ASUS G53SX-A1 15.6-Inch Gaming Laptop - Republic of gamers (Black)

I bought this laptop after mine broke down (Toshiba TECRA A7, which lasted more than five years). It's fast, the keyboard is ergonomical, the lighting on it is awesome too, battery life is more than I expected for a laptop with these specs (more than three hours! with no energy savings settings). I'm mainly using it for studies and video processing, so it gets the job done fast. Definitely a good purchase, although my plans of buying a 4 GB SODIMM module to expand it's memory to 16 GB may be hindered since dismantling it can prove to be a bit difficult. Other than that it's awesome. I don't mind the design, I personally like it, but I know there's a few out there that absolutely hate it. It's a bit heavy but I don't plan to carry it around much, mostly home or friends' houses so I don't mind that. The backpack is cool, BIG and "shiny". The ROG mouse looks and feels awesome, but I'm in love with my old Microsoft Trackball Explorer USB 1.0! For it's price, the ASUS G53SX-A1 is a steal.

I was in the market for a monster gaming laptop and this was the one I ended up buying and I've been very happy about it.

Pros:

1) I was looking for Core i7, decent discrete graphics card, Blu-Ray, 1080p, and backlit keyboard. Even though this machine did not have BluRay, it's still pretty decent for a sub $1200 machine

2) 12GB of RAM! That's way more than I'll need for now!

3) GTX560M is no slouch. Only been playing WOW, but it looks very good so far

4) The case is matte, which is better than glossy at attracting finger prints

5) 2 year global warranty is better than 1

6) An empty drive bay just in case you want to install a 2nd HDD or SSD

7) Not much bloatware. Still quite a bit to uninstall, but not as much as say HP

8) The backpack & mouse that I got was surprisingly good.

9) Runs really quiet (when not accessing the optical drives) and cool. There is a monster exhaust system in the back, so the vents gets very warm.

Cons:

1) Slow GFX bus when compared to G53SW-A1, but the other one have less RAM

2) Odd power adapter connection location and doesn't really fit in to the machine well

3) The computer is a MONSTER. It's about the same size as my old 17" Dell, definitely NOT portable

4) Speaking of portable, the battery life is also awful, again not really surprising and really pretty much expected.

5) You have to burn your own back up DVDs

6) Speakers are a bit weak when compared to similar machines

7) The extended keyboard is kind of squished, but I'm used to it now

8) Weird HDD partitions. There is a hidden 100GB recovery partition and two 300GB partitions (one is SYSTEM and the other DATA). Might mess around and install a 128GB SSD and make the 750GB the data drive later

9) Upgrading the GFX card not possible (again expected, but it is possible on a Dell)

10) No BluRay and only one USB3 port

So it's not a perfect machine, but the cons are mostly expected. Given the cost of this machine compared to say XPS 17 (Sub par GFX card & ram at the same price) & HP Envy (Suspect Motherboard), this machine was really too perfect to pass up. So far it's been very stable, quiet, fast, and cool. Really can't ask for much better other than maybe an internal BluRay drive. Did I mention that this machine is really fast and powerful?

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This is a powerful machine. It is a BEAST in every meaning of the word. I love how it came with an OK quality backpack and a very nice gaming mouse.

The laptop itself has a very nice feel. Let me make a long story short:

Pros:

Amazing quality LCD screen. I LOVE the Matte finish.

Super powerful specs, 12 GB DDR3 1333 RAM, with best graphics of NVidia GTX at 2 GB, an i7 with great 7200 RPM Hard disk.

Super quiet, awesome feature.

Feels sturdy and nice keyboard.

Good multi-touch mouse pad.

Cons:

I like 15.6 laptops more than 17 because they are easier to carry. This one is supposedly 15.6, but has a big fat butt that makes it huge, and its very very heavy. My old 15.6 laptop fits nicely in my backpack, but this one doesn't... I wish I bought a 17 laptop instead :(

Big and heavy charger, looks like a brick actually.

My laptop couldn't find my 5 GHz network for some reason.

I don't know how to classify this, but the laptop design is very nice, except for the fat part in the back.

In short, I highly recommend this laptop, if you don't mind the weight, and huge charger. I guess a muscled beast like this requires heavy equipment to run. I love it so far :)

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Great laptop all around, easy on the eyes.. Looks like it was designed by the military Lol

Well, I got this laptop to play games with and I gotta say this laptop doubled the power of my desktop. My desktop wasn't too bad either.. Anyways the only complaint I have is the sound, you would think that for the price and all the high quality parts included with this laptop that the sound would also be highest quality. Wrong, the sound sounds pretty cheap, and other laptops in the price range of this one come with a subwoofer as well. This one only has its realtek sound and the 2 bass-less speakers. Oh another con is it doesn't include a bluray player. The screen is 3D and supports 3D but the laptop doesn't have a bluray player -.I find that a little.. meh

As far as the rest of the laptop, I can't complain. EVERYTHING else is top of the line and the computer doesn't lag at all, it doesn't matter what task I throw at it. The cooling is amazing as well, I can keep this laptop on my lap and since the laptop has its intake and exhaust through the back I don't have to worry about it overheating. I just thought that for the $1200 it should include a bluray drive and a better quality sound system.

I would definitely recommend this product to others if you're looking for a laptop in this price range.

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What can I say, this is a great machine!

Laptop

I agree with the other reviews. This laptop can run every game now on the market. The graphics are amazing and the fps are ok (tested with Starcraft 2 and the Assassin's Creed series).

Anyway, when trying to play GTA 4, although it says in the graphics menu that the resources needed for maximum settings are half the GPU capacity, I get low fps sometimes.

Apart from gamimg, the high ammount of RAM allows you to run multiple programs at the same time without lack of performance. I specially mean 'heavy' programs that I use for the Chemical Engineering career: HYSYS for process simulation, HTRI for heat exchanger design, MATLAB, Origin, Visual Basic, AutoCAD 2D and 3D, etc.

As several people said, the laptop is heavy and has a big butt, but is expectable, as it's one of the newest 15.6 gamimg laptops on the market, and it's designed for heavy gaming and multitasking. For the same reason it's understandable the weight of the battery and the transformer: voltage, current and therefore power have higher values than standard notebooks.

Another thing to note is that this transformer comes with a three-pronged plug. That means that it has a ground prong, not usual on standart notebook transformers. Extra safety to avoid an eventual electric shock.

Mouse

The gaming mouse that comes in the package is the 'ASUS GX800 3200DPI USB Laser Gaming Mouse' you can search it to get more information. It has it's own driver to configure the buttons. The driver comes in a CD or you can download it from the ASUSTeK page.

It's the best mouse I've had, and it's big and comfortable.

Bag

As a picture is worth a thousand words, you can refer to the images I've uploaded and their notes. Click on 'View and share related images' to see all 3.

The bag is nice, with a combination of black, green and grey. It has plenty of pockets and compartiments to store the notebook, its accesories and other stuff you want to carry with you.

The only thing to remark is that the laptop fits tight in the bag, and when you close it, you can notice the edges of the laptop marking the outline of the bag (see the image). Maybe this is not sufficiently safe for the laptop, but you could improvise something to protect more, if you want to. Personally, I won't be carrying the laptop much, and I am very careful with this kind of stuff, so this don't bothers me much.

As a conclusion, I can say that this is the best laptop I've had, and with an excellent price. Also, I want to comment that in my country, the prices of the notebooks are far higher. For the price of this notebok here you can buy a notebook with an i3, 750 GB HDD, 4GB RAM and no gamimg GPU! (taking a LENOVO Z470-8373 as a reference)

If I have something else to add, I will update the comment. Hope it's useful to you!