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ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 Laptop (GA402XV-G14.R94060) on sale for
$1049.99 (price in cart).
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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.
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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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The outside truly did look new, but once I got some internal stats it became clear that this was most likely a display model that had been continually on. The battery was already degraded by almost 6% and it had over 1.5TBs read/write TBW on the drive. I understand this may not be a good enough reason to return, for some, but it doesn't meet my criteria for 'open box'.
The battery degradation and that fact that Asus does NOT warranty open box/used/refurbished items was the deal breaker for me.
A couple things I also didn't like in my brief time checking it out -
Touch pad unresponsiveness. Had to tap a second time on many occasions to get it to register my tap.
Some of the worst keyboard backlight LED placement I've ever seen. Some letters are barely lit while others are blazing. Unless I'm in the dark I would just run it with the backlight completely off.
The outside truly did look new, but once I got some internal stats it became clear that this was most likely a display model that had been continually on. The battery was already degraded by almost 6% and it had over 1.5TBs read/write TBW on the drive. I understand this may not be a good enough reason to return, for some, but it doesn't meet my criteria for 'open box'.
The battery degradation and that fact that Asus does NOT warranty open box/used/refurbished items was the deal breaker for me.
A couple things I also didn't like in my brief time checking it out -
Touch pad unresponsiveness. Had to tap a second time on many occasions to get it to register my tap.
Some of the worst keyboard backlight LED placement I've ever seen. Some letters are barely lit while others are blazing. Unless I'm in the dark I would just run it with the backlight completely off.
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cadbury don't buy it. huehue
I've seen a few ROG Zephyrus G14 at my local Best Buy, and the display color temp is too cool, almost bluish. Anyone experience the same?
The outside truly did look new, but once I got some internal stats it became clear that this was most likely a display model that had been continually on. The battery was already degraded by almost 6% and it had over 1.5TBs read/write TBW on the drive. I understand this may not be a good enough reason to return, for some, but it doesn't meet my criteria for 'open box'.
The battery degradation and that fact that Asus does NOT warranty open box/used/refurbished items was the deal breaker for me.
A couple things I also didn't like in my brief time checking it out -
Touch pad unresponsiveness. Had to tap a second time on many occasions to get it to register my tap.
Some of the worst keyboard backlight LED placement I've ever seen. Some letters are barely lit while others are blazing. Unless I'm in the dark I would just run it with the backlight completely off.
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The outside truly did look new, but once I got some internal stats it became clear that this was most likely a display model that had been continually on. The battery was already degraded by almost 6% and it had over 1.5TBs read/write TBW on the drive. I understand this may not be a good enough reason to return, for some, but it doesn't meet my criteria for 'open box'.
The battery degradation and that fact that Asus does NOT warranty open box/used/refurbished items was the deal breaker for me.
A couple things I also didn't like in my brief time checking it out -
Touch pad unresponsiveness. Had to tap a second time on many occasions to get it to register my tap.
Some of the worst keyboard backlight LED placement I've ever seen. Some letters are barely lit while others are blazing. Unless I'm in the dark I would just run it with the backlight completely off.
But it also looked a little dingy, probably a result of the white color scheme. Those two things weren't deal breakers to be honest because I could clean it and I would be opening it myself anyways.
What kept me from buying it was the fact that the screen is just too small, and 500 nits did not look any brighter than the 300 nit A16 unit sitting right next to it. I expected a marked difference and was underwhelmed.
It also felt like a toy compared to a Lenovo legion 5 16" they also had on display which had a very solid hinge and feel.
Even at $850 it just isn't the device for me.
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I ordered the open box excellent device. Yellow stain on the keyboard deck (urine like). 2 hair captured between bezel and screen. Scuffs and slight discoloration of the top of the laptop lid.
These are just cosmetic issues, I cleaned it thoroughly and wanted to give it a good test.
Coil whine though present is low enough that the cooling fans easily drown it out. This is only during gaming/benching the gpu using furmark.
The glass touchpad towards the bottom part is a little loose. So if you are a tap instead of click on touchpad guy, you will end up mis clicking or require to click twice. Coming from any macbook of the last 8-10 years, this will be quite annoying. My old Dell XPS 15 also has a better feeling trackpad.
The screen has lighbleed on all corners, but not evident unless viewing in a dark room content with bars on top and bottom. The bottom right area is quite egregious in a dark room.
The battery numbers show it has a full capacity of 70,xxx vs the claimed 76,xxx. So a nearly 10% reduction in capacity.
This was likely a store model or something used regularly. Definitely not what I would consider "excellent"
You can see some images of the issues below.
Open Box - Excellent - I think not [imgur.com]
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/ques...05fab7bd1c [bestbuy.com]
That is just some random person posting that it still has the mfg. warranty. There are dozens of other posts where people are apparently told, by Asus, that their product is not covered because it was sold as used/refurbished/open box.
I would trust Asustek's own website - https://www.asus.com/support/imag...c08f4d.p
(continue reading from last line on first page)
For drive TBW you can use the drive mfg tools.
Or, just download and run HWiNFO64. Run it with sensors only (or hit the sensors button on the main window) Towards the bottom of the sensors window you'll see a few sections with drive and battery info.HWiNFO64 is a free tool and gives you a ridiculous amount of info about your computer. I usually just use the portable version - https://www.hwinfo.com/download/
https://support.microsoft.com/en-...0your%20PC [microsoft.com].
I ordered the open box excellent device. Yellow stain on the keyboard deck (urine like). 2 hair captured between bezel and screen. Scuffs and slight discoloration of the top of the laptop lid.
These are just cosmetic issues, I cleaned it thoroughly and wanted to give it a good test.
Coil whine though present is low enough that the cooling fans easily drown it out. This is only during gaming/benching the gpu using furmark.
The glass touchpad towards the bottom part is a little loose. So if you are a tap instead of click on touchpad guy, you will end up mis clicking or require to click twice. Coming from any macbook of the last 8-10 years, this will be quite annoying. My old Dell XPS 15 also has a better feeling trackpad.
The screen has lighbleed on all corners, but not evident unless viewing in a dark room content with bars on top and bottom. The bottom right area is quite egregious in a dark room.
The battery numbers show it has a full capacity of 70,xxx vs the claimed 76,xxx. So a nearly 10% reduction in capacity.
This was likely a store model or something used regularly. Definitely not what I would consider "excellent"
You can see some images of the issues below.
Open Box - Excellent - I think not [imgur.com]
1st Unit: Open Box - Excellent. Appeared to be in good working order, thermals ran really really warm, speakers buzzed badly. I was willing to overlook all of that as just "quirks" of the machine, but then I noticed there were some hairline stress cracks and damage in the finish on the front lower lip from the prior owner so I returned. I also didn't like that ASUS only provides 90-day warranty guarantee for open box and didn't want to gamble with that (even though ASUS support is terrible anyhow).
2nd Unit: Brand New. Figured I would go with a new unit to avoid any damage and the warranty issues. Upon opening, the holes in the top of the lid were very noticeably defective near the logo area in one corner - Unevenly spaced and quite noticeable from a few feet away. I didn't even bother to turn the unit on and took it back for exchange. At Best Buy, the associate plugged it in and could not get the unit to power on, so it appears I avoided a dud unit overall.
3rd Unit: Brand New (exchanged 2nd unit). Physically perfect, thermals much better, speakers don't buzz, backlight bleed acceptable. All things seem good. However, there is trackpad rattle that is a bit annoying. Meaning if I lightly tap to select something, about 50% of the time I get an audible "tap" noise from the looseness of the trackpad, even though I didn't push hard enough to physically click the trackpad button. Apparently this is also EXTREMELY common for ASUS laptops, I'm just not used to it and it feels cheap/bad. Many people mention adding electrical tape inside the machine to fix this issue, which I shouldn't have to do for a $1,500 laptop. My other laptops (surface book 2, surface laptop, and an old alienware) have never had this issue, regardless of trackpad material or size.
Given the QC issues I've seen in a small sampling of units, I'm VERY reluctant to exchange the 3rd unit and start over since everything is basically perfect except the trackpad rattle. I may just "live with it" rather than re-roll the QC lottery a 4th time.
Edit: Example of trackpad rattle from reddit (mine is not quite this bad) -> https://www.reddit.com/r/Zephyrus...is_n
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