Design:
The Asus G75VW Republic of Gamers line of laptops is phenomenal. I have used this laptop for two years now and I have only had one problem with it (mentioned in operation section). This laptop features a stealthy look with two rear vents for cooling that take after a fighter jet's afterburners. The included ports are: four USB 3.0, DVD drive, SD card reader, mic and headphone jacks, power port, VGA, HDMI, Ethernet, mini display, and a Kingston lock. It has a backlit keyboard using white light, and an easy access port for upgrading the laptop's hard drive and ram. The laptop was designed with quality materials and is made up of plastic and metal.
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Operation:
This laptop contains the Intel Core i7-3610QM, clocked at 2.3GHz with a turbo boost of 3.3GHz, 8 GB of ram, and a 1 TB (terabyte) hard drive. The best part of this laptop, and the feature that made it so expensive at the time of purchase, is the Nvidia GTX 660M graphics processor with 2 GB of dedicated memory. This laptop was $1,300 two years ago at Best Buy. The laptop quickly handles any program I want to run on it. The only part that is slowing down this machine is the 1 TB 5400 RPM hard drive. The RPM speed on this drive is the slowest drive available for consumer purchase. The only time this effects my daily use of this laptop is during start-up. It boots up very quickly, but the start-up programs make the hard drive suffer initially. This laptop has a webcam which is good enough for Skype calls, but it is only 2 megapixels. The keyboard and track pad are the best of any laptop I have used. The built in speakers are the only issue/problem I have with this laptop. The speakers are very tinny and do not get very loud, even with an included sub woofer.
Battery Life:
The other drawback of this laptop, besides the slow hard drive, is the battery life. This laptop was designed and built before Intel and Nvidia were trying to minimize battery consumption. I can get 1-2 hours of battery life out of this laptop. Two hours is achieved using the lowest brightness setting on the screen, and using the "Power saver" feature in Windows.
Software:
As the years have progressed, using this laptop has been progressively more enjoyable. New programs like Nvidia's GeForce Experience have released, which help people adjust their game settings for the optimal frame rates. This laptop originally came with Windows 7, but I upgraded it to Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit last year. The Windows 8.1 experience was not very enjoyable because this laptop does not have a touch screen. This year Microsoft released "Update 1" for Windows 8.1, and the experience has improved substantially. It makes Windows 8.1 operate closer to how Windows 7 worked because the Start button is back and users can switch between Modern applications and x32 applications with the task bar. The included Asus software can be helpful, but most of it can be uninstalled because Windows already contains some of the application's features. The drivers and software can be re downloaded from the Asus website.
Overall Thoughts:
The Asus G75WV-BBK5 gaming laptop was a great purchase for the price. Asus made sure to have a premium build quality and great internal specs for about half of cost of the competition. The laptop can run most games at full 1080p on Medium to High settings, and sometimes Ultra (it all depends on how demanding the game is). My only complaints about this machine are its slow hard drive, speakers, and battery life.
Score:
9/10
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