G5/G7 with GTX 670M or even 680M in the future?

Anyone care to comment on this?
GTX 460M and even 560M are good performers, but for bf3 could be better.
I know MSI offers GTX 570M in some of their gaming laptops, why not ASUS too?

What do you think? GTX 670M or even 680M for the next iteration or not?

 

The problem is all the same. With Asus it has been always a pain regarding the gpu-matter since the G1S came out.

They keep on using proprietary interfaces and layouts, gpu cannot be upgraded, just replaced.

With their last product, they even surpassed themselves: build the whole gpu in the motherboard (g74sx).

No matter what others can say to defend the system, its utterly stupid.

Also as you said, both 560m and 460m are slightly becoming the bottleneck. BF3, Skyrim, Witcher 2, they all struggles with performance.

MSI is half way. It doesnt use a proprietary card, the layout is the same as alienware and clevos, they use however a custom vbios. But ive been reading of succesful upgrades...at least you can attempt to DO something.

And the 570m is really a good card, a league above the 560m or 460m. Its derivated from the older 480m, with comparable performance, trust me its not a bad thing.

Probably asus will refresh G53-74 next year with gtx660m and 670m. 680m would be the successor of 580m, which is basically a no go for asus right now.

Lets hope for goodness sake that they start using proper full cards instead of building 2 version of each machine, crippling the specs like hell.

Theres no real reason to have 2 versions of the 73 imho. Also i hate the fact that bestbuy rips off the customers with their downgraded monitor and crappy gpu.

 

I heard Kepler will have reduced thermal envelope so in theory GTX 670M would have to be under the current GTX 570M 75W TDP (GTX 560M has 72W TDP)

One could always hope. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. You hear ASUS?

 

Asus doesn't have a problem with TDP, they just avoid expensive cards.

 

After owning an MSI and Asus, I don't plan on going back to Asus again unless they change their GPU setup. At the current all Asus models are at a disadvantage with their weaker GPUs, and the fact that it is a PITA to upgrade if you're even successful. MSI does have custom vbios on their stock cards, but at least with my model the upgrade to a 6990m, was MOSTLY simple as plug and play. Both Clevo and Dell bios works fine, I am using a Dell card. Everything works as it should, even better than Dell M15x owners who made the upgrade and didn't have fan control. Other MSI models have been upgraded to 6990m and 6970m, and now some users are upgrading to GTX 580m.

 

The problem with MSI, the only one I can think of, is that it has too much bling for my taste (read: it has bling.)