Hands on with the world’s thinnest gaming laptop, the Asus ROG Zephyrus S

In the distant past of four or so years ago, buying a gaming laptop was simply a cooler, sexier way of saying you’re getting a desktop replacement. They were huge, monstrous great things with often chunky, off-the-shelf chassis shells that would break your back almost as soon as you clapped eyes on one. That’s just the way things were.

Then, in the hallowed year of 2016, Nvidia announced that not only were they bringing their GTX 10-series of graphics cards to laptops, but that those hulking gaming slabs of yore would finally, finally look like ‘normal’ notebooks. Ones you could pop in a bag and not automatically cripple yourself with a slipped disc; ones you wouldn’t be embarrassed about getting out at the airport or on the train; ones that, you know, actually functioned like laptops are supposed to. And during that time we’ve seen some very nice gaming laptops indeed, from the Razer Blade 2018 to the Alienware 13. But none, I dare say, come close to matching the Asus ROG Zephyrus S, which is, by somewhere in the rough region of 0.00511232347mm, the world’s slimmest gaming laptop to date. Let’s take a look.

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