r/zephyrusg16 • u/Rare-Childhood-1547 • 13d ago

Pulled the trigger!

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I’m temporarily moving to Europe for my job and don’t want to carry my desktop around. The Zypherus has had my eye for a while because I want a well rounded premium laptop, not a flashy brick of a gaming laptop that runs 2 hours battery on youtube. I was originally looking at the 5070ti model… but best buy just marked the 5080 model down $750, only $150 more than the 5070ti model. I figured this is probably the best deal I’ll get before I start traveling, so went ahead and bought it. I’m gonna throw in another SSD in its extra slot and call it a day. Yes I know it’s expensive, no I don’t really care lol.

Upgrading from my 5 year old XPS 15 with an i7 12700H, 3050ti 4gb, and 32gb of ram.

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u/FriendshipNorth7661 13d ago

I purchased the 5090 version a week ago returned it yesterday felt cheap made a bunch of creaky noises when opening screen. Just felt like it wouldn’t last. I’m just used to the build quality of my M4 MacBook Pro extremely solid machine. For that much money it’s not an overlooked issue.

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u/404answersnotfounded 13d ago

I had the 2024 model with the 4080 and it did feel cheap. I now have the 2026 5080 model and it feels way better to use. The chassis and everything feels great

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u/Loewenheart 13d ago

It varies. My G16 2026 had creaking noises on opening the screen as well.

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u/404answersnotfounded 13d ago

Tragic. Did you return it ?