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this is the best gaming laptop in existence

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and all that money nothing will top it in 2022.

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there are great gaming laptops and there are great laptops period the ASUS

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zephyrus g14 hopes to be both but have they done enough to justify the

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sphincter titling price tag and can i justify using the word sphincter in my

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inside the 2022 zephyrus g14 we get an

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AMD ryzen 9 6900 hs 32 gigabytes of RAM

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a terabyte of storage and most interestingly an AMD Radeon rx 6800 s

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compared to the outgoing g14 the 2022 model just shreds it not even fake in

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fact i'm stopping the graphs right now because you don't need to see any more

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of this beat down the new one is faster big whoop but to really show off what an

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excellent job ASUS has done with this whole package we need to compare it to a

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laptop that is faster this right here is

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the alienware x15 and it is an engineering marble it is just 15.9

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millimeters thin but it's able to cool rtx 3080 and an Intel i7

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even rocking the last gen processor the x15 was able to consistently beat the

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g14 in gaming benchmarks the x15 took enough of a lead for you to notice the

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difference not just by the numbers but in game play too how was alienware able

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to achieve this thermodynamic wizardry one moment

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the whole laptop is designed around the cooling solution so it has a small

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motherboard to make room for these four fans the keyboard was lowered so that we

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could have these fin stacks up here and they even went so far as designed their

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own special liquid metal called element 31. we've showed that that significantly

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outperforms another liquid metal and uh

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too bad using it sucks like look they lowered the keyboard and now my hand

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falls off the edge i can't game on this comfortably for more than like three

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minutes sharp stupid yes in any design there will be

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trade-offs but the g14 balances them all

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perfectly instead of making it wide to accommodate intakes they just lifted up

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the chassis the hot air does blow directly into the

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screen but i'm not concerned about the temps it reaches it's clear the keyboard

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trackpad and screen were the priorities here aka the bits that matter most when

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you use a laptop in fact the screen is just a great example of the g14

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targeting what you actually want sure the alienware has three times the

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refresh rate but most of us aren't professional head clickers with the g14

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we get a 2560 by 1600p screen that's

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fast enough for most gamers while being bright and color accurate enough for

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video or photo editors i can do my job writing scripts on it and not wish i was

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using a professional laptop instead oh and on the top they even added a webcam

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with Windows hello facial recognition very glad you finally yielded to me

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yelling about not having webcam aces it's actually not half bad the user

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inputs on the g14 are exceptional this

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trackpad just just look at it it's just

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big accurate and it feels great in my opinion this is the best trackpad on a

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gaming laptop and an easy a i barely wished i had a mouse when i was doing

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non-gaming tasks the keyboard is also a standout with key travel that's

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soft and doesn't require too much force so great for gaming but it still retains

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enough of a tactile bump to be functional for very quick typing awesome

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there's almost no deck flex thanks to magnesium chassis in fact the whole

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laptop is just super well built the keycaps have this

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sparkly color shift you can only see at certain angles the animatrix on the back

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got comments from everyone that passed by my desk

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and it is white

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wow that was actually really anti-climatic i was expecting the cheeto

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dust to stick but you could like oh my god this is so stupid mark why did

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we do this it's just gone

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oh that's really gross

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anyway audio test okay here we go sound test versus the

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king of Windows laptop audio xps 15.

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it's kind of lacking in bass let's see here

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yeah the dell's better but at the same time

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this right here is pretty impressive

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it's not as loud not as much bass but it's clear and i don't hate it great

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laptops also need great i o and on this

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while you won't be in dongle hell it isn't perfect either on the left we get

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a headphone microphone combo jack USB-C

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type 4 and HDMI 2.0 b on the right we

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get microsd another type c and two

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really good reasons to get a wireless mouse because this is terrible

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one thing i was really curious about is if the usb4 ports would work with

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Thunderbolt devices Thunderbolt 4 is essentially the same thing as usb4 but

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with all of the optional boxes checked off this Thunderbolt dock right here

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from dell plug it in okay awesome everything's working great

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come over here we have got this 10 gig network adapter

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and uh no such luck basically if you get

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this message right here you're screwed in my testing it's a coin

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toss if Thunderbolt devices work or not so if you've got a couple already around

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best of luck in my review of the AMD ryzen 9 6900 hs

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the battery life results of the g14 were a huge improvement over last gen nearly

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doubling from 5 hours 42 minutes to 11

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hours 11 minutes other reviewers though didn't see as

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much of a jump and it turns out that's because AMD has new av1 decoders these

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basically allow the integrated GPU to playback supported videos using hardware

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making the whole process way more efficient office tasks don't see quite

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as big of an improvement so depending on your use case 11 hours isn't reasonable

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to expect but like eight hours from a gaming laptop is still super impressive

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one thing that intrigued me though is the sheer power of the integrated GPU in

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this laptop already in a2 being from nova scotia it takes eight hours to fly

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home and it would be really nice to be able to game on the plane

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if i could use the apu on this is it able to game for multiple hours to test

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this i disable the dedicated GPU set a frame limit to 60 FPS have the refresh

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rate and turn down the brightness how long can it run f1 2021 at 1080p on low

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settings surely longer than the old model with rtx 3060 enabled right

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no the old zephyrus won the battle with a staggering battery life time of

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59 minutes i'm disappointed

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but uh at least you could buy a 60 watt type c charger to trickle charge on the

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plane stock power bricks they use too much power and just shuts off keeping up

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the disappointment train pricing the 2022 g14 starts at sixteen

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hundred and fifty dollars fifty dollars more than the top of the line 2021

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version and the one we've been testing right here

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2500 us dollars

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ASUS has a number of good reasons the new model is more expensive and the bump

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in GPU performance is pretty extreme but damn and it's so expensive to get more

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than 16 gigabytes of RAM with that in mind how easy is it to upgrade or repair

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yourself i don't normally do this but i'm actually going to put on an anti-static wristband today there's been

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a cold snap and i have been shocking just everything i touch and it would

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really suck to kill this strike number one are these little rubber things that

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you have to take out to get at the screws that sucks because these never go

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back in properly

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oh wow that vapor chamber is so sick no

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this is this is all vapor chamber yeah like from here all the way over this

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thing's so cool here's our 76 watt hour battery i have been having issues with

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it just turning on for no reason i'm sure that'll get fixed soon

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but i am just going to remove that before we go any deeper right here we

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have our sodium slot so this right here is a 16 Gigabyte stick the other half of

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your memory is soldered to the board that means that if you get the 16

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Gigabyte version you get 24 gigabytes of RAM not 32. here's our one terabyte SSD

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it looks pretty generic but it does have a fizzing controller on it

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so it is pretty good i think along with the

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RAM and the SSD it looks like your wi-fi module a battery

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speakers and fans all can be pretty easily replaced

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with minimal you know invasion into the laptop

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let's go a little bit deeper though and see what we can find

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getting this vapor chamber off is not particularly easy although because it

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does come with liquid metal from the factory i don't really know why you

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would ever need to what an absolute chunker of a vapor chamber what we also

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see here is that they use thermal paste on all the vrms which means that you

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don't have to worry about like thermal pad thickness i'm surprised they can

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cool this much with these small little fins like

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vapor chamber very impressive but there isn't a whole lot of heat sinking

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wow liquid metal jobs kind of gross you can see they have it taped off all

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around the die so that liquid metal can't spill but if they didn't have that

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this would be dead because there's liquid metal just all over the place around it there's the battery out

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what i'm curious to see is if the keyboard and trackpad are replaceable

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those are two things where like if you have a child

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they can pretty easily ruin your day by spilling a drink or something on there

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one thing i really wish ASUS would steal from alienware is that alienware has

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been putting little markings just beside all of the screws inside of their laptop

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so you can very easily find the screw that you need and put it

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in and know for sure that's the right one and you're not going to accidentally like put a screw through your keyboard

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or something okay there's the main board out

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not looking good for repair ability after that so

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track pad oh

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can we

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haha okay the track pad comes out now i don't

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know how easy it will be to get these but if you can

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it is possible to replace it awesome so it looks like the keyboard is able to be

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removed so you could theoretically just replace the whole thing this is actually

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quite a repairable little laptop as long as there's parts available you can

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replace most of the bits and not have to throw the whole thing out which is

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awesome to see a couple more interesting things while we're in here on this

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laptop they actually included dust filters right beside the fans apparently

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they work pretty well ASUS has this hilarious picture of a laptop just caked

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in dust they did two tests with and without the dust filters and they do

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actually work the fans also have this

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really funky sort of dual pitch wave

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design apparently it helps a lot with the turbulence of the air coming out and

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makes the heatsinks more effective so the new g14 then on one hand i'm kind

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of sad that ASUS upped the price by so much like i know AMD aren't our friends

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and it was only a matter of time until they started charging more for really

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high quality mobile processors but it still does sting on the other hand if

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you have the cash it's also just a great laptop it's portable awesome to use has

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a strong battery life and i just play like it easy recommendation just like

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