I once said the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is the only gaming laptop I'd buy – and Best Buy's lowest price offer might make that a reality

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I've tested and reviewed a wide range of gaming laptops over the years, and there are very few that I'd consider purchasing for personal use, as the value often isn't where I'd want it to be. When it comes to the best gaming laptops, their weight is often a massive dealbreaker, and it's unfortunately a necessity to accommodate hardware components and ensure there's sufficient cooling.

We're also in a period where the PC hardware market is unstable, with prices for RAM reaching unprecedented levels, and all hardware across the board being impacted, whether that's via shortages or price hikes. It's all because of the memory crisis, and there isn't much that can be done to combat it on the consumer side.

Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 RTX 5070 Ti
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Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 RTX 5070 Ti: was $2,399.99 now $1,899.99 at Best Buy

The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is easily right up there among the best gaming laptops on the market, with its 14-inch slim OLED display, lightweight design, and RTX 5070 Ti GPU helping boost performance levels across a variety of games. The AMD Ryzen AI HX 370 processor is all you need for your intense and heavy-duty workloads, and its $500 discount is a generous one leading into Presidents' Day.

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Best design I've seen (Image credit: Future / Isaiah Williams)

Portable gaming is supposed to be gaming made easy, and Asus nailed it with the ROG Zephyrus G14. It's an incredible lightweight powerhouse gaming laptop, and its 14-inch size makes it easy to take when traveling away from home.

While its high temperatures under heavy load are certainly noticeable, it's not a dealbreaker because that's the sacrifice made to make it lightweight and easy to set up.

The design of the ROG Zephyrus G14 is easily my favorite among all of the gaming laptops I've tested, with a sleek and smooth chassis containing hardware powerful enough to play games like Cyberpunk 2077 at max resolution above 60fps with DLSS enabled, as you can see in the benchmarks below.

With speakers that pack a bigger punch than most might expect, along with a beautiful and immersive OLED display, there is so much to enjoy with this gaming laptop. While its price is still, I'll admit, quite steep, it's one of the rare discounts that I can confidently say is generous.

This is the closest you can get to buying a high-end desktop gaming PC or laptop, without spending rent money. It's also at its lowest price ever on Best Buy, thanks to the Presidents' Day sale, and it's safe to say I'll be keeping a close eye on this one.

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Isaiah Williams
Isaiah Williams
Staff Writer, Computing

Isaiah is a Staff Writer for the Computing channel at TechRadar. He's spent over two years writing about all things tech, specifically games on PC, consoles, and handhelds. He started off at GameRant in 2022 after graduating from Birmingham City University in the same year, before writing at PC Guide which included work on deals articles, reviews, and news on PC products such as GPUs, CPUs, monitors, and more. He spends most of his time finding out about the exciting new features of upcoming GPUs, and is passionate about new game releases on PC, hoping that the ports aren't a complete mess.

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