I’ve seen many gaming laptops at CES 2024: budget-friendly Gigabytes, Cyberpower ones with liquid cooling loops, Meteor Lake-powered MSIs, and Razer Blade laptops that’ll blow your socks off. But my choose of the bunch must be the redesigned Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 2024.
Over the previous few years the Zephyrus’ specs have modified however all the things else has (principally) stayed the identical. I nonetheless charge the older G14 2023 mannequin as the most effective gaming laptops round, however I am glad to see Asus has gone again to the drafting board for a brand new G14 in 2024.
The newer mannequin options much less plastic, extra metallic, and I am instructed the brand new audio system situated on both aspect of the keyboard can really ship first rate audio. Admittedly I could not take a look at that final bit contained in the loud Asus sales space, although the corporate claims the laptop computer is 252% louder than the final and might really ship first rate bass response (inside motive).
I can attest to how beautiful to have a look at this new G14 is. First off, the AniMe Matrix lighting on the rear of each G14 for years now’s gone, changed by new slash lighting. It feels extra grown up than the Matrix lighting, although possibly that is simply because there’s much less of it.
The most important enchancment on the 2024 G14 is using an aluminium chassis with better protection of the whole gadget. This makes for a extra inflexible physique that has much less flex and feels higher in-hand.
The eagle-eyed will even discover the touchpad is sort of edge to edge now, beginning instantly beneath the house bar with no prime bezel.
| Header Cell – Column 0 | GA403UI |
|---|---|
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS |
| GPU | RTX 4070 |
| Display screen | 14-inch, OLED, 2880 x 1800, 16:10, 120Hz, G-Sync |
| Reminiscence | 32GB LPDDR5X @ 6400 (2x 16GB) |
| SSD | 1TB PCIe 4.0 |
| Connectivity | 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x USB 3.2 Kind-A, 1x USB 3.2 Kind-C, 1x USB4 Kind-C, microSD card reader, 3.5mm jack |
| Networking | Wi-Fi 6E |
| Battery | 73 Whrs |
| Weight | 1.5 kg |
There’s just one mannequin obtainable right now: the GA403UI. I am certain extra will present up briefly time, although this mannequin strikes a superb stability. It comes with an RTX 4070 and Ryzen 9 8945HS, which is just about precisely what I would ask for in a gaming laptop computer in 2024. There’s actually no must stuff an RTX 4090 into one thing of this measurement.
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One change over the earlier years’ mannequin is the display. Asus is utilizing an OLED ROG Nebula Show right here, which affords a decision of 2880 x 1800. That is a 16:10 side ratio and makes for a a lot bigger feeling display than most 16:9. Rated to 120Hz and with a 0.2ms response time (thanks, OLED), this must be a fairly nice gaming expertise. Although you are not at all times going to hit that form of refresh charge for those who’re planning to run all the things at Extremely or wish to crank ray tracing all the way in which up. Not less than DLSS 3 and body gen may also help with that.
Rounding off the whole package deal you’ve gotten 32GB of LPDDR5X, 1TB of PCIe 4.0 NVMe storage, and heaps of connectivity choices. The variety of ports on the G14 is without doubt one of the causes I have been a fan of those laptops for some time, and I am glad to see Asus keep on with that mentality right here.
The battery is similar measurement because the final at 76WHrs, although total this laptop computer weighs in at 1.5 Kg, 12% lighter than the 2023 mannequin.
I had an opportunity to select and transfer this laptop computer a couple of bit, however finally I did not get to correctly mess around with it. Here is hoping it performs pretty much as good because it seems to be. You must have the ability to choose one up off the shelf subsequent month, although there is not any phrase on pricing. I am not anticipating this mannequin to be the inexpensive hero the G14 was, however ideally it’d at the very least be much more inexpensive than a comparative Razer Blade.
