Published May 13, 2026, 11:00 AM EDT Maker, meme-r, and unabashed geek, Joe has been writing about technology since starting his career in 2018 at KnowTechie. He's covered everything from Apple to apps and crowdfunding and loves getting to the bottom of complicated topics. In that time, he's also written for SlashGear and numerous corporate clients before finding his home at XDA in the spring of 2023. He was the kid who took apart every toy to see how it worked, even if it didn't exactly go back together afterward. That's given him a solid background for explaining how complex systems work together, and he promises he's gotten better at the putting things back together stage since then. Sign in to your XDA account While the laptop market is leaning toward smaller and lighter machines , the gaming laptop market doesn't want to play by those rules. More and bigger is better, to stuff as many high-end components inside as possible. Fairly similar looking on the outside, however, and then you get to Asus.…