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Asus G55 or G75 for College Student? HELP!

themailman05
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Hi folks, this is my first time on this forum.

I'm a high school senior about to graduate and head off to college to study engineering at a pretty big school.

I've been building and repairing gaming desktops for 3 years now, but I've yet to have any experience with gaming laptops. I currently am using a Lenovo X61 ultraportable that I Frankensteined together on the cheap, but it just will not cut it for school.

I am looking into buying a powerful desktop replacement machine that will be fairly portable for the next few years. The machine that really caught my eye is the Asus G55.

So I guess my question is this-
Asus G53/G55 owners, how portable is your machine? Is it a little ridiculous to carry around everywhere? I love the thermal design of the G55, and I am drooling over the internals. Is the battery life marginally acceptable? I would just like more than 3 hours under light load...

I have seen the G75, and it just seems WAY too large for what I want.
Money is not really a problem, as I've saved up quite a bit in order to make a purchase SOON!

EDIT: That new N56 series looks pretty incredible. Any experience with these as well?
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The G55, unfortunately, will not support dual hard-drives, unlike the G53. That is a major disappointment to me, so I am glad that I got the G53 rather than the G55. Apparently, you can run the mSata SSD as a second hard drive, but I scarcely think that counts. mSata SSD's are expensive and fairly small capacity, as opposed to a standard 2.5" HDD. So, if 2 HDD's are important to you, get the G75.
I am disturbed because I cannot break my system...found out there were others trying to cope! We have a support group on here, if your system will not break, please join!
http://rog.asus.com/forum/group.php?groupid=16
We now have 178 people whose systems will not break! Yippee! 🙂
LINUX Users, we have a group!
http://rog.asus.com/forum/group.php?groupid=23

chrsplmr wrote:
Do you know that Asus has programs through CampusLife ... wearing Asus gear
around campus ... well check it out ... there is a ton of benfits ... gear for one.
http://campuslife.asus.com/index/
you will have to look around .. i couldnt find the link inside there right off ..
maybe google for it ... some where you sign up to participate ... for Stuff !!!
Id wear a beany with a ROG flag on a uniCycle for free stuff .... hahahhahaa ..c.


I actually wasn't sure what the CampusLife thing was all about, but I think I might check it out now!

Zygomorphic wrote:
The G55, unfortunately, will not support dual hard-drives, unlike the G53. That is a major disappointment to me, so I am glad that I got the G53 rather than the G55. Apparently, you can run the mSata SSD as a second hard drive, but I scarcely think that counts. mSata SSD's are expensive and fairly small capacity, as opposed to a standard 2.5" HDD. So, if 2 HDD's are important to you, get the G75.


Not a big problem for me. I can't afford an SSD yet, so I'll probably just buy an mSATA as soon as it comes within my price range.

Definitely check out campus life. Who knows, maybe you could become the campus rep! 🙂

I understand what you mean, an SSD is out of my budget as well--at least at the capacities that I want/need. That's why I'm glad I've got the G53, I could put a second 2.5" HDD in it for $100
I am disturbed because I cannot break my system...found out there were others trying to cope! We have a support group on here, if your system will not break, please join!
http://rog.asus.com/forum/group.php?groupid=16
We now have 178 people whose systems will not break! Yippee! 🙂
LINUX Users, we have a group!
http://rog.asus.com/forum/group.php?groupid=23