Asus ROG Zephyrus M16 Gaming Notebook with 16:10 Display and Compact Design

With the Zephyrus M16, Asus has presented one of its most exciting gaming notebooks to date, because the new Asus ROG laptop not only has decent performance in a slim case, but also an exciting display and an integrated webcam – unusual for Zephyrus laptops.

The brand new Asus ROG Zephyrus M16 is said to be the first gaming notebook in the world to have a 165 Hz 16-inch display – but the Asus M16 has to share this honor with the Lenovo Legion 5i Pro and Legion 7i. Nevertheless, the display promises a first-class gaming experience thanks to a response time of only 3 milliseconds and a decent brightness of 500 nits, and the 16:10 aspect ratio makes the notebook ideal for production applications.

Asus speaks of a screen-to-body ratio of 94 percent and a WQHD resolution, so the screen has 2,560 x 1,600 pixels. The casing is thin mere 19.9 mm and 1.9 kg lightweight, yet Asus installed brand new Intel Tiger Lake H-processors up to the Core i9-11900H with eight cores and 16 threads and a maximum of an Nvidia GeForce 3070 RTX.

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The battery has a decent 90 Wh capacity, but whether a long runtime can be achieved with it depends above all on how efficiently Intel’s new processors work. There is also up to 32 GB DDR4-3,200 RAM and a PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD with a maximum capacity of 2 TB. The ROG M16 offers one Thunderbolt 4, one USB-C, two USB-A 3.2 Gen 2, one HDMI 2.0b, Ethernet, a headphone jack, and a MicroSD card reader. Also exciting: Asus installed six speakers and a keyboard with RGB lighting.

Asus ROG Zephyrus M16 price and availability

The Asus ROG Zephyrus M16 GU603 is now available to buy from the Newegg.com and Amazon.com retailers for a recommended starting price of $2,299.

Recently, Asus has also made available the ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition with a 15.6-inch FHD 300 Hz panel covering 100% sRGB, or QHD 165 Hz panel with 100% DCI-P3 coverage; and most powerful Ryzen 9 5900x processor.