FEBRUARY 2021 PCWorld 4914-inch FHD screen,
and a weight of 3.6
lbs.
Before you object
to having the
Zephyrus G14 laptop
here, pay close
attention to the
weight and size of the
laptop. At 3.6 lbs., it’s
actually very close to
the weight of the
Lenovo Yoga Slim 7
and the Apple
MacBook Pro 13,
which are each 3.1
lbs. We think there are indeed some people
who might consider the Zephyrus G14 to get
the extra power its GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q
provides. Yes, the 180 watt power brick adds
even more weight to the G14, but it may just
be worth it to those folks.
We think discrete graphics are one of the
overlooked features of the older MSI Prestige
14 too—a laptop that weighs less than the
Lenovo Slim 7 and MacBook Pro M1, but
features a GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q GPU
inside. There are indeed several compromises
in the older Prestige 14 to get that GPU,
which we detailed in our original review (go.
pcworld.com/14rv), but weight is typically
the great equalizer.
That’s why the final laptop we included is
really there for a raw performance
comparison, since no one would consider it
remotely in the class of the laptops above:- The Acer Predator Triton 500 (go.
pcworld.com/trt5) with a six-core 10th-gen
Core i7-10750H CPU, GeForce RTX 2080
Super graphics, 32GB of DDR4/3200
memory, a 1TB PCIe 3.0 SSD, and a 15.6-inch
300Hz FHD screen. It weighs 4.6 lbs.
We wanted this laptop particularly for its
Core i7-10750H CPU, which is very similar to
Intel’s 8th-gen and 9th-gen “H” class CPUs
found larger laptops such as Apple’s
MacBook Pro 16 (go.pcworld.com/ap16).
Most of the laptops here feature lower-power
CPUs, so we wanted to see just how well the
M1 and other chips in smaller laptops
compared against a chip that sucks down
many more watts.
We compared Apple’s MacBook Pro M1 to a number of similar laptops,
including the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 (pictured here).