Decent deal for $1249
My last Asus laptop was my G15 2021 with a 3070 and 16gb (returned that one because of temp issues, luckily I needed the money because my desktop died 2 weeks later). Will need a laptop because I don’t feel like dragged my desktop everywhere I go. Was contemplating getting the G14 , finally pulled the trigger on it once BB had a sale (ik it’s not as good of a sale as Black Friday or even July) but my stipend will pay for this thing within 3 months so I’m not too worried.
Was a bit concerned about the ram as this year it’s soldered to the board, but it survived my stress test of my average amount of canvas tabs (6) wallpaper engine, the crew motorfest (unoptimized crap), Netflix, discord and youtube running in the background. Never saw usage above 96% on the memory with all that open with an average of 70% usage with all my tabs and Netflix running. CPU never exceeded 90C when gaming GPU never went above 80C so it already has better temperatures than my old G15 which is surprising considering the size of this compared to the G15. It is also much quieter than my G15 but I was only running it on balanced mode in G Helper.
I really didn’t feel like spending ~$400 for more ram considering I’ll realistically either buy a new laptop within 3 years or build a new desktop for wherever I’m stationed CONUS
Overall pretty content with my purchase, had zero QC issues with my unit (crossing my fingers I don’t have a hardware failure within a month)
My last Asus laptop was my G15 2021 with a 3070 and 16gb (returned that one because of temp issues, luckily I needed the money because my desktop died 2 weeks later). Will need a laptop because I don’t feel like dragged my desktop everywhere I go. Was contemplating getting the G14 , finally pulled the trigger on it once BB had a sale (ik it’s not as good of a sale as Black Friday or even July) but my stipend will pay for this thing within 3 months so I’m not too worried.
Was a bit concerned about the ram as this year it’s soldered to the board, but it survived my stress test of my average amount of canvas tabs (6) wallpaper engine, the crew motorfest (unoptimized crap), Netflix, discord and youtube running in the background. Never saw usage above 96% on the memory with all that open with an average of 70% usage with all my tabs and Netflix running. CPU never exceeded 90C when gaming GPU never went above 80C so it already has better temperatures than my old G15 which is surprising considering the size of this compared to the G15. It is also much quieter than my G15 but I was only running it on balanced mode in G Helper.
I really didn’t feel like spending ~$400 for more ram considering I’ll realistically either buy a new laptop within 3 years or build a new desktop for wherever I’m stationed CONUS
Overall pretty content with my purchase, had zero QC issues with my unit (crossing my fingers I don’t have a hardware failure within a month)