At 19:00 on January 9th, ROG officially kicked off the 2024 New Product Launch Conference, bringing its latest hardware R&D achievements. Among them, many thin and light laptop enthusiasts are attracted by the two blockbuster new ROG products - the ROG X14 Air and the X16 Air. It has to be said that the newly designed ROG PhantomAir series not only has a unique trendy element in terms of appearance, but also has a good upgrade effect in terms of workmanship, and it still reaches the benchmark level of professional performance thin and light laptops in terms of configuration, achieving a new height of design innovation in the notebook industry, and various practicalities are not inferior, so it has also attracted considerable attention.
At this time, some people may be curious, the notebook market in 2024 is just ushering in an iterative upgrade in terms of CPU, and the graphics card platform has not been updated, and this year's new notebook products should just be a regular update in configuration. However, the appearance of the ROG Phantom Air series is clearly eye-catching, and the amazing new solution in terms of design can naturally bring everyone's attention to its appearance and texture.
And if you know about the appearance upgrade of the ROG X14 Air and the X16 Air, I believe you will also be amazed by the excellent design and texture of the brand. Just like the workmanship and texture of Apple's MacBook products, it can be said that they are second to none in the notebook market, and the performance of the new ROG Phantom Air series has the potential to surpass the texture of MacBook, which is not an exaggeration at all.
It can be seen that the new product has a new integrated CNC machined aluminum body in terms of the fuselage, which is completely different from the common large plastic materials, giving a quite good metal texture, and the material can be said to be quite "noble". Moreover, the new material can not only effectively improve the strength of the fuselage, but also achieve weight reduction, which makes the Phantom 14 Air and Phantom 16 Air have 159cm thin +15 kg is light and 149cm thin +185kg light excellent ratio, which is indeed quite advantageous in the 14-inch and 16-inch notebook market, compared to MacBook Pro 14 16 are lighter, and the portability is very **.
On the other hand, ROG has also upgraded the newly created light matrix on the A-side, which has a diagonal oblique design, which is simple and connotative, and supports a variety of preset display animations and post-personalized customization, which is enough for users to give full play to their own personal imagination and "play with flowers" on the light matrix to create a unique trendy look.
As for the configuration, the Phantom Air series naturally fulfills the top level of ROG, and the upgrade level is in place. For example, in terms of CPU, the new product is equipped with the highest AMD R9-8945HS processor or the latest Core Ultra 9 185H, and the magic 16 air can reach the ultra-high level of RTX4090 in terms of independent graphics, which basically arranges all kinds of top performance configurations on the current notebook.
And in order to make this thin and light body can also play a high level of performance, the new product uses an upgraded version of the glacier cooling architecture 30, with a three-fan design and CPU liquid gold thermal conductivity high-end material, high-end graphics card models also have a customized version of the VC uniform temperature version plus a combination of dual fans, more efficient suppression of the dual-core heating effect.
In terms of display, the new products are equipped with ROG Nebula screens made of OLED material, with a 16:10** ratio, supporting 3K 120Hz and 25K 240Hz display with 0Features such as 2ms fast response time, 100% DCI-P3 color gamut coverage, and 1,000,000:1 ultra-high contrast ratio ensure high-quality visual protection in all scenariosIn terms of audio, on the basis of the 6 groups of speaker arrays, the Phantom Air series brings a new channel design and a larger speaker size, and the bass response is even as low as 100Hz, fully showing every detail.
To make the X14 and X16 Air even easier to use, the X14 and X16 Air are equipped with larger keyboard buttons to reduce misuse during long periods of time, and the large trackpad with the same 16:10 ratio as the screen allows for a comfortable and fast swiping experience, without the need for an external keyboard and mouse.
With the continuous development of AIGC creative demand, we can see that the ROG X16 Air is also supported by Intel's new Core Ultra 9 185H processor. This processor features an Intel AI-specific chip NPU that provides independent AI computing power and is specially optimized for AI work in multiple dimensions. Combined with the RTX40 series GPUs' AI enhancements, the X16 Air has a unique AI acceleration effect for triple-A games and creative production, and can generate AI images locally in seconds in AI software rooms such as Omniverse and Stable Diffusion.
Moreover, the Core Ultra 9 185H processor also has high energy efficiency, which not only increases the processing speed by more than 2 times when used to process some ** editing or 3D rendering tasks, but also optimizes the overall power consumption. As a result, the ROG X16 Air's built-in 90Wh battery can be used to its full advantage, allowing you to get an excellent battery life without being plugged in, so you can complete your creative tasks stress-free.
Obviously, the new ROG X14 Air and X16 Air not only maintain the brand's consistent industry-top level in terms of hardware configuration, but also usher in a considerable upgrade in terms of appearance design and workmanship, achieving a level that is more in line with its high-end positioning, and also conforms to the development needs of the AI PC era