NVIDIA revealed its Max-Q design concepts for notebooks earlier this month during COMPUTEX 2017. A prescription of sorts, the Max-Q design is a set of specification standards which is recommended by NVIDIA to partners in creating notebooks powered by their GPUs which allows them to achieve a greater portability score and better acoustics whilst still delivering high-levels of performance with less bulk for cooling.
One of the first models to be launched was the ASUS ROG Zephyrus which was debuted during the ROG launch party during COMPUTEX 2017. With portable 16.9mm slim frame, the ROG Zephyrus is the world’s thinnest gaming notebook packing either a GTX 1080 or GTX 1070 with an Intel Core i7 7700HQ processor and plenty of high-end good stuff that would make any desktop envious.
The most notable feature of the ROG Zephyrus is its Active Aerodynamic Design cooling which lets a ton of airflow in for maximum cooling whilst still retaining a maximum thickness of just underneath 18mm. That’s roughly the same width as your index finger.
Following the COMPUTEX launch in Taiwan, ASUS Philippines brought the new standard of gaming portables to the Philippines with the launch being held at the ROG Concept Store at SM Megamall Cyberzone. ASUS Country Manager George Su reinforced the position of ASUS as the best in the business highlighting their position in the market and went on to go through the evolution of ASUS ROG, they’re involvement in development of gaming and continued support for eSports, culminating in the big reveal of the ASUS ROG Zephyrus gaming laptop.
ASUS Philippines Product Manager for Notebooks Joey Nocom went through the details of the ASUS ROG Zephyrus. Specs tell a lot of what a laptop can do but packing it all in a 16.9mm frame is an engineering marvel, at the least. An Intel Core i7-7700HQ, backed by 24GB of DDR4 memory and 512GB of NVMe SSDs make this one snappy machine. The real highlight is the ability to cool all those components without sacrificing portability. Joey went through the details of how ASUS was able to achieve such a feat in collaboration with NVIDIA’s Max-Q design to create the ROG Zephyrus and claim the title of world’s slimmest gaming notebook, beating Acer’s Triton (18.9mm) and Razer’s Blade Pro (22mm) with its max thickness of 17.9mm.
The ASUS ROG Zephyrus features a conservative case tooling on its metal frame body. The keyboard has been pushed forward with the upper half of the lower-chassis serving as intake for the Active Aerodynamic Design cooling system. The key feature here is cooling design’s hatch which opens up the lower part of the Zephyrus, providing an unprecedented approach to cooling, giving complete and total freedom for air to move through the components via its open hatch.
Pre-orders for the ROG Zephyrus are now open. Interested buyers can contact the stores below for pre-order details:
ROG CONCEPT STORES
- ROG Concept Store, 4th Floor, SM CyberZone, Megamall
- ROG Concept Store, 4th Floor, SM CyberZone, North Edsa
- ROG Concept Store, 2nd Floor, SM CyberZone, Mall of Asia
- ROG Concept Store, 2nd Floor, SM CyberZone, SM City Cebu
ASUS CONCEPT STORES
- Asus Concept Store, 2nd Floor, SM Cyberzone, SM Clark
- Asus Concept Store, 3rd Floor, SM Cyberzone, SM Fairview
- Asus Concept Store, 2nd Floor, SM Cyberzone, SM Bacolod
- Asus Concept Store, 3rd Floor, SM Cyberzone, SM Lanang
- Asus Concept Store, 3rd Floor, SM Cyberzone, SM IloIlo
- Asus Concept Store, 3rd Floor, SM Festival Mall, Alabang
- Asus Concept Store, 2nd Floor, SM CyberZone, Mall of Asia
- Asus Concept Store, 2nd Floor, SM Cyberzone, SM Cabanatuan
- Asus Concept Store, 4th Floor, SM CyberZone, Megamall
- Asus Concept Store, 4th Floor, SM CyberZone, North Edsa
- Asus Concept Store, 1st Floor, SM CyberZone, SM Marikina
- Asus Concept Store, 2nd Floor, SM CyberZone, SM Cebu
- Asus Concept Store, 3rd Floor, Ayala Centrio Mall, CDO
The ASUS ROG Zephyrus (GX501VI) is available in a GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 variant. The GTX 1070 model has an SRP of Php149,995 and the GTX 1080 flagship will have an SRP of Php179,995.
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William Paulino Lim Jr
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