New G501 (for those who were waiting for the GX500)

[X-ROG]

News here: http://rog.asus.com/399392015/g-series-gaming-laptops/g501-the-coolest-quietest-thin-light-15-inch-g...

[esfomeado]

vishnunuk wrote:
There Was no good competitor to RMBP Till Now. Hop this will Crush RMBP. PCIE SSD + GTX 970 or 980 + i7 + UHD+ + Tin& Light Profile. !! This is RMBP Killer!

BUT PLEASE ADD an Option to Change The lighting (Keyboard back light, Track pad etc.) TO Blue, White, Orange etc. (Multiple color option to choose.) Otherwise it will be Deal Breaker for Designers and Professionals

This laptop will compete against the RMBP but i have some doubts about this laptop crash RMBP. Isn't going to have a gtx 980/970m. Most likely a gtx 960m that should be announced soon. Then you have the price tag it should be almost the same price of RMBP.
About the colors isn't going to happen.

keestu wrote:
Missing the new USB 3.1 (That's the only things missing...Get it right please)

This would be really nice but again i have my doubts.

[danwat1234]

Hmm so will it have Intel Broadwell in it? I like the idea of the M.2 (?) PCI Express SSD instead of SATA. What is the model number of the Sunon fans? Amperage, voltage? They sure do have a lot of fins

[Syzygy]

Will it be available in Australia?

[BigDRim]

HP sells its "Omen" gaming laptop with a 860m, and at a 970m laptop price ^^

[esfomeado]

BigDRim wrote:
HP sells its "Omen" gaming laptop with a 860m, and at a 970m laptop price ^^

And everyone should do that? If you think that it's worth the price go ahead it's your money not mine xD

[generalwyt]

BigDRim wrote:
HP sells its "Omen" gaming laptop with a 860m, and at a 970m laptop price ^^

HP is going insane 😛
But on a serious note though. I see the razer blade, macbookpro and msi gs60 as asus G501's direct competitor. Because they are all thin, pretty and powerful notebooks, since the G501 is probably in the same price range and category. If the G501 can't match the razer and gs60 pro 4k, which both have a 970m in graphic power. Then Asus should at least be on par with the Mac at the batterylife and screen department. But the mac still has added brandvalue and osx over Asus. Also seeing as this is a ROG branded laptop I assumed it would be a 970m or at least a 965m. But since those have already been announced already and Asus still haven't given the spec for the graphics card. Then the only logical choice would be the unanounced 960m, cause there still haven't been any rumours about a 975m or anything of the likes.

[esfomeado]

generalwyt wrote:
HP is going insane 😛
But on a serious note though. I see the razer blade, macbookpro and msi gs60 as asus G501's direct competitor. Because they are all thin, pretty and powerful notebooks, since the G501 is probably in the same price range and category.

It won't be in the same price range... 2500+

[generalwyt]

esfomeado wrote:
It won't be in the same price range... 2500+

Well the highest end mbp costs around 2350 EUR. The gs60 pro around 2300 EUR. The Razer isnt avaible in europe if it was it should be around 2400 eur for the 256 gb ssd one. The nx500 costs around 2000 here, so. I assume the g501 will be around 2300 also.

[esfomeado]

generalwyt wrote:
Well the highest end mbp costs around 2350 EUR. The gs60 pro around 2300 EUR. The Razer isnt avaible in europe if it was it should be around 2400 eur for the 256 gb ssd one. The nx500 costs around 2000 here, so. I assume the g501 will be around 2300 also.

The gs60 pro 4k costs where in my country 2000€ and NX500 costs 2500€ but the gs60 is way more powerful so Asus is overpriced at least in my country.

[Metalogic]

esfomeado wrote:
The gs60 pro 4k costs where in my country 2000€ and NX500 costs 2500€ but the gs60 is way more powerful so Asus is overpriced at least in my country.

Though the GS60 has terrible battery life and the M2 slot isn't PCI but SATA, also the 4K screen only has 48Ghz refresh rate on the GS60, so the G501 would still have some things in it's favour, even with a 965M GPU, would hopefully be cooler and not as loud under load too...