On February 19th, many consumers have been waiting for the ROG Phantom 14 Air and the Ph316 Air two professional performance thin and light laptops released the price and opened reservations, with 10499** and excellent texture, personalized appearance, strong configuration and good portability and other characteristics, now there are more than 10,000 people to make reservations to buy the new ROG Phantom Air series, and the popularity is very high.
Of course, the positioning of the professional performance thin and light notebook, the two sizes of 14 and 16 inches, the advanced design and texture, the thin and light body, and the powerful, all-round configuration experience have made many people use the ROG Phantom Air series to benchmark Apple's MacBook Pro.
First of all, let's talk about the exterior design, as far as I am concerned, the appearance of the ROG Phantom Air series and Apple's MacBook Pro is simple and business-like, elegant and concise without losing texture. The main difference is that the A side of the ROG Phantom Air series has a newly designed light matrix, with 15 personalized lighting effects, and can be customized at the same time, which looks more futuristic and sci-fi, of course, some users think that compared to the simple Apple logo of the MacBook Pro, the ROG Phantom Air series will be slightly more public, so it depends on personal preference.
Regarding the appearance of the laptop, in addition to the design, the workmanship is also very important, the ROG Phantom Air series and the Apple MacBook Pro are made of integrated metal, and the overall workmanship texture is quite excellent, which is the top level in the industry. At the same time, the Phantom Air series performs better in terms of portability, with the Phantom 14 Air being only 15 at its thinnest point9mm, weighs only 15kg, the Phantom 16 Air is as thin as 149mm, light approximately 185kg, it can be said that the emergence of the ROG Phantom Air series also means that the workmanship level of Windows notebooks has caught up with Apple.
In terms of screen, the ROG Phantom Air series is equipped with a **ROG Nebula screen, taking the Phantom 16 Air as an example, it has 25K resolution + 240Hz refresh rate, and 02ms fast response, 500nits peak brightness and 100% P3 color gamut + color gamut switching function, and support G-sync, HDR TrueBlack500, Dolby Vision, the screen speed is extremely high and the sense of immersion is full, many digital big V have given a very high evaluation after getting started, compared with the 16-inch MacBook Pro, it is not inferior, and the Phantom Air series does not have a "notch", and there is no halo and other problems that will occur on Apple's mini-LED screen.
In terms of performance, the ROG X16 Air is equipped with a new generation of top-of-the-line Core Ultra 9 185H, with 16 cores and 22 threads, and a turbo frequency of up to 51GHz, as well as AI-specific chip NPU, with RTX 4060 4070 graphics card, can bring excellent performance for the latest triple-A games and creative production, and the game performance has approached the level of gaming laptops under the actual measurement of bloggers; It is worth mentioning that with the blessing of AI-specific chip NPUs, creative output is more efficient on AI software such as Omniverse and Stable Diffusion.
Of course, the performance of the M3 series chips carried by the MacBook Pro is also very powerful, such as design, editing and rendering, and 3D modeling can be easily handled, but in terms of professional software, AI performance, and playing games, the ROG Phantom Air series supports CUDA acceleration, a wide range of professional software ecological coverage, and a discrete graphics card and powerful heat dissipation, and the performance will be more versatile.
In terms of battery life, Apple's tuning of the M3 series chips is still quite good, the overall battery life is very powerful, and the ROG Phantom Air series actually performs well, with a larger capacity battery that can bring long-lasting battery life (the Phantom 16 Air is a 90Wh battery, the Phantom 14 Air is a 73Wh battery), and the overall endurance performance is relatively close.
For example, in terms of speaker configuration, the Phantom Air series has 6 groups of speaker arrays, with a new channel design and increased speaker size, the volume is increased by up to 252%, and the bass can reach an astonishing 100Hz, in the actual test of the blogger, the X14 Air's external amplification performance is not inferior to the MacBook Pro, and even the vocal performance is more transparent and better; In terms of interfaces, compared to the few ports left on Apple's laptops that have been sacrificed for thinness and aesthetics, the ROG Phantom Air series is significantly more complete.
From the comparison of the above configurations, it is not difficult to see that in terms of professional performance thin and light laptops, the MacBook Pro and ROG Phantom Air series can almost be said to be the ceiling products in their respective camps, including workmanship design, performance, battery life, etc., and even the ROG Phantom Air is more versatile with the support of AI chips and discrete graphics cards.
And I want to remind you that the starting price of ROG Phantom 14 Air is 10499, if it is the same 16+1T memory version, MacBook Pro** is 15999 yuan, 5500 yuan higher, so if you want a professional thin and light book that can experience AI, office creation, game entertainment, then ROG Phantom Air series will be a more suitable choice, if you are an Apple user and have no needs for games, then MacBook Pro is also very suitable.