Strix ROG G18
18" Screen
Ultra 9 275HX processor
32 GIG RAM
1TB SSD
RTX 5070 TI GPU

This is my first ever laptop & will be predominantly for producing & completing tunes back home or when on holiday. My old tower is still being used but mostly for storage, mix downs & mastering tracks at my studio.

The feeling of being unrestricted with the amount of Vsts I can have without bouncing to wav is pure heaven.

All user upgradable. Next on the list is a 4Tb SSD for sample packs which is still rather small compared to what I'm used too, but hoping to get 8Tb storage & 64 GIG RAM towards the end of the year.

Super happy with it!

 

nice nice. what do you see here?

 

Hahaha!

 

I have same laptop. It is really great. It seems also that it has nice management of the fans when You uninstall all the Asus pre installed crap.

 

That's cool, It's hard to find portable powerhouses that don't sound like a 777

 

DPC latency ?

 

It was a real concern for me originally. But I'm quite surprised with the fan noise to be honest, as I don't really hear anything with the headphones in. Having said that I've hardly pushed it to its limits, yet!

 

And how much did you suffer for it?

 

After working on laptops for years, going back to desktop was the single best choice I ever made.
Laptops are noisy, hot, and absolutely limited (+expensive) compared to desktops.

Although, I hope your experience will be different and it works out for you.
If mobility is your primary concern, then a laptop is the only solution.

 

Last edited: May 5, 2026

A 5070ti in a laptop is just a scam look how big the 5070ti is in a desktop 3 coolers. you can never reach that speed in a laptop like that, not only because of the temps but also the power draw but after all, a nice laptop

If there is one thing I can't stand, it's working with a laptop but everyone has their own preference

 

EVERY mobile RTX are scam : NVidia use the same name as the desktop version to cheat on buyers because it's nothing comparable to the desktop version in term of performances and you still pay big prices for the GPU.

That's why for Audio it's better to buy a notebook without gaming gpu, built-in graphic cards are more than enough to display DAW and VST ...

 

Got great deal at 1.8k GBP

 

No issues as of yet.

 

Good for you, saw somewhere them go for like +/- 2,5k €

 

Thanks bud. Currently living at my girlfriends for the last 12 months & away from my studio. I didn't really have any other option (not much room here).

Will definitely build a new desktop / studio when we finally find a new place together.

 

Thanks matey, after watching the market for a few months, I saw it was a steal. Just a shame it didn't come with a bigger SSD.

 

Yeah; you win some, you lose some ;-)

 

actually no,
majority of notebooks with gaming gpus have better cooling, so it helps to avoid cpu throttling when gpu is idle,
many notebooks with igpu prioritize fancy thin designs hoping people merely watching hardware-accelerated youtube videos won't stress cpu at all

 

Year of the new laptop! Sounds like a solid studio PC! My current studio setup:

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 7 265HX (2.60 GHz)
Installed RAM 128 GB (127 GB usable)
Graphics card NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell Generation Laptop GPU (8 GB)
Intel(R) Graphics (128 MB)
Storage 10.66 TB of 11.00 TB used
Device ID 266AD284-F8B2-486B-BD83-5344A1B3F04F
Product ID 00342-21579-31291-AAOEM
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Pen and touch Pen and touch support with 10 touch points

 

If you don't mind, just let us know your credit card number as well, the expiration and the silly little digits on the back side as well.

Necessary information, really