Asus Updates Its G71 Gaming Notebook
Asus Updates Its G71 Gaming Notebook
Posted 03/09/2009 at 12:56pm
| by Andy Salisbury
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Along with introducing a myriad of new notebooks to the public this year, Asus is looking to update their gaming notebook, the G71, at CeBIT as well.
The G71Gx, Asus’ update on an old favorite, has been upgraded to hold an Nvidia GeForce GTX 260M graphics card (the fastest available), an Intel Centrino 2 processor, up to 12GB of DDR2, and 1TB of storage.
There’s no word yet on pricing or availability for this new beastie, but we can expect that it will cost a pretty penny.
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OhSoCheesy
March 12, 2009 at 8:42pm
The 260gtx is NOT the fastest. The 280gtx is! Can't wait to get two of them. I couldn't bring myself to upgrade my laptop last year because I knew this would come out, so ready or not here I come...
SuperiorBeing
March 09, 2009 at 6:59pm
I thought that I've seen laptops with a 4870x2, made by Asus, in fact.
QUINTIX256
March 09, 2009 at 4:19pm
It's a Core 2 processor. I expect better from you, Andy.
As for the comments, I think 8 gigabytes is enough. You can get to a point where you can swap out a good portion of the page file before the cpu can chew that much data, thus defeating the purpose of having such a large semi-local data set.
On top of that, I feel some sympathy for the "640k should be enough for anybody" quote. 12 gigabytes is enough to store half a single layer of a blu ray disc! Information needs to be represented and arranged much more efficiently by today's applications.
You can have your recession. I'm not participating.
almax
March 09, 2009 at 5:43pm
what do you mean by?
"You can get to a point where you can swap out a good portion of the page file before the cpu can chew that much data"
CTskifreak
March 09, 2009 at 2:47pm
Outside of the RAM, I was more interested in the graphics card. I didn't know the 260 made it into a mobile part.
comptech08
March 09, 2009 at 1:33pm
12 gigs may seem like a lot now, but so did 1 gig back in the day, now 1 gig is not enough for higher end computers. In time poeple will feel the same way about 12 gigs as they do now with 1 gig.
grayscare0
March 09, 2009 at 1:12pm
That seems excessive for a laptop. Who needs 12 GB of DDR3 RAM to go? My desktop does just fine with 2 GB DDR2. I guess if you have the money and feel the urge to run several virtual machines simultaneously you can.
grayscare0
March 09, 2009 at 7:27pm
Whoops, it's DDR2.
Still, I associate desktops with performance and laptops with efficiciency in order to conserve battery life and portability, not that there's anything wrong with having an extreme performance laptop.
johnny3144
March 09, 2009 at 2:04pm
if you want to do movie editing on the go, 12GB isn't excessive at all. and this isn't a laptop you will carry as supplement to your desktop, this will be your desktop replacement.
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