ROG Zephyrus G14: 14-inch gaming laptop is now $1400 more expensive with new 2026 release

[Redaktion]

Asus has finally started selling its new ROG Zephyrus G14 in the US. Equipped with a modern Intel Panther Lake processor, the 2026 edition also pushes considerably more power to its GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU. Unfortunately, these upgrades come at a steep cost with a $1,400 higher starting price than Asus' 2025 edition.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/ROG-Zephyrus-G14-14-inch-gaming-laptop-is-now-1400-more-expensive-with-new-2026-release.1304027.0.html

[Brandon Cole]

What happened to the 2TB option? For months they've been saying 1 or 2 TB storage- all the different SKUs on their web site, all the spec sheets, the slick presentations, even all of the previews over the last 4-5 months have mentioned 2TB options.

Now I see only 1 TB?

[CXMT]

They've all bean eaten up by AI.

I wonder what's going to happen as openai is not making any profit and taking significant operational cost losses.

Are they gonna end up cancelling all those previous memory/storage contracts and or selling a bunch of ram/ssds as they've no money? Fire sale soon or maybe another ai company will buy them for their excess capacity?

Crimson Tech has already done a review of this laptop comparing it to previous gen. It's better but not $1400 better than last gen. Yet another overpriced panther lake laptop. This does not bode well for the future pricing of next gen MSI claw.