ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 Review – Mux ado about something
and the increased power demand from components go together like mud and a white wedding dress. Sure, you can play some games, but that Nvidia GPU and AMD CPU are bound to tear through the battery capacity at an alarming rate.
This is a modern notebook but we’re always pleasantly surprised to see AMD taking up hardware duties here. The specs are as follows:Up to 1TB NVMe SSD storage. Regarding thermals, the CPU never went above 80 degrees Celsius in our testing while the GPU stayed at a rather low 64 degrees only hitting 75 degrees Celsius once we’d thrown God of War and Destiny 2 at it.With South Africa experiencing regular power cuts, having a notebook with a massive GPU is just a reason for that battery to drain quickly. While having that GPU is great, sometimes you’d prefer to just watch a movie or browse the internet and then your GPU isn’t really needed.
As for ports, the Zephyrus features two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type A, two US 3.2 Gen 2 Type C with DisplayPort 1.4 , HDMI 2.0b, 3.5mm audio and a microSD card reader.All of this is packaged in a 1.72kg notebook that will boggle the mind because it’s just so small and incredibly powerful for its size.The AniMe Matrix that adorns the lid of the Zephyrus G14 has always felt silly to us. Not only are you not the one seeing it, the idea of wasting power on flashing lights feels like just that, a waste.
It just feels like a waste of money to us however and we’re going to score the notebook lower because of this. This notebook starts at R39 999, kicking the dot-matrix display into touch would surely have brought this price down.As mentioned the G14 is storing a 76Whr battery and it also supports Fast Charge technology. During our battery run down tests we noted a power on time of seven hours and 50 minutes with the display brightness set to full and volume set to 75 percent.
With that having been said it’s great to have fast charging to top the notebook up when you really need the charge.Aside from the dot-matrix display, the ROG Zephyrus G14 is a rather good notebook. It manages thermals well, the fan noise isn’t extreme and the Mux Switch is a great feature that we’re glad to see isn’t exclusive to this notebook.
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