A:AnswerOne year parts and labor. Or you can buy a one/two/three-year extended warranty from Geek Squad.
Best Buy also has this new-fangled (for pay) annual membership plan that I think costs $200 per year - kinda like Amazon Prime but weirder. It does possibly have some warranty benefit, but I don't understand that part yet. The description leads one to think that if you have one of these new memberships at time of purchase, then you maybe get 2 years of Geek Squad protection gratis. What about the 3rd year if you want it, I dunno. They state that you just ask for Geek Squad coverage and it adjusts the price downward at checkout, and presumably you enter your member number at checkout or else buy the membership in the same transaction,
Rumor is, the best purpose for a membership is to scarf up a PS-5 or buy a graphics card, cuz your membership bribe gets you to the front of the line.
A:AnswerThey have 3 basic models, all with different discrete GPU chips. At launch it appears they have only one color (Gray or White) of each. Presumably they will have more color choice later on, but ask your friendly Best Buy salesperson.
A:AnswerASUS, what people need to understand is this drive is PCIe 3 speeds, and when they install a PCIe 4 drive like Western Digital SN850 like bestbuy sells, the temps of that 'normal running drive' will skyrocket in the 70's c. This causes the drive to not perform correctly.
This is an issue we are not being told.
This laptop specs show PCIe 4. We expect PCIe 3.
Plain and simple, ASUS is putting in a drive that can't perform at PCIe 4 speeds.
People beware, you will need to buy another drive for the PCIe4 performance. If you do, the drive will need a cooler and still run 70c.
Every laptop I put in an WD SN850 run at 45c. I only have an issue with the Zephyrus.
Note: I did not put in the WD SN850 in the G14 because the keyboard lighting was unevenly lit I refunded. The photo is the speed of the drive in the G14. The Zephyrus G15 GA503GM I switched to, also has slow PCIe 4 drive speeds (micron drive this time). The G15 does have an extra slot so my findings are from that G15 on temps. I did read about the high drive temps on the G14.
There is a reason not to use proper PCIe 4 speed drives in the Zephyrus line.
Am I being picky? Well do you want nerfed parts?
ROG STRIX 4 speeds
Alienware 4 speeds
MSI, Lenovo..4 speeds
I want to know why I owned 2 Zephyrus G laptops with 3 speed drives in them.
Boarderline of false advertising here. Slowest "PCIe 4" drive ever.
