Asus G1 Review
The Asus G1 is a mid priced 15-inch laptop in aimed at the gamer. Most gaming laptops come with a big price tag, but the G1 does not. Cnet have a review of the G1, and say, “Measuring 14 inches wide, 11.2 inches deep, and 1.6 inches high, the Asus G1 sits somewhere between the mainstream and desktop replacement classes of laptops. The physical measurements and 15.4-inch display say mainstream, while the sheer weight edges into the desktop replacement category–meaning this system is best set up on a semipermanent perch in your office, dorm, or computer room.”
The Asus G1 is a fixed configuration system, with a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 CPU, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, and a 160GB 5,400RPM hard drive. While that’s a decent set of specs for mainstream gaming, multimedia, and productivity use, moving up to a Core 2 Duo T7600, as in the Dell XPS M1710 or WidowPC Sting 517D, yielded clearly superior scores in CNET Labs’ Multitasking, iTunes encoding, and Photoshop CS2 tests.
The system did, however, shine in our MobileMark battery life test, running for 3 hours, 31 minutes, using the included six-cell battery. That’s about 30 minutes more than the Dell XPS M1710 and more than an hour longer than the WidowPC. For gaming on the go, decent battery life could be considered more important than the fastest frame rates.