ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 14" Laptop AMD Ryzen 7 8GB Memory NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 512GB SSD Eclipse Gray GA401IH-BR7N2BL - Best Buy

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10-26-2020 at 05:31 PM #31

No webcam and soldered RAM are big deal breakers for a lot of people.

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10-26-2020 at 05:52 PM #32

Open Box for $709 (geek squad certified) was available most of the afternoon. Looks like they sold out. I'm gonna hold out for a Fair quality one and see if one becomes available

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10-26-2020 at 05:57 PM #33

Quote from christhedealer :

How was this popular. Only 8 gigs of ram and a 1650.... seems kind of weak on specs. Would wait for black Friday deals.

For the price you aren't wrong.

There's no reason you to pay $700+ for anything with only 8gb ram and the Nvidia 1650,

The only very good thing here is the Ryzen 7, the rest is 1+yr old specs and even the Asus Nitro's are noticeably faster and better performing and cost $549-700 quite often, youtube videos provide all the details you need.

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10-26-2020 at 05:59 PM #34

Hows the 4800HS vs 4900HS ?

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10-26-2020 at 06:02 PM #35

I waiting for the eclipse gray anime matrix r9 version but it's been sold out for weeks now.

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10-26-2020 at 06:06 PM #36

Quote from Pssstyeahyou :

For the price you aren't wrong.

There's no reason you to pay $700+ for anything with only 8gb ram and the Nvidia 1650,

The only very good thing here is the Ryzen 7, the rest is 1+yr old specs and even the Asus Nitro's are noticeably faster and better performing and cost $549-700 quite often, youtube videos provide all the details you need.

Not the same premium build quality and portability category.

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10-26-2020 at 06:11 PM #37

Quote from bballer20 :

Bought this in August, there's a whole subreddit dedicated to this laptop, follow their set up guides and you can get to 10hr battery

got a link to the setup guide

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10-26-2020 at 06:11 PM #38

Quote from tkoh :

Open Box for $709 (geek squad certified) was available most of the afternoon. Looks like they sold out. I'm gonna hold out for a Fair quality one and see if one becomes available

same how do i know when it comes avialbale

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10-26-2020 at 06:12 PM #39

Quote from gerf :

Usually with any laptop you lower the CPU to 5% max and force to integrated GPU when running on battery and your battery life increases dramatically.

okay but how do people do that

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10-26-2020 at 06:13 PM #40

Man, open box satisfactory for $600
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10-26-2020 at 06:15 PM #41

Quote from hudds13 :

got a link to the setup guide

https://old.reddit.com/r/ZephyrusG14/

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10-26-2020 at 06:15 PM #42

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okay but how do people do that

don't need to be that excessive, check the subreddit i just linked

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10-26-2020 at 06:39 PM #43

Quote from christhedealer :

How was this popular. Only 8 gigs of ram and a 1650.... seems kind of weak on specs. Would wait for black Friday deals.

I did some research and saw it has the best cooling system in the 14 inch laptops. Also for regular tasks like web browsing, watching youtube/nextflix the battery time is comparable to other ultra book.

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