[jaykru]

The ASUS Zephyrus series (I'm on a 2022 G14) are fantastic if you can get past the mild gamer aesthetic. Great magnesium build. Lots of keyboard travel. Tons of ports (USB-A, HDMI, etc.) Touchpad works great on Linux, but wake from suspend results in mild bork on the current kernel (fans won't turn on at all, speaker amplifier stays shut off so audio is very quiet) on. Patches resolving this are available [1] and will likely be mainlined in 6.1 [2]. Performance from the AMD CPU/GPU and Micron SSD is bonkers awesome. You can get around 10 hours of use on Linux with conservative backlight settings and disabling the discrete GPU. To top it off, many components are easily replaced. I just upgraded the memory in mine from 16GB to 40GB (the is a socketed SODIMM and 8GB of soldered on memory, so I replaced the 8GB SODIMM).

The m.2 NVME drive is also upgradeable, as is the wireless card. My only real complaint is that the display suffers from backlight bleed along the edges in my unit. That said, the display is also pretty dang great: anti-glare coated, high-refresh, bright, and color accurate.

[1] https://asus-linux.org/ [2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-ROG-More-With-Linux-6.1

[ChuckNorris89]

Yeah, after years of stagnation, the offers for X86 laptops are finally amazing and I expect them to get even better next year with mobile Ryzen 7000 and RDNA 3 APUs moving to 5nm, and who knows, maybe mobile 13th Gen Intel and RTX 4000 could also be good.

My current 13" Ryzen 5800 laptop is no slouch but its Vega iGPU is a bit too long in the tooth for any kind of games, screen could be brighter and battery life could be better. I'm very excited for a laptop upgrade next year.

[znpy]

Does the gpu have a physical mux though?

I usually don’t even consider laptops with dedicated nvidia graphics because dealing with nvidia drivers is more hassle than gain (I don’t do anything gpu-intensive and the intel gpu is enough for me).

A physical mux means you can effectively shut down the dedicated graphics but still drive outputs with the intel embedded gpu. And save battery.

Can that laptop do that?

[jaykru]

The laptop I have does have a "MUX switch" but is controlled in software. As far as I understand, the benefits of the MUX switch are primarily to graphics performance when working with the discrete GPU. At any rate, my laptop (G14 2022) is all AMD and I haven't had any trouble with the amdgpu drivers on recent Linux kernels.