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- Right off the bat, the
Zephyrus G14 is one heck

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of a small gaming laptop that
beats all our expectations,

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though unfortunately not upgradability.

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So for a while, I thought
the 16-inch gaming laptop

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is the perfect size,

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a real Goldilocks of not
too big and not too small.

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18 inches is too big to be portable,

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and 14 inches just makes
too many concessions

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while trying to maintain
any similar performance.

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The latest redesign of the
Zephyrus G14 gaming laptop proves

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that 14 inches may prove
that former me wrong.

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Other than that newly redesigned frame,

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and that singular wildly

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flashing lighting strip on the back,

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there's the new OLED screen.

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I mean, this is what you want
from one of those displays.

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At 120 hertz, it's a real
looker with great contrast.

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And if you care about it,

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it has Nvidia G-Sync built in
to reduce stuttering in-game,

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but the important thing
is that it's bright enough

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for late night gaming sessions.

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The ROG team at Asus did a lot

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to keep your palms from
getting too warm too.

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14-inch laptops are prone to get hot,

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but the Zephyrus pushes
all the heat out the back,

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and keeps most of the warmth away

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from where you rest your fingers.

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There's a bunch of new heatsinks

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and pipes doing the hard work,

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though all you have to
know is I didn't experience

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any sweaty palms even after hours of use.

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The Zephyrus comes with
just enough under the hood

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to support most games on playable frames.

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The Zephyrus comes with

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an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 through 4070,

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so it's not pushing
the epitome of hardware

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like some of the earlier versions

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that could support up to a 4090.

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It's still enough to get 60
frames on most demanding titles,

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especially with Nvidia's
DLSS scaling tech.

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That superscaling is the
best way to keep costs low

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while pushing settings to the max.

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No, it doesn't really matter
if that's fake frames or not.

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Unfortunately, you'll
likely want to pony up

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more than the base model

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if you hope to use the
Zephyrus long into the future.

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If you drop $1,600 on a model

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with 16 gigs of memory,
you'll be missing out,

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especially since there's
no option to upgrade RAM.

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It means you'll likely be
spending closer to $2,000

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on a laptop for the better
graphics card and 32 gigs of RAM.

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But that's the worst thing
I can say about the G14,

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which is something considering how often

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the worst part of gaming laptops is that

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they focus so much on raw
power and they ignore,

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you know, how people are
actually going to use it.

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It's got a great
keyboard, a fine trackpad,

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and a darn fine looking screen.

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It's not getting hot
under the collar either,

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which is really something
for such a small laptop

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with this hardware involved.

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If you want to to read
more about this laptop,

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head over to Gizmodo.com.