Asus Presents 3D Gaming Notebook
Asus was showing off its new G50V gaming notebook with a 15.6in WXGA 3D display at Computex 2008. The great news is that you don't need any glasses and you don't have to squint or focus at some strange point in the distance for it to work, although you do have to look quite straight into the display for best effect. The 3D display can be switched on or off, although the demo machine was an early sample, so it was done via an external switch, but Asus is working on a software solution to solve this problem.
The Asus G50V has a Geforce 9700M GT graphics card with 512MB of GDDR3 memory and HDMI, Intel's upcoming Centrino 2 platform with the mobile PM45 chipset and an option for WiMAX. On top of this you get support for up to 4GB of DDR2 800MHz memory, two 320GB SATA drives and a sturdier keyboard designed for gamers. The screen resolution might not be great for the 3D display, but there will be machines using higher resolution 15.4in panels without the 3D functionallity.
By Lars-Göran Nilsson, Fudzilla
