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The perfect laptop?

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  Did I just find the perfect laptop? I've been on a crusade the last couple of months trying to find a laptop that has excellent battery life (priority #1), compact in size (no more than 14"), and powerful enough to satisfy the geek in me.   Back in October of 2020, Best Buy ran a sale on the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14.  It is a high powered 14" laptop that has gotten rave reviews.  BB had the base model on sale for $899.  It had the AMD Ryzen 7 4800H CPU and a GTX 1650Ti GPU.  I upgraded the RAM to 16 GB myself and it came with a 512 GB M.2 NVMe SSD.  When I first powered it up and got it set up, I thought I'd hit the jackpot.  It was definitely a high powered machine and I knew it would tackle anything I had to throw at it.  It also had fantastic battery life for a machine that powerful.  I was able to get almost 8 hours of internet surfing, some word processing and a bit of video streaming.  I decided to use it for an online mee...