You get a ryzen 9, an rtx 2060 and a 1080p 120hz display, this is one of the combinations with the best performance per dollar. Out of the box, the PC worked perfectly for me without much tweaking, only problem I had was that it came with windows 10 home rather than pro, which for my case, needed an upgrade; hope it's possible to ship pro versions in future. For the power it packs, this pc is thinner than most, definitely not MacBook pro thin but not much thicker than it, which is a definite plus; it's also a lot lighter than my MacBook with markedly better performance - that ryzen chip trades punches with the i9 in the Mac and gpu performance isn't even a question - for me
I also like the fact that the pc comes with minimum bloatware, I didnt have to Uninstall anything at the very beginning, it's a clean, well designed and properly executed piece of hardware, gold stars to Asus
I love this PC but I objectively have two issues with it:
1. The success rate of the fingerprint scanning-caching function is abominable - 6/10 times I genuinely have to enter my pin and 9/10 times I have to rescan my finger, usually a different finger to get through windows hello. I really hope that Asus has a fix coming in soon, if it's a software related issue
2. The backlight for the keyboard is uneven and if you're in a well lit room, then it's easier to see the keys with the backlight off. In my case, I use it late at night when I really need the backlight but otherwise by default it's off
For price to performance, it's a buy, right now prices are going down due to the upcoming 5000 series cpu and 30 series gpu models, if you'd want to wait for those, absolutely - from the looks of it, Asus has made a great pc even better in 2021, but nothing would beat the price for last year's model.
| Standing screen display size | 14 Inches |
|---|---|
| Screen Resolution | 1920 x 1080 pixels |
| Max Screen Resolution | 1920_x_1080 |
| Processor | 3 GHz ryzen_9 |
| RAM | 16 GB DDR4 |
| Memory Speed | 3200 MHz |
| Hard Drive | 1 TB SSD |
| Graphics Coprocessor | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060,NVidia GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q |
| Chipset Brand | NVIDIA |
| Card Description | Dedicated |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 16.00 |
| Wireless Type | 802.11ax |
| Number of USB 3.0 Ports | 4 |
| Average Battery Life (in hours) | 8 Hours |
