Update: Price has dropped to $1299.99 again.
Best Buy has for
My Best Buy Student Members (
free to join):
ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 14" Gaming Laptop (GA401IV-BR9N6, Moonlight White) for $1299.99 -> $1349.99 -> Now
$1299.99 when you check the Apply Offer box on the product page.
Shipping is free. Thanks Suryasis
Note: Must be signed in to My Best Buy account to see offer.
Specs:
- AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS 3.0GHz (up to 4.3GHz) 8-Core Processor
- 14" 1920x1080 120Hz LED Display
- 16GB DDR4 Memory
- 1TB SSD
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Graphics
- Backlit Keyboard
- 4-Cell Li-Ion Battery
- Dolby Atmos Sound
- Windows 10 Home 64-Bit
- Weighs 3.64-Lbs. & Measures 0.7" Thin
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I owned this laptop for two weeks (bought used from BB where I suspect it was a return). Initially I only got about three hours of battery life. After searching on the reddit forum for the G14 and some tinkering (and adding BatteryBar to see how much power it was using) I figured out that some random program was running that was sucking down the power. After fixing it, I got my battery discharge rate around 7,500 mW or so at idle. It was enough that I could run youtube for about 7 hours if I recall correctly.
In short, I found it to be a tremendously civilized, balanced laptop, held back only by its lack of expandability (some RAM is soldered and only one m.2 slot), lack of a webcam (which some people really care about, others don't), and poorly lit keys. Otherwise, I'd say that depending on your needs, it's a pretty tremendous laptop. It's incredibly thin and portable, relative to the power. Yes, it is only a 2060 MaxQ, but you can run GTA5 at aggressive settings and get good frame rates out of it. When I say it's "balanced," I mean to say that there's no obvious critical issue with it in terms of CPU/GPU combo (neither is so inferior that you'd expect performance to be bottlenecked), the display (the Asus TUF A15 is reputedly held back by its subpar screen), the RAM/HD (16GB is prob enough for most), and the thermals (from my research, Dells were out because of this; don't want to artificially shorten my product's lifespan just because Dell didn't engineer the laptop to be cool enough under load).
I ONLY returned it because I decided to get the MSI GE75 because I really wanted the huge screen and 115W 2060 (to learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=971J_bP
For those of you who are students with mainstream needs, I'd wager this is likely an excellent laptop. If you're going to be in and out of classes, this will get you through your days, and in the evenings can run games with solid GPU performance when plugged in.
However, only you know what your needs are. Are there better laptops at this price point with these specs? With this form factor and battery life? I don't know of any. Razers are more expensive and you pay a big premium for the branding. Alienware is similar. the Asus TUF is reputed to have an iffy screen. Dell has questionable thermals. The Eluktronics RP-15/17 are interesting dark horses but some people may prefer the perceived security of a big brand.
MSI, Acer, HP, and Lenovo have offerings that might be worth considering if you're in this market, like a Helios 300... but I don't know of any that have: Renoir AND the relative portability vs power ratio AND the battery life that the G14 has at this price level. That's what makes the G14 special.
A note for those of you who are buying this but novices - I had to learn for myself that not all "2060" GPUs are the same, since Nvidia marketers are a bunch of con men. a desktop 2060 is more powerful than the one here, which is a "Max-Q" 2060. It has something like...lower voltage which makes it less powerful (I assume they use these instead of the "full power" versions from an engineering perspective to help it run cooler/more efficiently - not 100% sure, maybe one of you smarter PC guys can explain). If you watch this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIdW8Q_
If you need a full power 2060 or better, or you are 144hz panel or die, I don't think it's productive to say, "this laptop sucks" when in reality, a lot of people may be perfectly satisfied with this rig, and it checks a lot of boxes. Not only is it unproductive, but mostly veers into the arrogant.
A substantive, legitimate criticism would be, "I can get this same or functionally similar laptop for $200 less at XXXXX." Of course, most of the wastes of space that worthlessly shoot off their mouths here with nothing of substance to say can't give you that.
4900hs can beat a lot of Intel workstations for sure.
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Anyone know how the battery life is with casual use no gaming
Anyone know how the battery life is with casual use no gaming
Been reported around 10hrs
EDIT: It's now showing up under "My offers" which you have to apply to get it to appear. That wasn't there previously but it seems to work now. Student discount expires in 2 days.
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But hey it's great for running cinebench.
https://www.notebookche
Slow screen? 120hz?
4900hs can beat a lot of Intel workstations for sure.
4900hs can beat a lot of Intel workstations for sure.
This laptop has a very bad response rate like 20ms compared to 6ms regular product.
You can see shadow if you play FPS games on this laptop.