Comments on: New ASUS G51J-A1 Gamer Laptop – With Windows 7 Home Premium http://www.laptop4gamer.com/gamer-laptop-reviews/new-asus-g51j-a1-gamer-laptop-with-windows-7-home-premium.html Gamer Laptop Reviews, Best Laptop Games, Cheap Gaming Laptop For Sale Online Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:13:38 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jose H. Mariscal http://www.laptop4gamer.com/gamer-laptop-reviews/new-asus-g51j-a1-gamer-laptop-with-windows-7-home-premium.html/comment-page-1#comment-20 Jose H. Mariscal Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:04:59 +0000 http://www.laptop4gamer.com/?p=52#comment-20 I have been waiting for the i7 core laptops to release and here it is. I originally had a dell XPS 16 on order forever and a day (32 days to be exact) and they delayed it AGAIN, so I looked elsewhere. Amazon had this one in stock and got it for next day shipping for $40! And saved a ton off the dell version. As for the laptop itself, it is a great machine. It boots very fast, does not run hot (considering equipment). The screen is beautiful and the keyboard has a nice feel to it. What it used to take my Core 2 Duo desktop 12 hours to do, this does in 4 (compressing and archiving over 100gb of photos in a .rar)! I have tried to tax the crap out of it and can never get the processors to 100%. Gaming will fix that. I am not a huge gamer, but wanted a powerful machine for a lot of photo \ movie stuff and also play the occasional game (COD MW2). Also, as a graduate student, I often hook up external monitors and use Dragon NS 10.1 and it has absolutely no issues with it. This is way overkill, but a sweet machine nonetheless. Pros- built in Blue-tooth, sweet wireless card, cooling seem adequate. Core i7! Some minor annoyances- Lights on external lid can not be shut off. One more note- Amazon's write up states only 4gb, but it can actually go to 8gb according to ASUS and a lot of 'boutique' sites. Reasons for not getting four stars: Very low batt. life- Gaming laptop, so take that for what it is worth No fingerprint reader (comes with facial recognition, but that can be beat with a photo) Dual drives but no RAID?!?? I have been waiting for the i7 core laptops to release and here it is. I originally had a dell XPS 16 on order forever and a day (32 days to be exact) and they delayed it AGAIN, so I looked elsewhere. Amazon had this one in stock and got it for next day shipping for $40! And saved a ton off the dell version.

As for the laptop itself, it is a great machine. It boots very fast, does not run hot (considering equipment). The screen is beautiful and the keyboard has a nice feel to it. What it used to take my Core 2 Duo desktop 12 hours to do, this does in 4 (compressing and archiving over 100gb of photos in a .rar)! I have tried to tax the crap out of it and can never get the processors to 100%. Gaming will fix that.

I am not a huge gamer, but wanted a powerful machine for a lot of photo \ movie stuff and also play the occasional game (COD MW2). Also, as a graduate student, I often hook up external monitors and use Dragon NS 10.1 and it has absolutely no issues with it. This is way overkill, but a sweet machine nonetheless.

Pros- built in Blue-tooth, sweet wireless card, cooling seem adequate. Core i7!

Some minor annoyances- Lights on external lid can not be shut off.

One more note- Amazon’s write up states only 4gb, but it can actually go to 8gb according to ASUS and a lot of ’boutique’ sites.

Reasons for not getting four stars:
Very low batt. life- Gaming laptop, so take that for what it is worth
No fingerprint reader (comes with facial recognition, but that can be beat with a photo)
Dual drives but no RAID?!??

]]> By: P. M. Loper http://www.laptop4gamer.com/gamer-laptop-reviews/new-asus-g51j-a1-gamer-laptop-with-windows-7-home-premium.html/comment-page-1#comment-7 P. M. Loper Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:06:16 +0000 http://www.laptop4gamer.com/?p=52#comment-7 Pros: -i7 mobile processor -Sturdy Construction -Beautiful Display -Backlit Keyboard with a num pad and superb feel. -Great Graphics (Full 1920x1080) -Solid Webcam -Free Accessories (Bag and Gaming Mouse) Cons: -Battery Life (Not really that bad considering the amount of horsepower in this machine.) -Another review mentioned the RAM being upgradable to 8GB but I'm not seeing that on ASUS' website: [...] -Does come with ASUS' bloatware but some of it is actually useful unlike every other laptop I've ever owned. I was in the market for a new laptop that I could take with me to and from work. This was the only machine I could find that had the spec set I was looking for. I don't do much gaming on my PC. I mostly use it for work: multimedia editing/production. In the short time that I've had this machine it has blown me away with its performance. Video previews render out very quickly for a laptop. Captures also perform admirably. Disk burning and ripping is fast and flawless. I would recommend this machine very highly to anyone looking for a portable multimedia editing station. Out of the Box Windows Experience Index: Processor: 7.0 Memory: 7.3 Graphics: 6.7 Gaming Graphics: 6.7 HDD: 5.9 Pros:
-i7 mobile processor
-Sturdy Construction
-Beautiful Display
-Backlit Keyboard with a num pad and superb feel.
-Great Graphics (Full 1920×1080)
-Solid Webcam
-Free Accessories (Bag and Gaming Mouse)

Cons:
-Battery Life (Not really that bad considering the amount of horsepower in this machine.)
-Another review mentioned the RAM being upgradable to 8GB but I’m not seeing that on ASUS’ website:
[...]
-Does come with ASUS’ bloatware but some of it is actually useful unlike every other laptop I’ve ever owned.

I was in the market for a new laptop that I could take with me to and from work. This was the only machine I could find that had the spec set I was looking for.

I don’t do much gaming on my PC. I mostly use it for work: multimedia editing/production. In the short time that I’ve had this machine it has blown me away with its performance. Video previews render out very quickly for a laptop. Captures also perform admirably. Disk burning and ripping is fast and flawless.

I would recommend this machine very highly to anyone looking for a portable multimedia editing station.

Out of the Box Windows Experience Index:
Processor: 7.0
Memory: 7.3
Graphics: 6.7
Gaming Graphics: 6.7
HDD: 5.9

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