Asus G56JK

Works fast, stays cool, not too heavy, it even looks good

not really to much too say that is bad about this. everyone seems to hate the touch pad but it hasn't bothered me. only thing that is sad is that the screen just went died on me before the laptop reached its first birthday. but i absolutely loved it...

Portable, fast start up

Keyboard issues

Good balance between mobility and performance. Doesn't get ridiculously hot, even when pushed harder

Unresponsive touchpad and absolutely unusable touchpad buttons suck life and joy out of this laptop... suck it DRY ; Harddrive is slow, sorely needs an SSD. Windows 8.1 is ridiculous - especially in a laptop without touchscreen. Does this makes sense...

Great matte & aluminum finish ; Average weight ; chiclet keyboard is comfortable with good travel ; Nice aesthetics and design ; solid cpu & ram performance

Cheap TN panel (though Asus denies this) ; Right side ports stopped working after a week of use ; battery lasts less than advertised ;

I loved this laptop at first because it was beautiful and fast, especially because I upgraded the slow 1TB HDD to a much faster 256GB SSD which made it perform like a tablet ; Aesthetics ; Has a nice metal finish making it feel sturdy ; Has a "Republic...

They promised a 178 degree viewing angle IPS display and lied! This comes with a cheap TN display that gives MAYBE a 30 degree viewing angle before showing color distortion. I felt cheated by ASUS for this. (See UPDATE) ; Keyboard back-light only has 3...

I loved this laptop at first because it was beautiful and fast, especially because I upgraded the slow 1TB HDD to a much faster 256GB SSD which made it perform like a tablet ; Aesthetics ; Has a nice metal finish making it feel sturdy ; Has a "Republic...

They promised a 178 degree viewing angle IPS display and lied! This comes with a cheap TN display that gives MAYBE a 30 degree viewing angle before showing color distortion. I felt cheated by ASUS for this. (See UPDATE) ; Keyboard back-light only has 3...

This laptop had already been on my wish list for weeks and I risked an open box to save a few hundred dollars. It was so worth it. It arrived on time and very, very well packaged excluding the original box but, the components were included ; I spent a...

Note: My complaints are minor and otherwise it's a great laptop. Most of the drawbacks I was aware of when I bought it and it was a compromise for the price so I'm not gonna leave a bad review because it doesn't perform like a laptop out of this price...

appearance ; performance(when its working)

after 1 week of use got blue screen restart loop

doesn't overheat a lot ; quiet ; plays my steam videos games pretty well (assassins creed, portal, etc, haven't played any mmo's yet though) ; sleek ; audio is pretty decent

fingerprint magnet, clean often (not important) ; audio sometimes makes a weird robotic noise (not often) ; graphics are decent but no where near mac pro, hard to get used to at first but now i don't notice ; windows 8.1 (maybe can be changed? i...

Sleek, fast, intuitive. not too much bloatware installed. the Nvidia driver is great. I've used it for both gaming and work and it boots up in seconds. expensive but worth the cost. battery life is also solid, lasting for 5 hours as advertised, though...

only complaint I have is that the battery, as good as it is, is not always accurately displayed. sometimes when it's plugged in/just been unplugged but at full charge, it says it will run for 10 hours. It does not run for 10 hours ; sometimes when it's...