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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Also, you shouldn't have to jump through hoops (escalated several times, etc.) for something that is supposedly fully covered.
Also, you shouldn't have to jump through hoops (escalated several times, etc.) for something that is supposedly fully covered.
Price is too high for what you get, IMHO.
Price is too high for what you get, IMHO.
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Get the Legion Pro and don't look back. Better display, build quality, thermals, and customer support. It's not even close comparing Acer and Legion's midrange-toprange stuff.
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_normal/ [reddit.com]
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