![]() Obviously that QLC SSD isn't top-drawer, but it's still an NVMe drive and faster than most budget offerings, and the chassis feels a little cheaper than the sort of brushed aluminium, unibody designs you could get by spending another couple of grand. You've got the gaming performance, the CPU chops, and the ability to do all that away from a power source for an impressive amount of time. ![]() Which, like I said, makes this one of the most versatile gaming laptops you can buy. If you're doing more lightweight work on this machine then you'll get at least three times that, probably more. Solid gaming, full-time 3D rendering, and not some workday web-surfing. The Asus TUF A15, however, will deliver almost two hours of gaming. We're used to thin-and-lights offering lengthy battery life figures, but you're often lucky if you can get over an hour out of a gaming laptop. Not so with the TUF Gaming A15, where we've got a full 90Wh battery that delivers an unprecedented level of uptime for a 15-inch gaming laptop. Mostly because they're not heroes at all and are generally pretty weak-sauce. ![]() The unsung hero of many gaming laptops is the battery. You don't have to spend a fortune on a gaming laptop to get serious performance So in general use, I think you're going to be fine. It also has a lower endurance rating than either TLC or standard MLC SSDs, but that still means you'd have to completely fill the drive up with new data many, many times a week to get near the limits. QLC allows Intel to boost the storage density, and means you can get affordable, high-capacity SSDs like this, but the tradeoff is that speeds degrade quickly as the drive fills up. But it's using QLC (quad-level cell) memory, which is pretty low down the performance pecking order. It's an NVMe drive and so promises far greater speed than either a spinning platter or SATA-based SSD. Backing all that up is a full 1TB of solid state storage in the shape of Intel's SSD 660p.
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