 The Asus G701VI may be 300% as heavy and thick as the MacBook Pro, but the G701 also houses 1300% the graphics horsepower. So the way we see it, if you're gonna spend three grand on a laptop, it might as well be capable of physically crushing the other guys. Browse privately and securely with TunnelBear, the simple VPN app. Try TunnelBear for free at the link in the video description. It's not exactly hard to tell that the G701VI is a gaming laptop. The outside is brushed aluminum with red lighting on the back that makes it look mean and ready for business. No, not that kind of business. Gaming business. With a 17.3-inch screen and a 330-watt power brick that could probably double as a bludgeoning device, you don't even have to see the specs to know it's an absolute monster. The I.O. is a solid mix of more than you'll probably need, plus a Thunderbolt 3 port allowing up to three external 4K displays, and internal highlights include a Core i7-7820HK processor. Don't know what that is, no problem. It's a high-TDP mobile chip with support for overclocking, and ASUS has cranked it up to a whopping 4.3 GHz, and in addition to that, we've got an overclocked desktop-class GTX 1080 that sits at... wah, seriously? 1923 MHz from our measurements! That is faster than a Founders Edition desktop card. What the stuff! And gaming performance is what you'd expect from this combo. It destroyed everything in our test suite, yielding 120 FPS in several modern AAA titles, on ultra settings at 1080p, and never scoring below 60 FPS in anything. The best part is you'll get to see all of those frames, too, if you get a model like ours with the 120Hz 1080p G-Sync panel. It really gets a chance to flex its muscles in fast-paced FPS games like Doom. Now, you probably won't care about how accurate the full sRGB color space coverage is, while you're spinning around smashing demons' heads in, but I'm pleased to report that the IPS panel does a good enough job in this regard, with solid viewing angles and adequate brightness as a bonus. And at no point during our testing did we feel like motion blur or input lag were a problem. But this is the big question about laptops and portable devices in general. Can it maintain that level of performance under an extended load, without resorting to bulky or risky water cooling strategies? In short, yeah. Running Firmmark GPU stress test in extreme overclocking mode, the GPU stabilized at 79 degrees, while maintaining a very impressive 1923 MHz. CPU cooling didn't blow us away to quite the same degree, after it fell to a measly 3.8 GHz in AIDA64, after shooting up to 94 degrees at its overclocked 4.3 GHz. But in fairness, we did never run into that issue in our non-synthetic tests, and it topped out under 80 degrees Celsius in our gaming benchmarks. The G701VI noise level while gaming is what I would describe as... acceptable. To its credit, it avoids the high-pitched whine of smaller gaming laptops, and is basically silent relative to the Sager NP-9873 when that thing is pushed to its limit, but it still definitely lets you know it's there. It's kind of like a hot air balloon parked above your neighbor's house. One sore spot for me, given the price tag, is that upgrading this thing is a bit of a pain in the arse. Getting inside takes 14 screws, and once you're in there, half the RAM slots are on the underside of the motherboard, and the same goes for the SSDs. Only one of them can be easily accessed. Though that kind of thing won't come up that often, so let's move on to day-to-day usability. I'm not totally sure how I feel about the keyboard. For typing, the short travel distance and key spacing is fine, and I easily got up to speed, but there's more flex than I'd like, especially near the spacebar, and I just didn't find it that comfortable. With that said, the gaming-tuned feel of the key switches and the shape of the spacebar, the five programmable macro keys, and the keyboard backlighting bring my grade up to a B. Or at least they would, if it included RGB backlighting. This is a gaming product! For shame, Asus. The trackpad is what I would consider very usable. Straight out of the box, it's actually great, but if your fingers get sweaty at all, it turns into a bit of a grime magnet, and it's easy for your fingers to kind of skip across it, which does hurt accuracy when you're trying to be very precise with it. The odds that a would-be G701VI shopper will have a gaming mouse hooked up to it all the time, though, are pretty high. I just think Asus could have done better in this regard. Speakers are decent for a laptop, with fair bass and no distortion, even at full volume, although again, if you're gaming, you're probably going to have headphones plugged in, but fortunately Asus has you covered there, too, and the G701VI sports an ESS Sabre DAC and amp, getting up near external DAC quality, and it's nice to see this included. Now, of course, everyone in the comments is probably saying, This is stupid, just buy our gaming desktop! And honestly, it's no secret that, as a filthy casual-grade gamer these days, I run a thin in life. But let's say you did want a full-fat gaming experience that's portable. Have you ever carried a desktop as your carry-on on a plane? I have, and it's a massive pain and takes up all your space and weight allowances. So if you regularly move around for work or school, the G701VI ticks all the right boxes for me. As long as you have $3,500 to blow on a laptop. Have you ever thought, gee, I'd love to build a website, but it's just too hard? 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