Best Buy via eBay has
ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 Laptop (GA402XV-G14.R94060) on sale for
$1049.99 (price in cart).
Shipping is free.
Best Buy has
ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 Laptop (GA402XV-G14.R94060) on sale for
$1049.99.
Shipping is free.
- Open-Box Excellent ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 Laptop (GA402XV-G14.R94060) on sale for $871.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Community Member
Dr.Wajahat for sharing this deal.
Specs:
- 14" 2560 x 1600 WQXGA QHD+ IPS-level 165Hz 3ms G-Sync Display, Pantone Validated
- AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS 8-Core / 16-Thread Processor
- 16GB DDR5 RAM
- 512GB PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB GDDR6 Graphics (125W)
- Wi-Fi 6E 802.11ax 2*2 + Bluetooth 5.3
- Backlit Chiclet Keyboard 1-Zone RGB
- Windows 11 Home
- Ports:
- 1x 3.5mm Combo Audio Jack
- 1x HDMI 2.1 FRL
- 2x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A
- 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C (support DisplayPort)
- 1x Type C USB 4 (support DisplayPort / power delivery)
- 1x microSD card reader
- 76WHrs battery
- ~3.64 lbs
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I'd take this over the 2024 model that should be available in 6-months. OLED would be nice to get around their persistent backlight problems, but productivity-use still burns in rapidly on the latest OLED monitor displays, and of course the 2024 model has non-upgradable RAM (16GB is the base size for 2024, and may be all that Best Buy will get you for these sales), and goes from a magnesium-aluminum alloy chassis to plain aluminum. They also needed a third fan to help the limited cooling potential in the 2024 model.
IMO, this is the machine to get in a 14-inch today. Especially with G-Helper installed to kill off Armory crate, greatly dropping the idle power usage of the machine, and providing additional "undervolting." 5GHz all-core under CPU load is possible on this G14, at 78W CPU power draw. Of course this tapers off as TDP is pulled with the GPU loaded.
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Out the box it didn't run as well. Sound wasn't optimized and it felt a bit slow. After a few updates it ran a bit better. Encountered an issue with the disk running at 100% pretty much all the time. It crashed on me a few times playing Fortnite (I know smh…) Had to do a bit of debugging to get it resolved to get the power optimized.
The picture when streaming through Apple TV/youtube seems a bit washed and saturated. Not sure if there's a setting on this.
We'll see how it holds up for the next few days. Might have gotten a dud but hope not.
I should have mine by Thursday. I'll update this post with first impressions/info.
Edit - To answer my own question, it looks like all the drivers are readily available - https://rog.asus.com/us/laptops/r...14%20(2023)
(note that you have to select the BIOS version and OS. I just picked the first line items)
https://www.reddit.com/r/mobilere...nYyS
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I almost always reload the OS when I get a new laptop, especially if it's open box. Gets rid of the craptastic extras I don't want and I know the OS hasn't been fooled with. I ordered a 2TB drive and another 16GB stick with mine so I won't be messing with it until this weekend abouts.
"Strix Halo, on the other hand, would represent the first multi chiplet mobile processor, just like Fire Range would be the first desktop multi chiplet processor. These mobile APUs will target high-end desktop-replacement laptops and mini PCs, featuring 16 full Zen 5 cores and an impressive 40 CU RDNA 3.5 iGPU that is believed to perform similar to the RX 7600 XT. Even though it comes with improved cores, the iGPU may not be able to outperform the RX 7600 XT since the whole APU may be limited to 120 W TDP
Both Strix Point and Strix Halo are built on TSMC's 4 nm nodes and also include an improved XDNA2 NPU with speeds of 40-50 TOPS, or around 4 times higher AI processing power compared to the Ryzen 7040 Phoenix series. Strix Halo may have been pushed to early 2025 according to MLID, and it should be regarded as AMD's true competitor against the Apple M processors."
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Does it crash in safe mode with networking (just browsing around)?
Try removing the upgrades and putting in the old SSD to see if it still crashes.
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