I am looking to replace my Asus N550JV that I had for the past 7 years with something new. N550 was great, I loved the silver keyboard, laptop being pretty quiet and never any problems. It really served me well. I use laptop for work, 10h+ a day, many apps at once and sometimes I use one app that can use up to 16 threads. Most of the time laptop is in light load though (many apps + chrome with 1080p60 video). N550 have problems with this.. CPU and GPU work too much and it starts to throttle, everything becomes laggy. Didn't have those problems on my Ryzen 2700x desktop.
I would like 8/16 cpu but might settle for 6/12. Prefer 17" over smaller. Really prefer Asus since I was so satasfied with N550 and since I was young, it was trustful brand. Need reliable laptop as I travel and don't have time to wait for laptop. If there was GX701 with "normal" keyboard, that would be my first pick but since there is not, here are my favourites:
Zephyrus GX502 2019 (i7-9750h, 16gb, RTX2060) ~1900 euro
+ looks premium and good quality, AAS cooling
- 15", hot and loud (?)
Scar 17 2020 (i7-10875, 16gb, RTX2060) ~1800 euro
+ 17", + 8/16 cpu, cheaper then others
- "plastic/gamery look", less premium, lack of reviews (not sure about noise)
Zephyrus G14 (any conf) ~1600-2000 euro
+ premium, 9/16 cpu, good reviews
- hot and loud, 14", not sure about color.. would prefer dark lid with silver keyboard
Zephyrus GX502 2020 with 8/16 cpu would be nice but it's just too expensive.
I will be buying in europe (most probably order from germany), would like to stay up to 2500€. Feel kinda impatient but could wait until october.. after that I travel so need to have new laptop.
Thoughts?
