Apple
MacBook Air (13-inch, M4, 2025)
$925.65
ASUS
Based on 81 Reddit mentions
$2399.99
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I do occasional video editing, a lot of adobe lightroom, and I did most of my computer science degree on one. I also have an Asus ROG G14 gaming laptop with a 3060 in it, which is more capable than the macbook, but for day to day stuff it feels like junk to use in comparison.
etheran123 in r/greentext
November 30, 2025 10:46 PM
183
As much as its nice to see it competing with low powered 4050. The 4050 and even full powered 5050 and 5060 laptops are significantly cheaper than the B390 laptops. You can get 5070 to 5070 ti laptops for the price of of laptops using the b390 On Best Buy Dells XPS 14 is 2249 with the X9 388H with 3
...From-UoM in r/hardware
January 27, 2026 9:32 AM
34
Ai generated TLDR, after handwriting that entire post I didn’t have it left in me to summarize it as well, hopefully this gets the point across Wanted a portable gaming device to complement a high-end 5090 desktop, mainly for travel and gaming around the house Needed AAA + online games, good perform
...Normal-Loss-6776 in r/ZephyrusG14
December 24, 2025 10:04 PM
20
Very unlikely, this is an Asus ROG zephyrus g14, not great for work and rough battery life - pretty much the most gaming performance possible built into the smallest frame possible, lots of overheating issues too. Unless this guy is an exec that got to pick their own laptop from wherever lol
RoflcopterV22 in r/mildlyinfuriating
November 8, 2025 5:45 PM
14
You can only get up to a 5080 in a 14” chassis and the Asus Zephyrus G14 with it loses to the 14” M5 Max in several of the GPU benchmarks that NotebookCheck did. They seem to be very very similar in performance outside of straight gaming where obviously PC in general has a big advantage for several
...shoneysbreakfast in r/hardware
March 16, 2026 5:53 AM
13
"M5 Max is also close to the mobile RTX 5080 in the ROG Zephyrus G14. In shorter benchmarks like Cinebench 2024 or Geekbench, the performance advantage over the M4 Max is even bigger" "During the stress test, the M5 Max SoC will draw up to 96 Watts in High Power mode, but very quickly drops to just
...NeroClaudius199907 in r/hardware
March 16, 2026 6:03 AM
9
I am on a ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 Gaming Laptop and this changed EVERYTHING. I went from 45 avg and 27 fps lows all the fucking way up to 144 FPS Consistent and at 4K resolution. If you have a gaming laptop or a mobile cpu that bottlenecks your GPU, TURN THIS SHIT ON. It's actually a game changer. and
...Immediate_Speech_234 in r/MarathonTheGame
March 25, 2026 7:07 AM
6
Just download CachyOS ISO, burn it to a USB drive and try it out. I just installed it on my Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 and it ran great, even with its NVIDIA GPU. CachyOS itself is pretty optimized. I got less heat and more stable performance than on Win11. CachyOS even has MangoHUD and Optiscaler instal
...mjhirano in r/cachyos
April 30, 2026 1:44 PM
4
You would need to go thru and figure out what specific settings work for your laptop. Generally I would start with Fans to maximize cooling. Then go thru and figure out tuning on your CPU. https://www.ultrabookreview.com/36081-asus-rog-zephyrus-g14-ga401iv-review/ From this review looks like you can
...FrequentWay in r/ZephyrusG14
April 30, 2026 2:45 AM
3
yeah surface pro 7+ struggling with blender makes sense, that's a u-series processor trying to handle gpu-intensive work for mechanical engineering you definitely need a dedicated gpu (solidworks, fusion 360, etc won't run well without one) and 32gb ram is smart asus options: asus rog strix g16 is s
...Critical_Marzipan551 in r/LaptopForStudent
March 4, 2026 8:20 AM
3