Asus recently unveiled two new gaming laptops last week, Asus G50 and G71. The first one comes with either 15.4 or 15.6-inch display, an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, and an nVidia GeForce 9700M GT graphics engine; while the latter has 17-inch display, a 4GB of DDR2 main memory, up to 1TB of hard disk, and a range of Intel Core2 Duo and Quad Core CPUs. Both notebooks are also equipped with Blu-ray burner, Bluetooth, and an integrated 2 megapixel webcam module. Asus G50 is available immediately with a starting price of €1000 or around $1,249.

Quote from the press release:

Notebook gamers now have two new machines from ASUS armed with enough GPU firepower to play the latest generation of PC games. The new ASUS G71 and G50 gaming notebooks are powered by the NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) 9700M GT graphics processing unit (GPU) that will let notebook gamers enjoy the latest games in all their glory, experiencing ultra-realistic graphics. Like all NVIDIA GPUs, the NVIDIA 9700M GT GPU goes beyond “just graphics” by delivering support for technologies such as NVIDIA PhysX(TM), video acceleration and image processing-advanced capabilities collectively known as “Graphics Plus(TM)”.