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it's always the same damn trade-off do you want performance or portability in a laptop well a soos thinks they have solved both of these problems by creating a laptop that is only one and a half millimeters thicker than a macbook pro but houses a freaking GT X 1080 graphics card but even if you can cram all of that hardware into a form factor like this can a machine this thin possibly get the most out of those components not quite but it gets close enough to watch the video and see how well they did CyberPower pcs lineup of gaming desktops feature intel seventh generation core i7 processors check them out at the link below the rog Zephyrus looks and feels special and is possibly the most 2017 laptop that we've ever seen almost all the boxes are checked it's been it's light especially for a gaming laptop and there is plenty of brushed aluminum and RGB lighting there is a tiny bit of flex around the keyboard and screen but for something this thin the chassis is impressively rigid so full marks here I also feel like this might be some of the best industrial design to come out of Asus so far it strikes a wonderful middle ground between premium gamer II and professional and honestly I don't think you'd feel weird pulling it out of a backpack a briefcase or even a trendy messenger bag looking a little closely err when you open the Zephyrus you can see why it's named for the Greek god of the west-wind and bringer of light spring this six millimeter gap at the back is the one somewhat flimsy feeling thing on this device but it serves a couple of purposes inclining the laptop slightly for a more comfortable typing experience and helping it move warm wait did I say warm sorry I mean hot hot air away from the components crammed into this puppy is an NVIDIA GTX 1080 an Intel Core i7 7700 HQ a 500 gigabyte nvme SSD to boot and up to 24 gigs of DDR 4 RAM although North American models will ship with 16 gigs IO wise the Zephyr ax strikes a great balance again thin enough to be very portable but thick enough that you can fit three full-sized USB Taipei's Thunderbolt 3 HDMI and a headphone jack a soos even Chuck's a USB to Ethernet adapter in the box so you don't have to game over Wi-Fi but and I feel like we need to get this out of the way pretty early in the review the Zephyrus doesn't defy the laws of physics and when we hit it with a full synthetic load the thermal solution got overwhelmed and we did experience some thermal throttling a lot of thermal throttling with that said in a more realistic load like actual games at room temperature both our CPU and GPU put up a much stronger showing now as some of you have probably figured out by now at 1500 megahertz the max-q GTX 1080 in here is probably not going to keep pace with a full-sized desktop one or even a full TDP mobile one the kind you'd find in bulkier gaming laptops but it's still enough to crush games at the native 1080p resolution and 120 Hertz refresh rate of the IPS g-sync display it trails it's 1080 brethren by anywhere from 7 to as much as 20% but it should be noted that compared to the bigger heavier Alienware 15 it's 10 to 15 percent faster so it's 1080 hasn't been down clocked to the point where you might as well have saved a few bucks and gone with a 1070 acoustics were another strong point it's very impressive how the Zeus was able to keep a laptop this thin so quiet it's easily one of the quietest gaming laptops that we've tested with it not even being in the same ballpark as the g7 o1v I went under load but also not particularly loud are the speakers which along with the webcam get a solid fine out of 10 rating the keyboard though is both quiet and comfortable it features full RGB lighting with two zones and the throw on the keys short but they provide enough feedback that I never questioned whether I actually pressed the key at a desk with the thankfully included wrist rest it feels amazing but on your lap the position of the keyboard means that some folks will have a bit more difficulty balancing it at first but it's actually surprisingly easy to get used to and at any rate you won't have to worry about using it on your lap for very long the zephyrus doesn't use Optimus technology to switch to onboard graphics at idle so the battery life is abominable even while performing mundane tasks and the numpad trackpad combo doesn't get great marks either I could get used to the position but the shape just kind of sucks I understand why they did it under the normal keyboard area is where you'll find all that juicy hardware with swappable sodium and storage slots which is nice but I don't have to like it thankfully though asus includes a decent gaming mouse in the box so i would recommend just using that all in all if nothing else the ACF rest feels like something new sure it doesn't offer the best performance available but if that's what you're going for get a desktop because it as close to an apples-to-apples comparison as we could find the value of this 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