If you've been holding off on picking up a
mobile gaming machine,
Asus has officially launched two gamer-focused designs that should pack the power those FPS freaks
want need. The 15.4-inch G1 and 17-inch G2 sport common innards and unique styling cues, as the G1 rocks green outer LEDs while the G2 is complimented in red. Beneath the hood of these beasts is your choice of Intel's T7600/T7400/T7200/T5600/T5500 Core 2 Duo processor, up to 2GB of DDR2 RAM, up to 160GB SATA hard drive, LightScribe-compatible dual-layer DVD burner, built-in 1.3-megapixel webcam, Bluetooth, and 802.11a/b/g. The G1 sports WXGA / WSXGA Color Shine LCD options and a 512MB
NVIDIA GeForce Go7700 graphics set, while the G2 gets a WXGA display and the 512MB
ATI Mobility Radeon X1700 card. You'll also find a fair assortment of ports, including video output, an
ExpressCard slot, a flash card reader, and a few USB 2.0 ports to boot; additionally, the outer casing is built to withstand the less-than-gentle travels a mobile LAN machine is bound to endure, and the customizable "
OLED instant display" can presumably showcase battery life, performance statistics, or available updates on the fly. While concrete pricing hasn't quite been nailed down yet, both notebooks will supposedly come with the pictured backpack and mouse combination, but we're sure this fairly well-loaded laptop will demand a hefty premium when it hits the market.
[Via
Electronista, thanks Jonathan]
posted Nov 12th 2006 11:34PM
Hotness, but how much do they weigh? And hopefully they won't follow Asus's history of Bluetooth castrated laptops for the US market...
X1700 on a 17 incher? I would have expected better. Otherwise, they look pretty good. G1 probably gets the top spot for 15.4 gaming laptops.
The thing I find funny is the 15.4" can do WSXGA and the 17" can only do WXGA. I'm sorry, but if you're 17" gaming laptop can't do WUXGA, then I'm not buying. It's the #1 reason I sprung for the XPS M170 when I shopping around for a desktop replacement.
I have to agree with the comments above about the resolution. All the other specs are excellent for both video rendering and gaming, but my Vaio A290 is WUXGA and I could never go back to a lower resolution. It's the only thing keeping me from buying a core 2 duo Macbook Pro to run XP on (and if anyone can explain to me how cutting edge Apple puts that mediocre screen in their lappie, I'd appreciate it).
Hey Engadget readers-
Anyone know of a dedicated ProEngineer/Solidworks type laptop? Basically an OpenGL video card is necessary, but is there a system that is built specifically for 3D modeling software?
Thanks
Ivan, you might want to check out hp's nw8440 series:
FireGL V5200 on 15.4" WSXGA+ or WUXGA+ -> http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/321957-64295-89315-321838-f1-1839152.html
and the nw9440 series:
Quadro FX1500M or NVS 510M on 17" WSXGA+ or WUXGA+ ->
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/321957-64295-89315-321838-f1-1839859.html
they have different Core Duo/Core 2 Duo configs and you can fill 'em up with up to 4GB of RAM
I am really thinking about bying one of these computers, but i do not know whether im gonnna buy g1 or g2. All in all which one is the strongest computer? i saw that 3dmark said that g1 was about 2369, and g2 2239 (not specific nr) . And i wonder about the sizes. Is G2 too big to carry to school? And is G1 bigf enough to game on and watch movies on?