Had I noticed the thread before, Iād have told you sooner. Sorry. 
Itās alright. Iām enjoying using it now and hopefully I can squeeze out a few years out of it 
. This is my first time using an all-AMD system so Iām quite keen to see how it will perform. It is already so much better than my previous laptop so canāt complain :3
Mine is relegated to my living room, HDMI into my TV. I use a wireless mouse and keyboard and watch web video (where I can have assurance that my viewing habits are not collected by my smart TV and sent who-knows-where).
let me guess, you have an old tv so hdmi-cec is not implemented.
saw such in the past, when i had LG tvās.
the mediacenter was a raspberry pi with kodi installed, not a refurbished laptop but still.
main issue was, the need for a second remote for the device or using keyboard and mouse.
so, i buyed new tv, samsung.
hdmi-cec works beautufully, even if i plug in a rasp or some other devices hdmi compatible.
so i control it with the tv remote. on off the device, media controls and so on
just sayingā¦
i dont promote samsungā¦ but on the tv market i will never choose anything else.
Itās a Vizio 4K 65" bought when 4K was ānewā. Ancient now. 
Iām either going the Samsung route or LG ā but not for a while, yet. Iām still considering a short-throw projector but my room will need some heavy-duty HUGE blackout curtains (not to mention a 120"+ screen).
considering hdmi compatibility and some other stuff, i vote against LG.
Looks like you had another bad experience attempting to buy āthe last fuss on the marketā
Asus overall is not a bad brand. Hovewer, the ROG model was supposed to be (and still it is) a competitor for Alienware products.
Shortly speaking, cheapest gaming laptops.
Early models are known to fail due to lot of design shortcuts made, most of them caused by overheating.
Asus was not the only one failing in this, I had bad experience with other brands like HP, Dell and so on, resulting in garbage (altough i have the knowledge how to do a reflow or resolder from my previous life as a maintenance engineer, i donāt have the patience to buy the needed tools and actually doing it)
So i throw away the āgarbargeā and moved forward.
LE:read it like, for gaming, buy a console, for programing buy a decent laptop.
towers are for nerdsā¦ or fish lovers (yeah, with a tower case you can make a beatifull fish tank)
Exactly. I do wonder if weāre related 
The RoG was a panic buy. My Dell work computer died (HD fail). The new replacement was 2 weeks away, so I dashed to the local best buy and bought the RoG to tide me over. Terrible decision.
Me too. I was āHead of Testā in an electronics company manufacturing āhome computersā. I used to program GenRad automation equipment (PL/1) and decided I liked coding better than electronics and the smell of automated solder rigs and carbon-tet.
I am not sure which model of ROG that you had, but having looked at Asus current ROG lineup, I can see that they have 3 sub-categories within the ROG family, namely Strix, Zephyrus, and Flow (they also have a budget lineup called TUF).
Soā¦
- Asus ROG Strix: seems like this category has some of the highest performing machine out of the bunch, beefy CPUs & GPUs, but they are also chunky and āthiccā aas hell. ā My guess is what you typically think of when you think of a gaming laptop.
- Asus ROG Zephyrus: These are more focused on balancing between portability and power i.e. slim design with high performance in its class. Less flashy than the Strix, but also wayyy lighter.
- Asus ROG Flow: I think the Asus product team took
weedsome sort of recreational drugs when they were designing this lineup and thought to themselves: āWhat if people want a powerful gaming laptop that can also be a 2-in-1? Or even a gaming tablet?ā Laptops/tablets in this lineup have a very low-key, understated look that I really like but the prices is the only thing stopping me from snatching one of them bad boi/girl
Just curious to know when you guys are not panic buying, how long do you spend on researching a particular product (either tech or non-tech) before deciding to buy it? (i.e looking at the specs and compare it with your needs, reading reviews, comparing prices, etc.)
I am not familiar with such, I always use my gadgets till the very last moment, so it is always panic buy for me 
Now you can merge them 
LG TVās are not bad, actually, and I think Samsung used LED panels from them also in the past.
(Long time ago, my first job was as a salesman and some service guys told me this)
The only issue I had was with their Simplink (HDMI-CEC) implementation at that time (pre-smart era).
Things may look better those days but I already went to the Samsung side, they implemented it properly from the early begining ā¦ so not in mood to do one more bet.
That old LG TV is still working (I think is ~10 years old) at my mother-in-low location (she donāt need fancy features)
In the mean time, I āupdatedā also the Samsung stack
I choosed the Frame series. This was not a panic buy, but the research was made by my wife ā¦ took ~ 1 week maybe. My review / approval was only for the CI+ module, for the rest she choosed.
Previous ones had an ancient Android, no longer receiving updates, so various apps my wife needs like Disney+, Netflix etc stopped to work or are not available.
Initially I tried with an Android TV box (cheap one) but the experience was terrible. Went to garbage.
Raspberry Pi was also useless for this use case since hardware video decoding it is not yet unlocked for the Lineage build of Android TV.
So, now I decomissioned also the rPI since I can access also directly the NFS storage, or I can install Kodi straight on the TV if needed.
One TV I will donate to my brother-in-low, the other one will land in my office / game room, for PS2 and PS4 is good enough (i donāt need 4k)
The rPi will be most probably converted to a retro-Pi to play old games, when I will find the time to install it.
is Kodi reliable?
@dineshh what do you mean by āreliableā?
It worked for my needs, but I donāt know what are your expectations.
This sentence sort of implies that aside from TVs, your other household appliances are also from Samsung? 
I am rather biased toward the Serif range, though as an older GenZ myself, I find myself spending more time in front of the laptop screen (due to work mostly, and to a lesser extend, gaming 
) as well as my phone.
No wonder why my eyesights are so bad 
this is your interpretation.
the only other samsung apliance is a smart vacuum cleanerā¦ name them whatever you like, i name them ācleaning miceāā¦ ārobo slaveā and so on.
here the list ends in my house for this brand and for the robo-vacuum-slave the choice was only based on features over price at that moment, but i do have another one from different brand which still performs great.
fort the rest my house is a mixture of various stuff, choices were made based on various not-so-logic criteria (eg wife saying āi need that nowā)
on the tv segment, currently i am ok with samsung due to my laziness and a relationship built over the time with particular technogies i strongly need.
I cannot say the same for the mobile phones segment.
here my relationship with this brand went in the opposite direction.
i never said somebody should follow my choices, just to pay attention to details.
my choices may not suit well with your needs.
relating to my previous answer, i will say:
- are you single? sure, go wild.
- get married and everything will change!
i tried to use but kodi servers were crashing. so i couldnāt fully rely on kodi.
does this really matters for kodi 
both single and married people had faces issues with Kodi
@dineshh not sure what do you mean by ākodi serversā ā¦ anyway.
It may depend on what packaging you used and on what hardware.
And ofcourse, it may depends also on how many / which plugins you may use, the only one I installed was something to download subtitles, forgot which one.
Initially I was using OpenElec and later I changed to LibrELEC, on rPi 2.
The UI a bit slow but for the rest no issue, was playing fine various video formats stored on an NFS share.
I have tried also with rPI 4, noticed some improvements in UI responsiveness.