Asus Cuts a Bare Few Millimeters Off Its Already Ultra-Thin ROG Zephyrus Laptops
That lighting strip on the back of the new Zephyrus G14 and G16 can be customized to offer your own personalized light show to distract other patrons at Starbucks.
Just how light can a light gaming laptop get? The Asus Republic of Gamers brand has marked the four-year anniversary of its first ultra-thin Zephyrus G14 by going back to the drawing board, all to shave off bare fractions of the total pounds and centimeters of its lightweight laptop brand. At this rate, the Zephyrus will reach the point that the gaming laptop will weigh so little it could be carried away on a zephyr.
The last few generations of the Zephyrus didn’t do much to change up ROG’s originally lauded lightweight design except for adding ever-more-capable CPUs and GPUs. That’s still true with the 2024 models. The Zephyrus goes up to an AMD Ryzen 8000 series processor and a GeForce RTX 4070 GPU. The G16 is able to manage an Intel Core Ultra 9 processor 185H and a GeForce RTX 4090, promoting Intel’s chips as the new grand poobah of high-class gaming CPUs.
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Additionally, the G16 models that sport an RTX 4080 or 4090 have their own vapor chamber to support the bigger graphics cards. Older Zephyrus models could still run hot despite all the work Asus has put into its dust filters and heat pipes, so even with new 2nd-gen “Arc Flow Fans,” we shouldn’t expect to run a Zephyrus in a hot room without running into issues.
You’d be forgiven if you didn’t spot the obvious differences at face value. The lid has been updated to include a single LED lighting array down the center, which, to my mind, reminds me of an unfinished “X” logo from what became of Elon Musk’s Twitter, but I’m not here to hold that against Asus.
The keyboard now stretches further to the edge of the shell with larger individual keycaps, and the touchpad has also grown a fair bit. The speakers are also slightly bigger, and Asus claims they are capable of generating 47% more volume than in the past. The newly-announced model range includes a “Platinum White” colorway, which would compliment a more colorful backlit keyboard. If you’re looking for looks, you might also check out the new light HP Omen 14 and its rainbow-backlit keyboard.
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