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If you can only have one computer to do all of your stuff,

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every single task that you need,

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it would probably be this one, the ASUS G14. Before we look at the laptop,

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let's have a little look at the charger. For power, we've got a 180 watt power adapter

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that is delivered through the ASUS Slim Powerjack TM.

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This right here is kind of like USB Type-C, but you can't plug USB Type-C stuff into it.

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That would be a bad time. And it also delivers way more current, which allows us to actually have higher efficiency

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through it. So here is the brand new 2024 ASUS G14.

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Now you will see that we are missing the animatrix on the back, which is a little bit sad

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because I really like putting a line of sad face just on the back of my laptop.

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But at the same time, how much I'm actually gonna miss it is almost zero.

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The IO that we get is really quite good given the size of this thing.

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So on the right hand side, we have an SD card reader, just a small one, full size USB Type-A and a Type-C

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that does 10 gigabit and DisplayPort. On the left hand side,

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we have headphone microphone combo jack, another USB Type-A, a Type-C, full size HDMI 2.1,

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and our little ASUS Slim Powerjack TM.

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Seems pretty light. Pretty light for a 4070 at least.

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What do you think? This seems rigged around 3.7 pounds maybe?

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Oh no, 3.3.

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It is actually lighter than I expected, which is quite good.

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We have the full aluminum body for this year.

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All CNC machine, I have to say, it looks absolutely fantastic.

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This right here is like MacBook levels of quality.

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This might be close to exceeding a MacBook quality. Let's see, 14 inch MacBook, 14 inch ASUS.

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Oh, that's pretty darn close.

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The ASUS might even have the edge, which is shocking.

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All right, let's have a gander at how powerful this thing is.

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So for the processor, we have an AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS,

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which has AI in it. It's apparently the same as 7000,

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but with some AI bolted on, and really, that's probably going to be really good

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for you in the future. I feel like these sort of AI accelerators

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will not be super useful for a couple years,

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but will be the sort of thing where in five or 10 years,

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might be the difference between this laptop running kind of well and just being awful.

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Remember, we have 32 gigabytes of DDR5,

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6400 megatransfer per second stuff. And here, a WD1 terabyte SSD,

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a MediaTek Wi-Fi 6E chip. Can I get a boo?

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Boo! Thank you. I really do not like MediaTek.

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I've had so many issues where I'm using an AMD laptop

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that has a MediaTek Wi-Fi card in it. And whenever I go between access points,

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it's really bad for dropping out, or just generally not being reliable.

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I much prefer the Intel ones, and if you can swap one of those into here,

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I would highly, highly recommend it. What we also have that's very controversial

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is the NVIDIA RTX 4070.

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That's controversial because last year's model had up to a 4090,

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and now a 4070 is as high as you can go in this.

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And I personally think that's totally fine. I have seen some people complaining online,

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but this is so much thinner and just generally more portable than last year's version,

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that I think the trade-off is quite good, especially since you're not getting the performance

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of a 4090 in this. This cannot properly cool a 4090.

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Like you can physically put it in here, but why?

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It's just going to be loud. It's not going to be all of the 4090's performance.

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And I really like what ASUS has done here, and just made the laptop smaller

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and put the GPU that people actually buy at it. Or get mad at me down below.

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Maybe you want the 4090 by last year's.

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And finally, there's an AMD Radeon 780M.

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That is just the integrated graphics, and it allows us to do, you know,

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normal integrated graphics stuff. I'm guessing no touchscreen.

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Yeah, no touchscreen, but oh well. This is an incredible panel,

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especially for a laptop of this size. So it is OLED, love to see that, 2880 by 1800.

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So that's sort of like your 1440p, but stretch-related vertically.

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So you have that 16 by 10, which is just awesome because you can see so much extra content

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when you're doing like web browsing, working on videos, photos, words, any of those.

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Now for the display, you're going to want to configure your settings

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because it does really change how well this panel is delivering the photons

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to your eyeballs. So in the Armory Create here, we go over to Game Visual.

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Now the Color Gamut native right here is a vivid profile,

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and that is going to just sear your eyeballs with the most vivid of vivid colors.

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Now, a lot of people do like that, but if you want to do photo editing

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or just generally look at things, how they were intended,

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it has an average Delta E of 4.4, which is just not very good.

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The good news is though, if we come in here, go from native to just sRGB and apply that.

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We now have a display that isn't quite as vibrant,

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but it is able to deliver those visuals to you with an average Delta E of 0.9,

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which is absolutely fantastic. We expect below two for professional color work.

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So this right here, you can be doing professional color work

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and I don't know, uploading your bestest pictures

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to Instagram that you've ever done. Now one thing that is unfortunate

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is that for whatever reason, this laptop got really mad at the software that we use

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to check the color accuracy of displays when it was in HDR.

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So we were able to verify that it has a brightness of 600 nits in HDR,

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which is very impressive, but we weren't able to verify if it is color accurate in HDR.

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That said though, it looks really good in HDR. We can tell you that much.

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And given this SDR performance, we do imagine it is very, very good.

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We just cannot verify that with anything other than our eyeballs.

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Last thing to talk about hardware-wise is the keyboard and the trackpad,

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and they are excellent. I would give it a very solid A.

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Like if we look great here, keycap stability is excellent.

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I can push on the corner and get a tiny bit of deflection,

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but if I really press on it, the whole key is going to actuate long

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before the corner of this key gets below the chassis.

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Also the consistency from key to key, fantastic.

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Also below the keyboard, we have this trackpad and it is excellent.

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It's nice and large, really as big as they could get in here.

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That was a very large source spot on the previous G14s.

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You were kind of giving out a good trackpad

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for having like a 4090 or whatever the heck.

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Now, of course, this is a gaming laptop, so I want to make sure that you guys get a really good idea

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of how this works in the games that you are definitely going to play,

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starting and probably ending with Crab Champions.

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So I guess we've discovered one problem here. 2880 by 1800 is pretty strange.

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Normally if you have more of like a 1440p, you would go for 2560 by 1600.

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So this is a little bit larger and this game does not support it.

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Lots of games probably don't support it really if they just have a settings menu.

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So that might be annoying at times. That still looks pretty darn good though.

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First thing that I'm noticing, this OLED display looks fantastic.

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So it seemed to be getting a pretty solid 110 to 130 FPS.

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Okay, the smoothness of this display is incredible

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and that's aided a lot by the fact that this has G-Sync.

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Now in our LCT video, we go into this in more depth,

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but basically this panel is refreshing or more so updating 960 times every single second.

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That allows you to get around the problems of changing how long each pixel is on for.

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It's always on 960 times per second

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and how many times you display each frame is how you get that G-Sync variable refresh rate

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instead of trying to like make each individual frame

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last a different amount of time. Besides crab game, we try this out

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in a couple of different games against Lenovo Legion Slim 7i.

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That has an i9, a 4070 and 32 gigabytes of RAM.

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So it's pretty comparable to this, although it is larger.

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So you would expect it to be a little bit better and it was, I would say something like 10% faster or so,

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which is very impressive for the G14 given that it is significantly smaller

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and nearly as powerful. So good job there, ASUS.

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Okay, how are the speakers in this?

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That sounds very clear.

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Ooh, when ASUS was here, they said this might be the best sounding 14 inch laptop

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and they might be right. All right, let's compare it to the HP.

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Wow.

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It's way better than the HP Dragonfly.

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MacBook, very few laptops get to the MacBook stage

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of this test. All right, here's the ASUS Zephyrus G14.

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Oh, that's really close.

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MacBook Pro 14.

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Oh.

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I think we can call that a tie. The MacBook has a little bit more on the high end,

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but I think that's more so just the target curve

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that they're going for. You could probably get a little bit more treble on this

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if you wanted to, but they're both loud. They're both clear, excellent job ASUS on this.

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And finally, let's have a look at the webcam. This thing is 1080p.

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You guys remember when they used to not even have webcams on this thing? That was stupid, I'm glad this changed that.

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And this one's really, really good. Look at that.

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Up here, we also have Windows Hello Facial Recognition so you can get into it just using your face.

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Even that is getting a little bit confused, but like fair enough, there's big bright lights right here

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and you can even see Andy. 11T6 screws later, some of which are different lengths,

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so be careful, we can get inside. First thing in here, we have a 73 watt hour battery.

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In our testing, it was able to get us a very impressive

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nearly 10 hours, which for a gaming laptop,

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particularly one with a 4070, is incredibly impressive.

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That's how you're able to have a laptop like this, where I was saying, if you can only have one computer

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buy this one, that's what this has that stands out against the competition.

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Like that Slim 7 that we're talking about before, that Slim 7 got four hours and 45 minutes.

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Now, if you do want to fully load this thing up with combustor for some reason on battery,

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it does only get you an hour, but at the same time, just don't do that, please.

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Here we can see our Wi-Fi card is replaceable, which is excellent because you'll want to do that.

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And we have our SSD over here. One thing that's very, very sad though,

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is that you cannot upgrade the RAM. It is all soldered down.

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On the old version, you had one so dim slot that you were able to swap in and out.

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This one, nothing. Couple more fun things to look at in here. We have three fans.

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They've got the little one in the middle, which is apparently great for your VRMs,

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and just keeping your temperatures down on the keyboard.

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Actually, one thing that I didn't talk about before, but is very nice is that these do have

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a little bit of ventilation right through WASD,

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so your hands don't get too hot while you're gaming. Now, it's cooler compared to some of the others

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that we have seen is not the most impressive, but they are able to overcome some of that

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by just simply using liquid metal on this. And of course, finally, the price.

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This model that we have right here with 32 gigabytes of RAM, terabyte of storage,

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and the 4070 will cost you $2,000 US.

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Now, if you do want to spend a little bit less, you can get a 4060, 16 gigabytes of RAM,

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and a one terabyte SSD for $1,600 US,

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which is pretty good. And it's also pretty darn close to the Omen Transcend 14,

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which we're going to be looking at very, very soon. It's on my desk right now.

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