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Posted by Do0123d
 - Yesterday at 23:45:26
Quote from: longman on February 03, 2026, 20:18:03This laptop will be a beast with Panther lake cpu
a 99 watt battery
two fans and better cooling
ssd gen 5
wifi 7
fingerprint scanner
lan port
ambient light sensor

It needs more premium features to become one of the best 18 inch laptops.

They don't want to compete with their game models, so they will deliberately make this model unplayable.
Posted by Do0123d
 - Yesterday at 23:42:56
Is the screen 18.0 or 18.4?
Posted by longman
 - February 03, 2026, 20:18:03
This laptop will be a beast with Panther lake cpu
a 99 watt battery
two fans and better cooling
ssd gen 5
wifi 7
fingerprint scanner
lan port
ambient light sensor

It needs more premium features to become one of the best 18 inch laptops.
Posted by user9323
 - January 09, 2026, 18:54:23
u see?
CPU downgrade to AMD Ryzen AI 7 445 ...
Posted by theblitz707
 - October 22, 2025, 15:01:31
Quote from: Only 16GB RAM: rip LLMs on September 15, 2025, 08:14:39
Quote16 GB, soldered, one SO-DIMM slot (empty)
Wouldn't get this notebook based on the soldered only 16 GB RAM alone. With 16 GB RAM not even
  * huggingface.co/unsloth/gpt-oss-20b-GGUF
could run (quants of GPT-OSS are weird, because this is natively trained in MXFP4 (4-bit), so you do want to use the full "16-bit", which is only 13.8 GB because, again, this is 4-bit in disguise, not true 16-bit, like many other LLMs), let alone
  * huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-GGUF

16GB RAM minus 6 GB to 8 GB reserved for the OS. So 32 GB RAM should be the new 16 GB RAM. And indeed, even Steam news about 32 GB RAM being the majority came out recently (and I doubt many of them run LLMs locally or know that it's possible?).

If the one RAM stick wasn't soldered, one could at least upgrade to 2*16G, 2*24GB or 2*32GB RAM.

Shame on you ASUS for offering soldered RAM (it's not like this is LPDDR5X-8000 MT/s RAM speed, where soldering is (probably?) necessary (so the LPDDR5X chips are as close to the APU as possible)).
Personally, I think 35W are better, unless if power-vs-performance scales linearly.

QuoteAMD Ryzen 7 260
AMD R7 260

The Ryzen 7 260 is a fast Hawk Point family chip for laptops that was announced at CES 2025. It features 8 Zen 4 cores (16 threads thanks to SMT support) running at up to 5.1 GHz. The chip is identical to the old Ryzen 7 8845HS and therefore also the Ryzen 7 7840HS
So a rename of a rename of a rename, shame on you AMD for misleading people.

Hi, so If we were to add another 16gb ram, would it not run on dual channel? I am also wondering if the lack of gaming performance is caused by single channel.
Posted by galdsfta
 - October 01, 2025, 15:20:49
I got 14-inch model for 800EUR (D3407HA), included 16GB 5600MHz from Crucial (CT16G56C46S5) for it, and seems like a beast.

I use Linux so had choose laptop which is about AMD fully, so this was one best options for me with only AMD iGPU.

Posted by Only 16GB RAM: rip LLMs
 - September 15, 2025, 08:14:39
Quote16 GB, soldered, one SO-DIMM slot (empty)
Wouldn't get this notebook based on the soldered only 16 GB RAM alone. With 16 GB RAM not even
  * huggingface.co/unsloth/gpt-oss-20b-GGUF
could run (quants of GPT-OSS are weird, because this is natively trained in MXFP4 (4-bit), so you do want to use the full "16-bit", which is only 13.8 GB because, again, this is 4-bit in disguise, not true 16-bit, like many other LLMs), let alone
  * huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-GGUF

16GB RAM minus 6 GB to 8 GB reserved for the OS. So 32 GB RAM should be the new 16 GB RAM. And indeed, even Steam news about 32 GB RAM being the majority came out recently (and I doubt many of them run LLMs locally or know that it's possible?).

If the one RAM stick wasn't soldered, one could at least upgrade to 2*16G, 2*24GB or 2*32GB RAM.

Shame on you ASUS for offering soldered RAM (it's not like this is LPDDR5X-8000 MT/s RAM speed, where soldering is (probably?) necessary (so the LPDDR5X chips are as close to the APU as possible)).
Personally, I think 35W are better, unless if power-vs-performance scales linearly.

QuoteAMD Ryzen 7 260
AMD R7 260

The Ryzen 7 260 is a fast Hawk Point family chip for laptops that was announced at CES 2025. It features 8 Zen 4 cores (16 threads thanks to SMT support) running at up to 5.1 GHz. The chip is identical to the old Ryzen 7 8845HS and therefore also the Ryzen 7 7840HS
So a rename of a rename of a rename, shame on you AMD for misleading people.
Posted by yj.kim
 - September 15, 2025, 07:05:09
Please double-check if the PL1 of this laptop is 54W. According to a test by a Korean laptop reviewer ("JN테크리뷰"), it seems that the PL1 is 35W.

Search for "에이수스 비보북18 M1807" on YouTube and watch the video at 9:25.
Posted by nixnt
 - July 03, 2025, 03:25:40
Can someone confirm that PL1 sustained APU power draw is 54W. I've had 4 of these in my hands, and I can only get 35 Watts sustained. And that's in performance mode. Laptop stays cool though. I'm losing my mind, thinking I can play Rocket League at least.
Posted by Les
 - June 14, 2025, 02:32:48
Thankyou for this exhaustive review.

I agree that it seems strange to only have a 3 column number pad on such a wide keyboard, but I don't mind actually, for another reason. I like to sit with my keyboard in the middle of the screen, so the more numeric keypad you have, the more the standard, daily keyboard gets pushed to the left. It doesn't seem to bother others, but it bothers me. I'd actually prefer it if the alpha keyboard was in the middle, and the numeric keypad was stuck on the right, leaving an odd chunk of blank space on the left.  I don't care that it looks weird, it just feels better when typing.
Posted by Nokia
 - May 10, 2025, 16:09:06
There are contradicting information about this device.

Some ASUS support articles describe the screen as 18.4" while others say it's 18.0"

What is the true size of the screen?
Posted by user9323
 - April 09, 2025, 08:51:13
I see the following disadvantages:
- easily soiled case;
- no universal travel adapter with a detachable cable;
- sometimes I want to play, but the heating under WASD, high noise and bad integrated graphics will not let me do it;
But I will still buy it, because it has the largest screen on the market
Posted by user9323
 - April 09, 2025, 08:50:44
I see the following disadvantages:
easily soiled case;
no universal travel adapter with a detachable cable;
sometimes I want to play, but the heating under WASD, high noise and bad integrated graphics will not let me do it;
But I will still buy it, because it has the largest screen on the market
Posted by user9323
 - April 08, 2025, 23:24:15
and there are still no separate keys:
PageUp
PageDown
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Posted by Worgarthe
 - April 05, 2025, 12:59:10
Quote from: Hotz on April 05, 2025, 12:47:27Uhm ok... I can understand your point, but it's the first time I heard that. Generally, when I'm reading in tech forums, it seems like gamers who use 27" display with 4k also want to play in 4k, which means their desktop is probably also set to native resolution.
Check this video, there is more of them I'm sure of it but this was the first I found with two next to each other, so 27" 1440p and 32" 4K next to it, check how everything is very small and tiny on a 32", imagine how small would it be at 27" with 100%: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zveTEbXCpF0

And scaling is not the same as resolution, when you change scaling you don't change resolution. So when you buy a 27" 4K for gaming, and if you scale it to, say, 125% (so 3072x1728, which is about perfect for a 27"), you can still choose 3840x2160 in the in-game settings and you still play at that 4K resolution, it's just that everything in game is also scaled accordingly to your Windows scaling, but it's still as sharp as 4K - because it's being rendered at 4K.

Edit: Great video also, although it's about macOS scaling, but everything is nicely explained and demonstrated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W16xa0eU_8