Personally, I would have preferred to have the connectors pushed towards the back of the laptop, especially those on the left edge, as this implementation means that cables will get in your way more often than you’d want if you plan on connecting peripherals like an external monitor. Only some of the LEDs have cuts on the edge though, most of them have very subtle ones just beneath the trackpad, in order to make them as less intrusive as possible. There’s also a card-reader and some status LEDs on the front lip. You’ll find a good selection of ports on the sides, including 4 USBs, HDMI, Mini-DisplayPort and LAN connectors, but also an optical drive (a Blu-Ray combo on this model). It weighs 3.3 kilos and is about 1.5 inches thick, but at the same time it is solid built, so it should not mind being lugged around to LAN parties if you can live with the extra heft. That aside, the G771 is rather massive and large. All these are sprinkled with a few bright red elements, like the chamfered edge that stretches around the lower body and the backlit Republic of Gamers logo on the hood. However, the G771 sports a black theme, with dark textured aluminum covering the hood, dark matte metal used for the interior and dark rough plastic for the sides and the underbelly. This laptop borrows plenty of design elements from Asus’s N family, including the overall shape, the choice in materials, the keyboard and the trackpad. Red backlit keyboard, stereo speakers, Blu-Ray combo Integrated Intel 4600 HD + Nvidia GeForce GTX 860M 4GB GDDR5ĤxUSB, SD card reader, HDMI, mini-DisplayPort, RJ45, Kensington LockĤ18 mm or 16.8 in (L) x 284 mm or 11.1 in (W) x 37 mm or 1.45 in (H) Asus G771JW video reviewġ7.3 inch, 1920 x 1080 px resolution, IPS, matte We have the top configured Asus G771JW for this test and since it has not been officially launched yet, we are dealing with a pre-production model, but from what I can tell after playing with it for the last week or so, it’s pretty much similar to the final releases that you’d be able to buy soon. But I’ve decided to host the review here anyways, as it’s a new and interesting product that should be available in stores in a few weeks and should have a fairly affordable pricetag. The G771 is by no means an ultrabook or even an ultra-portable, as it lacks the silhouette and the hardware required to get the “title”.
In reality though, despite getting the ROG branding, the G771 is imh mostly a complete multimedia computer with some gaming abilities and a follow-up of last year’s N750 series ( which I also tested back in the days), as you’ll find from this review. The name suggests that it is, first of all, a 17 inch laptop, and then, a gaming machine, member of Asus’s G line (also known as Republic of Gamers).