![]() We can see these domes from many miles away and they have a profoundly negative effect on our view of the cosmos. About 50% of emitted light shines directly in to the atmosphere and scatters off molecules and aerosols, a large percentage bouncing back down to Earth, creating the dome of light over cities called skyglow. Many lights are arranged in a way that wastes up to 60% of their emitted light. Photo: Tyler Nordgren, University of Redlands The Razer Blade tails closely with 3 hours and 43 minutes of battery life.Typical light fixtures can waste 60% of their emitted light. By comparison, the Gigabyte P35K v3 ran for a very similar 3 hours and 40 minutes. ![]() The Blade, meanwhile, falls short of the three hour mark by a full 29 minutes.Įven with a basic round of everyday tasks including running Skype, Spotify, Chrome, plus a handful of Hearthstone games while the screen was set to its maximum brightness, the Asus ROG G501 only lasted for 30 minutes more. This places it in the middle of the other two laptops with the P35K v3 clocking out after 3 hours 33 mins. Battery hogĪs far as battery life goes, the G501 lasted for a middling 3 hours and 6 minutes on the PCMark8 benchmark test. Of course, if you'd rather get your own peripherals, there's always the option to buy the laptop on its own and outfit it with extras as you see fit. Together, the headset and mouse are fine additions to the overall package. ![]() Like the headphones, it's not really comparable to a dedicated, high-end gaming mouse, but it works admirably. Since a trackpad makes gaming pretty difficult, the included gaming mouse is a welcome touch. It just doesn't feel accurate or snappy, but once again Asus has the solution packed in the box. And as an added bonus, since the connector is a standard 4-pole pin, the set plugs into your phone or any other device with a 3.5 mm jack.Īnother area where the computer falters is its trackpad. They don't give the same booming base as a high-end gaming headset would, but they're an enormous improvement over the built-in laptop speakers and more than adequately get the job done. These are no simple earbuds, either, they're honest-to-goodness, over-ear headphones with a detachable mic. Thankfully, Asus recognized this flaw and includes a Cerberus gaming headset (along with an ROG GX850 gaming mouse) in the box. Games start up, displaying gorgeous visuals but terrible sound – the contrast between the two breaks the experience. It's very tinny, flat and is so out of place with the rest of the computer that it's jarring. The sound quality is comparable to the built-in iPhone speaker, but in stereo. There's no way to sugarcoat it: they are bad. One of the biggest disappointments are the G501's speakers. Chrome is one exception where everything on the web browser's UI looks crisp. Other applications and alerts try to scale for the resolution with mixed results. In the case of Civilization: Beyond Earth, some menu screens displayed at 4K are so tiny they're nearly illegible. It's a damn shame that more games and applications don't work as well at this bumped up resolution. At 4K, Hearthstone is incredibly gorgeous and really brings out the quality of Blizzard's art. The G501 has no problems whatsoever running a digital card game at its highest possible settings, save for a minor drop in framerate when cards fly out of the deck. In fact, the best use of the 4K resolution came to Hearthstone. That's like putting a six-cylinder engine in a Ford Mustang. You pay more to tell people you have a 4K gaming laptop, but you can't really do anything 4K with it. The added cost really comes down to bragging rights. Games look and perform really nicely when optimized for the computer hardware, which makes the 4K display all the more pointless, since nothing but elite gaming PCs can run 4K well.
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