Whilst this considerable size will be a drawback for some, those looking for a 15-inch device are likely to be nonplussed, with the added size and weight meaning an expansive and vibrant 15.6-inch Full HD touchscreen display could be thrown into the mix.

Its the small touches such as the medium grey marked keys, to the metallic ASUS logo etched into the metal bar below the screen that makes this laptop feel like its not pushing the brand in your face like many other makers but yet you know its an ASUS with a track record for reliability (in my experience with their motherboards).

The 15.6-inch display has a full 1,920x1,080-pixel resolution, which is what we'd expect from a modern multimedia laptop.

Overall the laptop feels very well built and durable with a stylish minimalistic matte black front mantel.

A closer competitor is the HP Envy 17, whose second-gen 2.2-GHz Core i7-2670QM processor paced that notebook to a score of 2,790.

The GT555m can do even better with just some slight overclocking but the computer itself performs remarkable and it has the specs I want to play just about any game on the market while not being a heavy 17" monster or a 15" oven.

Samsung calls the Series 7 Chronos a multimedia powerhouse, with quad-core Intel Core i-series CPUs, up to 16GB of RAM, and up to 1TB of storage, plus discrete AMD Radeon HD 8870 graphics.

The unique deal about this laptop is that it has a separate Radeon graphics card (not a standard integrated one) with 512MB RAM.