Pros: Well its ASUS and with a reputable company like that you can expect a decent level of quality, which this product exceeded in my expectations. Great performance for a laptop. After shopping around ALOT I found this system was the best setup of hardware for the realistic price range a gamer like me would ever consider for a system thats not a desktop.

Cons: I could complain about First boot and setting up programs & preferences taking a while, but its that way with any system and to mark down a system for having to setup your personal preferences would be silly. I also could complain about weight or a number of other things, but when you get the hardware thats this has you will get these things as a byproduct its just simple math. If you want lighter and smaller then adjust what hardware you want in a laptop. ;)

Overall Review: Vista though new to me, doesn't seem to be the headache everyone has been complaining about, its new memory management system handles RAM differently so that even if its not required it utilizes the majority of the systems RAM for better performance overall. Adopting one of linux's philosophy that "Unused memory is wasted memory". So when you get a vista system with 2gb of ram and it says you system is using most of it, dont freak out, its on purpose and for a good reason.

Pros: Great laptop. LCD screen is phenomenal. Very fast, and good graphics for a laptop. Wish it was a 7900GTX. Gaming mouse is very comfortable.

Cons: Heavier than my other 3 laptops. Vista

Overall Review: Took me a few hours to get WINXP Pro on it. I was able to install almost all the drivers. I don't regret it.

Pros: Blew my mind, this is my first laptop, and it blew my mind. I have been looking for laptops for a long time and now I'm totally convinced that I picked the right one. All of my software has worked in Vista a nice bonus, I haven't had trouble with Vista! I suggest not installing Xp on this however because you can't really get the drivers in for the video card

Cons: The battery life, due to the huge screen and amazing components obviously isn't that good, but the performance far outweighs the battery life, which is very close to 2 hours and 20 minutes which it says. The only other con is that it comes with a 5400 rpm hard drive, I have never had a faster hard drive that I know of but the speed is most definitely hampered when you go to load games like World in Conflict.

Overall Review: When i was opening the box, my friend was standing next to me and he just got a 12 in tablet. He was amazed at how huge it was.The size of this thing is large and will surprise you if you have never had a laptop that weighs this much or has such a big screen. I might have my settings wrong but World In Conflict doesn't run well on this computer at 1400 x 900 on DX10 and medium graphics. Might need to do some changes to the settings. Battlefield 2142 runs awesome and I haven't got to try BF2 but it would obviously looks awesome. Counter-Strike Source give you about 150-200 Fps on 1400 x 900 with most settings on almost all high. A great buy and a great laptop do not hesitate buying this computer you will be happy with it unless you don't like the weight (heavy).

Pros: Screen is amazingly vivid and bright; you will not find a better screen from any other laptop maker. The keyboard is relatively quiet yet gives the feeling that you're actually hitting the keys. The screen is *very* stable and stays at the angle you put it at. Speakers don't sound as bad as other laptops, but that's not saying much.

Cons: Bloatware: ASUS utilities that can be deactivated, with the exception of Norton. No external volume control. Stickers are a pain to remove. Short power cord.

Overall Review: Why the HDD isn't 10,000 or at least 7200 RPM is beyond me, as this is meant to be a gaming laptop.

Pros: Nice wide screen, comfortable keyboard, great resolution! Although it's a gaming laptop, I'm using it for graphic designing. ASUS warranty wins!

Cons: SOme extra start up apps that aren't needed and the hard drive could have been bigger, but that's why there's external :)

Pros: Awesome laptop, amazing screen. Brushed aluminum look on top looks very nice. Quick once you get all the bloatware off of this laptop.

Cons: First bootup takes 10 minutes. 86 PROCESSES! Jeez, cmon Asus its a gaming laptop. Battery life is very short, 2 hours 20 minutes on High Performance.

Overall Review: Great laptop if you are an advanced enough user to remove all the bloatware.

Pros: The hardware on this machine, save the hard drive, is outstanding. The display is wonderfull. It is a very large laptop but it is a desktop replacement. Everything works as advertised, and it is wonderfull once Vista and the default included bloatware is wiped.

Cons: Upon the very first boot of this machine there were 85 running processes and 1.63GB of memory used. I am sorry but this laptop is labeled as and sold as a GAMING laptop. Anyone with a clue will understand what those numbers mean, and let me reiterate that it was the initial boot. Spending the time now gathering up the XP drivers to do a clean install. Kind of irritated that there is no downgrade option. Norton security suite comes installed as well. Norton is a virus in itself in regards to the performance degradation it inflicts on any machine it occupys. No clue what Asus is doing here, but the hardware is great and almost worth the time it takes to make this laptop usable at a level that merrits its price.

Overall Review: Vista may have its purposes, I am open minded, but it is not the preferred OS for gamers. It simply is too resource intensive. This laptop is a gaming laptop and Vista just does not suit it. If you do not have a copy windows XP and the time to wipe the original configuration this is not the laptop for you. New Egg as always just rocks and had the order processes, shipped, and delivered as fast as one could hope.

Pros: Well, the pros go out the window when they unit wont function. Since day 1 I had issues, bought it for my wife for schooling, but she kept complaining about it shutting down randomly so I told her I would look at it when I had time. (honestly I assumed it was her not knowing how to setup her power management like in the past). So it sat for a long time. When I finally got to it, it was really hot running. Got a cooler for it, but it only helped a little, it died soon after.

Cons: Graphics inadequately cooled and prone to a variety of problems. After doing much research I am finding a lot of people with graphics overheating and failure with ASUS not particularly trying to be of any help. All I get from asus is generic help emails with bonehead steps to resolve issues noobs run into.

Overall Review: I would be happy if I could just get my hands on a motherboard for it so I can replace it myself but it seems they are unavailable. I guess I bought myself a very expensive paper weight. I am not sure if I will be inclined to buy asus products in the future.