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The SSDs and RAM on the new Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 can be upgraded entirely without tools

That's a welcome change from soldered memory and fiddly NVMe slots.

For many of today's most popular gaming laptops, manufacturers have shrunk and soldered so much to save space that we've lost the ability to upgrade our machines. Underneath the cover sit two diagonally arranged NVMe slots and a pair of SO-DIMM packages. That's maybe not that amazing, but Asus has got rid of the frustratingly tiny screws and opted for small latches on each of the NVMe slots—called Q-latch—much like it's done with its motherboards in recent years.

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