Review on ASUS Zephyrus Display Keyboard GX551QS XS98 by Steve Cooper

VIEW ARMORY CRATE It is very important. When connecting, it is recommended to use "Silent" or "Turbo" mode. On battery power, use silent mode and iGPU mode to disable the Geforce card. (This should get you up to 6+ hours of light work with the second screen, maybe 8-10 hours of light work with just one screen. Possibly an all day laptop for work and school if you do this. ) There are noise canceling ones too Microphone tools and some other things in Crate. DOLBY ATMOS is YOUR FRIEND, that's also very important. Video mode is great for a lot of content, but I switch it back to music or game when I'm not watching anything. No webcam, no Thunderbolt, no fingerprint, microSD card reader but no full-size SD, no optical drive. 1080p, not 1440p or 4k. sRGB color is good, but not as good as full Adobe color at 4K. However, the 4K/120 model is rarer than the unicorns. I use the display at 100% scaling. The main screen does not accept touch or stylus. Poor battery life when using Geforce is normal for any laptop. Features dual microphones and good noise cancellation, works well with an external webcam. Empty slot for optional m.2 2280 SSD when you need large space for videos, games or other things. The bottom screen is easy to organize, super useful. Full 10-finger touch input works well with Android. Supported by Microsoft Surface Pen and Wacom Bamboo 2 Smart Pen, it can greatly improve your workflow. Or you can just caption the photo before sending it to Grandma. There is a hardware button to turn off the second screen completely to save battery. There are softkeys to hold the mouse on the top screen and disable the keyboard for safer use of the pen on the bottom screen. The keyboard is backlit, the colors can be adjusted, the touchpad is small but nice. The touchpad turns into a number pad and is an acceptable replacement in most cases. The laptop bag is solid, not very heavy, designed for excellent cooling without a stand, and designed as a desktop replacement. Features video, physical internet access (Ethernet) and USB Type A on the back for classic desktop use. To the left of the touchpad and right-handed mouse are additional Type-A ports, an audio jack, and a power-in jack. High quality audio jack and connected to the ESS Saber audio chip. The four speakers plus virtual surround sound work very well. Everyone already knows that the R9-5900HX is a very fast laptop processor for both simple and heavy tasks. Not everyone knows that ARMORY Crate can better tame the chip to perform at any level you want, be it more powerful or quieter and more efficient. The video chip is a high-performance Geforce RTX 3080 (16 GB of video memory instead of 8 GB on the Zephyrus g15). , max. 130 W against max. 100 W on the same g15). This allows you to get 15-20% more power. In comparison, it has more memory than a 3080 desktop (10GB) and is similar in performance to a 3060Ti or 3070 desktop and is suitable as a workstation with Studio drivers or as a gaming machine with Gameready drivers. There are other systems up to 150-165W on the same video chip if you're looking for that last ounce of performance. All games run on this machine, most in Full HD Ultra or better. There are many other things to cover, but for me the important parts were the ones I listed above. If you're asking about things like framerate, my answer is yes, it plays all games, and with a powerful 3080 you really don't need to worry about exact numbers for most games.