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At $1,300, I'd be sorely tempted to grab this Asus 14-inch OLED gaming laptop over the Razer Blade 14 this Cyber Monday

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Asus ROG Zephyrus G14, 2025 edition.
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It's an 1800p screen, which is a very high resolution for a 14-inch panel. As this laptop comes with a 90 W RTX 5060, though, you'll need to take advantage of DLSS 4 and possibly a bit of Frame Generation to make the most of it at native resolution, but that's a small price to pay for... well, a very small laptop.

All RTX 5060 mobile machines benefit from a bit of upscaling help in very demanding games (even the higher-wattage Blade 14, with its equivalent 1800p display), so it's not something I'm going to hold too hard against the Asus.

It's also got a surprisingly chonky eight-core 16-thread AMD Ryzen 9 270 in the driving seat, so CPU grunt shouldn't be an issue. It's a shame this model isn't able to receive a RAM upgrade, though, as the 16 GB of LPDDR5-7500X is soldered to the board. That being said, it's still a fine amount of memory to work with as long as you keep an eye on your background apps while gaming.

Asus ROG Zephyrus G14, 2025 edition.

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What else, what else? The 1 TB SSD is a decent size, and the speakers on the G14 are the best we've heard in a 14-inch gaming laptop, which means watching a movie on that OLED panel in a hotel room should reveal some sonic punch you weren't expecting.

Speaking of sound, though, it's worth pointing out the fan noise of the G14 is whinier than the previous generation. You can fiddle with the power settings in Asus' Armoury Crate software to get it down to more reasonable levels, though.

So, while there are drawbacks to this lappy, it's still a fabulous thing—and it's $150 cheaper than the RTX 5060 Razer Blade 14, which can currently be found for $1,449 at Amazon. And while the Razer is the better 14-inch gaming laptop overall, I'd still be sorely tempted to save a decent chunk of change and pick up the G14 instead. How about you?

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