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what is it about gaming laptops that really gets you fired up is it the flashy angular designs maybe the thick cooling the anemic battery life and super heavy power bricks yes bricks sometimes they have more than one well Asus clearly didn't think it was any of those things because their follow up to last year's DL 502 the GL 503 features none of them synergy - makes sharing one mouse and keyboard between multiple computers so simple and seamless that anyone can do it check it out today through the link below picking up the GL 503 scar Edition ours is the vs configuration the most immediately noticeable thing is the significant difference in build quality compared to the last generation it's noticeably thinner which gives it along with the faux carbon fiber finish here and the darkened brushed aluminum on the back panel a bit of extra curb appeal now as for its little brother the GL 503 hero Edition this is a VM model this guy gets kind of a feathery half tone vinyl wrap that looks pretty cool up close but then from a bit further away subjectively I think kind of looks like dust or dirt or something like this now although they share a common chassis the keyboard area of the scar Edition compared to the hero is quite a bit stiffer leading us to originally believe that this surface really is made of carbon fibre hence the title of the video but as I am blued it to before it is not it should be noted both of them are on the excellent side of acceptable though with better screen flex than the previous gen as an added bonus there's more than meets the eye though when you're comparing the two incoming models while both of them come equipped with five USB 3.1 ports for type a and one type see the scar additions type C over here is Thunderbolt three enabled allowing it to drive up to three external displays speaking of displays let's switch back over to the hero here Asus used a 120 Hertz a hva panel for the hero that's pretty good but the scar sports a brighter 144 Hertz IPS g-sync affair with both of them boasting 100% coverage of the Adobe RGB color gamut for getting real work done and they both deliver a spectacularly smooth gaming experience in all but the most demanding titles a gtx 1070 can get near the 100 FPS mark on medium to high settings and then especially on the scars g-sync display I mean this is a huge upgrade compared to whatever kind of gaming notebook you're running from a couple of years ago inside them we find mostly the same guts that powered the GL 502 except this time with more storage thanks to Seagate's fire cuda sshd hybrid drives a soos also added intake vents above the keyboard and then a cutout on the rear of the display hinge that actually clears both the intake and exhaust vents and allows the laptop to breathe easy whether the lid is open or closed and then as a neat little bonus this notch right here actually gives you a quick look at the main indicator LEDs while the notebook a shut specs aside in terms of expansion they've both got two ddr4 sodium slots with one slot populated on each of them and nvme SSD support along with a single tuna 1/2 inch SATA mount where they really differ internally is in their cooling setups which might help explain the extra stiffness of the scar it didn't throttle one bit even under a combined CPU and GPU load that is as long as you don't mind the mini vacuum sound that accompanies a Seuss's / boost mode by comparison the hero and the last gen GL 502 put up much worse results as for our gaming tests it showed a bit of a blow for blow between the GL 502 and our scar with all configurations scoring within 10 FPS of their desktop equivalence except in csgo where okay yeah they were different but like if somebody offered you a 600 scoop ice cream sundae versus a 700 scoop ice cream sundae would you really worry about it for productivity meanwhile the scar overtakes its predecessor coming closer to our comparison desktop thanks to its superior cooling with the hero taking a backseat now of course all of that comes with a cost and I'm not talking money yet without switchable graphics both of our GL 503 units put up unimpressive battery life numbers so this is better than the gaming notebooks of yore but if you're planning to use either of them for school you might want to factor an extension cord and a power strip into your backpacks weight allowance for those of you who care the webcam and built-in microphone look and sound about like this so serviceable but I wouldn't go using them for streaming on Twitch or anything like that as for the side firing speakers well there are nothing to write home about either but they're a significant upgrade in clarity over the previous model and well within the range of acceptable moving on to the keyboard and trackpad do you remember how the trackpad on the GL 502 had this kind of lip that made it awkward to use bats ancient history now we've got flush track pads that feel smooth and easy to glide your fingers across with virtually no input lag and four zones of RGB lighting on the keyboard now the switches themselves are just as satisfying as the GL 502 and the layout is improved with full-sized arrow keys now making them easier to find by touch so overall I've got to say a soos did an excellent job of refining this design it's still not to a level where I'd call it perfect and sure at these prices you can get this raw performance for Less not to mention with better battery life but what a soos brings to the table here is superior build quality expansion cooling performance especially in the scar and perhaps most importantly again especially on the 144 Hertz car truly gaming grade screens recommended we're teaming up with audible to show you just how easy it is to use your echo to listen to any audiobook you like Alexa Reed A Song of Ice and Fire but a killer morning show just like that let's get kind of like a Macbeth vibe from this you know what don't worry about it the point is 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