expired Posted by Dr.Wajahat • Jan 27, 2025
Jan 27, 2025 4:29 PM
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expired Posted by Dr.Wajahat • Jan 27, 2025
Jan 27, 2025 4:29 PM
ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16: 16" QHD+ OLED 240Hz, Intel Ultra 9 185H, RTX 4070, 16GB LPDDR5X, 1TB SSD $1474.99
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My G14 started randomly rebooting after about 6 months and Asus told me to get bent.
About the same weight, 4x the ram, Mini LED 4k display, rtx4080 for a bit cheaper.
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About the same weight, 4x the ram, Mini LED 4k display, rtx4080 for a bit cheaper.
Which?
At least from a student view point you'd often have quite some apps open, and when you decide to launch a game you won't really have a choice to close other open programs.
At least from a student view point you'd often have quite some apps open, and when you decide to launch a game you won't really have a choice to close other open programs.
As this computer is over $1000 and portable I assume it isn't for people with that use case.
It's likely more oriented towards students/professionals that use (one or a combination of) :
-video editing software
-CAD software
-Programming IDEs/Run code
-game engines
-Run LLMs
-Do group projects, discord/zoom/Microsoft team/etc with screen sharing
-lots of people don't close their tabs
-people have more than one browser
And enjoy games
In most cases you could probably do with those 16GB but it hardly makes sense at this price to compromise on that.
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It's most limiting for gaming, which this laptop is clearly designed for, but will also be a limiting factor for anyone using it for graphic design and video mastering.
We will probably see a lot of these RTX 4000 series laptops on sale over the next 6 months before they start drying up. The new RTX 5070 mobile is a big disappointment, and looks bound to be a small upgrade over the RTX 4070 mobile. Both use the same process node, so there is no difference in performance per watt. Both have 8GB GDDR which is becoming a serious problem for midrange cards in modern games, and it appears the 5070 mobile may have a similar level of CUDA and Tensor cores to the 4070.
Basically, there is no reason to buy an RTX 5000 series GPU or laptop if you already have an equivalent level RTX 4000 GPU. This is probably Nvidia's weakest generational improvement since the RTX 2000 series, or the 3060 -> 4060, which somehow went backwards in performance per dollar.