G46VW Designer Interview: Everything About The New 14-inch ROG Gaming Notebook

[Mankz]

We sat down with G46 designer, Tony, from the ASUS Design Team to throw him some questions on ROG’s new 14″ addition to its gaming notebooks.

http://rog.asus.com/199032013/g-seri...ming-notebook/

[Myk SilentShadow]

Nice interview, it's good to see a face behind the product!!!

Though I do have one question and i'm surprised it hasn't escaped the lips of any Windows 8 Preloaded Laptop User...as far as I have seen, my question is this:

We've seen the current RoG Motherboards come out with the DirectKey, to be used for cold boot directly into the BIOS, or even from within Windows 8 its self to get access to the BIOS...why haven't any of the laptops yet, been equipped with such a button to allow users fast and easy access to their BIOS?

[dclanz]

Very nice, although I am curious about the G47 (when it is released) this one (G46VW) is a keeper for a few years well!

[t0bi]

I would like to know when will be available the G46 with a 900p display

[pongkie]

All G46 ship with Windows 8, so was there any accommodation in design to the new OS?

Tony: One thing we see in Windows 8 is the addition of touchscreens to use the modern UI. But gamer’s don’t need a touchscreen at all – it’s all keyboard and mouse, or sometimes a specific USB controller for driving or flying games – so we deliberately left it out of the design.

I disagree about this one. Having a touch screen is an advantage for a gaming laptop in design. actually its another opportunity how to redesign a gaming laptop especially for windows 8.

By having a touch screen ASUS ROG can make a gaming laptop without a touch/track pad and use the touchscreen instead in navigating around the system. I've never seen someone use a touch pad for gaming anyway but why is it there? So that logic should not be used against touch screens.

Without a touch pad there will be space for programmable gaming keys!!!!! hence making a ROG laptop more of a gaming laptop not just a laptop with insane specs. Just remove the touch pad bring the standard qwerty keyboard down a bit and put programmable keys above it. Also without the track pad eating much space designers can put a second screen in between the programmable keys.

I hope ASUS ROG would consider something like this in the future.

[Spidey]

I would like to know when will be available the G46 with a 900p display

Yup, waiting on that as well.

[Lordvader]

I would like to know when will be available the G46 with a 900p display

I want to know this too

[gokica]

Since gaming is related to good sound quality ASUS should try and make improvements in this field.

Edit: also I do not think that Intel wireless adapter will add much to the price (if possible).

[Tomislav]

I disagree about this one. Having a touch screen is an advantage for a gaming laptop in design. actually its another opportunity how to redesign a gaming laptop especially for windows 8.

By having a touch screen ASUS ROG can make a gaming laptop without a touch/track pad and use the touchscreen instead in navigating around the system. I've never seen someone use a touch pad for gaming anyway but why is it there? So that logic should not be used against touch screens.

Without a touch pad there will be space for programmable gaming keys!!!!! hence making a ROG laptop more of a gaming laptop not just a laptop with insane specs. Just remove the touch pad bring the standard qwerty keyboard down a bit and put programmable keys above it. Also without the track pad eating much space designers can put a second screen in between the programmable keys.

I hope ASUS ROG would consider something like this in the future.

This is an interesting point, ASUS could get really creative with this. Also it would be cool to use a bit of touch screens for modern PC gaming, like for maps or inventory. I think it's not a feature that should be so easily made redundant for a gaming notebook.

[e3zkiel]

I would like to know when will be available the G46 with a 900p display

Me too! This is the only thing holding me back from ordering this bad boy...