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For a lot of of immediately’s hottest gaming laptops, producers have shrunk and soldered a lot to avoid wasting house that we have misplaced the power to improve our machines. Not this Asus ROG Strix Scar 18, although. It has been constructed with upgradeability in thoughts.
The Scar 18 has obtained a redesign in 2025. It is curvier, has RGB down-lighting round its circumference, a Mini-LED Nebula HDR show, and can come full of a brand new Intel HX Collection cell CPU and Nvidia RTX 50-series GPU.
However what’s most fascinating about this design is whenever you flip it over. There are not any screws seen from the underside of this laptop computer. As a substitute, it has a single sliding latch. This unlocks the rear cowl, which may then be slid off and eliminated—no instruments required.
Beneath the quilt sit two diagonally organized NVMe slots and a pair of SO-DIMM packages. All of which might be swapped and altered. That is possibly not that superb, however Asus has removed the frustratingly tiny screws and opted for small latches on every of the NVMe slots—known as Q-latch—very like it is completed with its motherboards in recent times.
Meaning the laptop computer might be upgraded with out even a screwdriver, which is fairly particular. The battery can be simply accessible. Although to get down any additional than these elements requires eradicating a couple of screws, nevertheless it’s much less seemingly you may must get down there aside from repairs.
