It's now pretty much undeniable that, at least on short and medium term, the future of entertainment (whether we're talking here about video or gaming) is related to the concept of 3D. I mean, the whole 3D fray exploded in 2010, with a very large number of manufacturers simply flooding the market with all sorts of products related to the field of 3D, whether we're talking about displays, Blu-ray players or cameras (mostly professional ones, though).

However, most of these solutions are what I'd like to call “passive” ones, meaning that they allow users to enjoy 3D content, without actually getting involved in the whole process. And this is especially visible in the field of gaming, where the current-generation gaming consoles don't really support 3D gaming natively.

So, what is there to do if you're an avid gamer who wants to enjoy the latest titles in three glorious dimensions? Well, you could easily go for a PC solution powered by NVIDIA's 3D Vision technology, but this is already “old news,” as it's been around since last year. Plus, this means you're stuck to a desktop PC, which is not particularly cool, is it now?

Luckily, notebook manufacturer Asus managed to foresee this problem and developed a solution for it, namely the G51J notebook. Yeah, the name doesn't say much, but trust me, this particular portable computing solution is one of the most advanced products of this type you've ever come across, delivering not only an impressive hardware potential, but all sorts of extras on the side.

And the most important such “extra” is represented by the fact that the G51J 3D is the world's first notebook (OK, maybe laptop would be a better word to describe this thing) to incorporate NVIDIA's 3D Vision Technology, which, as some of you might remember, we reviewed back in 2009, in its desktop incarnation. So, yes, we're talking about a 3D notebook here, one of the first of its kind and certainly the most powerful.

The G51J 3D was released earlier this year and it's a part of Asus' ROG (Republic Of Gamers) series, which sort of defines pretty clearly the system's target segment. However, while testing the notebook, I was pretty stocked to discover that non-gamers would find it extremely attractive as well, whether we're talking about its processing power or, more importantly, the 3D video entertainment it enables. But that's enough revealing for the time being, you'll have to check out the rest of our review in order to find out more on this issue.