On January 9th, the CES 2024 consumer electronics show officially kicked off, and in the notebook field of this exhibition, ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) launched two redesigned game laptops, the Magic 14 and the Magic 16, which became an important scenery at this consumer exhibition.
For those who are familiar with ROG, everyone knows that each generation of ROG's Phantom series has been out of the circle with all-round characteristics, and each generation has a very high configuration, which is deeply loved by players, such as the Phantom 14 2022 with the configuration of Ryzen 9 6900HS and RX 6800S, which became the king of performance at that time, and the later Phantom 14 2023 with the configuration of i9-13900H + RTX 4060 and a more cost-effective price, became the dream of players.
For example, in terms of design, ROG has brought a lighter and thinner design to these two laptops, coupled with a new CNC-machined aluminum body, making the ROG X14 only 15.75mm thick and weighs only 1.498kg. The Phantom 16 is also streamlined in terms of weight and thinness, with a thickness of 14.73mm and a weight of 1.81kg, making it extremely portable.
In terms of appearance, this time, the ROG X14 and X16 are equipped with a new light matrix under the premise of a new body, and bring a platinum moon white/eclipse gray color scheme, which has improved the appearance and sense of technology. In terms of detailed design, ROG brings a keyboard with a borderless design, a larger touchpad, and larger keycaps, which are different from the past in terms of appearance and detail design, and the appearance is also better.
In terms of hardware configuration, the ROG X-14 and X-16 will continue to follow the trend, and the processor will use the AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS processor and support AMD Ryzen AL, of which the X-14 can be equipped with an NVIDIA RTX 4070 graphics card, while the X-16 will be equipped with a Core Ultra 9 The 185H and RTX4090 graphics cards will be quite outstanding in terms of performance, and thanks to the Core Ultra chip, there will also be a great increase in AI processing speed.
In order to get the most out of the performance, ROG has prepared a smart cooling system for both laptops, ASUS has prepared a high-performance liquid cooling compound for the CPU, plus the second-generation Arc Flow fan, which will greatly improve the efficiency of heat conduction and heat transfer, and it is worth noting that the X16 with RTX 4080 or RTX 4090 will also have a custom Vapour Chamber with dual fans to support proper cooling.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that these two ROG game laptops will use the new ROG Nebula screen at the same time, the concept of the Nebula screen I believe many players have already understood, it is a must-have high-quality screen for gaming laptops, and this time the Nebula screen will be divided into 120Hz, 3K resolution and 240Hz 2.5K resolution two versions, the magic 14 and the magic 16 will be used respectively. Of course, the Nebula screen has a 16:10 aspect ratio, VESA DisplayHDR, True Black 500 and 1000000:1 contrast ratio are the features of both products, and 0.2ms fast response, high dynamic definition, strong color expression, and support for G-SYNC anti-tear technology are qualities that only the X16 will have.
The arrival of ROG X14 and X16 products has undoubtedly injected new blood into the field of games, and also allowed players to have newer choices, and thanks to the addition of the Core Ultra chip, X16 products can also make AI an important helper for work, especially for users in the fields of picture production and video production, ROG X16's game-playing and all-round performance is more worthy of attention, and it is known from the news obtained at CES that ROG plans to release X-14 in February this year. Magic 16 two game books, players who want to get the latest configuration should pay attention to it.