Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “If you can only get one computer, get this one. – ASUS ROG G14 (2024)”.
If you can only have one computer to do all of your stuff, every single task that you need, it would probably be this one, the Asus G14. Before we look at the laptop. Let’S have a little look at the charger for Power. We’Ve got a 180 W power adapter that is delivered through the Asus slim powerjack TM. This right here is kind of like USB type-c, but you can’t plug USB type-c stuff into it. That would be a bad time and it also delivers way more current, which allows us to actually have higher efficiency through it. So here is the brand new 2024 Asus G14. Now you will see that we are missing the animatrix on the back, which is a little bit sad cuz. I really like putting a line of sad face just on the back of my laptop, but at the same time, how much I’m actually going to miss it is almost zero. The iio that we get is really quite good, given the size of this thing.
So, on the right hand, side we have an SD card reader, just a small one, fulls sizee USB type, A and A type c that does 10 GB and display port left hand side. We have headphone microphone, combo Jack, another USB type, A A type c full sizee, HDMI 2.1 and our little Asus slim powerjack TM seems pretty light pretty light for a 4070. At least. What do you think this seems riged around 3.7 lb, maybe o no 3.3. It is actually lighter than I expected, which is quite good.
Oh, we have the full aluminum body for this year. It’S all CNC machine and I have to say it looks absolutely fantastic. This right here is like MacBook levels of quality. This might be close to exceeding a Macbook quality. Let’S see 14-in MacBook 14-in Asus, oh that’s, pretty darn close the Asus might even have the edge, which is shocking before I turn this on. I’Ve heard that these will speak to you a little bit when they start up.
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So for the processor we have an AMD ryzen 9 8945 HS, which has AI in it it’s apparently the same as 7,000, but with some AI bolted on and really that’s probably going to be really good for you in the future. I feel like these sort of AI accelerators will not be super useful for a couple years, but will be the sort of thing where in 5 or 10 years it might be the difference between this laptop running kind of well and just being awful for memory. We have 32 GB of ddr5 6400 megat transfer per second stuff in here, a wd 1 TB SSD a mediatech WiFi 6E chip. Can I get a boo Bo? Thank you.
I really do not like mediatech. I’Ve had so many issues where I’m using an AMD laptop that has a mediate Tech, Wi-Fi card in it and whenever I go between access points, it’s really bad for dropping out or just generally, not being reliable. I much prefer the Intel ones and if you can swap one of those into here, I would highly highly recommend it.
But we also have that’s very controversial. Is the Nvidia RTX 470? That’S controversial because last year’s model had up to a 4090 and now a 4070 is as high as you can go in this and I personally think that’s totally fine. I have have seen some people complaining online, but this is so much thinner and just generally more portable than last year’s version that I think the tradeoff is quite good, especially since you’re not getting the performance of a 490 in this. This cannot properly cool a 490. Like you can physically put it in here, but why it’s just going to be loud? It’S not going to be all of the 49s performance, and I really like what Asus has done here and just made the laptop smaller and put the GPU that people actually buy. Yeah or get mad at me down below, maybe you want the 490 by last year’s and finally there’s an AMD radon 780m. That is just the integrated graphics and it allows us to do you know normal integrated, Graphics, stuff, I’m guessing no touchscreen yeah, no touchcreen, but oh well.
This is an incredible panel, especially for a laptop of this size. So it is OLED love to see that 2880 by 18800, so that’s sort of like your 1440p but stretch related vertically. So you have that 16 by10, which is just awesome because you can see so much extra content when you’re doing like web browsing working on videos photos words any of those now for the display you’re going to want to configure your settings because it does really change. How well this panel is delivering the photons to your eyeballs, so when the Armory crate, here we go over to game visual.
Now the color gamut native right here is a vivid profile and that is going to just sear your eyeballs with the most Vivid of vivid colors. Now a lot of people do like that, but if you want to do photo editing or just generally look at things how they were intended, it has an average Delta e of 4.4, which is just not very good. The good news is, though, if we come in here, go from native to just srgb and apply that we now have a display that isn’t quite as vibrant, but it is able to deliver those visuals to you with an average Delta e of 0.9, which is absolutely Fantastic, we expect below two for professional color work, so this rate here you can be doing professional, color work and I don’t know uploading your bestest pictures to Instagram that you’ve ever done now. One thing that is unfortunate is that, for whatever reason this laptop got really mad at the software that we use to check the color accuracy of displays when it was in HDR. So we were able to verify that it has a brightness of 6 100 nits in HDR, which is very impressive, but we weren’t able to verify if it is color accurate in HDR. That said, though, it looks really good in HDR. We can tell you that much and given its SDR performance, we do imagine it is very, very good. We just cannot verify that with anything other than our eyeballs last thing. To talk about Hardware wise is the keyboard and the trackpad, and they are excellent. I would give it a very solid a like if we look right here.
Keycap stability is excellent. I can push push on the corner and get a tiny bit of deflection, but if I really press on it, the whole key is going to actuate long before the corner of this key gets below the chassis. Also, the consistency from key to key fantastic, also below the keyboard. We have this trackpad and it is excellent. It’S nice and large, really as big as they could get in here. That was a very large Source B on the previous G4S. You were kind of giving up a good trackpad for having like a 49 or whatever the heck. Now, of course, this is a gaming laptop.
So I want to make sure that you guys get a really good idea of how this works in the games. You are definitely going to play, starting and probably ending with crab Champions. So guess we’ve discovered one problem here: uh 2880 by 1800 is pretty strange. Normally, if you have more of like a 1440p, you would go for 2560 x600.
So this is a little bit larger and this game does not support it. Lots of games probably don’t support it really if they just have a settings menu, so that might be annoying at times. That still looks pretty darn good, though first thing I’m noticing this Ola display looks fantastic, so we seem to be getting a pretty solid, 110 to 130 FPS. Okay, the smoothness of this display is incredible, and that’s aided a lot by the fact that this has gsync.
Now, in our LT video, we go into this in more depth, but basically this panel is refreshing or more so updating 960 times every single. Second, that allows you to get around the problems of changing how long each pixel is on, for it’s always on 960 times per second, and how many times you display each frame is how you get that gsync variable refresh rate instead of trying to like make each Individual frame last a different amount of time. Besides crab game, we try this out in a couple different games against Lenovo Legion slim 7i – that has an I9 a 4070 and 32 GB of RAM. So it’s pretty comparable to this, although it is larger, so you would expect it to be a little bit better and it was, I would say something like 10 % faster or so, which is very impressive for the G14, given that it is significantly smaller and nearly As powerful so good job there Asus okay, how are the speakers in this? That sounds very clear? Oh, oh, when Asus was here, they said this might be the best sounding 14-in laptop and they might be right all right.
Let’S compare it to the HB wow. It’S way better than the HP, dragonfly MacBook very few laptops get to the MacBook stage of this test, all right. Here’S the Asus zepis G14. Oh, that’s, really close MacBook Pro 14.
Oh, I think we can call that a tie. The MacBook has a little bit more on the high end, but I think that’s more so just the target curve that they’re going for. You could probably get a little bit more trouble on this. If you wanted to but they’re both loud they’re, both clear excellent Jawas suus on this and finally, let’s have a look at the webcam. This thing is 1080p. You guys remember when they used to not even have webcams on this thing.
That was stupid, I’m glad they changed that and this one’s really really good. Look at that up here. We also have Windows, hello, facial recognition, so you can get into it just using your face. Even that is getting a little bit confused, but like fair enough, there’s big bright lights right here and you can even see Andy 11, T6 screws later, some of which are different lengths, so be careful. We can get in side first thing in here.
We have a 73w battery and our testing it was able to get us a very impressive, nearly 10 hours, which, for a gaming laptop particularly one with a 4070, is incredibly impressive. That’S how you’re able to have a laptop like this, where I was saying, if you can only have one computer buy this one, that’s what this has that stands out against the competition like that slim 7, that we’re were talking before, that slim 7 got 4 hours And 45 minutes now, if you do want to fully load this thing up with combuster for some reason on battery, it does only get you an hour, but at the same time, just don’t do that. Please! Here we can see. Our Wi-Fi card is replaceable, which is excellent. Cuz you’ll want to do that and we have our SSD over here.
One thing, that’s very very sad, though, is that you cannot upgrade the RAM. It is all soldered down on the old version. You had one sodm slot that you were able to swap in and out this one, nothing couple more fun things to look at in here we have three fans: they’ve got the little one in the middle, which is apparently great for your vrms and just keeping your Temperatures down on the keyboard – actually one thing that I didn’t talk about before but is very nice – is that these do have a little bit to ventilation right through WD, so your hands don’t get too hot, while you’re gaming. Now this cooler, compared to some of the others that we have seen, is not the most impressive, but they are able to overcome some of that by just simply using liquid metal on this and, of course, finally, the price. This model that we have right here with 32 GB of RAM terabyte of storage and the 470 will cost you $ 2,000 us now. If you do want to spend a little bit less, you can get a 4060 16 GB of RAM and a 1 tab SSD for $ 1,600, which is pretty good, and it’s also pretty darn close to the omen transcend 14, which we’re going to be looking at.
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