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As I type this review on my new Asus G750JH-DB71 I can only smile. This is one bad boy notebook. While serious spec folks will scoff, it has a 7.9 Windows experience rating that means this laptop is at the top of the heap for desktops. I am not a professional reviewer, just a hard core PC gamer, so bear with me. First off, the build quality has "Excellence" written all over it. It has the quality feel you would expect for a notebook of this caliber. No excuses, no compromise, just high quality. The specs are uber-impressive. All the ram you need, quad core badness and the best video card ever put in a laptop.
Gaming: All settings on high, frame rates of about 100 on the FPS games I play.
Heat: Incredibly good cooling through giant vents and you can just barely hear the fans kick on when they do.
Specs: Impressive for a gaming desktop, otherworldly for a gaming laptop.
Style: While I loved the orange and black paintjob on my old Asus G50-A1, this understated looking laptop won't pop as many eyes when you cart it into the coffee shop, but it is much classier.
Sound: This is important! The sound is the best I've EVER heard from laptop speakers. I've been used to carrying external speakers with me for movies, but that is no longer necessary. You can watch a movie and have incredibly loud sound with the built in speakers. The subwoofer is nice too.
Screen: Very nice. Clear, responsive and no dead pixels or other issues. Awesome.
Downsides: Windows 8. I installed a program called "start is back" on the pc and it looks just like Windows 7 while still keeping the Windows 8 features intact (if you're into that sort of thing). Only 4 USB ports. Come on laptop manufacturers, how about 6-8 USB ports? Everyone needs them you know. Battery life, but who cares? You can run this thing for about 3 hours unplugged which is pretty good for all the hardware you have packed in.
Yeah, this laptop is a little pricey, but for a Gaming Desktop Replacement it's right on the money. LOTS of extra features on this laptop compared to the less expensive models, which your average PC Gamer is going to LOVE! From the Killer Wireless to the Blu-ray burner to the twin SSD's running in raid and way more. Boots from cold in 24 seconds and resumes in 2 seconds. I can't imagine being without this beast and I'm incredibly glad I bought it.
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I've been using this notebook for about a week and overall I'm satisfied. Here's my bullet-point review:PROS
Insanely fast, runs everything I've thrown at it very smoothly
It stays cool all the time. Under regular loads it is also nearly silent and under heavy loads the fan noise is reasonably low.
Easy access to upgrade the hard drive. I easily tore out the 1TB 5400 mechanical drive and replaced it with a Samsung 840 Evo SSD.
I like to use a mouse with my notebooks and before buying I was concerned that the power input was on the right side of the notebook and that it might interfere with my mouse movements. It turns out this is not an issue, the cable is elevated enough so that it doesn't interfere with using a mouse.
CONS
It seems like Asus will let anyone pre-load any kind of nasty adware/spyware on their products for a price. I had to do a lot of clean up on the hard drive. There was one particularly nasty program that would open a new browser window with all kinds of ads whenever I visited sites like Amazon, eBay, etc. If I had to do it over again I'd just do a clean Windows install as soon as I got the notebook. Unfortunately, I had to get this system up and running ASAP and didn't have the time to do a clean Windows installation.
Contrary to the Q&A on the product description, the notebook I got from Amazon was the Assassin's Creed edition. I'm not a gamer, but I need the powerful 3D card on this notebook for work-related 3D modeling. I have no problem with Asus working with a game company to include a game with the notebook, but why on earth would they permanently burn in some random game name on the palmrest? I've tried removing that game logo with no success. It seems like nothing short of sand-blasting will make it go away. At this point I think my only option is to buy a black sticker to cover it up.
Asus splits the twin SSDs that are in Raid 0 into two partitions. They also split the 1TB into two partitions, so you have a total of 4 logical drives. That seems an odd choice to me. Fixing this so the twin SSDs are a single logical drive and your secondary drive is also a single logical drive might not be so easy for a novice user to accomplish.
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