We have some great news for gaming enthusiasts, especially those headed back to school. Asus made the 14-inch ROG Zephyrus G14 for the casual gamer and for those of us who need to balance our work and play lives on one machine. This is an all-around-killer laptop, and right now, at Best Buy, it’s on sale for $150 off. It’s selling for only $950, down from its original price of $1,100. If you’re a PC gamer whose life, work, and play is about more than just gaming, this could be the deal for you.
This is one crisp, sleek-looking laptop. Weighing just 3.64 lbs, measuring just 0.7 inches thick, and with 1,920 x 1,080 resolution, it’s hard to find a 14-inch laptop, much less a gaming laptop, with those kinds of design and portability credentials. Especially once you look under the hood.
First, the engine. The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 has the Ryzen 7 processor, which is racecar quality when it comes to speed and power. It has 8 cores and 16 threads for amazing performance, as well as machine intelligence; this thing grows and learns with you. It’s backed up by 8GB system memory, which means you’ll be able to switch between Assassin’s Creed, Netflix, and MS Word without ever having to worry about glitches or multitasking capabilities. It’s also enough RAM to run your photo-editing and video-editing software without any worry at all. Graphics-wise, we’re looking at an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card, which is pretty good, and is backed by 4GB dedicated video memory, which means smooth sailing on all the newest games.
Importantly, all this power is supported by a 512GB Solid State Drive (PCI-e). This is incredible, considering new games can be huge and eat up a great deal of storage. This feature ensures that not only will you have enough room for all your files, but that you can share them, transfer them, and back them up super quickly. It also comes loaded with Windows 10, has HDMI connections, and a backlit keyboard, which is a gaming must.
There are affordable gaming laptops out there with better graphics cards, and different features that you might be looking for. Check them out in our collection of the best gaming laptop deals. But there are few laptops that have the all-around functionality of the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14. It’s a perfect machine for a gamer who also needs something reliable for work and entertainment. Right now, at Best Buy, you can get it for $150 off ; it’s down to $950 from its regular price of $1,100. Game on!
The absolutely absurd idea of putting a touchscreen display on a mouse isn't exactly new. Turtle Beach already did it with its Command Series MC7, which features a 2.25-inch control screen. But apparently, even that wasn't ridiculous enough for Arctic Fox Technologies. Its new Super Mouse looks like someone took the chunky old Atari ST mouse, slapped a touchscreen and scroll wheel on it, and called it an upgrade.
The result is a rather unusual-looking mouse that is now on Kickstarter, starting at $199. And as ridiculous as it looks, some of its features are genuinely intriguing.
Apple is less than a day away from launching its highly anticipated OLED MacBook Pro with a touch-sensitive screen. But it appears that the upgrade is going to cost a pretty penny. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is reportedly eyeing a starting price of $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro, while the 16-inch version could start at $3,399 in the US.
"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
I've spent a good amount of time digging into the spec sheet of the new M6 MacBook Pro (14-inch), and for all intents and purposes, this is a classic Apple "chip and connectivity" refresh. It's not a full redesign. The chassis, Liquid Retina XDR panel, speakers, ports, and battery, all of them carry over unchanged.
However, the M6 brings more cores, stronger on-device AI, higher memory bandwidth on the larger configs, and modern wireless. Here’s the practical rundown of what actually improved, and whether those gains are worth your money.