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ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (Open-Boxes): 14" OLED 3K 120Hz, Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, RTX 5070 Ti, 32GB LPDDR5X, 1TB SSD $1599.96 at Best Buy
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Super light and compact. Build quality felt great. Needed a laptop with a dedicated gpu for travel and this fits the bill. Screen was gorgeous and bright. Really good battery life.
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Super light and compact. Build quality felt great. Needed a laptop with a dedicated gpu for travel and this fits the bill. Screen was gorgeous and bright. Really good battery life.
GA403WR-G14.R95070TI
Gaming is all about a compromise somewhere and somehow. Would I love to have all the toys? Yes, but in my situation, just wasn't practical (financially). For PC gaming I've gone through a lot of variations:
1) dedicated mid tower with a 3080ti. Still have it and use occasionally.
2) thin and light portable Laptop running moonlight/apollo to the desktop. I could do couch computing comfortably and still game I thought.
3) same thin laptop hooked up to an external TB3 with a 3070. I just wasn't happy with streaming for the latency sensitive games. After using an eGPU I felt I wanted to not be tied down to a desk. If I didn't already have a desktop.. perhaps it made sense. I ended up selling both laptop and eGPU
4) rog g14 with discrete 4060. Was a lot of fun doing family trips and gaming when everyone went to sleep. I was no longer tied to just gaming while docked. G14 Performed great with a gaming mouse. Ended up selling. Couldn't have both gaming PC and Laptop.
5) steamdeck. Great to have portable steam library. I've got endless of hours to complete. Ended up returning due to the low performance and the constant tweaking men to run certain games.
6) rog ally x. Bought used, windows was severely underwhelming and disappointing. Armory crate sucked even more than on the G14. Also tried moonlight/apollo to the desktop. I don't want to deal with windows patches and os updates when I game. (Maybe gaming with windows on handhelds is better now? Haven't tried since Xbox handheld released).
7) rog ally x running steamOS. Luckily, this was mature enough when I got the AllyX. This is what I've settled on. It was pretty straightforward to install steamos. This is my main gaming device now. Earbuds, discord, steam/gog/epic/retro gams.
Honestly, now that I have kids, the rog ally x is the only way I can get gaming done. If I have time, I still would rather game on my desktop.. but my gaming time is 1:4 ratio desktop:handheld.
Hope this post saves someone $ and time.
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Gaming is all about a compromise somewhere and somehow. Would I love to have all the toys? Yes, but in my situation, just wasn't practical (financially). For PC gaming I've gone through a lot of variations:
1) dedicated mid tower with a 3080ti. Still have it and use occasionally.
2) thin and light portable Laptop running moonlight/apollo to the desktop. I could do couch computing comfortably and still game I thought.
3) same thin laptop hooked up to an external TB3 with a 3070. I just wasn't happy with streaming for the latency sensitive games. After using an eGPU I felt I wanted to not be tied down to a desk. If I didn't already have a desktop.. perhaps it made sense. I ended up selling both laptop and eGPU
4) rog g14 with discrete 4060. Was a lot of fun doing family trips and gaming when everyone went to sleep. I was no longer tied to just gaming while docked. G14 Performed great with a gaming mouse. Ended up selling. Couldn't have both gaming PC and Laptop.
5) steamdeck. Great to have portable steam library. I've got endless of hours to complete. Ended up returning due to the low performance and the constant tweaking men to run certain games.
6) rog ally x. Bought used, windows was severely underwhelming and disappointing. Armory crate sucked even more than on the G14. Also tried moonlight/apollo to the desktop. I don't want to deal with windows patches and os updates when I game. (Maybe gaming with windows on handhelds is better now? Haven't tried since Xbox handheld released).
7) rog ally x running steamOS. Luckily, this was mature enough when I got the AllyX. This is what I've settled on. It was pretty straightforward to install steamos. This is my main gaming device now. Earbuds, discord, steam/gog/epic/retro gams.
Honestly, now that I have kids, the rog ally x is the only way I can get gaming done. If I have time, I still would rather game on my desktop.. but my gaming time is 1:4 ratio desktop:handheld.
Hope this post saves someone $ and time.
Gaming is all about a compromise somewhere and somehow. Would I love to have all the toys? Yes, but in my situation, just wasn't practical (financially). For PC gaming I've gone through a lot of variations:
1) dedicated mid tower with a 3080ti. Still have it and use occasionally.
2) thin and light portable Laptop running moonlight/apollo to the desktop. I could do couch computing comfortably and still game I thought.
3) same thin laptop hooked up to an external TB3 with a 3070. I just wasn't happy with streaming for the latency sensitive games. After using an eGPU I felt I wanted to not be tied down to a desk. If I didn't already have a desktop.. perhaps it made sense. I ended up selling both laptop and eGPU
4) rog g14 with discrete 4060. Was a lot of fun doing family trips and gaming when everyone went to sleep. I was no longer tied to just gaming while docked. G14 Performed great with a gaming mouse. Ended up selling. Couldn't have both gaming PC and Laptop.
5) steamdeck. Great to have portable steam library. I've got endless of hours to complete. Ended up returning due to the low performance and the constant tweaking men to run certain games.
6) rog ally x. Bought used, windows was severely underwhelming and disappointing. Armory crate sucked even more than on the G14. Also tried moonlight/apollo to the desktop. I don't want to deal with windows patches and os updates when I game. (Maybe gaming with windows on handhelds is better now? Haven't tried since Xbox handheld released).
7) rog ally x running steamOS. Luckily, this was mature enough when I got the AllyX. This is what I've settled on. It was pretty straightforward to install steamos. This is my main gaming device now. Earbuds, discord, steam/gog/epic/retro gams.
Honestly, now that I have kids, the rog ally x is the only way I can get gaming done. If I have time, I still would rather game on my desktop.. but my gaming time is 1:4 ratio desktop:handheld.
Hope this post saves someone $ and time.
$400 Lunar Lake light gaming or AMD 890M
$600 5070 laptop
$1000 5070 ti
$1600 5080
Instead, if you focus on sole CPU power and do not travel with the laptop a lot, or you always have a power plug, or you will turn on 5070ti anyway for gaming/heavy editing, then the Panther Lake version will have an edge. It'll be more expensive though, and you may not see the same level of discount as the 2025 version does due to the recent memory/ssd price hike.
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