The Asus ROG Strix GL703V is a great laptop for 1080p gaming. It’s not cheap, but is a good choice if, like us, the thought of spending £3000/$3000/AU$4000 on a rig makes you want a week long meditation retreat just to get over the stress of it all.
Let’s get the bad part out of the way quick, though. The Asus ROG Strix GL703V’s battery life is bad. It will barely last a train trip from London to Paris, let alone a long haul flight.
But who’s taking a 17-inch laptop on a plane anyway? This is a gaming laptop for the home, even if it is substantially thinner and somewhat lighter than some of Asus’s models designed to house top-end GeForce graphics cards.
Price and availability
The Asus ROG Strix GL703V costs $1499/£1499 in the spec reviewed. This is the GL703VM.
It has a GeForce GTX 1060, one of the best options for 1080p resolution gaming, 16GB RAM and a 256GB SSD. There’s a 1TB hard drive too for all your media files, miscellaneous junk and less performance-critical games.
There’s also a GL703VD model. This starts at $1099 but has a GTX 1050 graphics card, which will leave you juggling settings more than the …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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