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expired Posted by Dr.Wajahat • Aug 19, 2024
Aug 19, 2024 5:09 AM
ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16: 16" QHD+ OLED 240Hz, Intel Ultra 9 185H, RTX 4070, 16GB LPDDR5X, 1TB SSD $1499.99
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Asus puts all their G16 laptops on sale immediately and keeps them there, ignore the MSRPs. The actual price of this laptop is $1599, so this is $100 off. Shows it's not selling well, because the greed of putting 16GB in this laptop (to force upsells) is rightfully biting them in the backside. Good. No laptop over $1000 makes sense with only 16GB of RAM. They should just stop making it.
It costs an insane $900 to upgrade to the actually well spec'd option, which has 32GB of RAM. $900!?! That's a ludicrous premium for the RAM, a 4070 to 4080 upgrade and the vapor chamber. It costs $600 to upgrade this to 32GB of RAM and an AMD processor (likely soon to be discounted like all the others). These upsells are ridiculous.
Asus should have put the vapor chamber in all the 4070 versions (hell, they already designed it) with 32GB of RAM. The 4080 version should be just around $2k. They went for more and are failing to sell. I hope they learn not to be so greedy next time. These laptops are great but are just broken by the corporate strategy here.
Apple Also lies about child labor and is the worst offender of anti-consumer / Anti-right-to-repair manufacturing/marketing Doesnt do DirectX so games+os needing more than 16GB is a nonpoint on mac. Also Apple requires custom versions of software to work with their anemic ram....
By all means, continue use them as the glowing example of what a laptop manufacturer should be...
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Only difference in gaming is a 50% boost in fps
The 16gb ram is enough for all games today
I've tested both extensively
I'm keeping the 4070
My opinion this is the best do it all laptop right now
Unless you need crazy fps I wouldn't waste the money on the 4090
Battery life on the 4070 is better too
If you know what you are doing
I get 10 hours out of it
No one is gaming on battery unless you are plain stupid
The fan doesn't whine unless you use turbo mode which the 4090 also whines
Thermals are crap for either one
They both get above 86C heavy load
I use a laptop stand with fan that brings the thermals down to 71C at full speed
In silent mode this thing is cold
Hopefully that helps someone on the fence instead of reading comments from fools that never even had the thing in their hands
Asus puts all their G16 laptops on sale immediately and keeps them there, ignore the MSRPs. The actual price of this laptop is $1599, so this is $100 off. Shows it's not selling well, because the greed of putting 16GB in this laptop (to force upsells) is rightfully biting them in the backside. Good. No laptop over $1000 makes sense with only 16GB of RAM. They should just stop making it.
It costs an insane $900 to upgrade to the actually well spec'd option, which has 32GB of RAM. $900!?! That's a ludicrous premium for the RAM, a 4070 to 4080 upgrade and the vapor chamber. It costs $600 to upgrade this to 32GB of RAM and an AMD processor (likely soon to be discounted like all the others). These upsells are ridiculous.
Asus should have put the vapor chamber in all the 4070 versions (hell, they already designed it) with 32GB of RAM. The 4080 version should be just around $2k. They went for more and are failing to sell. I hope they learn not to be so greedy next time. These laptops are great but are just broken by the corporate strategy here.
1. OLED Screen w/ 240hz is amazing
2. Speakers are VERY nice and it's almost par w/ my 2023 MBP
3. I suggest people to get 4080 or 4090 if budget is no problem. The vapor chamber cooler is amazing and keeps the GPU temps around 72c-77c at heavy load gaming (without laptop cooler)
4. Battery life is amazing on this. Best I got out of it was 11 hours.