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IT Support for Startups: Building the Right Foundation
13 Oct, 2025







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At £2,230 ex-VAT, the ASUS ROG Strix G16 with an Ultra 9 and RTX 5070 Ti is absolutely in “serious workload” territory, but it’s not automatically good value for most UK businesses. If you’re paying for it, you should be using it hard: high-end content creation, GPU-accelerated engineering apps, heavy 3D, or teams who routinely sit on long renders and compile times. For office users, IT admin staff, or anyone doing mostly spreadsheets and web apps, it’s massively over-specced and you’ll be paying a premium you won’t notice back in productivity.
I like the idea of a performance-first laptop with modern wireless (Wi‑Fi 7) for hybrid teams who move between sites, but ROG laptops can be a mixed bag day-to-day: they tend to be power-hungry, run loud under sustained load, and battery life isn’t their strongest suit. So if your staff need reliability first, lots of quiet time, or “plug it in at a desk and forget it” usage, you might be better off with a more business-oriented workstation line—even if the headline specs are lower. Buy this if your users are actually GPU/CPU-bound and you can justify the performance spend; avoid it if it’s mostly for meetings, email, and occasional light work.

Victory, accelerated.
The Strix G16 features an Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 processor 275HX boasting up to a 65W TDP with 8 Performance-cores and 16 Efficient-cores, paired with an NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 5070 Ti Laptop GPU (992 ...

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ROG Intelligent Cooling
We’ve completely revamped the cooling solution of the 2025 Strix G16 to ensure that you get the best gaming experience with your machine, every time. We’ve relocated all of the exhaust vents to the...

ROG Nebula Display
You can’t beat the enemy if you don’t see them coming. The Strix G16 boast an ultra-fast 2.5K 240Hz Nebula display with a 3ms response time, ensuring you’ll always get the jump on your opponent. A ...

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The 2025 Strix lineup has been redesigned from the ground up, built for powerful performance, maximum speed, and calculated movement, with a shape inspired by race cars that personify these same co...

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