ASUS G73JH-A1 with ATi Mobility Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 - Part 2

I'm in the same boat as you. Two computers and four monitors at my desk.

 

I was working from home today. Also have 2 monitors

 

My job sucks so I keep a window open with this thread. I don't have IT people spying on me at my lame office, we can't afford network spies.

 

"Self-employment".

 

Spend 50% of my time retired; spend 50% of my time golfing (which is work for me ); spend 50% of my time doing whatever my wife tells me to do. AND apparently spending the last 50% of my time waiting for this beaut of a pre-order Hope that adds up for ya, evensen

 

2x 24" monitors at work with multiple browsers and browser tabs open all the time. This is just one of them

 

I teach culinary arts and have good office hours with the college. However, I have been sick for the last couple of days and spent a couple of hours getting caught up on the thread - just for the post in the last 24 hrs -

wow...

 

I work from home on my bed helping customers with their bills for cox cable I put them on hold to post

 

Lawl 6 packages from Newegg being delivered tomorrow.

 

Lucky, lucky man.

 

can i haz one?

 

unemployment rocks

 

Apparently you spend 100% of your time failing at percentages

 

Noooooooo...I'm hyperthreading!

 

TRIPLE LOL!

 

Chris, you siggy still says you are getting the A1 model

btw, where are Ken and Donald nowadays? It's not as though they are shipping anything out at the moment (G73JH wise)

 

I need to change it. I will do that now...

As far as Ken and Donald... They committed to honoring the pre-orders of A2 that asked for upgrade thermal compound and cpu's. From Justin's video, it looks like that could take 45-120 minutes per laptop. On top of that, Justin said Xotic received an order of N61's, N71's, G51jx's, AND their allotment of G73a2's all in one day. Probably the same going on at Power and Gentech. He said it is complete chaos over there and I am surprised he had time to even update people on the forum.

 

Now THAT'S a full life!

Pre-Order 1-8-10 G73......still waiting

 

Just out of curiosity, for those of you waiting for a G73JH and don't have it in their signature, where did you pre-order from and when?

Me: GenTech on 2/5/2010

 

Me: Gentech on 2/8/1975

I've been waiting a LONG time!

 

You've been waiting for a long time.. I guess

 

<- Gentechpc - Preorder G73JH-A1 on 17th January 2010

 

greytech here in canada, ontario...
last week

 

Preordered from the A1 from Gentech on 1/14, switched to the A2 when he got them in stock and Im getting it tomorrow with a 80 gb SSD primary

No idea why anyone else did not switch to the A2 with Gentech.

 

Blueray drive, mate

 

Haha lucky lucky. I ordered the A2 but was late to the party. I knew about this thing but it didn't quite hit me how totally awesome it is until it was too late. I never thought something like this could invoke such massive demand.

 

G73- A1 from Gentech on 1/19

 

0100 1010 0101 0011 and I ordered from XcaliberPC on 2.05.10 and received on 2.06.10.

 

Muhaha I pre-ordered a month ago but switched over to the x-1...which should arrive any day now....MUAHAHAHAHA

 

Why are you still posting on the forums lol? I'd have beaten Borderlands twice by now (mordecai sniper build of course ) and would have just started bioshock by now

 

Screw those games, get Mass Effect 2

 

I pre-ordered from XoticPC 1/11/1492

 

Meh. I don't dig rpgs where you have to grind on generic alien planets for arbitrary reasons, waiting for the story to kick up. I'm too impatient.

 

1492?

Lol!

 

Take this with a grain of salt but I just contacted my reseller and they gave me an updated ETA of Feb 25th. This is NCIX in canada. According to the person I spoke with he called ASUS and this is what they told him.

 

Thanks for the info.

Wow, another date! This is getting more and more like a Pandora's Box. How many different dates have we heard so far already?

btw, is the ETA of Feb 25th referring to A1 or A2?

 

Let's hope this is true for every one.

 

Idk if you've played it, but it's an incredible improvement over the first. Definitely, without question, one of the best games I've ever played. I'd still recommend at least a quick play-through of the first before you jump into it though--for the story.

 

Ziddy... Is that the G73-A2?!?

I preordered a G73-A1 from 1/5/10 and I still haven't receive any notice except the ETA keeps getting longer.

Euisungkim is from ny and her's is already being delivered!

I'm from nyc 2. going back home this weekend. I won't be able to see my new labtop. =/ XcaliberPC has an ebay account. I dunno how that works. would they fulfill those orders first!?!? or the order from the website =/

1/5/10. it has been a long wait.

 

What are you going to do with 6 of those? Are you selling them?

 

Usually I'm the same. I almost fell asleep playing Fallout 3 and couldn't finish it, actually get past 3 hours of playing. No interest trying again. I'll be attempting to try Bioshock again to try... And I just couldn't see the poin in STALKER.

But I decided to give Mass Effect 2 a try. The controls for your companions is smooth. They are bit dumb like they stand on a table getting shot at sometimes, but just point to a corner, press Q and they run and get cover. The story is very engaging right away.

But the story is very much taken from Alastair's novels. Alastair wrote a whole series in the future, where fate of humanity resides with one person. They have to fight an alien mechanism a mystery that is wiping out civilizations. They appear every so many years, civilization dissappear without a trace. There are some humans who are highly biologically modified who can regenerate, heal quickly, communicate telepathically and wage cyber warfare. There are epic spaceship battles. They travel from planet to planet looking for resources, new technology and information to solve the mystery. And it's not just the human race looking for the solution. The mysterious group are also accompanied by another advanced race, but their intentions mysterious.

Does this sound familiar? TBH I think Mass Effect 2 is direct ripoff of Alastair's space opera.

 

X, you need to switch to the A2, because IMHO the A1 is going to be delayed further because of the Blu ray situation. Since you pre-ordered your A1 so early, your reseller should have given you the option to switch over to the A2.

 

I agree. Also, try to get him to agree to sell you a Blue Ray drive when they become available. That way, you can enjoy the laptop sooner, but still get the A1 specs you originally wanted.

 

A1

10char

 

I refuse to install anything from EA on my computer.

However, Mass Effect 2 on the xbox360 is great.

 

Kim is a him
Though i'm sure there are many people who wish it wasn't so

 

I'm with you on their DRM, but it is usually cracked/broken within 48 hours of release so you can have a DRM free version running.

LOL! I gave up trying to correct that. Kim needs to change his name or his picture, because eventually he is going to end up with a 50 year old, balding, over-weight stalker in his house!

 

Sorry, what's a DRM?


**EDIT**Digital Rights Management

 

Digital Rights {*ahem*} Management. Basically, a means to control hardware/software.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management

Thanks for the catch!

 

DRM .. M - management yeah.. not a fan of that since its basically spyware and you can't uninstall it once its on your pc without a lot of trouble, even to the point of having to reformat your pc in some cases.

On my desktop I've been enjoying playing theWitcher from time to time. I know its a bit dated but it definitely has a storybook/in-a-movie feel to it once you get settled into it. The graphics are pretty sweet on max. I played torchlight for awhile.. (I have alot of steam games that I got for steals from the holiday sales). Finished borderlands awhile ago. It started out good , but I thought it dragged on in the middle. It did pick up at the end. I'll prob buy LFD2 next time there is a killer deal on it. I picked up my wow account after torchlight and the witcher got me going on rpg again... leveling a mage from L70 to L80 (around L72.5 atm). Even with wow graphics, with everything maxxed out with far draw distance and all the effects its a pleasure to see flying through the lands in the lich king expansion.. its very vast. Very different from the more "parking lot" or "public housing"/"alleyway" feel of most fps, though they have superior textures and higher resolution meshes. I have Battlefield Bad company2 on preorder though, and might spring for supreme commander eventually. Oh and when Dragon Age: origins comes down in price I'll grab that too.. should be done with thewitcher by then.
The second table on this page has a list of well-rated PC games from last yr:
http://features.metacritic.com/features/2009/the-best-games-of-2009/3/