Even after repairs, multiple bugs, and borked software updates, the Asus ROGZephyrusG14 is my favorite gaming laptop of 2022.
Gaming laptops are antithetical to how I play games, and despite my best efforts, I’ve never had great luck with them. That’s why I sold my 2019 Razer Blade 15 to buy a Steam Deck early in the year.
Related But 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. 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.
For most gaming laptops, the critical failure point is the keyboard, but I’ve typed scripts, articles, messages, and everything in-between on the G14. I still love the feel of the keyboard, and that’s coming from a guy who builds his own mechanical keyboards as a hobby. I called Best Buy, maybe they would would generously exchange the laptop. They pointed me to Asus. I called Asus. They pointed me back to Best Buy because I had registered the laptop a week late, so I was under Best Buy’s exchange window in the eyes of Asus. In-store Best Buy visit? No dice, they told me to call Asus.
That update likely fixed other issues — issues with crashing when switching graphics modes, poor power management, etc. — but that wasn’t why mine wouldn’t boot. After applying the update, I was only able to get the machine to turn on by taking the bottom off, disconnecting and reconnecting the battery, and using the charging cable to force a boot. Defeated, I sent it in for a repair. The problem? A dirty connector on the power switch.
I can’t stop Maybe I shouldn’t be, but I’m still using the Zephyrus G14. There’s been an influx of 14-inch gaming laptops over the past year, and I was tempted to sell off my G14 and go with a Razer Blade 14 or Alienware x14 instead. But I’m hanging on to the G14 for now.
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