The laptop is no ultraportable: it needs girth to house its powerful internals and decent-sized battery.Īsus has employed restraint in designing the G551LM, however, with a look that, while hinting at the computer’s gaming roots, also wouldn’t draw sidelong glances in a boardroom. The backlit keyboard likewise glows red, with a special, additional accentuation around the WASD keys, which any good PC gamer knows is where you’re left hand will be spending much of its time controlling your character’s movement. The Asus G551LM has an aesthetic that matches what you’d expect to find from a so-called “gaming” computer, meaning lighted accents, a metallic finish and some red trim to set off the dark color scheme. Plug in to a monitor for desktop-style gaming.Nvidia GeForce GTX 860M with 2GB dedicated GDDR5 RAM.Red backlit keyboard with WASD highlights.Asus has achieved the trifecta with its new Republic of Gamers G551LM notebook, which offers some impressive performance in a package that won’t break the bank. Plus, it’s always nice if the computer also doesn’t look terrible. On the other, you need it to have enough power to handle some of the latest and greatest games available for PCs, and not at minimum graphics settings (which doesn’t count). On the one hand, you need something that’s portable enough to be considered an actual laptop. Gaming laptops are a hard needle to thread.

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