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.

[RobertJasiek]

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

We can hope but with cynical scepticism I predict OpenAI et al eventually go bankrupt, only stupid investors suffer from that, the hardware ends in landfills, the storage crisis will end and the world (we!) held as hostage will just have been the collateral damage. The next crisis will come sooner rather than later.