Holy moly. Asus is getting more expensive then apple ... And those have more ram and a better gpu.
Actually even the amd 395+ and arm X2 elite are better processors then panther lake.

I think 2026 is a very bad year to buy Asus laptops.
But I expect around Black Friday (6 months) prices will be down by 50% because the next Intel CPU is available in the 3th quarter, making this pantherlake already outdated (it should have come out last year 4th quarter but got huge delays)