Behold the crown jewel of outrageous gaming laptops

A dual-screen Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo gaming laptop on a white coffee table.

Ridiculous? Yes. Awesome? Also yes. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge

The Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo was my pick for the best laptop of CES: It had two high-end screens, great specs, and the promise of being a one-of-a-kind multitasking and gaming monster. Now that this over-the-top laptop is here, I can tell you it’s as fantastic as I had hoped for. It’s also as expensive as I feared. Our review configuration costs $5,500.

Woof.

This laptop has a lot going on: two full-size 16-inch OLEDs, a top-of-the-line Nvidia RTX 5090 Laptop GPU, a near-top-of-the-line 16-core Intel Panther Lake chip, plenty of ports (including an SD card slot), and a great keyboard and trackpad you can remove and use via Bluetooth. These ar …

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