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Asus’ TUF Gaming line has at all times been among the many low cost gaming laptops you should buy, however they’ve at all times been a bit ugly and thick. However at Computex 2024, Asus has unveiled its utterly redesigned TUF A14, a follow-up to the TUF A15. Asus has cleaned up the look fairly a bit, decreasing it from round a full inch in thickness to only 0.78 inches. They’ve additionally been lowered from 5 kilos to only 3.2 kilos.
The truth is, the brand new TUF A14 (and A16) look extra like Asus’ celebrated ROG Zephyrus G14 than the corporate’s earlier funds laptops.
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The brand new TUF A14 can be powered by AMD’s newest “Strix Level” Ryzen AI HX 370 12-core processor, which claims to supply appreciable positive factors over its predecessor. You additionally get sooner LPDDRX5 reminiscence clocked at 7500MHz and twin M.2 SSD storage slots, each of which assist as much as 2TB PCIe Gen 4 drives. GPU choices will embody Nvidia’s RTX 4050 or 4060 with a 100W TDP and a built-in MUX swap with Nvidia’s Superior Optimus assist.
The show specs additionally sound fairly good with the choice of a 14-inch 16:10 QHD+ IPS panel with a 165Hz refresh price, 3ms response time, 100% sRGB protection, and 400 nits of peak brightness. By way of port choice, there’s a USB 4 Kind-C port that helps DisplayPort 2.1 and Energy supply 3.0 (100W), a USB 3.2 Gen 2 Kind-A port, HDMI 2.1, an audio combo jack, and USB 3.2 Gen 2 Kind-C port.
The battery is rated at 73 watt-hours, and Asus can be bundling a 200W charging brick with the laptop computer.
Different notable options embody a military-grade chassis with steel backside and high covers, a 1080p webcam with IR assist, a 1.7mm journey distance keyboard, twin Arc Move followers coupled with warmth pipes for environment friendly cooling, and a bigger touchpad.
Pricing and availability is but to be confirmed, however contemplating how the TUF collection normally targets the reasonably priced phase, we wouldn’t be shocked to see a sub-$1,000 value level. Hopefully the extra trendy design doesn’t entice Asus to upcharge for the improved appears, particularly since a laptop computer like this could possibly be an important school laptop computer if it’s not too costly.
Asus can be updating the 16-inch TUF A16 with related specs and new design just like the 14-inch mannequin, with the one distinction being the bigger show and the choice of a extra highly effective RTX 4070 GPU. It’s additionally a bit thicker and heavier, as you’d anticipate, at 4.85 kilos and 1.01 kilos. The opposite change is that the TUF A16 comes with only a 720p webcam.
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