While it used to cost a whopping $1,400 when it first debuted, it's now being discounted at Best Buy, falling to a record-low price of just $950 for a limited time. That's $450 of

While we wait for Apple's future Mac mini to provide stronger gaming performances, the Asus ROG NUC will certainly suffice.

With Nvidia’s announcement of RTX 50-series GPUs for desktops and laptops, a new generation of computers is on the way and ASUS has kickstarted the lineup with its 2025 ROG NUC. The new NUC or Next Unit of Computing is powered by up to the RTX 5080 laptop GPU and the second generation of Intel’s Core Ultra processors.

This Asus gaming laptop has a 15.6-inch screen with a 144Hz refresh rate, Intel Core i7 13620H CPU, 16GB of DDR5 RAM, and Nvidia RTX GPU.

ASUS impresses at CES with new Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 GPUs, featuring advanced cooling and high performance across gaming and content creation. Discover the latest from ASUS, including the ultra-light Zenbook A14.

Nvidia has provided some more concrete performance estimates for its upcoming RTX 50-series graphics cards without DLSS turned on.

Spotted by Wccftech, Best Buy has listed RTX 50-powered gaming laptops, including laptops from Asus and HP. While they're currently "Coming Soon" and not available to purchase, we now know the general pricing for several RTX 50-series laptop GPUs.

That’s because it’s the world’s first* Thunderbolt 5 external graphics card and one of the first Thunderbolt 5 docks, using the new 80 gigabit per second bidirectional link to do more things with a single cable than we’ve ever seen before.

The new Asus ROG NUC 2025 has a killer spec for such a small machine, including an Intel Core Ultra 9 CPU, and you can even overclock it.

Asus’ full line of new mobile gaming rigs ranges from Strix Scars at the top end to the lightweight Zephyrus G14 and G16.

For connectivity, Asus includes HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 2.1, an SD card reader, and dual USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports, along with the Thunderbolt 5 connection, of course. The external shell has been redesigned as well, now sporting a semi-transparent case and RGB lighting that you can customize with Asus’ Armoury Crate software.

Asus showed off five different flavors of RTX 50-series GPUs at CES 2025 — and we got our hands all over them.