Probably by the end of this year or next year.  Or not available at all. We all know Malaysian like to buy cheap stuff by online or black market or MSI rather than buying high end high quality from local asus.

True story, and sad : when i go to shops, most of the shops at lowyat, i don't even have the right to choose Asus. Those sellers keep directing me to MSI shxts or Dell alien. For example :
Me    : I'm looking for asus latest G series and its price.
sellers: Why asus, you see asus bla bla bla... come here MSI better, cheap and "the best"
Me    : I'm looking for asus...
sellers : see asus got bad service, you got check internet or not? and bla bla bla... MSI got G60 or shxxxt.. come..
Me    : Bye. 

In my mind i really want to fk these ppl. your boss should. NOW YOU ALL KNOW WHY ASUS IN MALAYSIA ARE PITY.
NOTE: SERVICE SUCKS BECAUSE ALSO OF MALAYSIAN , THOSE WORKER ARE MALAYSIAN LAZY LIKE YOU NOT ASUS FAULT!!!

REMEMBER.

difficult? no, it's not difficult. it's tedious. (namely, the excessive amount of screws) however, practice makes perfect. after 3 times of doing the same thing, now i only need 15 minutes to do a full tear-down of a g55. the locations of every screw, cables, etc. are now very clear to me.

it's the same with any laptops. for instance, it's super easy to maintain aw (fan/heatsink/vents cleanups), but if you wanna access certain parts which are not exposed by the back cover, meet all the screws first. (aw18 is relatively not as friendly as aw17. still, it's not difficult. i checked the internals and then swapped some parts since day one when i got mine)
we can make ourselves from unlucky to lucky. a simple way to prevent getting lemons: test your machine once you get it (all of the parts, ports, cpu/gpu, screen, etc.). do the exchange while you still can. once we get a working one, it will work well. with that you lower the risks to get a lemon. i think all of us should practice this. it's electronics, a product from mass production. the risks are always there.

about part damages, well yeah we still need their service. i don't have the chance to do that yet. well i will never have that chance because my g55 is out of warranty now it's already 2 years old+ hahaha)
everyone must start somewhere, beginner or not. there are tons of videos out there to learn how to do dis-assembly. all they need is a screw driver set, care, and patience. (i broke 2 screw place holders in my g55 during the first-time tear-down hehe that's because i was careless. after that incident, i can dis-assemble all my other laptops without breaking anything)

bro, usually do asus let us purchase g551 w/o hdd, free dos & 8gb ram one slot or i bring my own ssd/hdd or ram for them to install for us?

bro g551 only one fan. do i need to wait dec or just buy now? i getting ssd 256gb & 2x8gb ram so total will cost around 4k. if this case get desktop seem better. really confuse now.

Yup yup.. correct, if you found honest sellers, go for it.
If there were 2 fans for 15", there will be no optical drive.

the official rog g551 upgrade guide, http://rog.asus.com/376092014/g-series-gam...-upgrade-guide/

(now you can replace the wifi card )

from the pictures found online for g551, it's better to check the msata slot if you wanna add msata ssd later (maybe this requires a full teardown, maybe not). it looks like g551 only fits for a half-size instead of the common full-size msata ssd. (and that's kind of rare, and the ssd size is limited due to that form factor)

the official g751 upgrade guide, http://rog.asus.com/375732014/g-series-gam...-upgrade-guide/

for g751, the battery is now non-removable. the good news is, it's free from optimus. all of the variants. imo that's the right choice, because gamers don't care about battery life, they just plug and play.

it's a smart way to house the pcie ssd. (looks cheap but effective) apparently they are aware of the overheating issue of m.2 pci-e ssd, and turn the m.2 caddy into heat-spreading heatink (with two thermal pads).

however you need to carefully plan your purchase, if you don't wanna disassemble these machines. (e.g. m.2 caddy will not be available officially if you don't get the variant with m.2 ssd; if you wanna have 32gb ram in future, get the model with 2x8gb ram)

G551 don't have m.2 so PCI-E > m.2?? if i getting G551 i don't like hdd with 5400rpm.. my 4 yrs old lappy using momentus 7200rpm which i plan to use as my storage by using enclosure usb 3.0 or act as my primary drive.. ram i prefer 8gb so that can add another 8gb for max 16gb support. don't wish too spent so much on computer.. too bad asus don't offer free dos. if ram still able to upgrade but slightly expensive since asus charge more. while once i really decide what to buy then i will ask asus for quotation.

a single fan config is kind of sad actually. even my xps has 2 fans :/ (my xps has no ODD and ethernet port)
g551 is all sata, no pci-e. (m.2 is just a form factor, which has more than one length. there are sata version of m.2 ssd, too. don't get the wrong one because they are incompatible) the pci-e m.2 slot in asus g751 is pci-e x4, that's fine because with uefi bios you can run os on it, too. the current best pci-e m.2 ssd is samsung xp941. (this is what you can find in asus g751 if you opted to get one with pci-e ssd config. expensive stuff currently)

my 128gb variant is the boot drive in my desktop that can run 900MB/s reads.

when i checked the pictures, asus decided to use samsung ram as well. another good part for laptops.

i'm not sure if asus can cater for custom orders :/

Guys any user of G56JR? review pls

I went to shop to order been told G56JR is the current model but then here i saw someone posted G551JM. and the price i saw online in mudah is rm3289. But in the shop i ordered G56JR the price they mentioned was rm4099. And i checked under laptop price here in lowyat price list, its d same.

Kinda confused now g551JM is newer then G56JR?

Guyssss, i plan to upgrade my HDD to SSHD.. just wanted to know can i upgrade it at A.P.E.S.My shop? and how long does it takes to wait for the upgrade? and lastly im not sure what is G55VW's SSHD height is..

im going to upgrade to this one http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drive...e-hybrid-drive/