Zephyrus M

ASUS this week introduced its a second laptop under its flagship ROG Zephyrus gaming notebook brand. Dubbed the Zephyrus M (GM501) the new laptop is a slightly more straight-laced counterpart to the original Zephyrus, eschewing the latter's gaming-optimized keyboard and trackpad layout in favor of a traditional keyboard-over-trackpad design. Otherwise the new notebook is very similar to the original in most respects, aiming for the high-performance market by packing in Intel’s newly announced six-core Core i7-8750H along with NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1070 graphics chip into a 0.78-inch (19.9 mm) thick chassis. The new notebook is only slightly thicker than the original ROG Zephyrus, but unlike its predecessor, it has a GPU that runs at its original frequency and claims to deliver performance similar to...