Have you always wanted the best there is? What exactly is “the best”? Can there be more “the best” items in some domain? I think it's a matter of perspective. For example I could want a laptop that is lightweight and provides for at least 3 hours of battery life. You might desire a portable gaming machine that eats all the power it can get and provides good framerates when they play online. It's obvious that we would have different opinions about what “the best” is.



But Asus came up with a solution that is meant to please everyone (that's everyone with pockets deep enough). The G71V notebook is a real powerhouse. It comes with a 17” Full HD display and with the most powerful portable graphics card at the moment (NVIDIA 9700M GT - 512MB) to feed it huge amounts of frames at lighting fast rates. So you can play Crysis, Dead Space and GTA IV just like you would on desktop PC.



If you are thinking “a notebook HDD is way to small to store all my music and install all the latest games”, you will smile at the G71V since it comes packed with two 500GB hard drives. That's almost one terrabyte of data stored on a single notebook (that's more than most desktops use).



The device is powered by an Intel top of the line Core 2 Quad processor tacked at 3GHz managed by the Intel PM45 Express Chipset. With 4GB of DDR3 1066MHz memory users should never have lag problems or experience load loading times no matter the situation.



ASUS outfit the monster with HDMI, VGA, eSATA, memory card reader, Wired&Wireless networking, Bluetooth and a BluRay drive. And if you think all this power will not be noticed by those surrounding you, ASUS made sure that your money will get the attention they deserve since it retrofit the G71V with custom blue side lights meant to turn around a few looks.



All this top of the line tech comes at the expense of portability, since the G71V weighs about 4kg.



The ASUS G71V comes with everything you need and the company even trows in a free carrying case and optical mouse.....and just wait 'till you hear about the price, you would be surprised they didn't compliment you with a new car. Well, let's get to the sad part: price tag equals $5939. Did that hurt?