ASUS G60Vx lappy smuggled out of the Peoples Republic of Gamers for in-depth review

Sure, it looks good enough on paper, but how does the new G60Vx gaming laptop from ASUS stack up in the real world? The kids at Bit-Tech have got their hands on this guy and have been cool enough to let us in on their findings. According to the review, the machine "acquits itself pretty well," with the 2.53GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM and Blu-Ray drive all holding up their end of the bargain -- aside from the "stuttery" and "dramatically low" framerates encountered while playing Crysis (well, it is Crysis, after all). That said, the device will play "a good number of modern games at the native resolution," even if they deem resolution "irritatingly low" for 2D use. But, you know what? That ain't all, not by a long shot... to see the benchmarks and analysis in their full, unexpurgated glory, hit that read link.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 30th 2009 12:40PM]

ok

[Mars478 Posted Jul 30th 2009 12:45PM]

Necessary? :)

[Aceyriot Posted Jul 30th 2009 12:42PM]

oooooo shiny

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 30th 2009 12:43PM]

So basically this is a good laptop, but not amazing... aren't there a lot of those?

[Entourage Posted Jul 30th 2009 12:45PM]

For the price they're asking I'd say they're competing with Sony. Sony offers good specs but ASUS can make the impossible possible.

[voodoo Posted Jul 30th 2009 12:49PM]

1366x768 is bad enough on a screen of this size, but on top of the low-resolution, they say the basic quality of the screen (brightness, viewing angles, contrast etc) is crap.
In this day and age, with LCD being an extremely mature tech, you shouldn't pay £1350 for a laptop and get a crap screen. Shame on Asus.

[Dking7 Posted Jul 30th 2009 3:02PM]

I don't know why but with gaming laptops asus are not friendly in UK, in US specs and price are perfect... order from there cheaper and better..

[edicius Posted Jul 30th 2009 12:57PM]

I'd prefer the G71Gx-A1 myself.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 30th 2009 1:01PM]

not bad

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 30th 2009 1:05PM]

I dont think any machine made now, can use the label "Gaming", if it cant play Crysis. How long has it been out? Nov 2007. It has been almost 2 years, and they cant add hardware that will play the game. Properly, that is.

[3rdman Posted Jul 30th 2009 1:32PM]

These computers can all play Crysis at high, just not at very high. It's no big deal, considering after almost 2 years, Crysis is still the video game with the best graphics. No game has beat it at that (yet, of course).

[BigBenn1 Posted Jul 30th 2009 3:20PM]

I disagree 3rdman. Unless you're talking about PC games yeah Crysis is the best, but in generally, Killzone 2 wins that..... Sorry just had to. Sure these laptops can play High with only 2xAA, which isn't much to see or notice in frames. Not getting above 30 is a shame. One GTX 260 and a $150 processor and 4 gigs of DDR2 ram would pull more than 30 frames.

[Levi Posted Jul 30th 2009 1:13PM]

I don't really understand what they are talking about... My Asus G50 plays Crysis without stuttering on high settings, and it's the one that was (still is?) $900 at Best Buy. If they are talking about Very High settings, then maybe it stutters, I dunno. I stopped trying to push it at High settings ;)

[Try again that username is in us Posted Jul 30th 2009 1:59PM]

i own a similar model of these asus gamer laptops and it works 100% fine, except for one large problem - the quick-boot shitty OS. There are touch-sensor buttons (as in not tactile) and one of them will turn on your comp into this alternate OS, which does not load particularly fast and gets a big 0 for usefulness. It is just too easy to slide your finger over that spot when trying to press the actual tactile power button. (it also usually crashes vista when loading after having been shut down from this gimped OS)

[jakefoxe Posted Jul 30th 2009 1:59PM]

I'll take two please

[RKN Posted Jul 30th 2009 2:12PM]

I got the Asus Rampage II Gene mobo, go Asus Republic of Gamers, whoo!!!!

[TheMike Posted Jul 30th 2009 2:42PM]

Considering I'm about to buy a laptop with the same specs except a larger hard drive, a native res of 1680x1050 and a case that doesn't look like it was designed by an 8 year old for a shade under £1000 I'm quite amazed at what Asus is pushing here.
I'm had no luck finding a laptop in the UK with a Radeon 4850.
I know MSI make that GT725. I've just got all the money together and it's now a discontinued product. I need a decent laptop very soon and don't have time to wait for the GT729. :(

[Bobert Posted Jul 30th 2009 3:01PM]

Bah. I'm fine with G50vt.

[Maruby Posted Jul 30th 2009 3:09PM]

wow

[radarskiy Posted Jul 30th 2009 3:38PM]

1366x768 is an okay resolution for a 11 or maybe 12" screen, and is starting to show up on some netbooks. On a 16" screen each pixel would seem like the size of the end of my finger.

[lindsaypace Posted Jul 30th 2009 5:46PM]

This is funny, just last night I was at BB loking at ASUS lappies with my daughter. A salesperson is walking by with a customer and she was telling him about Dells. He paused and asked what are ASUS and she replied "I think they used to make computer parts and now there are making laptops, they are not well know". Of course I had to say something like "USE TO, are you kidding they still make excellent componets and computers". Needless to say my daughter quickly walked away.

[Darwin Posted Jul 30th 2009 6:44PM]

It looks like ass. Plasticky cheap ass at that.

[Darwin Posted Jul 30th 2009 6:50PM]

32-bit Vista?? Really Asus?

[voodoo Posted Jul 30th 2009 8:02PM]

Yeah. 32-bit OS and a 1GB graphics card. LOL.
That'll mean just ~2.7GB useable ram. Not very clever Asus.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 30th 2009 7:01PM]

Hey this would fit the bill for my gaming needs while traveling

[psmisc Posted Jul 31st 2009 6:15PM]

It needs more stickers.