Review: ASUS G70s: The most powerful ASUS notebook (English)

Overall Analysis

After these days enjoying this machine and left the initial astonishment, especially after having seen it for real during CeBIT and to be able to work with such an exceptional device I have realized that G70s does not introduce anything exceptional talking about hardware. There are similar notebooks from other manufacturers that use these components to reach very similar results. The G70s does not introduce any component or piece that makes it revolutionary but the way it’s built, the end and its design is an example for all its competence.

The G70s is for me the high-end PC, in notebook format, best designed of the market. Its cooling system is exceptional and revolutionary changing the standards to become a less hot PC and also more quiet than the similar products of the competence.

The use of shapes, forms and materials is also a great work of the ASUS engineers. I can understand why ASUS was that proud of showing at CeBIT its new creation having this model as a new step in its innovation capacity. They have built a beautiful machine that even not surprising for its components, it makes possible the use of high performance components for notebooks in an amazing inside and outside format.

There is nothing perfect anyway and the G70s is a great way to begin where Asus should keep working to at least be at the performance, components and price levels of their competence. It’s true that Asus can get inside this war with this product but this prototype has still some weak points that its spectacular nature may not be able balance when trying to catch a very exigent public.

I don’t believe in gaming notebooks, I’ve never understood them, but not only the new ones, any notebook that has a dedicated graphic card that it is generally obsolete before we buy it talking about the graphic performance they can develop in games. These all PCs sold with 8600GT and similar graphic cards, at least for the level I require to play a game, can’t offer enough performance. The notebook graphic card are quite limited but the use of 2 high end graphic cards like the new 8700GT seems that can compensate the decrease in features in from a desktop to a notebook computer and lets us have a good experience playing some of the latest games. It is a bit short performance anyway for 1920x1200 pixels screen that come with these devices and maybe in some cases we can find frustrating the fact of having such a high quality and definition screen and not be able to completely enjoy it. Watch the video below to see how it moves the UT3 at 1920x1200 pixels.

Conclusion

This new Asus G70s is with no doubts an extraordinary machine not followed by the hardware available currently. Its quality in the building and its details in the design, its great cooling system, the mastery in the use of materials quite complex to be used to build a computer balance the fact that the hardware for notebooks is very far from the hardware for desktop computers, talking about features and performance.

Furthermore, these components are much more expensive than their similar in desktop what increases the price of these machines up to points only few users can reach. The Asus G70s is a dream for anyone that really like computers, a computer to boast about, but it still doesn’t cover the real expectations of what an expert gamer looks for like care about the game requirements and enjoy them without the cost being a mission impossible.

It’s a pity that a computer that well made like this G70s don’t use the hardware it deserves and it’s also a pity that only a few will be able to reach it. 2700 Euros is a price that puts it in a point where only the ones with their pockets full, and I don’t think this identifies the gaming enthusiasts, will be able to reach it. This kind of things are the ones that are making that more and more gamers leave the PC and use consoles because the industry have confused the gamer with someone that is ready to spend whatever needed to be able to play when normally is the opposite because its generally young people that know the technology and know that can have the same with a lower price.

I hope my critics to the industry in general, what in the end Asus depends of like Dell or Alienware to build their computers, don’t put you off this PC that is destined to become a reference in a high-end market where very few can compete with quality products.