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Review on ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 Ryzen 9 16GB RAM RTX 2060 1TB SSD Moonlight White Gaming Laptop by Masaaki Haruto ᠌

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Reliable purchase, guaranteed to be a good one.

For me, a laptop is not just a thing, but a working tool that is used every day, including for hobbies and entertainment. Therefore, the choice is always difficult and the transition from an old device to a new one is also not easy. I've been monitoring the high performance compact laptop market for a very long time to upgrade my GS60 2PC and over the past 5 years the Asus Rog Zephyrus G14 is one of a kind. Of course, there are controversial points in it, which I wrote about above, but you can put up with them, given all the advantages. I thought about the package for a very long time and in the end I took the version on Ryzen 7 with the GTX1660TI Max Q, which more than met all my expectations and needs. I tried to run several games (RDR2, DOOM Eternal, Watch Dogs 2, GTA V, Detroit Become Human, Quake Champions, NFS Heat) and did not even expect that all this would work at maximum settings with a good frame rate. After what I saw, I seriously thought about buying VR for the Asus Rog Zephyrus G14.

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Pros
  • 1) Incredible performance in a very compact package. 2) A full-fledged video card, the performance of which is enough to play modern games at maximum settings with a good frame rate, in my case, this is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q. 3) Powerful processor with support for hardware virtualization. I was very afraid that I would not be able to cope with virtual machines on VMware, since before that I had no experience in using devices based on AMD Ryzen, but everything turned out well here. 4) Stylish design, the laptop looks modern and without gaming frills, and the AniMe Matrix backlight makes it unique and allows the user to customize the look a little. 5) The laptop is assembled with high quality, nothing creaks, does not stagger, it looks solid. 6) I was very surprised by the built-in speakers, usually I never attached much importance to sound when choosing a laptop. But when I heard how this laptop sounds, I was pleasantly surprised, there is even no need to use external acoustics. 7) A good IPS matrix, for me it was important, because for many years I got used to IPS and did not want to switch back to TN, a bonus in my configuration is a 120 hertz matrix. 8) Incredible autonomy with such powerful hardware, all my previous laptops died after an hour and a half of work, here you can work in office mode for about 5 hours, and if you try, you can find information on the forums how to achieve autonomy up to 10 hours. 9) Productive and moderately quiet cooling system. Considering what kind of iron has to be cooled in a very compact case, we can say with confidence that the cooling system copes with this issue perfectly and does not even spin up to the maximum in stressful situations.
Cons
  • 1) The main drawback, because of which I hesitated for a long time before buying, is the soldered memory on the board, which limits the user in upgrading, there will also be no way to replace the memory if it suddenly "falls". It remains to be hoped that the memory will live happily ever after) 2) The second drawback can be understood, but for me it was also a kind of obstacle in the choice. This is the inability to install a regular hdd or at least a second SSD drive in an m.2 case. Still, today terabytes of SSDs are expensive, and 500GB is critically small. 3) Lack of a webcam and a card reader. Never used a camera before, but today's telecommuting trends require it.