G1 vs V1JP

Hi everybody once again,

By the time when I decide what to by (and actually will by it), SantaRosa will probably come out It's not even funny. I was buying G1 today and my debit card got rejected... again! And it was the other card (!), plus american one... anyway, I rumble. God of notebooks doesn't like me I guess. So I got some time to think about this:

In terms of gaming power how does G1 and V1JP compare?
(any comments are welcome!)
In terms of everything else how these two laptops compare?

Thank you!

 

Asus G1 is slightly more powerful than the V1J in terms of gaming, because the NVIDIA GeForce 7700 is a little bit more better than the ATI Radeon X1700 in the V1JP.

The V1J has the better, sleeker build quality, and the webcam of it is nicer. The G1 is more gamer-oriented, and physically bigger in size, although both are 15.4 inch laptops.

I personally would pick the V1JP, because its sleeker, and the size is smaller than the G1. I wouldn't really mind the small difference in gaming power between them.

 

ill tell you what...

i own a G1

and I couldnt be happier...
































bottom line

 

They're two very different "styles" of laptops, if you would. The G1 is a gamer's laptop, and makes no effort to hide that. The carbon fiber chassis, green LEDs, highlighted WASD keys, and included MX518 give that away. The V1, meanwhile, is more of a businessman's laptop. It has a matte black finish, nice understated color scheme through out, it's lighter and thinner, and it has a hotswap modular bay.

If you can deal with ~2 hours of battery life, but need the absolute better gaming machine (even if the difference is only 5-10% get the G1. If you want more battery life (you can put a battery in the mod bay) and still want virtually equal graphics, get the V1. Just remember that the V1 is slightly more expensive and comes with only 1GB RAM.

 

There are many comparison threads of these 2 notebooks.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=95706&highlight=V1JP+G1+comparison

If your looking STRICTLY at gaming, the G1 offers more performance at roughly 5-10% more, and 2GB of ram, with a lower cost but a unique design which you may like.

The V1JP still offers great performance, flexibility, features and a great sleek design, if your interested in that, and odn't mind paying a little higher price, even though it only comes with 1GB of ram, then go for it.

The decision is ultimately yours, Santa Rosa laptops will still take some time for Asus to refresh and ship the notebooks to North America.

 

Thanx for all usefull responses guys!

Do you know, how loud V1 is? I heard it's pretty noisy laptop.

 

it is as quite as a laptop could get. anyone who thinks it is noise has hearing that rivals with a bat. same fan as g1 has and very similar thermal profile.

 

To be fair, the G1 has a larger chassis, which allows for slightly better ventilation, putting less overall strain on the fans. It's probably a little quieter, if not cooler.

 

The V1 is just about as loud as any other laptop. I think the thermal solution on the G1 is a bit better than the V1, though. The G1 is more of a gamer system whereas the V1 is more like a business system which "has the graphical capability if it needs it". In other words, the G1 must be designed to deal with sustained use, otherwise it'll be seeing the RMA department "RealSoon(tm)".

I also liked the way that ATI was pushing it as a potential subprocessor which can compress videos, but seeing how AMD bought ATI, I think that plan is going down the wayside...

My system has a tendency of hovering about 70C on load, but looking at the design, there doesn't seem to be any vents underneath like most other laptops.... so the air comes in and goes out only on the side... (also makes this Vantec laptop cooler I was planning on getting absolutely useless since it's a piece of plastic that sits underneath the laptop and has two fans built into it... )

The V1 looks remarkably similar to some of those new Dell Lattitude D620 and D820s we've been getting at work (different mouse pad with actual push buttons, no web cam, no fingerprint reader, ambient light sensor, different modular bay, has that stupid mouse joy-stick/thimble).

 

The intake for the V1 is on the bottom dude.

 

Actually, now that I look at it more closely, you're right, it does seem to have a small intake on the bottom and it feels like there's a small air current. I was wondering how the air would flow properly if it had been initially one port like I had thought earlier (it would cause the original hot air to recirculate or cause a dead spot like in older desktop towers).

The docking station elevates the system a bit and does have space which is labelled for ventillation in the manual, but if I put a fan in front of it, it doesn't seem to make a whole world of difference.

 

I see in the photos that there are 2 big air intakes on the bottom like mentioned..

Well I finally decided yesterday to get the V1.
I didn't have to sacrifice the ability to play games with the looks and size of the system..

Should see it next week.

I saw a G1 locally at Best Buy.
I'm not saying I didn't like it. It was a very nice computer.

But I swore to myself I wouldn't have a system as big as my Dell Inspiron 8000.
And physically the G1 was close but over a pound lighter.

What I was taken with though was the screen.
Every other system there was just fuzzy in comparison.
I Love crisp high resolution screens.

I looked at weight and size and saw that the V1 rivaled many 14" and it shared that gorgeous screen of the G1.

And the test scores gave the G1 a run for it's money so I was sold.

That was it then..

 

Pictorals are always good.



Left side where the black sticker is where the airflow exits.

Middle vents are the intake, GPU is directly underneath this vent. The air comes in through this vent, passes through the GPU and the CPU, then goes out the left side (well, right when it's right-side up ). People have been commenting about how it's a nice hand warmer in the colder months, it isn't far from the truth. It isn't scalding, just really warm under 100% load.

Right vent doesn't seem to do anything. The HDD is in this compartment. I don't feel much/any airflow from it when the CPU fan is running max, though it's good that there are some breathing holes so that the HDD doesn't slowly cook.

Link to picture thread comparing V1 and G1:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=1807434

 

I'm about to pull the trigger on either a V1Jp or F3Jp (both are windows XP version). I'm hearing all sorts of issues regarding the mobile X1700. Specifically driver issues for gaming. How do you update the drivers so you can game without issue?

 

Stick with the drivers from the CD that Asus provides, they work great, just recently there's a thread about a new Catalyst that will work without modification with the X1700.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=107078

 

I haven't had any issues while gaming. It's just slightly difficult to get the latest drivers some times.

 

Even though I like XP I went with Vista on the V1Jp I ordered.

I figured if it's horrible I will turn it back to XP with drivers that are proven.

BUT!!

It's the applications that come with the XP version that you would have issues with such as NERO and so on.. you would have to pay to upgrade versions if you went to Vista.

Eventually assimilation by Vista is inevitible so why not have compatible application support out of the box?