The device also apparently has soft-touch paint on the touchpad and around the keyboard, to prevent the accumulation of smudges and fingerprints. Lugging around the laptop is not a problem, even though the charging cable and the adapter are a bit on the bulky side. It weighs three kilograms, but is sleek enough to fit in large-ish laptop bags. The display is a vibrant and bright 17.3 inch WQHD IPS panel with a refresh rate of 240Hz and a response time of three milliseconds. The Aura Sync section in the Armoury Crate software allows you to specify the lighting for the keys, down to the individual level.
The function keys are a bit difficult to find in the dark initially, because the F numbers are not backlit, but you quickly get used to the icons and remember them. The trackpad is large and allows for plenty of room to move the fingers. The metallic ROG logo on the back is backlit, which is not too over the top. (Image Credit: News9/Aditya Madanapalle). The design flourishes are not over-the-top. In any case, the device supports up to 64 GB of RAM. This should not be an issue with the devices that hit the stores. There was 16GB of DDR5 RAM on my device, but I suspect something was wrong with the review unit here because it is supposed to have 32 GB of RAM. The graphics card is an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU. The ROG Strix Scar 18 though, uses an Intel proccy, and so does the ROG Strix Scar 16. There was a time when this would be a decision that gamers would have questioned, but that is no longer the case. Under the hood is an AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX Mobile Processor, which is a switch from Intel last year. I can keep playing games forever on this thing, but there is a review to get back to. My initial elation turned to disappointment as I knew I would have a bit of a problem enjoying my perfectly fine laptop again.
I didn’t think it was possible, but this thing even managed to provide the best experience I ever had with a two decade old title, Quake III Arena. I was also able to Alt+Tab between multiple titles. The laptop also did not heat up much at all, and was able to handle everything I threw at it, at the highest settings, without struggling. The loading times for all the games were much shorter. One game that my previous laptop struggled with was Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, especially in the combat sequences. I could almost feel the textures on Sackboy: A Big Adventure, and the depth of field effects were also better, with different amounts of blurring clearly indicating the depth. I installed a whole bunch of games before doing anything else.
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