ROG Zephyrus gets G14 Mini LED display

Asus’ ROG Zephyrus G14 is likely one of the hottest gaming laptops available on the market, and its 2023 iteration is bound to be one of the anticipated releases this yr. Not solely is it one of many few gaming laptops that may ship all-day battery life, however tons few 14-inch gaming rigs able to reaching aggressive body charges in lots of fashionable video games.

It is exhausting to think about how Asus may develop a package deal that was already so profitable. However the firm has discovered maybe the one factor really lacking from the G14 – and admittedly, it has been a very long time. This yr, the 14-inch Zephyrus may have a Mini LED show possibility.

Mini LED ought to actually be on extra laptops by now. In contrast to typical LCD shows, which use the identical group of lights to venture a whole (or very giant half) of a picture, Mini LED shows comprise many small clusters of diodes (known as “native dimming zones”) that may illuminate or dim independently. as wanted. The expertise is a type of bridge between LCD and OLED (every pixel illuminates itself).

You may most likely think about how a lot of a distinction this may make to sport visuals, particularly in relation to blacks. I can see this show being an enormous think about many individuals’s determination to purchase the G14 this yr.

The G14 would be the first 14-inch laptop computer to function Asus’ Nebula HDR shows (they had been beforehand solely out there on Stream X16 and dual-screen shows). Zephyrus Double 16). It has 504 dimming zones and Asus claims it can attain 600 nits of peak brightness. This, to be clear, can be ridiculously shiny for a gaming laptop computer, so I am assuming this quantity refers back to the highest HDR.

Whereas it isn’t solely sudden, some tweaks are additionally being made to the inside of the G14. Curiously, the road that was all-AMD final yr appears to have made its method again to Nvidia GPUs. This implies no extra AMD SmartShift; The brand new mannequin incorporates a MUX swap with Nvidia’s Superior Optimus. Asus may also proceed to promote a foolish little animated dot matrix mannequin on its cowl, which provides a ridiculous sum of money to the value – but when texting individuals from the quilt of your laptop computer all day is a vital a part of your life, I respect it.

In case you like the feel and appear of the G14 however need one thing larger, Asus can be launching a model new Zephyrus G16. That is similar to a barely bigger model of the G14, and I feel it replaces the G15 (which Asus would not appear refreshing for the time being). Nonetheless, the brand new G16 can be an Intel / Nvidia manufacturing and won’t have a Nebula HDR show. It is going to have QHD decision and 240Hz refresh price.

I hope to get my fingers on the brand new G14 quickly to see for myself how a lot of a distinction the mini LED show actually makes. We’ll additionally must see what this does to the value of the G14, which has been very aggressive previously. We most likely will not have this data till launch, which is at the moment set for Q2 of this yr.