ASUS has announced the launch of a range of powerful new laptops in their gaming focused ROG Strix line. They feature the latest AMD Ryzen 5000 series processors, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 – series GPUs, optical-mechanical keyboards, up to a 300Hz IPS display and more.
The new Strix SCAR series comes in two
display sizes – 15.6-inches and 17.3-inches, both offering either a 1080p IPS
panel with a refresh rate of 300Hz and 3ms response time, or a 1440p IPS panel
with a refresh rate of a 165Hz and 3ms response time. For internals, they can
be configured with up to a AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX 8-core/16 thread CPU, up to a
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 GPU with 16GB of VRAM, up to 32GB of DDR4-3200MHz RAM
that is user upgradeable to 64GB, and dual 1TB SSDs in RAID 0.
These new Strix Scar 15 and 17 laptops are
the first in the series to feature a optical-mechanical keyboard, which feature
1.9mm travel distance, a response time of just 0.2ms, per-key RGB lighting, and
a switch lifetime of 100 million presses. The touchpad has also been improved,
this time with an 85%
Along with these two laptops, ASUS also
unveiled ROG Strix G15 and G17 laptops, the ASUS TUF A15 laptop and the Desktop
GA35, all featuring updated AMD Ryzen 5000 series CPUs and RTX 30-Series GPUs. The
ASUS ROG Strix Scar 15 will start at Rs. 1,54,990, available from 22nd March
2021 and the Strix SCAR 17 will start at Rs. 2,34,990, available from the first
half of April, 2021.
The ROG Strix G15 will start at Rs.
1,57,990, available from the first half of April 2021, and the Strix G17 will
start at Rs. 1,50,990, available from 22nd March 2021. The ASUS TUF A15 laptop
starts at Rs. 1,03,990, available from the first half of April 2021 and the
Desktop GA35 will start from 1,99,990.
