WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.600 If you can only have one computer to do all of your stuff, 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:05.280 every single task that you need, 00:00:07.380 --> 00:00:11.320 it would probably be this one, the ASUS G14. Before we look at the laptop, 00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:16.400 let's have a little look at the charger. For power, we've got a 180 watt power adapter 00:00:16.400 --> 00:00:20.120 that is delivered through the ASUS Slim Powerjack TM. 00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:24.240 This right here is kind of like USB Type-C, but you can't plug USB Type-C stuff into it. 00:00:24.240 --> 00:00:29.400 That would be a bad time. And it also delivers way more current, which allows us to actually have higher efficiency 00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:34.560 through it. So here is the brand new 2024 ASUS G14. 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:39.240 Now you will see that we are missing the animatrix on the back, which is a little bit sad 00:00:39.240 --> 00:00:43.360 because I really like putting a line of sad face just on the back of my laptop. 00:00:43.360 --> 00:00:47.400 But at the same time, how much I'm actually gonna miss it is almost zero. 00:00:47.400 --> 00:00:50.760 The IO that we get is really quite good given the size of this thing. 00:00:50.760 --> 00:00:57.520 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 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:00.680 that does 10 gigabit and DisplayPort. On the left hand side, 00:01:00.680 --> 00:01:07.880 we have headphone microphone combo jack, another USB Type-A, a Type-C, full size HDMI 2.1, 00:01:07.880 --> 00:01:10.960 and our little ASUS Slim Powerjack TM. 00:01:10.960 --> 00:01:14.520 Seems pretty light. Pretty light for a 4070 at least. 00:01:14.520 --> 00:01:20.360 What do you think? This seems rigged around 3.7 pounds maybe? 00:01:21.080 --> 00:01:24.200 Oh no, 3.3. 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:27.480 It is actually lighter than I expected, which is quite good. 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:32.400 We have the full aluminum body for this year. 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:37.520 All CNC machine, I have to say, it looks absolutely fantastic. 00:01:37.520 --> 00:01:40.880 This right here is like MacBook levels of quality. 00:01:40.880 --> 00:01:46.880 This might be close to exceeding a MacBook quality. Let's see, 14 inch MacBook, 14 inch ASUS. 00:01:46.880 --> 00:01:51.040 Oh, that's pretty darn close. 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:54.360 The ASUS might even have the edge, which is shocking. 00:01:54.360 --> 00:01:57.600 All right, let's have a gander at how powerful this thing is. 00:01:57.600 --> 00:02:02.600 So for the processor, we have an AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS, 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:07.000 which has AI in it. It's apparently the same as 7000, 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:11.600 but with some AI bolted on, and really, that's probably going to be really good 00:02:11.600 --> 00:02:14.600 for you in the future. I feel like these sort of AI accelerators 00:02:14.600 --> 00:02:17.760 will not be super useful for a couple years, 00:02:17.760 --> 00:02:21.320 but will be the sort of thing where in five or 10 years, 00:02:21.320 --> 00:02:26.400 might be the difference between this laptop running kind of well and just being awful. 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:29.400 Remember, we have 32 gigabytes of DDR5, 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:36.320 6400 megatransfer per second stuff. And here, a WD1 terabyte SSD, 00:02:36.320 --> 00:02:40.580 a MediaTek Wi-Fi 6E chip. Can I get a boo? 00:02:40.580 --> 00:02:43.800 Boo! Thank you. I really do not like MediaTek. 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:47.280 I've had so many issues where I'm using an AMD laptop 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:51.440 that has a MediaTek Wi-Fi card in it. And whenever I go between access points, 00:02:51.440 --> 00:02:55.320 it's really bad for dropping out, or just generally not being reliable. 00:02:55.320 --> 00:02:58.880 I much prefer the Intel ones, and if you can swap one of those into here, 00:02:58.880 --> 00:03:02.920 I would highly, highly recommend it. What we also have that's very controversial 00:03:02.920 --> 00:03:06.080 is the NVIDIA RTX 4070. 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:09.880 That's controversial because last year's model had up to a 4090, 00:03:09.880 --> 00:03:12.960 and now a 4070 is as high as you can go in this. 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:17.480 And I personally think that's totally fine. I have seen some people complaining online, 00:03:17.480 --> 00:03:22.560 but this is so much thinner and just generally more portable than last year's version, 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:27.040 that I think the trade-off is quite good, especially since you're not getting the performance 00:03:27.040 --> 00:03:30.760 of a 4090 in this. This cannot properly cool a 4090. 00:03:30.760 --> 00:03:34.360 Like you can physically put it in here, but why? 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:38.940 It's just going to be loud. It's not going to be all of the 4090's performance. 00:03:38.940 --> 00:03:43.280 And I really like what ASUS has done here, and just made the laptop smaller 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:47.280 and put the GPU that people actually buy at it. Or get mad at me down below. 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:50.340 Maybe you want the 4090 by last year's. 00:03:50.340 --> 00:03:54.060 And finally, there's an AMD Radeon 780M. 00:03:54.060 --> 00:03:57.540 That is just the integrated graphics, and it allows us to do, you know, 00:03:57.540 --> 00:04:01.660 normal integrated graphics stuff. I'm guessing no touchscreen. 00:04:01.660 --> 00:04:06.100 Yeah, no touchscreen, but oh well. This is an incredible panel, 00:04:06.100 --> 00:04:13.220 especially for a laptop of this size. So it is OLED, love to see that, 2880 by 1800. 00:04:13.260 --> 00:04:17.020 So that's sort of like your 1440p, but stretch-related vertically. 00:04:17.020 --> 00:04:21.860 So you have that 16 by 10, which is just awesome because you can see so much extra content 00:04:21.860 --> 00:04:29.220 when you're doing like web browsing, working on videos, photos, words, any of those. 00:04:29.780 --> 00:04:32.820 Now for the display, you're going to want to configure your settings 00:04:32.820 --> 00:04:37.820 because it does really change how well this panel is delivering the photons 00:04:37.820 --> 00:04:43.260 to your eyeballs. So in the Armory Create here, we go over to Game Visual. 00:04:43.260 --> 00:04:47.700 Now the Color Gamut native right here is a vivid profile, 00:04:47.700 --> 00:04:52.300 and that is going to just sear your eyeballs with the most vivid of vivid colors. 00:04:52.300 --> 00:04:55.900 Now, a lot of people do like that, but if you want to do photo editing 00:04:55.900 --> 00:04:58.980 or just generally look at things, how they were intended, 00:04:58.980 --> 00:05:03.660 it has an average Delta E of 4.4, which is just not very good. 00:05:03.660 --> 00:05:09.700 The good news is though, if we come in here, go from native to just sRGB and apply that. 00:05:09.700 --> 00:05:13.060 We now have a display that isn't quite as vibrant, 00:05:13.060 --> 00:05:18.580 but it is able to deliver those visuals to you with an average Delta E of 0.9, 00:05:18.580 --> 00:05:22.940 which is absolutely fantastic. We expect below two for professional color work. 00:05:22.940 --> 00:05:26.020 So this right here, you can be doing professional color work 00:05:26.020 --> 00:05:29.340 and I don't know, uploading your bestest pictures 00:05:29.340 --> 00:05:32.620 to Instagram that you've ever done. Now one thing that is unfortunate 00:05:32.620 --> 00:05:37.380 is that for whatever reason, this laptop got really mad at the software that we use 00:05:37.380 --> 00:05:41.300 to check the color accuracy of displays when it was in HDR. 00:05:41.300 --> 00:05:47.220 So we were able to verify that it has a brightness of 600 nits in HDR, 00:05:47.220 --> 00:05:51.940 which is very impressive, but we weren't able to verify if it is color accurate in HDR. 00:05:51.940 --> 00:05:56.300 That said though, it looks really good in HDR. We can tell you that much. 00:05:56.300 --> 00:06:00.540 And given this SDR performance, we do imagine it is very, very good. 00:06:00.540 --> 00:06:04.540 We just cannot verify that with anything other than our eyeballs. 00:06:04.540 --> 00:06:07.780 Last thing to talk about hardware-wise is the keyboard and the trackpad, 00:06:07.780 --> 00:06:11.780 and they are excellent. I would give it a very solid A. 00:06:11.780 --> 00:06:15.020 Like if we look great here, keycap stability is excellent. 00:06:15.020 --> 00:06:18.260 I can push on the corner and get a tiny bit of deflection, 00:06:18.260 --> 00:06:22.220 but if I really press on it, the whole key is going to actuate long 00:06:22.220 --> 00:06:25.620 before the corner of this key gets below the chassis. 00:06:25.620 --> 00:06:29.020 Also the consistency from key to key, fantastic. 00:06:29.020 --> 00:06:32.980 Also below the keyboard, we have this trackpad and it is excellent. 00:06:32.980 --> 00:06:36.340 It's nice and large, really as big as they could get in here. 00:06:36.340 --> 00:06:40.260 That was a very large source spot on the previous G14s. 00:06:40.260 --> 00:06:43.300 You were kind of giving out a good trackpad 00:06:43.300 --> 00:06:46.660 for having like a 4090 or whatever the heck. 00:06:46.660 --> 00:06:51.460 Now, of course, this is a gaming laptop, so I want to make sure that you guys get a really good idea 00:06:51.460 --> 00:06:54.820 of how this works in the games that you are definitely going to play, 00:06:54.820 --> 00:06:57.980 starting and probably ending with Crab Champions. 00:06:57.980 --> 00:07:03.660 So I guess we've discovered one problem here. 2880 by 1800 is pretty strange. 00:07:03.660 --> 00:07:09.180 Normally if you have more of like a 1440p, you would go for 2560 by 1600. 00:07:09.180 --> 00:07:13.780 So this is a little bit larger and this game does not support it. 00:07:13.780 --> 00:07:16.820 Lots of games probably don't support it really if they just have a settings menu. 00:07:16.820 --> 00:07:21.180 So that might be annoying at times. That still looks pretty darn good though. 00:07:21.180 --> 00:07:25.300 First thing that I'm noticing, this OLED display looks fantastic. 00:07:25.300 --> 00:07:30.300 So it seemed to be getting a pretty solid 110 to 130 FPS. 00:07:31.460 --> 00:07:34.500 Okay, the smoothness of this display is incredible 00:07:34.500 --> 00:07:37.980 and that's aided a lot by the fact that this has G-Sync. 00:07:37.980 --> 00:07:40.980 Now in our LCT video, we go into this in more depth, 00:07:40.980 --> 00:07:48.580 but basically this panel is refreshing or more so updating 960 times every single second. 00:07:48.700 --> 00:07:53.420 That allows you to get around the problems of changing how long each pixel is on for. 00:07:53.420 --> 00:07:56.540 It's always on 960 times per second 00:07:56.540 --> 00:08:01.860 and how many times you display each frame is how you get that G-Sync variable refresh rate 00:08:01.860 --> 00:08:05.820 instead of trying to like make each individual frame 00:08:05.820 --> 00:08:09.420 last a different amount of time. Besides crab game, we try this out 00:08:09.420 --> 00:08:13.860 in a couple of different games against Lenovo Legion Slim 7i. 00:08:13.860 --> 00:08:18.260 That has an i9, a 4070 and 32 gigabytes of RAM. 00:08:18.260 --> 00:08:21.520 So it's pretty comparable to this, although it is larger. 00:08:21.520 --> 00:08:28.420 So you would expect it to be a little bit better and it was, I would say something like 10% faster or so, 00:08:28.540 --> 00:08:33.420 which is very impressive for the G14 given that it is significantly smaller 00:08:33.420 --> 00:08:37.780 and nearly as powerful. So good job there, ASUS. 00:08:37.780 --> 00:08:39.620 Okay, how are the speakers in this? 00:08:41.620 --> 00:08:42.700 That sounds very clear. 00:08:44.700 --> 00:08:50.860 Ooh, when ASUS was here, they said this might be the best sounding 14 inch laptop 00:08:50.860 --> 00:08:55.980 and they might be right. All right, let's compare it to the HP. 00:08:56.980 --> 00:08:57.820 Wow. 00:09:00.380 --> 00:09:02.580 It's way better than the HP Dragonfly. 00:09:03.580 --> 00:09:07.340 MacBook, very few laptops get to the MacBook stage 00:09:07.340 --> 00:09:11.500 of this test. All right, here's the ASUS Zephyrus G14. 00:09:14.020 --> 00:09:15.460 Oh, that's really close. 00:09:17.900 --> 00:09:19.340 MacBook Pro 14. 00:09:21.740 --> 00:09:22.580 Oh. 00:09:29.940 --> 00:09:34.740 I think we can call that a tie. The MacBook has a little bit more on the high end, 00:09:34.740 --> 00:09:37.740 but I think that's more so just the target curve 00:09:37.740 --> 00:09:41.020 that they're going for. You could probably get a little bit more treble on this 00:09:41.020 --> 00:09:46.540 if you wanted to, but they're both loud. They're both clear, excellent job ASUS on this. 00:09:46.540 --> 00:09:50.300 And finally, let's have a look at the webcam. This thing is 1080p. 00:09:50.300 --> 00:09:54.860 You guys remember when they used to not even have webcams on this thing? That was stupid, I'm glad this changed that. 00:09:54.860 --> 00:09:58.540 And this one's really, really good. Look at that. 00:09:58.540 --> 00:10:03.580 Up here, we also have Windows Hello Facial Recognition so you can get into it just using your face. 00:10:03.580 --> 00:10:08.700 Even that is getting a little bit confused, but like fair enough, there's big bright lights right here 00:10:08.700 --> 00:10:13.460 and you can even see Andy. 11T6 screws later, some of which are different lengths, 00:10:13.460 --> 00:10:19.700 so be careful, we can get inside. First thing in here, we have a 73 watt hour battery. 00:10:19.700 --> 00:10:22.940 In our testing, it was able to get us a very impressive 00:10:22.940 --> 00:10:26.540 nearly 10 hours, which for a gaming laptop, 00:10:26.540 --> 00:10:30.420 particularly one with a 4070, is incredibly impressive. 00:10:30.420 --> 00:10:35.540 That's how you're able to have a laptop like this, where I was saying, if you can only have one computer 00:10:35.540 --> 00:10:39.340 buy this one, that's what this has that stands out against the competition. 00:10:39.340 --> 00:10:43.980 Like that Slim 7 that we're talking about before, that Slim 7 got four hours and 45 minutes. 00:10:43.980 --> 00:10:48.500 Now, if you do want to fully load this thing up with combustor for some reason on battery, 00:10:48.500 --> 00:10:53.740 it does only get you an hour, but at the same time, just don't do that, please. 00:10:53.740 --> 00:10:58.260 Here we can see our Wi-Fi card is replaceable, which is excellent because you'll want to do that. 00:10:58.260 --> 00:11:02.940 And we have our SSD over here. One thing that's very, very sad though, 00:11:02.940 --> 00:11:06.720 is that you cannot upgrade the RAM. It is all soldered down. 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:11.060 On the old version, you had one so dim slot that you were able to swap in and out. 00:11:11.060 --> 00:11:15.660 This one, nothing. Couple more fun things to look at in here. We have three fans. 00:11:15.660 --> 00:11:19.580 They've got the little one in the middle, which is apparently great for your VRMs, 00:11:19.580 --> 00:11:23.020 and just keeping your temperatures down on the keyboard. 00:11:23.020 --> 00:11:27.540 Actually, one thing that I didn't talk about before, but is very nice is that these do have 00:11:27.540 --> 00:11:31.620 a little bit of ventilation right through WASD, 00:11:31.620 --> 00:11:36.020 so your hands don't get too hot while you're gaming. Now, it's cooler compared to some of the others 00:11:36.020 --> 00:11:40.260 that we have seen is not the most impressive, but they are able to overcome some of that 00:11:40.260 --> 00:11:44.740 by just simply using liquid metal on this. And of course, finally, the price. 00:11:44.740 --> 00:11:48.820 This model that we have right here with 32 gigabytes of RAM, terabyte of storage, 00:11:48.820 --> 00:11:53.080 and the 4070 will cost you $2,000 US. 00:11:53.080 --> 00:11:58.540 Now, if you do want to spend a little bit less, you can get a 4060, 16 gigabytes of RAM, 00:11:58.540 --> 00:12:02.100 and a one terabyte SSD for $1,600 US, 00:12:02.100 --> 00:12:07.740 which is pretty good. And it's also pretty darn close to the Omen Transcend 14, 00:12:07.740 --> 00:12:11.140 which we're going to be looking at very, very soon. It's on my desk right now. 00:12:11.140 --> 00:12:12.940 Hit like, get subscribed, see you later.