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Curious, my experience could not have been more different. I still use Asus Zephyrus G15 (GA503QR from 2021) as my main development machine, and also game occasionally on it. It's AMD Zen 3 CPU with GeForce 3070.

As I write this, the fans are either completely stopped or so slow that I cannot hear them. The fans can get a little "whooshy" under load, but nothing out of line with other Windows laptops, as far as I can tell.

I'm running under Windows profile (not one of the ASUS-specific ones in Armory Crate). I also limit the battery to 60%, since I'm mostly using it plugged-in, with external monitor and keyboard. A month ago, I upgraded RAM to 40 GB and added another 4 TB SSD (and cleaned the fans in the process, so it's even quieter). I think I'll keep this machine for a few more years...

That being said, I did experience occasional cursor stuttering, but mostly when the machine is under load (typically during Visual Studio build).

I believe I have the same one! For me, almost out of the box I needed to disable CPU boost due to the thermals and instability. That worked for a while, though I considered replacing it and didn’t because there was just no others available at the time due to the pandemic. Apparently my issue is common but not the majority - a lot of folks seem to just have gotten a bad batch. I’m curious though, have you not even had any issues with sleep mode on the laptop? It seems extremely common that it just doesn’t work/crashes.

I got a good 2.5 years out of it, but I was hoping to use it for at least 6 or 7.

> have you not even had any issues with sleep mode on the laptop?

Now that I think of it, I did disable sleep and just use hibernate instead. I no longer remember why - perhaps I too had some issues. Maybe I was just annoyed by Windows restarting in the middle of a night and (c)losing my open applications whenever it wishes to update? Or did I disable Wake Timers for that? Sorry, my memory is a bit fuzzy.

As it is, hibernate works perfectly for me, is fast enough, and it never closes my applications behind my back.

OTOH, I had sleep issues with pretty much all PCs that I ever had (be it laptop or desktop), so maybe it was just inertia to always use hibernation instead. :)

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