ASUS prepping 17.3-inch Core i5-powered X77 gaming laptop?

Details are still fuzzy at best, but word on the street has it that ASUS is preparing to unveil a new mobile gaming rig in short order. The biggest news is the powerhouse within: it'll purportedly be based on Intel's dual-core Core i5-430M processor. In addition to that, the rumored GPU will be a potent ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730, which is likely to feature DDR3 memory. You'll also find a pair of 500GB hard drives, 4GB of RAM, an eSATA and HDMI port and a 1,600 x 900 LED panel that spans 17.3-inches diagonally. There's no official availability or pricing information to speak of, but Fudzilla is reporting that it should show up in just a few weeks for around€1,000 ($1,435).

[Thanks, Karl]

[Dafrety Posted Dec 24th 2009 4:14PM]

It looks nice, hopefully it doesn't weigh 18 pounds though.

[Evolyptic Posted Dec 24th 2009 4:57PM]

@Dafrety Oh? You actually want to take it off your desk? Good luck with the power.

:P

[One Love Posted Dec 24th 2009 5:52PM]

Oh Asus, Is there anything you can't (won't) do?

[TheSmartOne Posted Dec 24th 2009 8:37PM]

@One Love OLED screen and long battery life, with lightweight?

/lol

[Average White Boy Posted Dec 25th 2009 1:45PM]

@Dafrety

It's about time some decently-spec'ed laptops are getting covered instead of those cheap-ass, Atom-powered crapbooks.

[santaklause Posted Dec 26th 2009 2:15PM]

@One Love Other features identified by Fudzilla pinpoint the system as a clear desktop replacement, including 1TB of total disk space spread across two drive. Dang is for real? Gamers will go 'ga-ga' for this one. http://bit.ly/asus-x77-details-extended

[JeremyBenthem Posted Dec 24th 2009 4:14PM]

Well at least it doesn't look like it was barfed out out of a rainbow, I'm looking at you Toshiba

[sweet greggo Posted Dec 24th 2009 4:15PM]

@JeremyBenthem

What's wrong with Toshiba? I've got a Satellite that certainly doesn't look like it was "barfed out of a rainbow".

[JeremyBenthem Posted Dec 24th 2009 4:21PM]

@JeremyBenthem
look up the Qosmio

[MoonWalkerCTE Posted Dec 24th 2009 4:35PM]

@JeremyBenthem

That is a random picture Engadget chose not the actual laptop they are talking about...

[MikeZ Posted Dec 24th 2009 5:21PM]

@sweet greggo
Preaching to the coir.
One of the first things I did after buying my Qosmio X500-10U was to have it disassembled and painted stealth black with clear scratch-protective coating on top.

[MikeZ Posted Dec 24th 2009 5:21PM]

*choir

[One Love Posted Dec 24th 2009 5:51PM]

"Qosmio" is the mothership from planet Toshiba.

[dieselstation Posted Dec 24th 2009 5:58PM]

@MikeZ

I'd like to see such painted laptop. please post links to pics.

[JeremyBenthem Posted Dec 24th 2009 7:27PM]

@MoonWalkerCTE
damn, I hope I didn't just jinx it. I wonder if there's an agreement companies sign that require a certain number of vibrant colors and high brightness LEDs to make a gaming laptop. I thought the last gen m15x was really nice, then Dell had to go an ugly it up

[sweet greggo Posted Dec 24th 2009 4:14PM]

If this thing can play youtube vids without stuttering than I'll buy 6.

[TheSmartOne Posted Dec 24th 2009 8:39PM]

@sweet greggo LOL the GPU's like overkill for that. It could probably play 1080p Youtube at full-screen without even trying.

[sweet greggo Posted Dec 24th 2009 8:44PM]

@TheSmartOne

You underestimate the power of flash video.

[GGG Posted Dec 24th 2009 4:26PM]

heh, my 17" ASUS has a 1920x1200 screen resolution and it cost 950€ over a year ago


@ some previous commenters: i guess the laptop in the picture is not the new one, therefore *Details are still fuzzy at best*. In fact it's almost the same as mine, it just looks older (uglier)

[logicalthought Posted Dec 24th 2009 4:26PM]

These new low-resolution "widescreen" displays are bullshit! I've got a 17" five year-old Dell that's 1920 x 1200... Does anyone know where I can get an 18.3" laptop (I just take it from room to room) with the older, taller aspect ratio?

[Kamokazi Posted Dec 24th 2009 5:09PM]

@logicalthought

You won't find one...no panel manufacturer produces LCD panels that size that aren't 16:9 aspect ratio. Unfortunately it seems 16:10 is going the way of the dodo. I miss my extra space too :-(

[logicalthought Posted Dec 24th 2009 6:40PM]

@Kamokazi

Wow, that sucks... Thanks. I have seen some manufacturers still making the taller screens in the 17" size, but none in 18".

[AndroidRokz Posted Dec 24th 2009 4:26PM]

Meh. My 640x480 VGA screen resolution works just fine. VGA's the standard which all computers support. Some newfangled people are moving to 800x600, but my trusty ol' VGA suits me just fine.

[AndroidRokz Posted Dec 24th 2009 4:28PM]

@AndroidRokz joking btw.

[LloydChiro Posted Dec 24th 2009 5:53PM]

@AndroidRokz

320 x 200 with 16 colors is all anyone needs, really.

http://kofler.dot.at/c64/download/paperboy.gif

[WhatHappened Posted Dec 24th 2009 4:30PM]

I wonder what aspect ratio it's running.

/s

[ToniCipriani Posted Dec 24th 2009 4:34PM]

@WhatHappened

Did you read the article? 1600x900, i.e. 16:9

[ToniCipriani Posted Dec 24th 2009 4:35PM]

@WhatHappened

Did you read the article? 1600x900

1600 : 900

divide that by 100

= 16 : 9

[Alphathon Posted Dec 24th 2009 4:57PM]

@ToniCipriani I'm guessing you missed the /s, which I'm gunna go ahead and assume is /sarcasm (not that it's very sarcastic, but still)

[va jj Posted Dec 24th 2009 6:48PM]

@ToniCipriani them gonna be some big ass pixels.

[Cyberdyne Systems Posted Dec 24th 2009 5:13PM]

The Vaio P has a 1600x768 which is just 8in. A 17in monitor with this resolution is simply sad. Bad form ASUS, very bad form!

[bdav Posted Dec 24th 2009 6:28PM]

Seems to be the trend nowdays shipping laptops with horribly low resolution screens. One of the reasons I keep going back to dell - they seem to be one of the few people left who will let you pay a bit more for a decent screen.

[va jj Posted Dec 24th 2009 6:47PM]

@bdav 1200p RGBLED yum!

[TareG Posted Dec 24th 2009 7:02PM]

Not bad for the price....

But looks fugly, has an "unfortunate" resolution, and the ATI Mobility 5730 HD is still a class II card....

Just get a SFF pc... miles faster, more powerful, and cheaper...

[TheSmartOne Posted Dec 24th 2009 8:42PM]

@TareG
?
ATI Mobility 5730HD a class 2 card? What? It's not even out yet lol
But if you compare across the entire 5xxx series....then yea. It's not like it sucks though...

[TareG Posted Dec 24th 2009 9:00PM]

@TheSmartOne
http://www.notebookcheck.net/ATI-Mobility-Radeon-HD-5730.23825.0.html

[Henzapper Posted Dec 25th 2009 12:49AM]

@TareG
I pretty much know nothing when it comes to graphics cards and which cards are better than which. So the list on the link you gave really helped. Thanks! You happen to know one for desktop graphics?

[Flix C Posted Dec 24th 2009 8:27PM]

I call bullshit.

I don't think anyone can be paid several hundred kilo $ per year to manage the design of Asus laptops AND forget about 1080p on a $1500 dollars, 17inches laptop.
(which is supposed to be "gaming" i.e. high end)

This would be the stupidest move since the 3G-less iPhone. (so it's probably gonna be a best seller ;))

[Goc Posted Dec 25th 2009 3:44AM]

To all of you who complain about the resolution:
Most of the time in a laptop things look better in the native resolution, and this is probably a gaming laptop.
Most games right now will probably work well under that configuration, but with an increase in resolution they will use more resources. And since most laptop LCDs look like crap when their native resolution is lowered, I'd rather have a lower resolution, better framerates and image quality, than a higher resolution, worse framerates and if I lower the resolution, worse image quality.

[osomphane Posted Dec 25th 2009 2:59PM]

asus rock :D