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The new Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 laptop is now available in the US.

As we saw at CES last month, Asus’ G16 and G14 latops are sleeker and thinner for 2024, featuring a new aluminum build, OLED screens, larger trackpads, and Intel Core Ultra 9 Meteor Lake chips to go with Nvidia 40-series GPUs.

The G16 price goes from $1,999.99 to $3,299.99 and it’s available directly from Asus or Best Buy. We haven’t reviewed this one yet, but hopefully, that new look hasn’t ruined this iteration of one of our most recommended gaming laptops.

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The Noctua RTX 4080 Super is chonky and tanned.

Nvidia has launched its RTX 4080 Super GPUs today, and Asus is ready with an update to last year’s RTX 4080 Noctua Edition. The Super model includes a four slot cooler with 120mm Noctua fans on top. Asus hasn’t confirmed pricing just yet, but given the $450 premium on the previous RTX 4080 model it’s probably going to be a lot more than the $999 starting price of the RTX 4080 Super.


Brown and tanned fans.
Brown and tanned fans.
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Asus’ dual-screen laptop has arrived.

Following its reveal at CES earlier this month, Asus has launched the absolutely ridiculous Zenbook Duo, which stacks one 14-inch display atop the other, giving you a whole 19.8 inches of screen along with a detachable keyboard. It’s on sale now for $1,499.99.


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Wi-Fi 7 quietly took off while everyone was looking at AI

There may not have been any splashy router announcements, but Wi-Fi 7 hit laptops all over the place.

Another day done at CES.

The show floor only just opened yesterday, but we got a glimpse at a ton of cool new products, prototypes, and features:

• Asus made a portable monitor — and a laptop — with two screens.

• Sony and Honda showed off an Afeela EV prototype that puts Fortnite on your bumper.

• Amazon announced Matter casting support for Prime Video.

Google and Samsung teamed up to combine Quick Share and Nearby Share into a single sharing solution.

• This AI startup made a little gadget that’s supposed to use your apps for you.

There’s still more to come! Stay tuned to our coverage, and make sure to check out The Verge’s TikTok and Instagram where we go hands-on with new devices.


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Would you carry a foldable OLED monitor?

I would totally use the new Asus ZenScreen Fold that’s on display here at CES 2024 — if the price were right. I'd hook up my Steam Deck and work laptop. Asus did not tell me if the price was right. Any bets?


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How to watch Asus’ CES keynote.

Asus is kicking 2024 off with a ROG keynote. That means it’s time for gaming laptops, monitors, and much more. You can watch Asus’ keynote below, starting at 3PM PT / 6PM ET / 11PM GMT. Stay tuned to The Verge for all the announcements from Asus at CES.


That camera bump is what’s gone ROG.

Asus’ ROG phones are about gaming, never really about cameras. But now Asus just released a shadowy teaser pic of its new ROG Phone 8, and it’s got a thick camera plateau that I can’t imagine is comfortable to hold horizontally for playing.

Judging by what’s visible, it looks like it might be a bit more subdued in its design compared to the loud and fun previous models.


ROG Phone 8 coming soon, with a shadowy image of the phone rear and a “EST 2006” print
A brightened version of the ROG Phone 8 teaser image shows a two-level camera bump with three lenses and a side USB-C port.
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A ROG Ally update is adding gyroscope controls and a lot more.

It started as an April Fool’s tease, but the very real handheld gaming PC is now six months old. Along with gyro controls, a new Armoury Crate update is adding a new Feedback Hub, the ability to turn CPU Boost off, new AMD Advanced Graphics Options, and direct sharing of images and video to Discord and TikTok.

Windows Central highlights this Asus video tracking everything added since launch (we revisited our review over the summer), or you can read the changelog here.


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Check out this special edition RTX 4090 chip from ASUS.

First shown at Computex in May, the ROG Matrix Platinum comes with the “industry’s first” liquid metal thermal material on the GPU’s die, which should allow for cooler temperatures and better performance when compared to using thermal paste.

It also comes with a pretty sleek design that creates a sort of lighted frame around the card. As you might’ve imagined, this GPU doesn’t come cheap — it costs $3,199.99.


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Reports of the Zenfone’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.

Asus says that the rumors it would discontinue the Zenfone series aren’t true. The company put out a statement in response to a report from TechNews Taiwan indicating that the Zenfone 10 would be the last device in the series. Not so, says Asus — the Zenfone and gaming-focused ROG lines are alive and well, according to its statement. That’s a little bit of good news for all my fellow small-phone-fans.


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Asus ROG Strix Scar X3D review: AMD’s new chip is a game-changer

AMD proclaimed that its Ryzen 9 7945HX3D would be the world’s fastest mobile gaming chip. It was right.

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If you’ve been putting off buying a Zephyrus G14, now’s your chance.

Asus’s 14-inch powerhouse is currently our top pick for best gaming laptop, and all kinds of different of models are currently on sale for Prime Day.

Here’s an all-AMD configuration (with a Radeon RX 6800S) currently listed at $1,199.99, $700 down from its original price of $1,899.99. This RTX 3060 SKU is down to $799.


A new update for the Asus ROG Ally is supposed to keep things safer for SD cards.

A note from Asus in late June mentioned issues with failing SD cards and said a future update would boost fan speed as a precaution. Now that update is here, labeled BIOS 322. It raises the fan curve when using it in Turbo mode, both on battery power and plugged in (via Windows Central).

Our updated review of the ROG Ally showed that, like the Steam Deck before it, software updates could go a long way to improving the handheld PC gaming experience.


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Just updated my ROG Ally performance story because I’m still seeing the gap.

If you’re relying on the original May reviews of the ROG Ally for your purchasing decision, you should know that those reviewers didn’t get final hardware and software. I’m still seeing lower performance today with my retail unit than I did with my original review unit, despite Asus’ new statement and AMD’s graphic driver hotfix.

Could be a bad unit. But I’m not the only one who saw the dip.


Remember those AMD Chromebook processors that promised 17 hours of battery life?

We’re about to see one in the wild. Asus has launched its Chromebook CM34 Flip, one of the first models that will include AMD’s new Ryzen 7020 C-Series processors (which are basically the same chips that AMD released for budget laptops last September, but nevertheless).

The CM34 has Wi-Fi 6, a 16:10 screen, a full-sized backlit keyboard, a physical webcam cover, and a starting price of $499. Asus is claiming 13 hours of battery life, rather than 17, so there’s that.


The Asus Chromebook Flip CM43 in various positions on a white background.
Oh, and it flips around.
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Computex 2023: all the news from Taiwan’s big PC show

For one glorious week, PC enthusiasts gathered in Taipei.

I have never been so convinced that a router was going to come alive and murder me.

This is the Asus ROG Rapture GT-BE98 on display at Computex, and it’s the world’s first quad-band Wi-Fi 7 gaming router, boosting speeds of up to 25,000Mbps. It is also the largest and scariest-looking router I have ever seen in my life.

(Asus representatives confirmed to me that there is no technical reason it needs to look like a giant RGB spider. That was just a design choice.)


The Asus ROG Rapture GT-BE98.
The Asus ROG Rapture GT-BE98.
Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge