clockworksatan wrote:
Anyway - my gripe relates to the NVidia Shadowplay button and the rather pointless (in my opinion) Steam and macro keys. Having a key directly above the Esc key is a big no-no for me as I've hit it by accident so many times.

steam and shadowplay keys being where the "esc" key should be is a design problem for me too. Luckily in 4 months it newer bothered me to much, exept for the occasional videos I did unvillingly in games-desktop 😉
Sound (as in soundcard) is good in this laptop. What sucks are the low quality speakers! It's not a "software" problem like so many keep reinstalling new Realtek drivers every other day, it's a "mechanical" problem related to spealkers.

Why the Asus bashing?

I personally think the G751JL is an astounding notebook, even though my brand new 1 week old one has bricked on me.
Sometime electronics / software breaks. I will let you all know how the Asus Support Process goes for me.

I compared the G751JL to everything else I could find on the market for the same price point in the UK and there is nothing that even comes close.
I benchmarked it and the figures are very impressive. The build quality and cooling is much better than anything else I have seen for the same price.
From shots of the laptop internals this notebook is really well engineered.

In my experience so far, Asus make absolutely great products.
I have built two High performance PCs with Z87 Deluxe Dual and Z97 Deluxe Motherboards and the features on those are brilliant.
I also own an Asus Tranformer TF101 which was a great innovation and another family member has an Asus Transformer Infinity.
Both of these Android Tablets have been reliable and the TF101 still works and meets my needs for an Android Tablet many years after purchase.

Having said all of the above what do I think would have been nice to see on the G751JL or slightly higher priced option?

- Switchable Graphics / Nvidia Optimus to extend battery life when not gaming.
- Some form of CMOS reset button / function and CMOS battery and removable CMOS chip access from the hard drive bay / memory stick panel. Since use of Intel XTU seems to be encouraged, overclocking can go wrong. It would be nice to be able to recover from corrupted BIOS without having to go inside the Notebook.
- Ability to remove the Fans from the bottom of the laptop for cleaning to avoid removing all of the screws and rear and keyboard panels.
- Maybe a choice of extra keyboard lighting for some extra ££/$$/whatever.
- Some explanation about why the battery is not supposed to be removed. I would like to remove the battery if I were upgrading RAM / HDD.
- Ability to choose if the Steam Key starts Steam in Big Picture mode or normal mode.
- Ability to disable the Steam Key, Shadow Play key and Macro Keys.

I think the Audio on the G751JL I bought in the U.K. is very good especially if you use the Audio Software. I cannot speak for other models of the G751.