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Nvidia GeForce 8600M with 256MB of video RAM
Thats the best you can hope for in the 15.4" variety. Woot.

2GB RAM, 160GB and 200GB HDDs, DVD burners, Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth
All the nice essentials that come in all high end laptops, or if you customize them.

Looks like a good laptop, but I'm not going to get one unless they come down about $500]]>May 6th 2007 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/May 7th 2007 3:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/May 7th 2007 4:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/
I want to see some side-by side benchmarks of these things.]]>May 6th 2007 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/
so you can get: ipm965, T7700, 4gB ram, 8600M, 200gB HDD ONLY for ~$1500 suckt it asus :P]]>May 6th 2007 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/May 6th 2007 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/May 6th 2007 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/May 6th 2007 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/May 6th 2007 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/May 6th 2007 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/May 7th 2007 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/May 7th 2007 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/May 8th 2007 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/The graphics's its a bit confusing for me. Doest that make any different between 512MB ( Direct 9X ) and 256MB ( Direct 10x)?
correct me if im wrong...
thanks]]>May 11th 2007 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/-No external pci express 16x
-Turbo memory(Robson) cause the laptop to run slower than current laptops.
-You will be paying for a decrease in performance

Proof:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=2985&p=4]]>May 12th 2007 10:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/]]>May 13th 2007 9:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/
The Turbo Memory issue is a known issue for manufacturers. Asus actually took some flak for NOT including it in the G1S architecture for the exact reason the article states, a failure to properly optimise it in the BIOS causes a performance DECREASE. This is not a problem on upcoming systems, but currently many teams are having trouble with the feature.

The 8600M will be likely indistinguishable from the 7700 for some time, until DX10 games come out. When they do the 8600 will be have a clear upper hand. The 256MB limit is for cost reasons (the actual advertised cost from websites selling these is around 1999) and is only an issue if you plan on high intensity gaming at the highest system resolution. If you plan on doing that then you should just use your money to buy a desktop.

Also, more than one retailer have listed the lappy as having eSATA (x1), I am inclined to believe them.]]>May 18th 2007 10:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/May 18th 2007 10:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/
I am dying for this laptop just reading it's specs.]]>May 19th 2007 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/May 20th 2007 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/
As for the price, I got it for RM6988 (USD2050).]]>May 31st 2007 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/May 31st 2007 9:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/
I plan on buying this laptop for college as well. :D]]>Jun 2nd 2007 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/06/asus-g1s-and-g2s-gaming-notebooks-with-santa-rosa/Jun 11th 2007 6:08AM