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Asus's gaming duo

By Nick Mansell on Monday, 09 June 2008

Apparently there's more to Asus than just endless Eee iterations. Two new gaming laptops have been spotted at this year's Computex show in Taiwan. Gracing the stands in Taipei the G50V and G71V, sporting all-new cases in fetching orange or red.

The smaller G50V (pictured) boasts an option for a 3D display (which Cnet notes isn't great for gaming or full-length movies). The 15.6in screen is powered by a 512MB Nvidia GeForce 9700M graphics card and it gets up to 4GB RAM, two 320GB hard drives and bash-resistant keys for keyboard abusing gamers.

The larger G71V stretches the screen to over 17in and has room for up to 1TB of hard drive space. Hardcore Altec Lansing speakers complete the picture.

Both are based on Intel's upcoming Centrino 2 platform, which currently seems to be facing delays, so watch this space for more.

[via Fudzilla.com]

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