yes, my g55 has one thing you described, too: brightness resets to 100% when starting/stopping games or even when I open ASUS Smart Gesture - yes; i just noticed that after reading this post (i always at 100% brightness).
i don't use touchpad so no comment. i'm using via 6.0.10.1200, it looks fine to me.
as for bios; i'm still running 209. my experience with bios is somewhat different from you; it boots nicely for usb (i always do usb fresh installs). i used default settings (just press esc key during post and select from menu). yeah it's somewhat cryptic, but that's fine for me. i don't have the chance to use 214 ad up, yet.they cause frozen power button. but that's fine. my machine running 209 is good enough.
i'm running w8 pro; i installed only a few drivers (intel chipset, rst, via, atk, touchpad, nvidia gfx, atheros lan and wifi; most of them are directly from vendors not ASUS). it's running fine.
maybe i'm relatively more tolerable to things hehe..
i don't use touchpad so no comment. i'm using via 6.0.10.1200, it looks fine to me.
as for bios; i'm still running 209. my experience with bios is somewhat different from you; it boots nicely for usb (i always do usb fresh installs). i used default settings (just press esc key during post and select from menu). yeah it's somewhat cryptic, but that's fine for me. i don't have the chance to use 214 ad up, yet.they cause frozen power button. but that's fine. my machine running 209 is good enough.
i'm running w8 pro; i installed only a few drivers (intel chipset, rst, via, atk, touchpad, nvidia gfx, atheros lan and wifi; most of them are directly from vendors not ASUS). it's running fine.
maybe i'm relatively more tolerable to things hehe..
yeah, it sounded like that to me, too: for casual gamers; not even for light modding 😕
there is one thing i feel sad about my g55: the inaccessible msata port.
i have to admit that in my country, the work quality of most ASUS service centers suck. big time. there were too many cases (with images as proofs) where the users sent their defective units in, and after a few months later got returned, with old problems not fixed, and some new problems as bonus 😕 it's really no fun at all.
yes, relatively ASUS produces better builds compared to other brands. however, what is equally important are still good after-sales/technical supports that make the customers feel confident and stay. where i come from other brands have not-so-good products, they have better supports.
there is one thing i feel sad about my g55: the inaccessible msata port.
i have to admit that in my country, the work quality of most ASUS service centers suck. big time. there were too many cases (with images as proofs) where the users sent their defective units in, and after a few months later got returned, with old problems not fixed, and some new problems as bonus 😕 it's really no fun at all.
yes, relatively ASUS produces better builds compared to other brands. however, what is equally important are still good after-sales/technical supports that make the customers feel confident and stay. where i come from other brands have not-so-good products, they have better supports.
c_man wrote:
Well, Asus made the G55 and even G75 not friendly at all. I like them as they as very cool, keep up performance very good and that is about it. Might not look like much, but when you get a laptop with some firepower and notice that after a few minutes it will only do base clocks for CPU, you will hammer it even if brightness works well.
Asus has some BIOS problems. Well, even the BIOS itself is not exactly the same on all G55. And the way it was made (some just bricked their laptops doing safe in BIOS updates) is beyond me. Why not use a decent set-up.
USB boot is a pain. So much sometimes I want to smash mine into pieces. After some time I've stopped using it.
On G55 the keyboard sounds are strange since it looks about the some with the G75 (and that one is OK for me). What's different?
The brightness is old news and I think it's more of a system problem.
The screen turning off is from a beta BIOS I've tested some time ago, I wonder how it got to the final version on a user unit.
The speaker system is just a bad hardware design and it will never work. They do try to keep it under control as much as possible.
Asus Smart anything does not work.
ah.. the usb problem; i forgot about it because i have developed a habit to plug only thumb drives to the port that windows has never shown safe removal icon. i use windows explorer to eject them.
