as this one did not have a slot for SSD drive(non M.2).
So the 512GB Intel m.2 2280 one notch PCIe that came with...