<p style="text-align: justify;">Laptops are clearly not at par with desktops when it comes to high-end gaming because the hardware limits the capability to churn out enough power. However, most of the gaming laptops today are still great for someone who is looking for a machine that can run all the latest games, but they can cost a fortune.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Asus, with its premium gaming line of laptops ‘Republic of Gamers’, has launched its most affordable laptop in the series called the GL552 and it is actually one of the most affordable gaming laptops available in India. The laptop has an all plastic design with a rubber-like matte finish all around and a strip on the lid which feels like brushed aluminum, but is actually plastic. For the ones who like their gaming laptops to be lit up with LED lights, the lid on the laptop comes with the ROG logo which lights up when the laptop is turned on, even the full sized keyboard is backlit. The LED lights under the keyboard can be adjusted with three levels of lighting or can be just turned off in case you don’t need it. The keyboard is comfortable and gives a decent feedback. However, the large touchpad can take some time to get used to as there are no separate left and right buttons, rather the whole touchpad is a single button which frankly speaking is not impressive. The overall construction looks solid, but it is a bit subtle when compared to high-end gaming laptops like the Alienware 14. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" src="http://bw-image.s3.amazonaws.com/asus-gl552 (2).jpg"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The laptop has a good looking 15.6-inch matte display with a full HD (1920x1080) resolution which is sharp and offers a good amount of brightness. There are three USB ports, two video out ports (HDMI and VGA), a DVD combo drive, a full sized LAN port, an SD card reader and of course the headphone and mic jacks. For a 15-inch gaming laptop it doesn’t feel very heavy, in fact it feels as big as any good and powerful laptop of the same size. The laptop runs on a 4<sup>th</sup> generation Intel Core i7 quad-core processor with 8GB of RAM (expandable to 16GB). To provide power for games Asus has put in a GTX 950M which is the lowest graphics processor in the latest series from Nvidia. For storage, there is a 1TB standard hard drive, but can be replaced with a SSD as well.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="" src="http://bw-image.s3.amazonaws.com/asus-gl552 (3).jpg"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The laptop manages to run super-fast and smooth thanks to the high-end hardware. Games run perfectly fine, however the hardware cannot support games on the highest graphics settings, still one can enjoy games on medium on low settings. The laptop also works as a brilliant everyday machine and doesn’t slow down at any point of time. Watching movies is great on the bright display and even the stereo speakers offer a decent amount of volume.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Asus GL552 is value for money product. If you are looking for an entry-level gaming laptop or just a high-end multimedia machine, this is a recommended product. At just above Rs. 70,000 you get the above mentioned features along with a backpack, a pair of gaming headphones and also a gaming mouse as a part of the whole package. </p>
