This extravagant gaming laptop could ruin other screens for you

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My eyes have seen the PC gaming promised land, and it’s a beautifully bright world without a shred of blurriness. It’s warm, it looks lovely, and it’s impeccably sharp. Also, it’s expensive as hell.

I’ve dipped my toe in this world by testing a pre-production version of the upcoming Asus ROG Strix Scar 18, which was recently announced ahead of Computex 2026. It’s a gigantic 18-inch gaming laptop that comes with a top-of-the-line 24-core Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX CPU and can be fully kitted out with an RTX 5090 Laptop GPU and 128GB of RAM. Asus sent me a model to test that’s maxed out on all specs except storage (it’s got “just” 4TB). And of course, the company isn’t announcing any pricing yet — not even for a base RTX 5080 model. We all know, thanks to RAMageddon, it’s going to be gut-punchingly expensive.

But what...

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