ASUS X77 with 17-inch display looks nice, hopefully it doesn’t weigh 18 pounds though. It’s about time some decently-spec’ed laptops are getting covered instead of those cheap-ass, Atom-powered crapbooks. One Love Other features identified by Fudzilla pinpoint the system as a clear desktop replacement, including 1TB of total disk space spread across two drive. I wonder if there’s an agreement companies sign that require a certain number of vibrant colors and high brightness LEDs to make a gaming laptop. No panel manufacturer produces LCD panels that size that aren’t 16:9 aspect ratio. Most of the time in a laptop things look better in the native resolution, and this is probably a gaming laptop.

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ASUS X77 Review

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ASUS X77 is okay for gaming and HD playback too. Something that might let me check e-mail if I was lucky enough to find a connection; would let me save, edit, and show the photos and short videos I’d taken during this and previous visits; and that I might be able to use to do small word-processing tasks here and there. ASUS X77 comes with all slots as advertised, but you might have trouble finding the SD slot; the manufacturers slide a protective piece of plastic into it, with the result that the front edge looks like it has no openings.

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