Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 (2024) vs Lenovo LOQ 15

“Asus' factory LM application is famously known to be bad out of the box. Look at the CPU on this picture. This is the new Zephyrus G14, opened on the day of the delivery. The liquid metal is screwed in here from the factory. Same applies to 99% of all the Asus laptops with LM. https://preview.redd.it/u5x88kj7076g1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=42e40eabb178277bdbfa84288d8bb726b730d958 The way they apply the LM leads to temps that you see. And people are now preconditioned to think that these temps are somehow normal because of that lmao”

“Desktops are always superior to laptops in terms of price and specs But when you think about the bundle you get with a laptop, it starts to make sense. I have owned laptops since I was 9 and I'm pretty much sure that I overloaded each ThinkPad, each Dell and now the Legion I own (but I'm more delicate now to my tech). None died under proper maintenance and monitoring. The thing is that LOQs had a ton of problems regarding the motherboard and hardware failures due to 1. Intel's problem with 13/14th then IA VCC or basically Package Voltage going over 1.4v which degraded the CPU like a poison silently. (Got patched in Aug/Nov 2024 I don't remember) 2. Lenovo has QC problems and still does for budget sections of anything that isn't a ThinkPad or a Legion 7/9 3. It's a lottery.”