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ASUS TUF GAMING laptop Argos UK: £759 (also available elsewhere) Argos package includes laptop, mouse, rucksack and 3 months Xbox Game Pass
My Entroware all-in-one desktop PC was beginning to show its age and I was getting more and more limited as to what I could install on it from Steam (as it has no GPU). Time for a change. Now, I’m not a fan of laptops and their keyboards, but they’re space savers, and that’s what I need. Space. Oh, and a GPU. Having looked through many gaming laptops, I decided upon the ASUS TUF GAMING laptop. I bought mine from Argos who had a deal on it where you get the laptop, a mouse, and a rucksack for £759. There’s also a 3 month Xbox Game Pass with it, but I’m not interested in that. Also not interested in Windows 11.
Specs:
CPU, Memory and Operating System: Intel Core i5 - 11400H processor. Hex core processor. 2.7GHz processor speed with a burst speed of 4.5GHz. 16GB RAM DDR4. 1TB SSD storage. Operating System: Windows 11 Home (Pre-Installed). Display features: 15.6 inch screen. Full HD Display. Resolution 1920 x 1080 pixels. Graphics: NVIDIA RTX 30 Series GeForce RTX 3050 graphics card with 4GB RAM GDDR6. Shared graphics card. Dedicated graphics card. Interfaces and connectivity: 4 USB 3.2 ports. 1 USB Type-C port. Ethernet port Ethernet port Ethernet ports. Headphones jack. Bluetooth. Wi-Fi enabled. Multimedia features: HD webcam. Built-in mic. Backlit keyboard. Built-in audio sound system. 30 day trial. Microsoft 365 Personal. Model number: FX506HCB-HN216W First Boot I do love it when I get a new PC and Windows doesn’t even get one boot. I used F2 then F8 to boot Linux Mint from a USB stick. Everything was detected and working out of the (USB) box. Time to install! Normally I would make a partition for the OS and one for /home, but since I’ve been using a 1TB external USB drive for my files, I just did a vanilla install of Mint. The REAL First Boot With the install finished, I booted up the laptop and up came Mint. The screenshot shows the system with nothing running. Boot time is about 15 secs (at most) from power on to login. From login to desktop is about 2 secs. Testing Testing Let’s see… I need something to test this with. Ah, my beloved Euro Truck Simulator 2. Weighs in at about 20GB, but it’s as smooth as silk on the ASUS TUF. It probably plays better here than it did on my old desktop from years ago that did have a GPU. Even world creation in Dwarf Fortress is fast. And that’s saying something. Conclusions I’m very impressed with the ASUS TUF. It’s got a good spec and at a good price. Especially since it came with a mouse and rucksack. The build quality is good, and everything works perfectly in Linux Mint. All the key combos for function (FN) and brightness, sound, and keyboard glow all work fine. The only reason I’m dropping it from a 5 to a 4 is because you get only about 4.5hrs at most. For me that’s not a problem, as it charges pretty quickly, but I think it would be for some.