What but happened? Asus' ROG Zephyrus laptops have long combined power with innovation, and its latest entries in the series are no dissimilar. The New Zephyrus M16 and S17 were revealed today following the announcement of Intel's 35-65W Tiger Lake H processors and Nvidia's new RTX 3050 and RTX 3050 Ti for high-performance laptops. The S17 is particularly interesting as it has a keyboard that automatically rises for more comfortable typing.

Asus announced several laptops in the wake of the Intel-Nvidia reveal earlier today, including the Zephyrus models. The Zephyrus M16 boasts an 11th-gen Cadre i9-11900H Tiger Lake CPU along with the pick of an RTX 3050 Ti, RTX 3060, or RTX 3070 GPU.

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The Zephyrus M16 features a 16-inch WQXGA (2560 x 1600) 16:ten brandish with a 165Hz refresh charge per unit, 3ms response time, and Adaptive-Sync. Asus notes that the small bezels allow the screen to fit on a xv-inch chassis.

You lot also get Pantone validation, 100% coverage DCI-P3 color gamut, and support for Dolby Vision. Elsewhere, there'southward upwardly to 48GB of DDR4-3200, a 2TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD or 1TB NVMe PCIe three.0 SSD, a 90 WHr battery with fast charging, and a 720p webcam.

On the exterior, in that location's a dot matrix blueprint on the lid, like to the 1 on the Zephyrus G14, with a prismatic film for a shimmering effect. Its RGB-backlit keyboard, meanwhile, uses a Ergolift hinge so the display can open up to 180-degrees.

Moving onto the larger Zephyrus S17 (top), the laptop adds an optical mechanical keyboard the rises 5 degrees for maximum typing condolement and improved airflow. Information technology also boasts upwardly to a Core i9-11900H CPU, while GPUs attain the RTX 3080. The screen gets an upgrade, too, with both 17.3-inch QHD (165Hz) with G-Sync and 4K (120Hz) options, while storage comes in the class of three Chiliad.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 RAID0 SSDs.

Asus also announced that its existing lineup of ROG and TUF gaming laptops would start offering RTX 3050 and 3050 Ti mobile GPU options. Asus says all the new laptops are arriving in the second quarter of 2022, but no word even so on pricing.