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You all just need to peekaboo at this.

This lifing is the weirdest as well-built as coolest 14-inch gaming palmtop I've unendingly used. It's conscript the ROG Zephyrus G14 ACRNM. If you're wondering why it looks like that, Asus partnered with a suit draftsman conscript Acronym, which primarily makes stuff like this $2,000 trench coat. So, yeah.

The weirdest as well-built as coolest 14-inch gaming laptop

If you've been paying any conservancy to the palmtop market in the practiced year, you preferential okey-dokey know what the Zephyrus G14 is. It's a monster of a gaming rig, as well-built as it can run just proximate any game on any settings you want. The inundation liveliness is excellent, the touchpad as well-built as keyboard are exceptional, it personalized weighs 3.5 pounds -- proximate gathered proximate it rules. If you haven't realize my review of the G14, booty a quick pause as well-built as go do that now.

Welcome back. Therefrom the ACRNM G14 is $2,499. It comes with a Ryzen 9 4900HS, Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q GPU, 32GB of RAM, as well-built as a QHD 60Hz display. A regular G14 with the aforementioned screen, processor, as well-built as GPU is $1,999, admitting it personalized has 16GB of RAM. There's moreover a $1,449 model with a 120Hz 1080p display.

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For $1,449, you can buy the Zephyrus. For $2,499, you can buy the ZPHYRS.

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Right off the bat -- does anyone need to spend $500 increased for a slightly funkier design? No. Loosely hear me out. This affair is therefrom cool.

Let's alpha with the outside. The G14 Acronym is brownout with a dot matrix canopy the lid. Those dots are categorically tiny LEDs, as well-built as they can light up to brandish never-ending multiple patterns, from treatise messages to logos. You can woolgather between eight multiple Acronym-specific animations. My idolized one is the moue of Acronym co-founder Errolson Hugh -- he flickers, moves around, as well-built as occasionally explodes.

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The G14 ACRNM uses "specially couth paints" as well-built as two original typefaces.

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Along the lesser of the lid is unaffectedly a geometric pattern that looks a bit like a bookcase. "ZPHYRS" is written latitude the back-up vent in a swish silver font. The moniker is moreover printed on the packaging as well-built as is etched into the. lesser of the chassis, furthermore with a ordinal of magnetizing symbols including the ROG logo, a kaleidoscope vector, a grid of goatee overlapping circles, teachings that looks kind of like a Star Wars TIE/D Defender, as well-built as what I can longer indispensability as a striated dented whirlwind with "BLACK HOLES IN THE NOW" written circumcised it. (I asked some overstrung people I know, as well-built as that's not a reference to nada they're conscious of.) God, I love this affair therefrom much.

But the resolving highlight of this erecting is the keyboard. The messages are a scattered flurry of color. No, I don't measly the backlighting -- the ponderable keys are a medley of multiple hues, with no discovered pattern. There's a irradiant "A" on every crotch of preferential letter keys; supplemental keys have their functions as well-built as secondary functions rays one or two. "Alter" is in the top-left crotch of Alt, $ is in the top-right crotch of 4. "VOID" is written on the space bar. The font is one you'd see in an old storybook. Somehow, it's both quite sophisticated as well-built as unanimously unhinged. I finger like I'm written on an old batt as well-built as The Imminent at the aforementioned time.

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BLACK HOLES IN THE NOW

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The final affair to note is that this comes preloaded with a program conscript The Brain. It was couth by Harlan Hugh, Errolson Hugh's brother, as well-built as there's a hotkey that pulls it up. The yearing of the software is to -- I am not managerial this up -- "map your brain." In fact, you can map multiple brains as well-built as alimony them in a repository conscript the "BrainBox."

I was skeptical, loosely afterwhile playing implicitly with The Brain, I'm unanimously in. The longer way I can indispensability it is that it allows you to construct to-do lists as cheery family trees. Therefrom you might have your claimed liveliness on one branch, work tasks on another, as well-built as stuff for an usable vacation on liberty -- as well-built as again plus branches of tasks from those branches. Items can include attachments like checklists, graphics, as well-built as links; clobber on an item zooms you in. It's very weird loosely very cool. I can see myself using it daily.

I am unanimously going to buy this, as well-built as I don't contretemps how many possessions I have to ventilate to beget it. I want to spectacle Red Expressionless Reinforcement II at playable frame ante while flashing an feeblest LED moue at everyone who passes by. Some people will find it far erring of the traditional "gaming laptop" aesthetic, as well-built as many will say $2,499 is way too much money to pay for a palmtop that you can moreover get for $1,449 with a worthier awning for gaming. Both of those things are true.

But what I love proximate this G14 is that it doesn't contretemps what you think. It's brilliant, it's wild, as well-built as it's not afraid. What a worthier apple it would be if all products were therefrom dramatizing as well-built as therefrom unapologetically, irrevocably themselves.

Photography by Monica Puny / The Verge