Dell XPS 13 vs Asus ROG Zephyrus G15

The battery life is very short (4ish hours) and it takes a long time to charge (about 1 1/2 hours). The brick on the cord gets very hot as it charges as does the bottom of the laptop. Otherwise it runs cool. I really like that there is no separate place to plug in the charger

Using it as my daily driver with an office workload on Asus’ Silent profile around 200 nits of brightness, I averaged eight hours and 32 minutes. That’s just under what I got from the G14, and the G15 has a larger and higher-resolution screen to fuel. The result puts the G15 right up there with its smaller sibling as one of the longest-lasting gaming laptops we’ve ever seen. It has a large 90Wh battery inside, but plenty of gaming rigs with comparable bricks can only make it a few hours on a charge

Laptop seems to be working "ok" as of now besides the WiFi issues everyone has been having and apps like Netflix and Hulu not properly working. Another thing that is concerning is the packaging. I'm pretty sure I was sent a used product considering it came in a cheap cardboard box and not in it's original XPS box/packaging. Also the laptop itself was not even wrapped in any kind of plastic or padding or anything and I am at a military base in Iraq

I did something like what you're talking about and bought an ASUS ROG Zephyrus G15 to use as a portable workstation, it's probably more machine than I need right now and assuming it holds up I can't see having any performance problems with it for years. I don't do much gaming (if any) but the performance is hugely helpful for large software compiles and accelerated photo and video editing. Look at the slim design gaming laptops if you haven't yet, mine is a 15.6" machine and weighs just over 4lb (~<2kg,) it's amazingly portable considering how much performance it's capable of