G2s Views

• General Goods

This book is very useful regarding spiritual gifts and also contains the Wagner-Modified Houts Questionnaire, one of the best spiritual gifts inventories I've seen. The spiritual gifts inventory in this book is designed for a broader audience than the one I developed for Lakeview. Much of the information contained in the G2S gift definitions is adapted from Wagner's work.

The G2S has a decidedly industrial flair, with a brushed-metal lid and wrist rest and black interior. The black keyboard tray, upon closer inspection, reveals a subtle crosshatch pattern, which adds some pleasing depth to the flat surfaces of the laptop. Metal accents in the lid on the hinges add an industrial flavor, but the red lights on the sides of the lid are a bit too bold for our tastes. Many of these design touches are the same as those found on Asus' 15-inch G1 gaming laptop.

The 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 CPU is close to the top of the line, and it was nearly as fast as laptops with T7700 (HP Voodoo Envy) and X7900 (Dell XPS M1730) Intel CPUs, although the slower 5,400rpm hard drive held back the G2S in our Photoshop CS3 test. But for a system marketed at the gaming crowd, it's the GPU that counts, and we were surprised to see only a single Nvidia 8600 GPU--while larger 17-inch systems from Dell, Alienware, and other vendors offer twin SLI GPUs, or faster single-GPU options. The G2S offers decent frame rates in slightly older games such as Quake 4 and FEAR, but those seeking to play upcoming games such as Crysis at higher resolutions should look to more expensive laptops, such as the Dell XPS M1730.

On our DVD battery drain test, the Asus G2S ran for 1 hour and 24 minutes--about the same as other 17-inch laptops such as the Alienware Area-51 m5790 Special Edition or aforementioned Dell XPS M1730--which was 15 minutes more than the Alienware m9750, but still a short lifespan. That's not very impressive, but we don't expect a system of this size to spend much time not plugged in. Bear in mind that our DVD battery drain test is especially grueling, so you can expect longer life from casual game playing, Web surfing, and office use.