ASUS G51J-A1 15.6-Inch Blue Gaming Laptop (Windows 7 Home Premium) | 
| Brand: Asus
Category: Personal Computer
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 1031
Color: Blue
Media: Personal Computers
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
CPU Manufacturer: Intel
CPU Speed: 1.6
CPU Type: Intel Core i7
Processors: 1
System Memory: 4
Memory Type: SDRAM
Hard Drive Size: 640
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Graphics RAM: 1
Modem: None
Display Size: 15.6
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.3
Dimensions (in): 14.6 x 10.3 x 1.6
Warranty: 2 years warranty
MPN: G51J-A1
Model: G51J-A1
UPC: 884840511472
EAN: 0884840511472
ASIN: B002PAQXCW
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| Features:
| • | 1.6GHz Intel i7-720QM Core i7 Processor | | • | 4GB of DDR3 RAM, 2 slots, 4GB Max | | • | 640GB SATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM), DVD SuperMulti Drive | | • | 15.6-Inch Widescreen Full HD LCD Display, NVidia GTX 260M Graphics with 1GB DDR3 VRAM | | • | Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit), Gaming Backpack and Gaming Mouse Included |
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Product Description
G51 offers users a completely new class of physical gaming interaction for a more realistic and dynamic experience.speeds, as well as enhanced multimedia enjoyment.The ASUS G51 is equipped with an illuminating chiclet keyboard, which intelligently detects its environment for dimmed lighting conditions, and enables gamers to control the brightness of the keyboard to cater to their needs. It provides gamers an added advantage over their opponent, and allows them to continue to dominate even in the dark, such as an all-nighter LAN party environment.Sporting 'racing flames' on it's lid, the ASUS G51J epitomizes the spirit of both aggressive gaming, as well as the desire for speed.
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Great gaming laptop November 21, 2009
R. Baker (Waltham, MA)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
A very excellent gaming laptop for the money. Sure, it's not as fast as a dedicated desktop gaming rig, but for a portable one it's hard to beat. My only complaint would be the LCD is somewhat washed out which appears to be from the LED's in the top of the lid. Notice when the rig is asleep and the screen raised, one can see bleedthrough from the blinking LED in logo. Not a big deal, but if I had one complaint, that would be it. Also, much to my surprise this thing stays pretty cool to the touch. I expected it to get extremely hot, but it doesn't. The air coming out of the left side is very hot, but to touch the laptop remains cool. You can actually play games on this for hours without baking your hands and face off.
Pros:
* Great performance for the price
* ASUS provides an awesome warranty and accidental protection for this, so you can take it to a lan-party and not worry
* Plays Dragon Age, Torchlight, Empire Total War, LFD1, Warhammer: DOW2, OFP2: Dragon Rising, MSFlight X, Demigod, all extremely well at native res
* World of Warcraft runs beautifully at native res!
* Keyboard functions well and has adjustable illumination
* Relatively quiet for a gaming laptop
* i7 processor is blazingly fast
* HDMI and VGA output means this can be used to game on a TV (keep lid open!)
* Included mouse and bag are both excellent and high quality
* Totally reliable, no crashes even after hours of playing
Cons:
* The LED lights in the lid can bleed through into the LCD
* ARMA2 runs very poorly
* 260M graphics card slightly underclocked on this model
* Cannot be used to game on an external monitor with lid closed (not really unexpected though)
Awesome Machine October 28, 2009
P. M. Loper (Columbus, OH USA)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
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:
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-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
excelent nuy December 20, 2009
G. Gastelum (cheeseville wi)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This laptop is cream of the crop, quality of build, components and style. There is only one downfall to this laptop and it is only because of the hardware power this laptop puts out. What else can you do when your have a gtx 260 and and icore processor, the battery is always gonna suck. Did buy the 9 cell battery for this laptop at a steal online and now i get a combined 5-6 hours on both batteries if needed! Great laptop, plays counterstike source at 200fps, modern warfare II runs like a champ, and crysis can actually be maxed out and runs very smooth, very suprised for a laptop of this price, when an alienware is double for changing lights and 2 more pounds of weight. Overall great gaming laptop, you wont be dissappointed
Awesome Gaming Laptop January 28, 2010
Dave (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've had this laptop for about 4 months now and I love it. It plays all my CnC games on the highest video settings and plays very smooth. I love having two hard drives so I can keep backups on one. I also use virtual pc's and they work great on Window's 7 64bit. I can have a vpc running with Sql Server working on SSIS/SSAS packages and leave it running while I switch over to war gaming for the night. Best laptop I've owned so far including Alienware which costs almost twice as much if you configure it like this one.
 Love this machine.... October 26, 2009
Jose H. Mariscal
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
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?!??
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