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 let's see

wow that sounded just like a segue to

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right let's have a gander at how

powerful this thing is 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

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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 very very soon it's on my

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