ASUS G51? When is it Going to be Out?

Ok well, i found this future laptop, the successor to G50vt series, named the ASUS G51. It looks quite cool and i wondering firstly, is it legit? And secondly, when will it be available?

It looks mighty fine, i love the cool looking design and it will be a direct competitor to the Sager NP8662, which i hope it will exceed. It has all the great features from the G50vt but with a new Quadcore support, new design, backlit keyboard and most importantly, NVIDIA GTX 260m with 1GB GDDR3!!!

Here is a specs list.



Features

* Futuristic Robot New Chassis Design
o The concept behind the Futuristic robot new chassis is inspiration in part of gamers’ abstract universe, directly inspired by science fiction movies (I-robot, Matrix, etc.). The design mixes pure white high glossy shells with grey sharp mechanical details to conjure a sci-fi feel and tone to the entire notebook.
* Gaming-Centric Digital Entertainment Experience
o The ASUS G51 notebook is the perfect showcase of pure audio and visual supremacy. Sporting a generous 15.6-inch HD LED backlit 3D display with a 16:9 golden aspect ratio, and complemented with an immensely powerful NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 260M with DDR3 1G VRAM graphics, G51 users can experience intense visual processing power, vivid virtual reality gaming and multimedia experience. Complementing this visual extravaganza are two Altec Lansing® speakers with Dolby® Home Theater, and EAX 3D surround sound support for high definition audio enjoyment. What’s more, along with Intel® Core
o Duo processors and DDR2 800GHz up to 4GB main memory, the processing capability of G51 is unbeatable. G51 also takes good care of users’ games and videos storage needs to offer dual SATA hard disk drive up to 1 TB which equals to almost 212 pieces of DVD. G51 uncompromising quality provides gamers with supreme gaming-centric digital entertainment experience.
* High Performance Mobile Gaming Weapon
o Get more out of the G51 with performance boosts via CPU Level-up. It allows you to turn up the heat against your opponents by overclocking your CPU up to 20%, greatly increasing your system performance. Also, with ASUS Super Hybrid Engine Technology the ASUS G51 also intelligently manages your power usage, providing you with performance when you need it, and conserving energy when you don’t. Outlast your opponents and reign supreme with a these features at your disposal.
* Interactive Gaming Designs
o G51 has integrated gaming designs that are meant to interact with users. Game the night away without missing a beat with the illuminated chiclet keyboard to aid you in your quest, even when it gets dark. Highlighted 4-way direction keys add quicker accessibility that is necessary for the game victory. Interactive lighting modes also give users an extra visual impact when using it. For users’ convenience, the touch sensor hotkeys turns on and off the ASUS Power4 Gear software. A 3D panel and touchpad lock give even more control to users pertaining to gaming performance and power-saving efficiency.

Specifications

* Processor & Cache Memory:
o Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q9100/ Q9000, 2.26-2 GHz
o Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T9900/ T9800/ T9600/ P9600/ T9550/ P9500/ T9400/ P8800/ P8700/ P8600/ P8400/ P7450/ T6600/ T6400, 3.06-2 GHz
* Operating System : Geniune Windows Vista® Ultimate/Premium/Business
* Chipset : Intel PM45 + ICH9M
* Main Memory: DDR2 800MHz up to 4GB
* Display :
o 15.6" FHD/HD LED LCD
o 15.6" HD LED 3D Panel
o 16" HD LED/CCFL LCD
* Video Graphics & Memory: NVidia™ GeForce GTX 260M with GDDR3 1GB VRAM
* Hard Drive: Dual SATA support up to 1TB (500GB X 2, 7200rpm)
* Optical Drive: Super-Multi /Super-Multi Light Scribe /Blue-Ray ODD
* Video Camera (optional): Built-in 2 M Pixel camera
* Dimension & Weight: 375x 265 x 34.3~40.6 mm, 3.3kg with 6 cell battery & 1 HDD

 

I noticed a typo, it says 800 GHz which should be either 800MHz or 0.8GHz. This seems to question the reliability of the website.

 

The G51 is legit, however price and availability is not yet set for the US market AFAIK.

Asus themselves often release official specs with typos.

 

o...WOW, I'm so happy. This is the perfect machine for me, except im worrying about the battery life. Well i hope this laptop has a pricing like the G50vt currently. I hope it doesnt exceed 1700USD...I cant wait for this awesome laptop.

 

How does this one compare to the VT-B1? I don't care about quad and I don't see the 260m being much better then the 9800m.

 

The GTX 260M = 9800M GTX with higher clock frequencies.
Compared to the 9800M GS, the GTX 260M will be a fair bit better, but also use a fair bit more power (9800M GS uses 60watts; 260M uses 75 watts)

 

Yes, I'm wondering how much the GTX 260m will affect the battery life. This is my only major concern regarding the technical specifications of this laptop. BTW, Quad cores will really start to make an impact later down in the road when more quad core supported programs start rolling out. As for the GTX 260m, it provides around 10K-11K in 3Dmark 06 while 9800m GS provides around 8K-9.5K.

 

I compared my Cousin's np8662 with a 2.6 ghz cpu and a 260m gpu to my x5 and many games remained in the same fps range. Games like Cod:WaW and tf2 were the same fps wise. His 3dmark06 score was 10260. So with an added faster cpu, a laptop with a 9800m gts can keep up quite well.

 

Yeah I'm starting to think a 260m won't make too much of a difference compared to the 9800m GS-- maybe take the edge off some lower framerates, but that's about it. I don't think it'll be worth upgrading from a G50vt, especially for the price range of the Best Buy series (X1 and X5) and considering the 9800m GS can be flashed to GTS clocks.

I am excited to see that it supports quadcores, though. If it's possible to get the BIOS to work on current G50's, that'd be awesome. And then when Nehalem gets through to notebooks, we'll have even cheaper Core 2 Quads...

 

260m is at most 25% more powerful than 9800m GS. The only issue will be that the battery time reduced and the increase in GPU temp. My guess is the price will be around 2000USD for a 260m with quad core.

 

Well, I dont really know what pipelines translate to in real life but the 9800m GS has 64 while the GTX 260m has 112. Is that a significant difference?

 

Well the GTX260M is more powerful, but it's not a groundbreaking difference. As said, the GTX260M is a 9800M GTX with higher clocks. It'll provide a boost most definitely however. You'd probably have to stretch both GPUs to the limit to really notice however and there are perhaps a handful of games which can really stress a 9800M GS/GTS that bad at decent settings(not max, just decent). GTA4 might become a good game though if this has Quad support

Battery life won't be very high though unless they stick a 9 cell >.>

 

a nvidia hybrid sli power would be nice

 

the 260m runs cooler, from my experience with someone who i know's np8662 who has one in it, runs at 74C gaming.

 

That's a good amount cooler. My graphics card flashed to a Geforce 9800M GTS runs at 81c while gaming. Although I'm not a big fan of upgrading a ton of parts on my laptop I don't mind upgrading the GPU to the Geforce GTX 260M.

I'm keeping my eye on this site since it has the most ASUS notebook components:
http://www.asusparts.eu/index.php?cPath=67674

 

Keep in mind that the lower temps on the 260M is probably because of the larger heatsink in the NP8662 which provides better heat transfer efficiency than the Asus G50 series. Though the GTX 260M uses the a newer G92b core, the fact that it's running at higher clocks = more heat produced.

 

I do hope that the G51 isn't any bigger than the G50 however. The G50 is already pretty darn huge for a 15" notebook >.>

 

now we just need a date.

 

ahaha we all love the Moore law

 

In my opinion the G50 is outdated gaming wise (though good for the current market prices) and the higher end models are overpriced at the not so expensive (For the manufacturer that is) upgrades they offer. I think what I paid for myne was okay and that the X6 at new eggs current price of 1200 is all they should cost. The main thing your paying for is a warranty on top of a stripped down model like myne. The screens and bluray drives, especially the bluetooth modules don't cost retail price to asus.

Seeing the picture of the G51 makes me want to paint and vinyl this and seeing the spec's has got me thinking about the possible refreshes of the G70/71 series and my next laptop in 2 years.

I am definitely psyched about what will be available in 2-3 years. I want quad core, blu-ray, and im guessing the Nvidia 300M series will hit ASUS by then since they arent that far off already (year i think).

 

wow. this is the first time I've seen this bad boy. I have to know when it is coming out, it may be my college computer.

 

I can't give anyone an exact date, but they will be out soon... definitely before the start of the coming fall semester.

 

i sure hope so. This looks like the perfect 15" laptop ASUS has built to date. It competes with all high tier 15" gaming laptops and i would say its a better choice than the Sager 8662. But then again, it hasn't even been released so what would i know???