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Asus G1S

06 Sep, 2007, 6:00 pm IST | Jayesh Mansukhani | Notebooks Notebooks

One of the fastest growing segments in laptops today, are gaming machines. As their demand increases companies like Nvidia have started introducing graphical chipsets that promise to bridge the difference between very high-end dedicated gaming laptops and more mainstream efforts. The 8600 GT is one such chipset, that was recently introduced and has been getting positive reviews overall both in performance and in the form of adoption by manufacturers. One such manufacturer is Asus, who has adopted the 8600 GT in their gaming laptop the G1s. At the same time they have upgraded the CPU of the G1 to the newly introduced Santa Rosa platform.


How well does this laptop perform? Read on to find out...

Tags: DX10 , PureVideo 2

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