2024 ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 & G16 - Thinner, Lighter and Beautiful!

First look and overview of the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 and ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16. These are the 2024 models announced at CES. I got to use them for a few weeks! Here are my thoughts.

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[MatthewMoniz]

The G14 is thinner, lighter and better looking. What do you guys think?

[mateenatlas]

reliability has always been an issue with these things. Had one and it broke on me; many people online also had that issue. These are literal unicorns, but quality control and issues plagues these machines. I took it to a repair shop and they even said this is the most common laptop that comes in for problems. If you get lucky; these things are incredible!

[moderndaypoet]

I just bought the G16 2023 one, 2 days ago. I love it so far. It has the i7 and 1TB, It had the Nvidia card which I like. I hope it will last 4 years and then I'll run Linux once I get something with 32gb of ram. This is my first ASUS product...I think they're doing things like no one else. Can't wait for what the future holds!

[supremacy]

I'm so hyped for the new G14 but as every gen releases, prices get higher and higher. The OLED screens looks so good, but I worry about screen burn in for those long gaming sessions or for school work. And ive always admired the g14 for trying to break boundaries as a 14 inch gaming laptop, but not being too expensive for a laptop that fits so much in such a small form factor. But ever since the 2022 gen, the price is too expensive, might just wait for prices too fall

[rodrigoambriz]

A 16 inch laptop with soldered ram is an insult.

[TOOLT]

These are BEAUTIFUL, damn near my perfect laptop. I love how much they cleaned up the design and gave them that minimal "macboook" look. If these could live up to the same battery life as the 2023 model, then I dont think I could be happier with these besides a future model having something like a qd oled display.

[OhluhKayTall]

Will always signal boost big, thin and light laptops WITHOUT a numberpad. This looks awesome and I hope other manufacturers go this route or at least offer the option this year.

[Flooozeee]

Nice design but I think I would have preferred the 2023 design on the G14 with upgraded CPU/GPU, a mini LED display on lower end models and the black colorway for US consumers.

[Noel_p]

I love the improved speakers and the nicer screen on it, the glossy OLED instead of the the matte LCD with the cheap feeling plastic frame around it is certainly a step up aesthetically.... not sure if I'd say the same thing about the exterior design though. Of course its all subjective, but I did love the older design, feel like it treaded the correct line between looking sleek (unlike most other gaming laptops) while not being too bland and boring, meaning it stood out compared to macbooks, zenbooks, dells, HPs, etc. This feels like it just went all in on making yet another 'bland' all metal laptop. Im sure the material quality is improved but it feels like it slightly lost its soul with the redesign

(also, sidenote, but the gpu downgrade is crazy, going from potentially having a 4090 w/ vapour chamber cooling to a 4070 at only 70W is a massive reduction in performance, even if the old chassis could never fully handle the 125W 4090)

[technomadmn]

Thank you for talking like a normal and calm person. ❤

[awienc]

Idk the G14 was already thin enough and IMO when the Anime Matrix was switched off it looked cool whereas this new led stripe looks like it was added out of necessity to just do something with the chassis design. I have the 2022 model (mostly thanks to your videos on it) and IMO the feel of the chassis is so great. After using MacBooks for more than 10 years the aluminium body doesn't feel that exciting anymore.

[javierperrusquia]

Nice new refreshed model. Personally, I dont mind solder ram, as long its 32 gb in base model and priced reasonably.

[diogodimas]

With the 2023 models, the G14 was the most instereting, but now the G16 seems to be the one to get.
A laptop that weights 1.9kg with a 4060/70, 90whr battery and 2 nvme slots is pretty dope. Also the fact that Asus is one of the few manufactures that make a 16in laptop without a numpad, so its got a centered keyboard/mouse (Awesome).
However, OLED? Really? I hope they still make it with a IPS or the Mini-Led from last year. Nothing wrong with OLED, but its just another thing that will go wrong faster that it should.

[MalcolmREBORN]

This might be the very best computer that ships to the market in 2024. From an engineering standpoint, it's absolutely bonkers! and I'm a Mac user.

[Watherwater]

This G14 2024 looks exciting though. I'm intrigued. I have the Zephyrus G14 2023. I'm about to do a review about it but its kinda late for it

[nhanNguyen-wofy]

Dont have full size SD card on G14 but a microSD port is clearly a di*k move.
Because you know for sure they can put a full size SD card and G14 become the ultimate media creator laptop.

[kenrickhadley]

Mathew, i just commented to Dave how beautiful i think this looks. I think the white when it becomes available is a designers dream, if they love minimalistic designs. I know i love it.

[mrrgb]

7:40 the problem I have with this is that even if the 4080 is power limited, it crucially has 12gb of vram VS 8gb on the 4070. I have the 4080 g14 and that extra vram is the main reason I bought it. 8gb of vram for a 1600p display, let alone 1800p is definitely going to struggle in modern games without using aggressive dlss and lowered settings.

[auyguay]

the new design is so good
but i wanted a all white color instead of silver

[xescdelarosa]

Thinner 👏 ≠ 👏higher 👏 quality 👏


Why would asus lose its own sight on their product identity? All i see here compared to 2023 is a potential burn in oled display with lower brightness compared to the mini led version of the 2023 model, a capped option of gpus since you can only get up to a 4070, they removed the vapor chamber, made it even thinner (worse temps respectively to 2023), removed their original animematrix idea and decided to put a tacky 50% of the new "X" twitter logo single color led strip, and i could keep going. Only positive thing here is that the 2023 models (which you didn't mention in this video for your convenience in making the 2024 version sound better compared to 2022) will get cheaper. Good video anyways