Asus Gaming Laptops - BF3 Ready?

I've been looking for a gaming laptop but the biggest thing holding me up is the release of BF3. Are there any current Asus laptops that would be up to task? I haven't done my own research and have been looking to custom built gaming laptops like Xotic and other customer makers to get a mild feel for pricing. I stopped by my local electronics store and they were selling a G74 for 1100 which I thought was a decent price but specs didn't look like they'd hold up to BF3 very well.

Portability isn't a factor here so weight and size aren't issues to me. I just want something fast that will run BF3 well. Am I looking in the wrong direction? Should I continue looking at customer laptop makers?

 

no laptop can be ready for something that is not out yet... with the specs...

Besides,
A fully capable aptop, would be one equipped with a sandy bridge + 485, 470, 6970, 6990 or 580.

What about G73/G74? with our 720qm (or the good sandy bridge) and 5870/560?

We will play it just fine, probably not at max setting though, something in between high and medium.

So, yeah, check out if the g74 you saw for such a low price is the real thing, or if it has some downgraded GPU (128 instead of 192 bit), screen and so on.

The G74 should be more than capable to play BF3 on Highish settings, with a decent frame rate (above 30fps).

 

True, but the alpha was released and some folks had a chance to play it. Though, maybe not on a notebook so I understand where you're coming from. I guess I'm just getting impatient because I'd like a laptop now. I can always wait until after it's released to see what comes out then. But here's the laptop. It was 1199 so I was a bit off.

Here's a link:

Asus - Laptop / Intel® Core™ i7 Processor / 17.3" Display / 8GB Memory / 1TB Hard Drive - Black - G74SX-BBK7

Quick and dirty:

Intel® Core™ i7-2630QM processor
Features a 6MB L3 cache and 2.0GHz processor speed with Turbo Boost up to 2.9GHz.

8GB DDR3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M

 

Be warned that Best Buy g-series asus laptops usually have video cards and screens that aren't as good as asus you can find elsewhere.

Usually the video card is 1 gb instead of 1.5 gb. And the price doesn't look that good anyway.

 

For sure my g53sw was BF3 Alpha Ready.
I was playing with high settings at 1080p with framerates around 26-35.
If I drop the res to 900p I was able to stay above 30 without much problems.

Now you have to consider two factors:

- the alpha code didn't have graphic options at all. It was not optimized at all, the engine suffered from glitches and slowdowns even on powerful systems like my desktop.

- nvidia drivers weren't bf3 ready when the alpha came out. Only newer 280.xx had some optimized performance and tweaks for it, but they came out after the alpha ended.
In September we should have a closed beta, so I'm expecting that this time the graphic engine is more flexible and optimized. So this + better nvidia drivers = win.

Now I think that the second point can be applied to Ati's as well, but I didn't tracked how much the drivers were doing with BF3 alpha.