Review Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 (2024) review: Portability over power

[Admin]

The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is a premium, compact gaming PC with a bright OLED screen and lots of ports, but fans of the line may be surprised to see a lesser GPU than they are used to.

Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 (2024) review: Portability over power : Read more

 

[hushnecampus]

Why has somebody put those ugly stickers on that MacBook?

 

[Notton]

I liked he 2023 G14 better, as it was already thin enough. I don't understand the need to make it thinner when you sacrifice cooling and battery life.

 

[AtrociKitty]

I have an older RTX 3060 G14 model, and although this one has some nice improvements, it appears to just miss the mark.

I use mine primarily as a productivity and media device. It's usually run on battery, in silent fanless mode, with the discrete graphics turned off. Of particular value to me are the small size, strong speakers, and long battery life. The RTX 3060 is more of a "nice to have" that I use infrequently, but appreciate knowing is there when I want it.

The only improvement I hoped for is here: RGB keyboard lighting (the previous model uses white backlighting, which is hard to see on silver keys). As a bonus, this model also gets an OLED display and a microSD card reader, which really covers everything I could ask for.

But, that battery life is a deal breaker. Previous models were able to manage 10+ hours in endurance tests, making them a great choice for a hybrid productivity/gaming laptop. But sub-7 hours moves the G14 back into the compromising gaming laptop category. Even with driver improvements, this looks like a downgrade in the most important metric for a 14" laptop.

EDIT: Also, the following line of the article duplicates DCI-P3. It should be 114% of sRGB:

In our testing, we found that the Zephyrus G14 covers 114% of the DCI-P3 color space and 81.1% of the more challenging DCI-P3 gamut.