Battery Life and Power Management, Software and Warranty
Battery Life and Power Management
This would be what we’d consider one of the least important categories by which to judge a gaming laptop or workstation, but nevertheless, it’s still worth exploring. The G751J features
First, the Battery Eater Pro Classic Test results (load performance, ~200 nit brightness):
This is what you might expect to get if you were gaming unplugged with Battery Boost disabled on the machine. As we’ve covered in previous articles, you can expect extended runtimes—sometimes by as much as 50%—in gaming if you enable Battery Boost, but we won’t go over the same material again here. All in all, this is pretty typical stuff for a gaming notebook.
Battery Eater Pro Reader’s Test (minimum load, ~200 nit brightness):
Yeah, under 4 hours unplugged is indeed a pretty putrid result. But again, at risk of repeating ourselves from past articles, who’s using these things on airplanes to read books anyway? This result really ought to be taken as referential material to help guesstimate how long the machine might last you on a typical charge (likely someplace in between this amount for general use)—and nothing more. It’s helpful in that sense.
By comparison with past results:
Overall, a pretty predictable result. Nothing worth buying the machine over, but nothing worth turning it down either. It is what it is.
Software and Warranty
We’ve already covered a bit of what the G751J ships with in terms of software (see the Keyboard section where we talk about the new keys), but the rest of what’s included is pretty typical. You’ll find Steam, which saves us around 60 seconds of installation time anyway. But alongside it there’s also CyberLink MediaStory, WildTangent Game Explorer, and some other mildly junky extras. It’s not a terrible degree of refuse, but expect to spend a few minutes uninstalling things once you get your hands on the machine anyway.
The G751J warranty coverage is actually pretty decent. It’s only 1 year in duration, but it also features free 2-way standard shipping, 24/7 tech support, accidental damage protection, and a 30-day “zero bright dot” policy (through which ASUS will provide a replacement LCD panel if any bright stuck pixels are identified).
Hasn’t asus just announced
Hasn’t asus just announced that g-sync is coming to the G751? The weren’t clear whether this model is getting it with a driver update, or new hardware (?) only.
I have 2 g751 of different
I have 2 g751 of different configs. But both of them seem to have massive USB issues. The usb ports on the right side seem to work fine but the two on the left will never mount external HDDs.
Are your USB external HDDs
Are your USB external HDDs drawing power from the USB or is it external power? If I recall, not all the USB ports are fully powered on most, if not all Notebooks.
Nope, external 3.5 inch Glyph
Nope, external 3.5 inch Glyph drives, powered externally was what I was using. Also, if you plug in a thunderbolt device it drops all the internal sata drives except for c.
I am teh cool guy
I am teh cool guy
These laptops are riddled
These laptops are riddled with trouble, they software they use to make backup disks rarely works, bios updates fail on a regular basis bricking the laptops, the quality of assembly is plagued with defects, the ASUS brand software is known for causing latency issues that make the machine unusable for WIFI gaming. They use the same cheap keyboard internals as their 300 dollar model laptops that don’t even support 3 key rollover. Do use use ESDF to game? Not on this laptop, Shift+E+Space is a dead key. If you have to send in for warranty repair, expect it to come back damaged and have to fight for a claim. Buyer beware.
If you don’t believe me just
If you don’t believe me just go read the ASUS ROG forums.
Having owned an ASUS Nexus 7
Having owned an ASUS Nexus 7 for a few years, I thought ASUS quality would be on all their products, evidently NOT!
After reading the above revues, I won’t be buying any ASUS products in the future, but..the Nexus 7 works perfectly!
Well it appears to be a hit
Well it appears to be a hit or miss thing apparently because I have owned 5 different ROG laptops ranging from the GTX8 series all the way to the 10 series and other than the first model I had that had an issue with blowing out the KB leds when you flashed the bios requiring it be sent in for a new board, all of them worked as advertised, even my G751JT-TH71 I have flashed 5 bios revisions without any issues, I think alot of what you read in the forums is also alot of non-technical consumers doing things, and breaking them. Case in point the number of users using winflash over the UEFI bios update (preferred) and bricking their units. Any tech worth their stuff knows even if winflash does what it should, the method that most often is more secure and successful is not withing the windows environment.
The only complaint I have for the G751 is this rediculous notion that ASUS will not just give us i7 4710HQ owners the gsync option, it can be done, its not hardware related both panel, GPU and connection support it, its a silly license.
So, at that same price you
So, at that same price you can get the brand new G-sync MSI GT72 with a slightly higher clocked Broadwell. Most of the rest of the specs are virtually identical. The MSI has USB 3.1 ports rather than the Thunderbolt port, but I would take the USB 3.1 ports anyway.
I can’t imagine buying a non-G-sync laptop, especially when you can get a G-sync one at the same price.
I don’t get why it’s not
I don’t get why it’s not getting 9,000-10,000 3dmark 11 points? Is it the ssd or lack of?