Sophisticated, powerful and decisively good—looking - these are some words I use to describe myself and ROG Zephyrus G14 2024. I recently reviewed the RTX4070 model of this excellent gaming laptop, but a few months later, its cheaper sibling enjoys a hefty discount. The ROG Zephyrus G4060 with RTX14 is sold at 1 1,350+ at Best Buy, with a discount of discount250.

This is an important discount.If you're looking for enough, you can find a more affordable RTX4060 gaming laptop (or read the hassle-free and cheap gaming laptop deals page). The Zephyrus G14 promises more luxury, and that's why it's usually more money.

The new G14 in 2024 is a completely different beast from last year's model. It has been redesigned from scratch and now includes a slim metal chassis. Within its chassis are the RTX4060, a 90W GPU with the help of Dynamic Boost, and an AMD Ryzen9 8945HS processor.  

The most important thing to know about this AMD Ryzen chip is that it comes with up to 16 XDNA top AI performance - a joke, but it's a 8-core, 16-threaded chip that can rip creative tasks like gaming and editing. Although the more demanding editing tasks are a bit limited by the 16GB LPDDR5X loaded on this machine. You can't upgrade this either. The RAM is soldered to save space.

I have a 1TB SSD under the hood. It's the minimum capacity I'd be happy with today's laptops, and unfortunately there are no free slots within the G14 for an easy upgrade you'll have to use it all. You need to replace the entire SSD and move it to another SSD.

However, there are still many great features to mention about G14. The speakers are surprisingly good for laptops of such a small stature. And I still haven't mentioned a vibrant OLED screen, with a refresh rate of 120Hz. Some of our hang-ups about OLED monitors are healed by the small screens used here, but while we need to take into account the dangers of burn-in, Asus offers features built into the laptop to prevent it. I'm still a fan of the RTX4070 model for extra performance, 1 gives you back 2,000. For a compact, premium gaming laptop with flexibility for office and home life, and one with a delicious discount, this is the same as it is now.