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I actually bought a Asus ROG Zephyrus G14, pretty much for the same reasons as you listed. The lead times for usual contenders were too high and the G14 was eas

by doix 4y ago

I actually bought a Asus ROG Zephyrus G14, pretty much for the same reasons as you listed. The lead times for usual contenders were too high and the G14 was easy to get with the specs I wanted. If it makes you feel any better about your purchase, I don't get great battery life either. I didn't make any attempt to optimize it, and I get about 3-4 hours of dev time out of it (yes, not very scientific, I know). Your review was great though, I might get a framework as my next laptop assuming they are still good in a few years time.

lhl 4y ago
Besides the short battery life, I hope your new laptop is treating you well otherwise! I don't know about your workload, but in you case you ever wanted to poke around, one thing that might be worth looking into is to see whether the MUX switch (only accessible in Windows) is on its dGPU-only mode. On iGPU mode, the battery life tests for idle and wifi web browsing seem pretty good in Windows: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Asus-ROG-Zephyrus-G14-GA402R-Gaming-Laptop-Review-AMD-Times-Two.608125.0.html#toc-7 https://www.notebookcheck.net/Asus-ROG-Zephyrus-G14-GA402R-G... On Windows, 3rd parties have been working on a utility called AATU to improve performance and longevity: https://amdaputuningutility.com/ https://amdaputuningutility.com/ And on Linux, I used https://github.com/FlyGoat/RyzenAdj https://github.com/FlyGoat/RyzenAdj all the time for my preferred use cases (eg, setting the temp limit below when fans turn on to get a completely silent laptop on battery, lowering max power limits if I wanted to hit a certain amount of battery life, etc). (TLP has run-on-ac and run-on-bat commands so you can easily set your defaults based on whether you're plugged in or not (udev can see power events too).