ASUS G71G-Q2 17-Inch Laptop
 List Price: $2,099.00 |
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this is a accomplished gaming laptopI only tested in wow directly now and I can play on highest settings highest resolution everything seems smooth...
Well-built, high-engagement laptop
Laptops will perhaps never be accepted by truly hard-core gamers, but if you want a well-built, tainted-performance full-size laptop, this is a machine worth considering.
The erect quality is what you would expect from Asus--solid and workmanlike. The finish is lovely, but it is a magnet for fingerprints. Fortunately, Asus has observation of that and provides a very useful duster. The finish maybe a little tasteless for a business meeting, but this laptop has it where it counts. The quad core processor has extensive power for almost any business task, and the 1920 x 1200 display enables you to make visible two full document pages side-by-side, a useful feature when you're editing.
Game play is very good. I don't game a lot, but the GeForce 9800M GS graphics card seems capable to handle the games I play quite well (in terms of performance, it ranks about 20th in the top 100 graphics cards). Blankness looks lovely and is at least equal to the PS3 version in terms of graphical blue blood (and it scales nicely to a full 1080p on the laptop). The sound from the x4 Altecs is very comforting! The sound stage is large and deep--but it is well-focused and does not delight a win far beyond the machine. I was playing a thunderous game and walked around the machine. Behind the LCD, the aspect was very muted--very useful if you play in a public place without headphones. The provided gaming mouse is a valuable value-add.
There are a few "nits." The turbo function doesn't calling (apparently a bios upgrade disabled it on all G71 series machines--Asus are working on it). Finish the screen results in a sleep mode that takes a complete shutdown to exchange.
The warranty is superb--2 years, with one year of accidental injury (such as dropping the laptop or smashing the screen!) coverage. That's hard to clobber. But Asus test their laptoops brutally, so they are well capable of standing up to abuse (a must with frustrated gamers!).
All in all--I quite recommend this computer.