I’ve been ready to move on from my iPad Pro 2021 (12.9-inch) for a while now. Ever since I got my first taste of reviewing OLED laptops last year, the mini-LED panel of Apple's aging tablet no longer passes my ultra-obsessive eye test.
And hoo-boy does the screen of the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 (2024) shame my Apple slab’s display. While I recently said I wouldn’t swap the Zephyrus G14 for my Steam Deck OLED , I’d exchange it for my iPad Pro in a heartbeat. Yes, the new iPad Pro 2024 packs an amazing tandem OLED display of its own.
But the screen on this Asus gaming laptop is just unreal. Incredibly bright and vivid, its picture quality looks effortlessly authentic thanks to the perfect black levels OLED as a technology brings to the table. Obviously the $1,999/£2,229 configuration of the G14 I’ve been testing is squarely aimed at gamers.
After all, who’s forking out that much for a machine with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU and an AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS CPU then electing not to play the best PC games on this puppy? The screen on this Asus gaming laptop is just unreal" And to be clear, I think it’s an absolutely brilliant laptop for gaming. Yet it’s also a superb system for streaming movies and shows on. Ever since Asus loaned me a review unit a couple of weeks back, my iPad Pro hasn’t got a look.
Night after night the latest G14 has ruled my living room. Oh sure, I’ve had my LG G3 OLED TV on in the background while simultaneously plunging down YouTube h.
