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After gaming on a 5 year old Sony VAIO for some time (which, to give it it's due, never once skipped a beat in the whole time I've owned it), I decided that it was about time for me to upgrade to something with a good deal more grunt - the final nail in the VAIO's coffin was the fact that it wouldn't even run 'Alien: Isolation', a game that I'd been wetting myself with excitement over for some time.
So what exactly was I looking for? Well, I had a budgeted £1000-£1300 max so it had to first and foremost fall into those constraints, which more or less wrote-off getting anything with a GTX980m, so it was going to have to be a GTX970m and it needed to have enough grunt to stand the test of time for four years (or thereabouts) until I upgraded to my next machine, so we're talking an i7 CPU, plenty of RAM, storage and, ideally, a good 17" screen. I was also keen on getting a laptop that had a decent cooling system that allowed it to stay cool while not sounding like a hair dryer.
So I had a good look at what was out there and read an absolute tonne of reviews before settling on the G751 as it seemed to fit my requirements nicely. I ended up going for the G751JT-T7115H specifically, with an i7-4720HQ, 16GB RAM, GTX970m, a 256Gb M.2 SSD and a 1Tb Hard Drive and have owned the said machine for just over a month now.
...And I'm very impressed! The screen is quite simply GORGEOUS; flawless, super-sharp and really bright. I love the design, the soft-touch plastics, the red backlit (and absolutely beautiful to use) keyboard, the metallic red air vents and the real metal detailing on the lid. But it's not all down to aesthetics, of course. I can only describe the performance as 'blistering'. Alien: Isolation plays super smoothly at Ultra detail and it has swatted aside every task I've threw at it that would've made my old VAIO stutter.
Importantly, it does all of this without fuss and very, very quietly. Seriously, even after playing Skyrim (again, at maximum detail with plenty of graphical mods) for several hours, the most noise it makes is a gentle whoosh and the palm rest and the bottom of it stays incredibly cool. This is seriously impressive for such a powerful laptop.
Do I have anything negative to say about it? Nothing that would constitute a dealbreaker. The keyboard layout is a little odd - at the very top-left corner (Where you would normally be able to find the Esc key without looking) there's a key that launches some software to record your gaming and there's a key to launch some other (mostly useless) ASUS gaming software where you would normally find the NumLock key. Other than that and a little bit of bloatware it's difficult to find anything else to moan about other than that it's a fingerprint magnet.
So would I recommend the G751? You betcha! Do I regret my decision? Nope, not one bit. I would've loved to have got the version with the GTX980m, of course but trying to justify an extra £400 on top of my already stretched budget was impossible.
So what exactly was I looking for? Well, I had a budgeted £1000-£1300 max so it had to first and foremost fall into those constraints, which more or less wrote-off getting anything with a GTX980m, so it was going to have to be a GTX970m and it needed to have enough grunt to stand the test of time for four years (or thereabouts) until I upgraded to my next machine, so we're talking an i7 CPU, plenty of RAM, storage and, ideally, a good 17" screen. I was also keen on getting a laptop that had a decent cooling system that allowed it to stay cool while not sounding like a hair dryer.
So I had a good look at what was out there and read an absolute tonne of reviews before settling on the G751 as it seemed to fit my requirements nicely. I ended up going for the G751JT-T7115H specifically, with an i7-4720HQ, 16GB RAM, GTX970m, a 256Gb M.2 SSD and a 1Tb Hard Drive and have owned the said machine for just over a month now.
...And I'm very impressed! The screen is quite simply GORGEOUS; flawless, super-sharp and really bright. I love the design, the soft-touch plastics, the red backlit (and absolutely beautiful to use) keyboard, the metallic red air vents and the real metal detailing on the lid. But it's not all down to aesthetics, of course. I can only describe the performance as 'blistering'. Alien: Isolation plays super smoothly at Ultra detail and it has swatted aside every task I've threw at it that would've made my old VAIO stutter.
Importantly, it does all of this without fuss and very, very quietly. Seriously, even after playing Skyrim (again, at maximum detail with plenty of graphical mods) for several hours, the most noise it makes is a gentle whoosh and the palm rest and the bottom of it stays incredibly cool. This is seriously impressive for such a powerful laptop.
Do I have anything negative to say about it? Nothing that would constitute a dealbreaker. The keyboard layout is a little odd - at the very top-left corner (Where you would normally be able to find the Esc key without looking) there's a key that launches some software to record your gaming and there's a key to launch some other (mostly useless) ASUS gaming software where you would normally find the NumLock key. Other than that and a little bit of bloatware it's difficult to find anything else to moan about other than that it's a fingerprint magnet.
So would I recommend the G751? You betcha! Do I regret my decision? Nope, not one bit. I would've loved to have got the version with the GTX980m, of course but trying to justify an extra £400 on top of my already stretched budget was impossible.