Budget gaming laptops need a makeover, and Asus might be the company to give them one. The $1,099 Asus ROG Strix GL503 is one of the best-looking entry-level gaming notebooks you can get. The company smartly borrowed the looks from its more premium laptops and applied them here. It also has a bright, vivid display and an RGB keyboard with customizable backlighting, which is often reserved for more expensive machines. But while its Nvidia GTX 1050 GPU and Core i7 CPU are powerful, the hybrid SSHD is slow, and data transfers and reboots take a long time. (Luckily, it’s easy to upgrade.) If you’re looking for an entry-level gaming laptop in a premium rig’s clothes, the Strix will help you look the part.

Design

From afar, the Strix looks way more premium than you’d think. That’s because Asus took the lid from one of its flagship notebooks, the ROG Zephyrus, and copied it here. The black aluminum lid features a striking diagonal stripe and the ROG logo in a bronze color. Asus really needs to replace the ROG icon with something (anything!) more elegant, but even so, the overall design is pretty nice.
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