Thread 723957860

In 2025
I had to get last year's model that didn't have the 5060 but a 4060 instead.
It also had no igpu and a bad dim screen.
The laptop woud randomly freeze until the third bios update that finally didn't starve the cpu of voltage when you weren't doing anything.
The build quality is a mess and it's made to break if opened.
It doesn't have enough cooling and will sit at 92c if you game with cpu boost enabled.
The power button is almost failing because apparently that's comon on this and that means a full keyboard replacement 150€.
The wifi chip would only work on 5gh and 0 password tanks realtech(fixed in a recent driver but broken for months)
Yes laptops are a bigger meme ten ever.
FA507NVR

>>723957860 (OP)
should have listened to tech jesus when shat all over Asus for their poor quality.

>>723957860 (OP)
just get the m4 macbook air bro

>>723957919
I'm too blind for a handheld and I need the portability.
But hopefully they will make one with a bigger screen in the future.
Yes Jesus is always right

>>723957860 (OP)
>buy cheap Asus shit
>it's shit
Wooooow

>>723958146
It was 800€ my first car was 600

>>723957998
Plug the handheld into a monitor?

>>723957860 (OP)
thats what you get for buying shintel
they're pure e-waste

I bought a HP omen and it's good so far, my only problem is the fan noise but that's what I get for wanting a gaming laptop

>>723957860 (OP)
There's no usecase for a laptop that costs more than $200. Just buy a used one off amazon for peanuts and install a replacement battery. takes like 5 minutes and a screwdriver.
If you want to actually run something on it besides a web browser, get an actual computer.
If you really need to run AAA games and you're poor just use Geforce Now. $100 for a year. not the same as having a PC yourself but better than wasting $800 on a craptop.

if you're into laptops in 2025 you save shekels for a framework and upgrade that over time
it's almost as upgradable as a desktop except for mobo and cpu being soldered

i worked at a store selling pc hardware and shit. gaming laptops were actually a pretty decent investment if you bought the single-payment insurance with them. it was like 100 euros on top of the laptops price and you could just trash the laptop when the 3 year insurance period was coming to an end, and we would provide a new laptop almost free of charge (like a 50 euro deductible) and the guy could buy a new insurance for his laptop. i did these insurance exchanges often and i would often replace a rtx 2060 laptop with a 4060 laptop.
of course this was in finland and maybe your country is more jewed idk. but the way the insurance worked was that you basically got an upgrade every couple of years for a small amount of money.

>>723959267
Yah I'm in Italy they would not replace anything insurance is a scam here.

>>723957860 (OP)
That sucks.
Here's my experiences from the past 15 years:

2010
>browse Ebay for my very first laptop, because I now study and travel A LOT.
>End up snatching a then fairly recent and powerful Asus ROG G60VX with Core2 duo, 4GB DDR3 and GTX 260M 1GB for 400€
>Runs just about anything all the way to late 2010s
>Managed to swat the CPU to an almost 1Ghz faster model, and double RAM, both for pennies.
>Simple case mode improved airflow ten-fold.
>Ended up selling the thing for 170€ to some Overwatch kid in 2017.

2012
>Local store selling an HP Easynote TS with Intel i3 + 12GB DDR3 + GT 540M 1GB + 750GB storage
>starting price 599, but dropped to 399 during sales
>Snatched, and used it in tandem alongside with the ROG when traveling and LAN partying with my wife.
>Still sits on my shelf, mostly used as a media device

2023
>Got THE itch again
>Check local auctions
>Another Acer, VX model, selling for only 150€ because of busted screen
>Specs are actually alright; yesteryear's Intel i5 + 8GB DDR4 + GTX 1050ti 4GB

>Bought it, got perfect image through HDMI port on external monitor.
>Replacement screen from Alibaba: 50€
>Paid local IT repair store's zoomer another 50 to get it installed properly

>total cost: 250€, runs anything I need it to run

>>723959267
damn. that sounds awesome

>>723957860 (OP)
You bought an ASUS product. All ASUS products are irredeemable garbage. I don't understand why goycattle keep on buying ASUS when it gets proven over and over and over again that everything they make is built like absolute dogshit. Marketing really is something

>>723957860 (OP)
So why did you buy that laptop then? You know reviews are a thing, right?

I still have an old ASUS gaming laptop from over 10 years ago, has a meme SLI 750m setup. My dad plays solitaire watches youtube on it.