Design and Build
The Asus G703GXR is a bulky laptop, let’s just get that out of the way right now. It’s not the most portable machine out there, but with specs like that, you wouldn’t expect it to be a thin and light machine anyway, now would you?
Keeping that aside, this is a well-designed laptop. Asus has gone with a curving body, which makes it look less menacing and more attractive than one might expect from a beast of a machine like this one. There’s a nice brushed metal finish on the lid, with gorgeous looking bronze accents which make the G703GXR look really pretty.
Display
Anyway, moving on from the design, let’s take a look at the display here. Apart from the giant bezels that wrap around the display on the G703GXR, the display itself is actually decently good. It’s a big 17-inch FullHD display, which means you get great sharpness in consuming media content and games. Textual content does look slightly rough, especially if you’re sitting close to the laptop as you’re likely to do, but otherwise, it’s a perfectly nice display.
It comes with a 144Hz refresh rate and a 3ms response time. Now I know, 3ms isn’t the fastest response time on a display, but for a laptop, 3ms is solid. Plus that 144Hz refresh rate makes for smooth animations and transitions across the board, and thanks to Nvidia G-Sync, supported games should run with minimal screen-tear and reduced input lag.
Performance
Coming to things where I have absolutely no complaints at all, the G703GXR is an absolute beast when it comes to performance. The laptop packs in a 9th-gen Core i9 processor, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD + 1TB HDD, and the RTX 2080 GPU. So yeah, if you’re thinking this laptop just flies through everything, you’ve basically summed up this section.
I ran a bunch of benchmarks on the laptop, just to get a measure of the performance this thing can push, and well, take a look. Here are scores from Geekbench, Cinebench R20, 3DMark Time Spy, and PCMark 10, and they all look really good.
Keyboard and Trackpad
The G703GXR has a full-size keyboard, complete with a numpad. Now I, personally, don’t really use a numpad nearly enough to actually want it on a laptop, but hey, it’s not bad to have it and on a 17-inch laptop there’s definitely enough space to fit that in.
What I actually do appreciate is the full arrow key layout that’s present here instead of a compact arrow key layout. Plus, the keys have great travel as well. Sure, at Rs. 3,99,990 I expected a mechanical keyboard, but the chiclet keyboard on the G703GXR is not bad by any means.
Audio
One thing I really liked about the audio experience on the Asus ROG G703GXR is the fact that it has speakers right there in the bottom bezels of the laptop. That means, the speakers fire right at your face, and that should be pretty good. However, somehow, the G703GXR provides an underwhelming audio output. It’s not loud, it’s not good at bass, and it’s basically only decent at best.
That, at least, is the overwhelming response from most of the Beebom team that heard me while I was playing songs on the laptop to see what different types of music sound like on this laptop. It’s not good.
I would call these speakers decent for gaming, but then again, the fans are so loud that they easily overpower the speakers, and most gamers would be using headphones anyway, so the speakers don’t really matter much in that scenario.
Pros and Cons:
Pros:
- Top-notch performance. Just awesome.
- 144Hz, G-sync display is great
- Great design and build
- Comfortable keyboard
Cons:
- Big and bulky
- Poor battery life
- Audio performance is bad
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