Ivy Bridge Quad-core, 16GB Ram, 2GB VGA in
hands
ROG G55VW is the newest gaming laptop model
that has just been introduced by ASUS in Computex Expo 2012. Features many
powerful hardware inside, that’s why ROG G55VW is very thick (51mm) and heavy
(3.8 kg including battery). The shell is not made completely by metal; the
upper side is using rough plastic, not the cheap plastic like normal model.
ROG
G55VW gaming laptop
All angles and other details are mostly
beveled, especially the cooler slot in the back. This cooler slot stretches
over the back side and is designed as the cooler slot of motorbike or
spacecraft. The left side and right side has loads of connection port,
including USB 3.0, HDMI, LAN, MIC, S/D DIF, VGA and a high speed Thunderbolt
port. The memory card slot is in the front.
Open the screen, you will notice that the
keyboard seems to be embossed compared to the palm rest, it’s not hollowed
inward like normal laptop but raised out of the shell, which makes us feel more
comfortable when pressing a key, especially in fighting games, soccer games or
strategy games, which requires a lot more operations with the keyboard than
with a mouse. The space between keys is fairly wide, although the keys are lack
of feedback but in overall, you can feel pretty good when typing with the
keyboard.
A metal plate is lined under the keyboard
to prevent the keyboard from warping after a long period of time. Above the
keyboard are the speaker, a power button is in the left corner, next to it is a
special printed ROG button. This button has the ability to turn on/off the 3D
gaming function of the laptop, using 3D vision from NVIDIA.
Below the keyboard is the touchpad which
operates smoothly and quietly. The left and right mouse button is very easy to
click. The palm rest is neither made from metal nor plastic, it’s covered by a
soft material, very smooth and rough and less finger print stick.
The screen of G55VW is 15.6” and support
full HD resolution. The screen provides a very good quality of images, very
bright and colorful. However, the viewing angle is pretty low so the image
quality will be discolored if viewing from different angles.
That
means this laptop can perform not only gaming but also entertainment and
graphic.
According to ASUS, they do integrate one
sub speaker inside G55VW but turn out the bass is still weak and perform not
very clearly. The sound quality in overall is good, very loud and clear.
For the system, G55VW is very powerful with
Ivy bridge quad core i7 2.6 GHz CPU, VGA card 660M with 2GB VRAM and especially
16 GB of Ram. That means this laptop can perform not only gaming but also
entertainment and graphic.
System spec
OS: Windows 7
CPU: Intel Ivy Bridge Core i7-3720QM, quad
core, 2.6GHz
RAM: 16GB DDR3 1600MHz (4-slot)
Display: 15.6" Full-HD
VGA: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M, 2GB VRAM
HDD: 1TB
SSD: 128GB placed on mSATA slot for
boosting the speed of booting the laptop, can’t be seen in windows Explore
Blu-ray driver
Memory card reader
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, VGA, HDMI, MIC,
S/PDIF, 4 x USB 3.0, LAN
Battery: 8-cell 5200mAh
Size: 384 x 299 x 20 ~ 51 mm
Weight: 3.8 kg
