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For a lot of as we speak’s hottest gaming laptops, producers have shrunk and soldered a lot to save lots of area that we have misplaced the power to improve our machines. Not this Asus ROG Strix Scar 18, although. It’s been constructed with upgradeability in thoughts.
The Scar 18 has obtained a redesign in 2025. It’s curvier, has RGB down-lighting round its circumference, a Mini-LED Nebula HDR show, and can come filled with a brand new Intel HX Series cell CPU and Nvidia RTX 50-series GPU.
But 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. Instead, it has a single sliding latch. This unlocks the rear cowl, which might then be slid off and eliminated—no instruments required.
Underneath the quilt sit two diagonally organized NVMe slots and a pair of SO-DIMM packages. All of which may be swapped and adjusted. That’s possibly not that wonderful, however Asus has removed the frustratingly tiny screws and opted for small latches on every of the NVMe slots—referred to as Q-latch—very similar to it is finished with its motherboards in recent times.
That means the laptop computer may be upgraded with out even a screwdriver, which is fairly particular. The battery can also be simply accessible. Though to get down any additional than these elements requires eradicating just a few screws, but it surely’s much less doubtless you may have to get down there aside from repairs.
