Forget ROG Zephyrus - Asus dropped the new TUF Gaming A14 and A16AI gaming laptops

Forget ROG Zephyrus - Asus dropped the new TUF Gaming A14 and A16AI gaming laptops

As you can see, Computex2024 was full of Copilot+PC announcements. Companies quickly jumped on the Snapdragon X Elite or AMD Ryzen AI300 chipset to turbo boost AI performance and reach more than 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS) benchmarks for running models locally.

The most interesting thing for me has been seeing how gaming laptops have adapted to this change.Asus is bumping the ROG Zephyrus G16 to this standard, but in fact we're far more excited about the TUF Gaming A14 and A16 being treated the same at a more affordable price.

Not only that, additional premium goods received by the new ROG Zephyrus lineup are also on the TUF-ies. Let's take a look.

The main improvement you'll find here is a bump to the AMD Ryzen300AI chipset — featuring an NPU capable of top 50 AI performance. Combined with GPU configurations up to RTX4070, it's a top of 371. Translation: AI-assisted workloads, such as image generation and the use of embedded local models, fly alongside AI gaming technologies like DLSS3.5.

However, the small adjustments that Asus has learned from the new Zephyrus laptop not only make these good onlookers with an aluminum-infused design, but the ergonomic touchpad is now glass and features a refreshed keyboard with 1.7mm movement, and the full-width vents make the ROG Zephyrus more comfortable. By cooling technology located in the G14 and G16

Simply put, these are not just power plants, but armed to the teeth with the latest technology (and up to 165w max TGP to maximize smoothness on its 110hz display) and with great tweaks to make it a great all-round laptop, user-friendly. It is a friendly power plant.

So you ROG...I miss the sleek aluminum design that brought the zephyr xt (I think it's multiple) to the level of premium aesthetics of the MacBook Pro. But come now — on paper, the TUF game lineup is going hard with its price-to-performance ratio, paying attention to design and ergonomics.

Of course, if you actually use these machines, you'll see more, but if these are one of the best gaming laptops announced at Computex2024,

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