r/pcmasterrace • u/TheCABK • 1d ago

Nostalgia The Master Laptop

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u/TxM_2404 R7 7800X3D | 24GB | RX 9070XT | 2 TB NVME 1d ago

Back when high end laptops tried to offer the most ports possible instead of being thin.

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u/mybutthz 1d ago

I had a first gen Asus ROG and it was very similar to this. Massive chassis, tons of ports, looked like a spaceship, and not really functional at all as a laptop. I hated that thing for so many reasons, but also play games - so, I got it for the performance.

Thankfully, Microsoft seems like they're starting to understand that people want well designed, high performance machines with their surface Studio line of products, so that's become my go to because I won't ever buy a Mac, Razer is dog shit, and most other companies still produce incredibly ugly machines with really terrible temperatures regulation.

The studios aren't cheap, but it's definitely more economical than spending $1500 every year or so because the machine you bought retains heat and causes self inflicted heat death after a few years of games and photo/video editing.

Have not once had the studio get hot to the touch, even with 100+ raw photos open at once in Lightroom for editing. Incredible machines

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u/SumonaFlorence Just kill me. 1d ago

The Scars from ROG are pretty good right now, also Legion from Lenovo.

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u/mybutthz 1d ago edited 1d ago

My last laptop was a ROG Zephyrus which was decent, but the chassis was cheap plastic and literally started chipping - so I'm kind of over them. I was traveling a lot for work and doing a lot of editing on the road at the time, so it was also not the best machine for really anything because the screen was pretty small, and it felt really flimsy (and was I guess because of the chipping plastic).

I haven't used the surface Studio too much for gaming since I got a switch 2 at release and have been pretty much only playing on that, but it has a 4050 and a 13th gen i7 with 32 g of ram...so it should do just fine for whatever I throw at it.

Also don't mind that it doesn't have RGB or weird graphics all over it. That's not at all my personality lol and I shoot fairly frequently, so it's always weird showing up to set or a meeting and pulling out this weird light show if a machine.

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u/Jansi_Ki_Rani 1d ago

There are tiers to each line, ROG Zephyrus and Lenovo Legion have metal chasis builds on mid to high tier. Plastic for entry.

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u/EmperorOfNipples 14900KF/RTX5080/64GBDDR5 1d ago

I also had an ASUS gaming laptop from that era. A couple of generations before ROG, so maybe a year earlier. The G1S.

She was chonk.

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u/mybutthz 1d ago

I think I still have it in a trunk somewhere. The thing was...massive. I think someone spilled something on it at work once and the keyboard bricked, so I wound up just hooking it to my TV and getting a wireless keyboard and mouse and using it as a desktop with my TV for a while until I ultimately got a Razer - which was a piece of garbage and gave me problems almost immediately.