ASUS 2024 Newest ROG Strix G15 Gaming Laptop, 15.6″ FHD 144Hz Display, AMD Ryzen 7 6800H(8 cores), RTX 3050, 32GB DDR5 RAM, 2TB SSD, Wi-Fi 6, Backlit Keyboard, Windows 11 Pro,…

not fast, several quirks, android app support iffy… not as good as my acer spin

I did enjoy this as generally a solid laptop, but now the screen is flickering. It only comes with a 12 month warranty, so it’s basically dead to me at this point.

[Edit ca 7/2022; just under 1 year after purchase]
Time and time, over and over again, the device kept reminding me of this being the worst device I’d ever purchased among laptops, smartphones, and tablets.

From Day 1, it has been/ was horribly clunky. While the battery is decent, that never mattered because the system would get bogged down after a couple hours since booting — as I type this edit on the device right now with nothing else running on it, my keys are delayed about 0.5-2 seconds. This gets heralded as a solid 2-in-1 device line for graphic design? I don’t believe it. Less than a year after having purchased this, I’ve gone from 2.5, maybe a being-nice 3 stars to a solid 1 at the pricepoint. Not only is it the worst tech purchase of my life it’s turned me away from Chrome OS for life. There’s no need for you to repeat my mistake
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This is my first Chromebook. Ever since they were first introduced, a part of me has always liked the idea. I was a relatively early adopter of cloud-based office suites such as Drive for personal use. Once work started following suit on transitioning to Google suites a few years ago, the incentive for me increased. As such, when my old word processor laptop finally breathed its last symbolic breath, I opted for the switch. Unfortunately, however, my first impressions ~2 weeks in are not particularly high.

Before making the purchase, I appropriately did my research. During that time, I was continually thrown back at how low basic performance specs, only to be assuaged by (sponsored, bought and likely fake) tech reviews of how Chrome OS doesn’t need all the fancy schmancy high RAM and CPU processing power because… … it’s Chrome OS! I knew better, but when budget constraints were accounted for, there were not any truly viable options of reliable brand + desired features + desired performance specs in my price range. Something had to give and it ended up being the performance specs. Out-of-the box, the device consistently hangs when loading basic, basic things. I’m not attempting to run anything remotely intensive and there is still that consistent pause that isn’t there in similarly-priced (non-bloatware-filled) Windows devices — let alone anything running Linux (MacOS excluded because of price-point). This is entirely because of the industry standard to short consumers on specs. When RAM is low, performance drops below tolerable thresholds faster and devices are replaced much sooner. Ahhh… planned obsolescence. How you are a bane on tech progress reaching the consumer. Alas, that’s a relatively small issue compared to the weird brain fart-y fuster-cluck that is Google dev.

Do you know what happens when you try to use the Google Drive suite of apps on a Google Chromebook with the Google ChromeOS? It’s clunky. It’s everything but intuitive. It throws you around telling you that you need to install other apps in the suite… that you’ve already installed. And then it causes everything to force close. It doesn’t work. You have to force close it, attempt to uninstall and reinstall. And you know what? This isn’t the first (and likely not last) time I’ve encountered Google products supposedly having been optimized to work with other Google products not… being optimized for other Google products and at times not even being functional… on other Google products. Yes, this portion of the review is likely not going to be limited to the Flip CM5, and that’s why the review is docked to only 3 stars and not 2. In addition, I’m still able to use browser-based Google Drive, but it still shouldn’t be any kind of issue. But shouldn’t the baseline be that Google apps run seamlessly on Google OSes (Android and Chrome)? Forgive me for expecting Google products to interact well with each other. I should’ve known better.

In the end, I’ve been able to accommodate my use to be in-line with the limits of the device. It’s nice as a sleek, fancy word-processor with other features that go can help develop my significant other’s personal interests (casual digital art) before committing to a serious device for that in the future. Overall, it can get the job done, but not nearly as smoothly as I think it should be able to at its current price point though much — and I suspect most — of that is on the Google development side and not on ASUS.

This is a great looking machine. The best looking Chromebook I’ve seen. It performs really well. Battery life is great. Display is very good. Everything you’d expect from a fairly high spec machine…. If only I didn’t need to return it, twice.

I got this computer for my wife as a birthday present. Unfortunately, it had a problem. The a random green box with a bunch of pixels would show up after extended use. I returned it figuring it was a random thing with that computer. Get the new computer, and it started happening again. We kept it for longer this time hoping it we go away, but it just kept happening.

Don’t buy it unless you are will to take a chance they’ll fix the problem somehow (firmware update?) or don’t mind rebooting all the time.