■ $7,499 | rog.asus.com/au
It’s been a while since gaming laptop vendors really pushed their most monstrous rigs, but it seems 2023 is keen to unleash a new breed of 18-inch gaming workstations onto the local market. Asus is first cab off the rank here but you’ll see plenty more in subsequent since just about every gaming laptop vendor has built an 18-incher this season. And why not? When you consider the ROG Strix Scar 18 can be configured with Intel’s top of the line Core i9-13980HX CPU, 32GB of RAM and the most powerful Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 GPU with a 175W power allocation, that’s a solid array of expensive components to make a margin on.
