ASUS ROG Strix G16 G614PR-RV003W Copilot+ PC AMD Ryzen™ 9 7940HX Laptop 40.6 cm (16") WUXGA 32 GB DDR5-SDRAM 1 TB SSD NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) Windows 11 Home Belgian Black, Grey

Product Overview

AI-generated summary

For £1,859 ex-VAT, the ASUS ROG Strix G16 Copilot+ sits in a pretty specific lane: it’s for teams that need serious performance in a portable-ish gaming/workstation-style shell and will actually use the horsepower (heavy VMs, large codebases, video/3D work, multitasking with lots of browser tabs and local tooling). The Ryzen 9 + high-end RTX setup means it won’t feel like it’s “racing the clock” when you’re doing real work, and the 16-inch format is a decent compromise for desks and occasional travel. If your staff are creative/technical and you want one device that can cover both “laptop day-to-day” and “power day,” it makes sense.

That said, I wouldn’t buy this for a standard business user or anyone prioritising quiet operation, long battery life, or simple durability as a priority. ROG Strix machines are geared towards performance and they tend to trade away efficiency and portability comfort—fine if it’s mostly on a desk with occasional mobility, less fine if people move around all day. Also, “Copilot+” is not, by itself, a reason to pay extra unless your organisation is genuinely planning to lean into those AI-enabled workflows. In short: buy it for a small number of demanding power users; don’t buy it as a blanket corporate notebook.

If you tell me your typical workloads (e.g., CAD, software dev, analytics, remote desktop/VMs) and whether it’s mainly desk use or “true mobile,” I can sanity-check whether this £1859 is the right kind of spend versus a more cost-effective route.