ASUS ROG Strix G18 Conclusion. At the end of the day, the ASUS ROG Strix G18 is a fantastic laptop, especially if your plan is to simply keep it tethered to your desk to replace a bulky desktop tower.

T he ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 18 is the latest iteration of the Strix lineup from Asus. Brimming with the latest hardware from Intel and Nvidia, it’s an impressive laptop.

The Asus ROG Strix SCAR 18 is a very large and in charge new member of Intel Arrow Lake-HX and Nvidia Blackwell. It looks and plays great.

Discover the ASUS ROG Strix Scar 18, a gaming laptop with desktop-level power, mini-LED display, and cutting-edge performance ...

The Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 will run you around $4,499.99 / £4,699.99 for an RTX 5090 configuration, with lower-specced RTX 5080 models dropping down to 16GB RAM at $3,399.99 in the US.

We're getting ahead of ourselves, though. Let's introduce the machine we'll be testing. The ASUS ROG Strix Scar 18, the Republic's flagship and its biggest and baddest gaming laptop to date.

Asus’ updated Strix Scar 18 packs the punch you’d expect from its top-tier components and price, but it doesn’t quite present the design or killer feature to stand out in a competitive field.

On the back of the ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 18 gaming laptop is that wicked AniMe Vision, pioneered on the ASUS Zephyrus series, with 810 LEDs shining through 9152 precision-milled holes.

I reviewed the Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 (2024) almost a year ago, and I came away fairly impressed. It was a big ol' slab of a gaming laptop, though, and I couldn't shake the feeling that it was a ...

Asus’ 2025 ROG Strix Scar 16 and 18 include a customizable dot-matrix display on the lid and wraparound RGB lights on the base of each machine. Quite the light show. Skip to main content ...