I was eight days outside of Best Buy’s return window when my Zephyrus G14 refused to boot one morning. Back to reality Jacob Roach / Digital TrendsĮight days. Those first few weeks with the Zephyrus G14 turned me from a gaming laptop skeptic into an evangelist. I still love the feel of the keyboard, and that’s coming from a guy who builds his own mechanical keyboards as a hobby. Poor battery life led me to keep every gaming laptop I’ve owned chained to the charger at all times, but automatically switching to the integrated graphics encouraged me to the take the G14 into my kitchen to look up recipes while I was cooking, carry it around the house to quickly jump on the internet, and bring it out for the day to get some work done.įor most gaming laptops, the critical failure point is the keyboard, but I’ve typed scripts, articles, messages, and everything in-between on the G14. The hybrid graphics setup worked perfectly, too. The G14 gets loud and hot, but the clever hinge design that kicks the laptop up at an angle helps it exhaust heat quieter and quicker than a machine its size should.
I’d grown accustomed to laptops like the Razer Blade 15 and Lenovo Legion 5 Pro that ramp up the fans the moment they need to render any geometry and spit out heat until the surface is hot to the touch. My initial impressions were swayed more by heat and fan noise. I’ve never worried too much about gaming laptop performance, assuming I can at least run games at medium settings above 60 frames per second (fps). The free month of Xbox Game Pass certainly helped - I’ve been a subscriber since the program launched, but the inclusion made the G14 an easy recommend for folks just dipping their toe into PC gaming. Why a gaming keyboard is my most anticipated CES 2023 productīut 1TB is standard on the 2022 G14, even on the cheapest model, so I was the proverbial kid in a a candy store as I started loading up the machine with my Steam library. Gaming laptops are still lying to us, and it’s getting even more complicatedĭon’t wait on next-gen gaming laptops - here’s what you should buy instead
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