New 2024 Lineup of Asus ROG Laptops & Desktops Launched in India; Details Here

Feb. 15, 2024

This laptop weighs 1.5kg and is built from an aluminum alloy chassis. For cooling, Asus has employed Arc Flow 2.0 fans with Liquid Metal as the thermal interface solution instead of traditional thermal paste. There is also support for Windows Hello for seamless unlocking and Aura RGB sync on the keyboard. The slash lighting feature has 15 animations. For networking, the Zephyrus G16 has WiFi 6E support.

Next up, we have the ROG Strix Scar 16 and Scar 18 gaming laptops. These feature the classic Republic of Gamers aesthetics, with an Aura Sync ROG logo on the display lid. The new laptops are available with the latest Intel 14th Gen processors, with the highest-end variant being available with the IntelCore i9-14900HXprocessor with 24 cores & 32 threads.

Like the Zephyrus, the Scar 16 & 18 featureNvidia RTX 40 Series GPUs. The laptops can be configured with up to an RTX 4080/4090 GPU. For RAM, up to 64GB of DDR5 RAM is available with up to 4TB of NVMe Gen 4 storage.

There is a quad-speaker system here for audio output and WiFi 6E for networking. Both the Scar 16 and Scar 18 have a 90Whr battery capacity. The Scar 16 weighs 2.65 kg. The bigger Scar 18 weighs 3.10 kg and these are not exactly aimed towards portability.

The ROG G22CH has acompactdesign with a volume of 10 litres only, and the desktop even has liquid cooling. This is quite a neat and portable pre-built gaming desktop, which Asus says does not compromise performance. The GPU on this desktop is Nvidia GeForceRTX 4070with 12GB of GDDR6X memory.

On the ROG Strix G13CH, the design is more traditional as per ATX desktops, and it has an air cooler. For the GPU, this other desktop can be configured with an Nvidia GeForceRTX 4060with 8GB of GDDR6 memory.

The compact 10-litre desktop gaming PCROG G22CHstarts atRs 1,99,990and has an Intel Core i7-13700F processor paired with RTX 4070 graphics. Going up to the i7-14700F, the price is Rs Rs 2,29,990 instead, a premium of 30K INR for a newer processor, which does have better multi-threaded performance. Next, theROG Strix G13CHRstarts atRs 1,39,990with an Intel Core i7-14700F processor and RTX 4060 graphics.

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