The ASUS G70, a Gaming Notebook that Some Would Die For

The Asus G70 is essentially a scaled down version of what ASUS promised us quite a while ago. We were initially promised up to 8GB of RAM, now we get 4GB, which is more than enough for most gaming scenarios that you are likely to encounter in this day and age. It rocks a pair of GeForce 8800M cards in SLI. The standard configuration will give you 400GB of storage. Sound is supplied by Altec Lansing who have managed to build in stereo speakers and a subwoofer.

I am not quite ready to jump on this whole gaming notebook bandwagon. All of the components that are jammed into them make them extremely heavy and you can forget about battery time. I understand that some people view them as desktop replacements, but I have to say, I like having a desktop. Desktops are easy to tinker with yourself, whereas with laptops things become a lot more complicated. Dropping the max down to 4GB of RAM is not really an issue for today's applications. It is a beast of a notebook, but I have to say it is not for me.

Sources: SlashGear, PC Launches