ASUS Intros G71Gx with GeForce 260M

ASUS Intros G71Gx with GeForce 260M

ASUS introduced a new laptop to its G-series gaming notebooks, the G71Gx. It features the new Nvidia GeForce 260M graphics card with 1GB of GDDR3 memory. Other specifications include a 17-inch WUXGA (1920x1200) display, up to 12GB of RAM, and up to two hard drives. Four Altec Lansing speakers and Blu-ray support rounds off the list.
There is no word on pricing or availability.

ASUS Press Release
Via (Engadget.com)

 

wow. it would seem that Asus is jealous of Toshiba's title as the maker of the ugliest gaming notebook (qosmio x305, i'm looking at you).

 

Any news on how the GTX 260m and 280m compare to the 4850/4870?

I'm very close to ordering the msi GT725

 

man asus really know how to make their laptop. Adding Asus brand in my mind next to Sager when I am buying a new laptop after graduation

 

Wow, this doesn't have an LED backlight, does it? If it does, this would be EXACTLY what I want.

I'm happy with my new n80. Asus seems to make really well engineered notebooks (so far I've heard of exactly one person who had trouble with their n80, and a replaced motherboard fixed it).

Well, for one thing, Nvidia supports their GPUs :-/

 

Here are the spec from Nvidia's site:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gtx_260m_us.html

And here are the specs for the GTX 280 M:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gtx_280m_us.html

This article says these GPU's will be as much as 30% faster than the 4870:
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12222&Itemid=1

Rob41

 

Very very wanty. If I was looking right now (God and Intel willing I won't be for another year) I'd be very tempted (depending on price).

Plus it could heat my living room during the cooler half of spring!

 

Nvidia wouldn't lie about something like that now would they

 

Lol! We're yet to see how they really are (if they are).

 

Is it just me, or lately has "gaming notebook" come to be synonymous with really ugly? These companies are wrapping great specs in gaudy exteriors. Ugh.

 

Mainstream companies tend to go ga-ga on style. Lately, the Toshiba X305, and the recent ASUS G-series have taken style to a new level - whether you like that or not is your personal choice.

Sager/Clevo is always there to cater to those looking for the hardware and a relatively simple look.

 

Agreed, excellent hardware sometimes poorly presented... Though I'm sure some would perfer that design to something else.

 

Compared to the other "gaming laptops" out there this one really isn't that bad in style though >.> It looks a bit childish I guess, but it's still not that flashy(aside from the LEDs lol )

I'll be interested to see the benchmarks for this once they come out

 

Failing to see how this design is gaudy. Looks pretty decent, bar the red highlights.

 

Wow interesting, thanks for that.

 

And here's another picture:



Rob41

 

No LED backlight?

At any rate, IMO (and in Anandtech's opinion) you shouldn't be getting anything but Nvidia in a laptop...since they actually support it.

And I don't think it's bad looking at all. Just put it up next to that flame red Toshiba

And I'd buy one of those...I mean I just don't care about looks, and would buy one if it had specs I needed (which it doesn't, since no LED backlight or Blu Ray).

Oh well, hopefully there will be something along those lines available in a year. My n80 is doing pretty nicely right now

 

I don't think the ASUS G series is bad at all in terms of looks.

They're very tacky and gaudy, in an objective sense. Yet I find them to be very very good-looking thanks you very much.

 

Lol are you an nvidia spokesman?

Id buy one too, only because this will probably be the cheapest notebook to have the 260m

I still think id take a 4870 though even a DDR5 4860

 

You think it'll be even cheaper than the NP8662? That's only $1392.

 

Well see thats where the term "probably" comes from maybe it will? Who knows if you can get a G50 at $900 i dont see why this notebook will have a hard time matching $1400 especially at its "base" level. Plus what is the base specs of that Sager?

 

Mmm.... P8600, 2GB DDR3, 260M, 250GB. Nothing special. link.

I'm only interested in how much the individual card will cost me anyway.

Asus will probably have P8700 and T9550 configs, both with 4GB and a nice HDD. $1400 is very doable.

 

Well, if recycling last generation GPUs, making faulty chips (and expecting the unreliable manufacturers to get consumers to return them), and just recently offering mobile drivers on their site all qualify as support, you couldn't be more correct.

(Yeah, after being a victim of a sizzled nVidia chipset, with an ignorant notebook maker *cough*HP*cough, I've had a sour taste in my mouth...)

 

The base Sager comes with 2GBs of RAM and a 250GB 5400PRM HDD.

Raising the ram to 4GBs and the HDD to a 320GB @7200 RPM sends the price up a bit.

 

that sager looks really nice too. plus on the new design you get a black lid with no orange trim which is even better. I just bought a asus N80 but if these sager stay at a reasonable price my wallet will be in trouble.

 

Huh? As opposed to what? Both companies sell lower end versions of their desktop chips for laptops. I don't know what else they could do.

Which they addressed, which they weren't the only company to be hit by, and which wasn't even their fault, if you've read the technical issues behind what happened. It wasn't really anyone's fault, they couldn't have know that manufacturing process would have that issue at that process size.

ATi doesn't provide support AT ALL, and even before Nvidia was able to provide official support, they've been providing unofficial support for years now. ATi doesn't even provide unofficial support.

I probably would be too, but the defect itself wasn't really Nvidia's fault-I mean it wasn't something they could have known about ahead of time, and there's SUPPOSED to be a process in place to take care of affected GPUs. Apple's been doing okay, at least by a coworker (his newest Macbook Pro's 8600 isn't affected), but who knows about other companies

 

1. 8 series to 9 series. Any big changes?
2. It might not be nVidia's fault that it happened, but it's definitely their fault that they aren't proactively doing anything about it. Admitting it is not enough. HP still refuses to fix my computer. nVidia's site is totally absent of any support contacts. Instead they redirect you to the equipment provider (in this case, HP). Only problem is, they're not being helpful.

 

Small evolutionary ones, but so what? Like I said, it's lower end versions of their desktop stuff, same as ATi.

The program set up has you going through the company that built the system (which really is the only way they could do it-it's not like Nvidia can swap out a custom HP part).

 

It's definitely their responsibly to make sure manufacturers are doing the right thing though. HP totally ignoring a whole series (which there even has been a page where all the problems with the chipset have been documented) is not right. And I've tried using their regular contacts for help too... No response.

 

Nvidia can't make HP do anything though. Heck, they had to beg just to get permission to release drivers for most of these OEMs.

 

They've got money and big company influence. If nVidia isn't doing anything to make sure affected consumers get their laptops repaired, they aren't supporting their product. Even people with affected HP laptops eligible under HP's plan aren't going to get a free fix unless they mention HP's policy itself, downright shady. It's nVidia's problem, and their responsibility to make sure it gets solved.

 

They ARE doing what they can, and they're nothing compared with HP and the other OEMs they're dealing with.

That's HP being shady, not Nvidia.

It's nVidia's problem, and their responsibility to make sure it gets solved.[/QUOTE]

They are taking responsibility, it sounds like your issue is with HP. You didn't buy this from Nvidia, you bought an HP product, that's how this is handled. There's really no other way this could be handled.

 

How are they taking responsibility? Saying "Sorry, we're not going to do it again" doesn't cut it. There's a bunch of manufacturers right now, and only HP and Dell seemed to have done anything about it (with HP excluding my tx1000z for some reason). nVidia can do the whole "make the OEM give support" thing, but they better make sure the manufacturer is doing it right, or else the bad rep is going to fall on nVidia too.

I've had 3 nVidia products so far (integrated chipsets in HP Pavillion tx1000z and another HP desktop, and a desktop EVGA 8800GT). Out of all of them, only one managed to stay alive (that is, the integrated graphics in the HP desktop). I've had a friend who also had a fried nVidia chip in an HP laptop. Not to mention that nVidia drivers were once the cause of 30% of Vista crashes.

Point being is, nVidia needs to 1) ensure their products are going to work right before selling them and 2) make sure that those selling them are not going to tarnish nVidia's name. Then you can say that they stand behind their products.

 

You're mad at the wrong company. Nvidia has taken responsibility for this. There are stories on this on most of the tech sites-Anandtech or Ars would be good places to dig through probably. If HP isn't giving you service for an issue that is related to that, you need to be mad at HP, not Nvidia.

That's one widespread driver flub in 12 years of fantastic driver support-and it had a known and obvious cause. Other than that, Nvidia's drivers have been the best-the model for how drivers should be-for more than a decade.

They do. As I said before, it's a very technical issue, but that 8600 issue wasn't anything they could have known about. It's not like they did something wrong or cheaped out somewhere to cause it to happen.

They have. They ultimately have no control over what HP does though. They're a smaller company, and regardless they can't possibly ensure every customer service rep in another company does the right thing. Nvidia is supporting HP and the other OEMs, but it's up to them the OEM to support their customers.

 

There's plenty of faulty chip topics this discussion can take place in, instead of this unrelated one of course.

 

I am mad at HP. I'm mad at both companies. For all I care, I have a $1500 paperweight.

 

Shhh not so loud they might hear you

 

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-GeForce-GTX-280M-Review.14565.0.html

GTX 280M benchmarks....which is also in Sager new line ups

 

why gaming laptop these days always use "bad" red color trim...
i hate the red color in this asus and toshiba one (not the red itself).

 

Stay on-topic in this thread.

 

I wouldn't say its bad according to see some pics i have found this notebooks is actually going to be a silver/black combo. It looks really sweet.

 

I am confused, seeing this is an old thread, I just found this laptop on Newegg with Win 7 64 bit ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220618).

Is this really the same laptop but with Win 7 on it?

 

Hm, lol it looks like.

Newegg probably just installed 7 on these on there own

 

So glad we're getting 7 on these now! It was unappealing to me when these shipped with XP instead of vista.

 

MY EYES! MY EYES!!! ^^

It is hideous (IMHO)! What went wrong there? I mean the G51 is much more pleasing to the eye than this!!

Fixed ;p lol [using the same old core...*sigh* NVIDIA *sigh*]