ASUS GL551JM-EH74 Reviews

Consumer review (newegg.com)

The GPU (GTX 860M) is a little problematic

The case is fair. I did notice a rattling sound inside and finally opened it up. It was a plastic tab from the bottom cover. I had a lot of trouble replacing the cover without breaking the other tabs. Also, the usb ports on the right hand side have...

Good specs for the price (when I bought it a year ago)

I bought this machine to do cuda programming for deep Learning applications but found problems with the GTX 860M. Apparently, this chip comes with either Maxwell or (older) Kepler cores. This must be the reason the Cuda updates are problematic for this...

Apr, 2016

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repaired, then failed again

I would replace the video car myself, as I have built desktops for years and know my way around computers, but laptop video cards are hard to find, and from what I understand, very hard to replace. Once the warranty is over, I guess I'll be stuck with...

This laptop works great when it works. Unfortunately, it doesn't work long. For a gaming laptop, it just doesn't work well at all. See the cons for details

A few months ago, it quit working after about 6 months of owership. Sent it to ASUS and ASUS replaced the motherboard and a motherboard cooling fan. A few days ago, the Nvidia graphics card failed. The laptop still works, but only using the Intel...

Nov, 2015

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Avoid at all cost!!!

thank you for reminding why you dont rely on laptop over Pcs, i will never buy a laptop again unless i have an established desktop, but at this point in my life it WOULD have been much easier to have had a reliable laptop. I only had this thing since...

great performance when it was working at its expected mediocre capacity as far as these kinds of laptops go

power cord connection point stopped working, rendering the laptop useless, contacted Newegg who laughed their way home now that my 30day period was up and they have my 1000$ secured, said take my problem elsewhere speakers so quite at max volume you'll...

Nov, 2015

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Fantastic Machine with a few flaws

I bought this laptop in February and it has been running really well. Never had an issue with windows 8.1 and decided to use it to test windows 10 before I upgrade my desktop to it. Needless to say, the hardware handled the transition beautifully. The...

Let me start off with how pleasant the overall look and feel of the laptop is. It is very solid and the red accents go well with the overall black casing. The SSD that it came with is rather snappy and so far has not warranted its replacement. Keyboard...

Lets start with the biggest culprit, AKA the track pad. Hands down, it sucks. It is unresponsive and has its own mind and does what it wants to do. The SSD was divided into two separate partitions, dont know why asus did it. The CD drive is not bad,...

Oct, 2015

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Fantastic Machine with a few flaws

I bought this laptop in February and it has been running really well. Never had an issue with windows 8.1 and decided to use it to test windows 10 before I upgrade my desktop to it. Needless to say, the hardware handled the transition beautifully. The...

Let me start off with how pleasant the overall look and feel of the laptop is. It is very solid and the red accents go well with the overall black casing. The SSD that it came with is rather snappy and so far has not warranted its replacement. Keyboard...

Lets start with the biggest culprit, AKA the track pad. Hands down, it sucks. It is unresponsive and has its own mind and does what it wants to do. The SSD was divided into two separate partitions, dont know why asus did it. The CD drive is not bad,...

Oct, 2015

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Fantastic Machine with a few flaws

I bought this laptop in February and it has been running really well. Never had an issue with windows 8.1 and decided to use it to test windows 10 before I upgrade my desktop to it. Needless to say, the hardware handled the transition beautifully. The...

Let me start off with how pleasant the overall look and feel of the laptop is. It is very solid and the red accents go well with the overall black casing. The SSD that it came with is rather snappy and so far has not warranted its replacement. Keyboard...

Lets start with the biggest culprit, AKA the track pad. Hands down, it sucks. It is unresponsive and has its own mind and does what it wants to do. The SSD was divided into two separate partitions, dont know why asus did it. The CD drive is not bad,...

Oct, 2015

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failed after 6 months

At this point I don't know whether the laptop itself failed or if something in Windows 10 or the updates has caused the problem. All I know is that the laptop doesn't work anymore.

When I got this laptop, it worked well. It turned on fast and I had no problems whatsoever with Windows 8.1 installed.

I bought the laptop on 2/28/2015. It was supposed to upgrade to Windows 10 without problem. After installing Windows 10, it worked fine for a week, then started having problems. The screen occasionally would blur into a scattered haze. Sometimes it...

Aug, 2015

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failed after 6 months

At this point I don't know whether the laptop itself failed or if something in Windows 10 or the updates has caused the problem. All I know is that the laptop doesn't work anymore.

When I got this laptop, it worked well. It turned on fast and I had no problems whatsoever with Windows 8.1 installed

I bought the laptop on 2/28/2015. It was supposed to upgrade to Windows 10 without problem. After installing Windows 10, it worked fine for a week, then started having problems. The screen occasionally would blur into a scattered haze. Sometimes it...

Aug, 2015

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Did I get a lemon?

Have yet to see any.

After the rave reviews, I decided on this laptop, and am really sorry I did. The SSD seems actually slower than my other systems, the dvd doesn't work, the sound quality is barely audible, and the wireless card has been dropping in and out. I saved up,...

Jul, 2015

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Did I get a lemon?

Have yet to see any

After the rave reviews, I decided on this laptop, and am really sorry I did. The SSD seems actually slower than my other systems, the dvd doesn't work, the sound quality is barely audible, and the wireless card has been dropping in and out. I saved up,...

Jul, 2015

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