ASUS G751JL 17-Inch Gaming Laptop [2014 model]

I've owned this laptop for less than two weeks, so my views are preliminary, but I thought I should offer my initial review. I'm not a gamer, but I decided to look for a gaming laptop for the power and video capabilities. I figured I could buy one at the lower end of the gamer price range, and it would be good enough for my purposes. This laptop is a monster, built like a tank. My old laptop was a Dell XPS17, equal in size but without the sheer heft of this one. I decided to replace the Dell, instead of wiping the drive and starting from scratch, when one of the two hinges shattered. On the ASUS, there's a central hinge, which works really smoothly. It's sturdy as all get-out and looks like it'll last forever. I don't know why other laptops don't use one like it. The appearance: The ASUS looks great. I'm too old to use the word "awesome," but you can pretend I've said it. I love the form. I love the fan vents in the back. And the default wallpaper on the desktop, which I've directed Windows 8.1 to boot to, shows an image of this laptop highlighting the fan vents, with a red and gray background. It's, er, awesome. The keyboard keys feel good and respond well to touch. I do agree with people who have criticized the extra keys. (I constantly hit the "record" key at the top left, because I expect it to be the ESC key, which most keyboards have at the top left. But fortunately, the real ESC key is right below, and the record function closes with ESC.) The keyboard is backlit. I would have preferred white backlighting, but I suppose the red is cool in its own way. It's just not as practical. Initial boot times have ranged from about 35 seconds to a little less than a minute from power-on to the stripey page. From there, it's roughly 15 seconds to the desktop. I guess I would have expected slightly faster times, but maybe I'm not being realistic. The hard drive comes formatted into two primary partitions, one labelled OS and one labelled Data, but what's called the OS partition actually contains not only the OS but basically everything else on the computer as well. The Data partition is completely empty. Downloads and new installations default to the OS partition. I suppose there's a way to wipe the drive and start with literally nothing but the OS in the OS partition, but I didn't want to go to the trouble. So instead, I merged the two partitions with the Windows utility built into Windows 8.1. I haven't really tested the video capabilities. As I said, I'm not a gamer. But I did search out video game trailers, and the graphics on this laptop are beautiful. Maybe at some point, I'll test the frame rates, and so on, but for now, I have no complaints. I've been surprised at how quietly the computer runs. It's true I haven't run heavy-duty games on it, but my wife's desktop, which also has never run games, sounds like a jet engine in comparison. This is a quiet computer. One clear failing in the computer is that the external speakers are mediocre, but this is not a grave flaw in my opinion. Any time I'm going to listen to something that requires good sound, I'm going to use headphones, anyway. Based on what I've seen so far, the laptop deserves a 5.

Pros: +Screen is gorgeous full hd +Screen is anti-glare, meaning it doesnt reflect surroundings +Comfy keyboard +Huge vents mean laptop always cool +Reasonable price tag Cons: -This thing is HEAVY. Not portable at all unless carried in backpack -Trackpad is WORST i ever used in my life. Very annoying -Cant run games on ultra settings (will lag a little) -Battery kinda weak but wasnt a huge problem -Frame rate issues (LOTS of stutter) :/ -Very dull and lackluster audio, expected better -It said on the box that it had Blu-Ray drive, but when i opened the box it was DVD ???? This pissed me off ALOT. Do not recommend, check out ACER or Dell they have cheaper models,lighter,with better graphic cards.

Been using solid for 18 months. Great performance for the price. I play WOW, Overwatch, LOL Heroes of the storm and several others. Overwatch is probably the most graphically demanding game I run. I can run in maxed settings and it looks great with decent FPS BUT there is some "invisible" lag that results in missed snipes etc so I dial it down and still get stunning graphics and great performance. It looks good and I can reliably kill people. The Geforce Experience usually recommends settings lower than what I can actually use with no issues. I would say about 20% lower than what I usually run my games at. I also do NOT use any overclocking, baked-in Asus stuff or aftermarket. I travel a lot for work for days to weeks at a time .This is my all the time gaming comp at home and for travel. Couldn't see paying more for two separate systems. This works. I used an Asus laptop for 7 years gaming and travelling then went to Razer Blade Pro 2014, It was decent but got too hot, the rear vents on this are pretty nice. Upgraded to windows 10 with minor difficulties. There was a driver issue that caused periodic crashes I was able to disable it and then it was resolved later in windows updates so now everything is flawless.

Probably the best Laptop you can get for this price. I needed a laptop for school and I didn't want to fork out cash for a laptop and a separate gaming tower, so I decided to pick up a gaming laptop and kill two birds with one stone. The hardware puts it a little on the heavy side but that's one of the only cons I've found with this pc. The design is very sleek, the lighting is cool, there are macro keys, and the keyboard is actually incredibly comfortable, not to mention it's one of the few laptops that doesn't heat up under your hands, the cooling system is in the back. The screen is crystal clear and soothing to look at, you can use it with the sun shining on it and still see the screen clearly. Battery life when gaming is horrendously short which is to be expected, also tanks performance on most AAA titles, for school and browsing the web however the battery life is an average 4 - 5 hours. When plugged in to a power source however it's a whole new monster. The I7 processor overclocks to 3.5 ghz and the cooling system keeps it at an almost flat 60 degrees Celsius during my gaming runs long in to the night, which is amazing, you can keep the thing on your LAP. The graphics card isn't a 980 but it'll get the job done. You can play on full resolution with most settings on high in even the newest AAA titles with 60 frames, but you'll need to sacrifice on Anti Aliasing (which doesn't look bad due to how highly compacted the screen pixels are), shadows, and depth of field. If you don't mind locking at 30 FPS (Like most console games) you can run games on ultra no problem. I highly recommend this computer if you're looking for a medium price range gaming laptop.