There's an unwritten law that gaming laptops have to be hella ugly, or at the very least garish enough to sear retinas from 100 paces. The Asus G50 does its best to accomplish the latter with its bright tangerine accents and enough flashing LEDs to make your neighbours think you're running a disco.
It's part of Asus' 'Republic of Gamers' brand, which is a fairly lame way of saying it's built to ruthlessly shift polygons around a screen. It does its best to live up to those expectations, thanks to an Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 running at 2.26GHz, a whopping 4GB of RAM, and an Nvidia GeForce 9700M GT graphics card. It's not as quick as some machines, but it's a pretty solid foundation given the £999 price tag.
It's not shy on the media front, either. Its 15.4-inch screen has a comparatively low 1,366x768-pixel resolution, but Asus has thrown in a Blu-ray drive, plus twin 320GB hard drives so you can store a shedload of movies.
The G50 should be on sale this October. We'll have a full review shortly, but in the meantime, check out the lovely pictures we took. -Rory Reid
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