I saw many gaming laptops at CES 2024 but the redesigned Zephyrus G14 is my pick of the bunch

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I've seen many gaming laptops at CES 2024: budget-friendly Gigabytes, Cyberpower ones with liquid cooling loops, Meteor Lake-powered MSIs, and Razer Blade laptops that'll blow your socks off. Yet my pick of the bunch has to be the redesigned Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 2024.

Over the past few years the Zephyrus' specs have changed but everything else has (mostly) stayed the same. I still rate the older G14 2023 model as one of the best gaming laptops around, but I'm happy to see Asus has gone back to the drawing board for a new G14 in 2024.

The newer model features less plastic, more metal, and I'm told the new speakers located on either side of the keyboard can actually deliver decent audio. Admittedly I couldn't test that last bit inside the loud Asus booth, though the company claims the laptop is 252% louder than the last and can actually deliver decent bass response (within reason). 

I can attest to how lovely to look at this new G14 is. First off, the AniMe Matrix lighting on the rear of every G14 for years now is gone, replaced by new slash lighting. It feels more grown up than the Matrix lighting, though maybe that's just because there's less of it.

The biggest improvement on the 2024 G14 is the use of an aluminium chassis with greater coverage of the entire device. This makes for a more rigid body that has less flex and feels better in-hand. 

The eagle-eyed will also notice the touchpad is almost edge to edge now, starting immediately beneath the space bar with no top bezel.

There's only one model available today: the GA403UI. I'm sure more will show up in short time, though this model strikes a good balance. It comes with an RTX 4070 and Ryzen 9 8945HS, which is pretty much exactly what I'd ask for in a gaming laptop