The Asus TUF Gaming A14 is my next gaming laptop — impressive performance and shockingly good battery life

The Asus TUF Gaming A14 is easily the best 14-inch gaming laptop you can buy, and a solid mid-ranger that makes strategic compromises in all the right places to reduce cost without making it feel any less premium. Throw in the huge CPU bump in power and stamina courtesy of AMD’s new Ryzen AI 9 chipset, and it’s easy to gloss over the small gripes and fall in love with this machine.