India, Sept. 19 -- The Asus TUF Gaming series has always been about getting the most performance you can for your money, but design was never really the reason you bought one. The new TUF Gaming 16 changes that. I have been using the laptop for a couple of weeks and, honestly, I did not expect to like its design this much. The new chassis looks cleaner, feels much tougher than I expected from an all-plastic laptop, and most importantly, it does not try too hard to look like a gaming laptop.

My review unit comes with the Intel Core i5 14450HX, Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 with 8GB GDDR7, 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD. It also gets a 16-inch 1920 x 1200 144Hz display with 100% sRGB coverage. Asus has also made some interesting changes to the cooling...