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

GenTech ships out of the US for 135 dollars, but ive never ordered anything this expensive from the US before, so dunno

 

rofl, so true and it will end up being even cheaper, in London where i live it's even wrose.... we will pay properly 1700£ (+3000$ -.-)

 

That's why you order from the US from someone like Gentech and pay half that as I'm doing - with a global warranty, there's very little risk involved

 

Do you guys in the UK or Europe get the 1 year accidental damage warranty thing if you buy it over there?

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=449206

 

we're always the last...

but, if i decide to buy this war-machine (i hope so...), i'll buy it from gentech, no dubt! 1645$ + 20% vat + 5% duty + 149$ shipment costs = 2.205,25$ = 1.540 €

and there's 2 years INTERNATIONAL warranty!

 

Does anyone know what the duty and VAT values are for Sweden?

 

+1 rep for finding me that link. 1700 € is my max amount I wish to spend so i'm interested again.
Weird it costs more in holland, its probably not because of the tax (which is lower there) but because its just a ripp off store (although its the same company as the one in belgium Oo)
The people in the UK should be pretty upset that taxes rose from 15 to 17.5 percent this year there (according to kobalt seller there) O well, we got 21% here in Belgium so dw to much about it.

 

I think i will order it from gentech too then. If its really 1650 +20% +5% + 149 = 2200 dollar = 1550 euro.

But still its almost 550 dollar more than you guys..

And i hope with the delivery i do not get some other duty or tax for whatever reason?

 

You will have to pay for the delivery, but I doubt you will have to pay aditional import tax like you need to do with cars...or am I mistaken here?

 

For Sweden, it's usually 25% for VAT plus another 5% for customs.

 

I don't know how that works and how high the price will be if we get it from gentech.

 

20% is the vat here in Italy and 149$ are the cost for delivery to Italy...

 

specs say that it is less than an inch thick...is that true?

 

Wait a second, whenever i ordered the shipping price to Derby UK was 215-240$ UPS express. What tax? Isn't that included in the price?

 

I mean whenever I was calculating the final price for a laptop, I never actually ordered one. Im from croatia originally so I don't know about uk import laws

 

for countries to protect their market they charge tax once the item is at customs based on the items value

 

still if its all together 2200$, I can live with that

 

No, that's North America only I'm afraid

 

Here in belgium every device needs to have a standard 2 year warranty according to our law. I'm not sure if this consumer protecting law is the same in whole Europe but I doubt it.

 

You still get the 2 year international Asus warranty - just not the 1 year accidental damage. Accidental damage insurance is nearly always not included in normal warranties unless added as an extra so I think they'd be under no obligation to have that.

After all, it would be the user's fault and not the companies if the laptop broke due to an accident. Only the original parts are covered.

 

Accidental warranty sounds almost too good to be true. Just makes me wonder how much the fine print would limit you to certain certain scenarios under specific conditions and what not. Sheesh. Plus, there are many many ways to abuse that warranty. Hey, my laptop looks a bit old. Oooops. " I accidentally dropped it".

I guess no one in there right mind would abuse it since the hassle of sending the laptop over to ASUS and getting the terms and conditions straightened out would simply out way the benefit of getting the same laptop just more shinier.... Still, I wouldn't mind having it; I have too many intoxicated kids running around in my apartment at times.

 

Well, as long as you live in North America, you'd get the accidental damage warranty as standard

 

I'm in Australia. So this discourse is actually absolutely pointless =P. Sorry....lol


Just filling up the time waiting for it....

 

All right guys, this is my view, i already preordered early in the month but now i am debating, i was going to get m17x with dual 4870s. is that 4870 256 bit? and go witht heb est dual or quad? other than the 9300, so sad this isnt 256.

 

So according to the advert that DT84 posted on pg 171, this should be available with options of i5 and also the i7 620m? Would the i7 620m be better for gaming if the choice is between the i7 720qm or the i7 620m? I preordered it with the i7 720qm but I mostly play MMOs and such.

 

Yes the 4870 is 256bit. Any of the processors would have no trouble with gaming and all can be OC'ed.

 

it's cames with Stealth Fighter? maybe Iata can ask them?

anyway good quality plastic! more or less 4,3kg is quite heavy but a great achievement for a desktop replacement.
Also the next Alienware m17x(5,3kg) decide to follow this strategy.

 

I'd like to see a big picture of the backlighted keyboard, to check whether it's possible or not to add the stickers of an italian keyboard without affecting the backlighting.

 

Xoticpc just raised the price on the 920XM from i think $975 to now $1,119

 

Gentech has updated their product page with official info/pictures (not sure if anyone brought that up already).

The price on the 920XM is the same though still

 

thanks for the potential options - will look into it. i'm stuck on the "new shiny computer" idea (G73) and contemplating over it. i suppose i should be wondering how much computer i'll really need to do what i want - but before i threadjack here, i'll search around the site a bit. thanks for the help guys/gals.

 

Just for italians: we can get the i7 + 5870 GDDR5 + a hell lot of cool stuff (blue ray writer - UMTS card - 3 years awesome warranty - etc) in the Santech N56 for like 1700€. Nice thing is... that's a 15.4" notebook.

http://www.santech.it/shop/articoli.aspx?idArt=39

To see the real price, you must click on "Aggiungi al Carrello", the website sucks.

Now I'm really confused about what to buy. xD

 

That looks like a Clevo W860

 

Screen resolution doesn't go very high though from what I can see and it's still A LOT more expensive than if you were to buy it from a US reseller like Gentech, even with the shipping fees/import tax

 

Dunno why would anyone bother with the 620m if you can get 720 for about the same price.

the Core i7 720 already overclock via turbo boost to 2.400 which is equal to 2.800-2.900 Dual core 2 Duo and you wont need higher for gaming on a laptop the bottleneck will be your GPU not CPU Also performance will be much better for multitasking and video editing/encoding/decoding with better gaming if the game supported Quad cores

The whole Dual vs Quad thingy died when Intel introduced Turbo Boost technology for notebooks.

 

Gaming suite
Gaming Suite 6076.00
Gaming 1 43.48
GPU gaming 43.477 FPS
Gaming 2 10.44
HDD - gaming 10.441 MB/s
Gaming 3 3813.97
CPU gaming 17610.682 operations/s
Data decompression 825.998 MB/s
Gaming 4 135.26
GPU gaming 17.839 FPS
CPU gaming 13337.052 operations/s
HDD - gaming 10.401 MB/s

How do those scores compare to a 280M GTX.

Can someone run the gaming bench of PCMark Vantage at 1280 x 960?

 

3dMark06, pleeeeeeease~

 

http://tweakers.net/pricewatch/250845/asus-g73jh-tz034v.html

Here this is a nice webpage for Europe people,
there will be a list with shop that sell the G73, this is The Best site for laptops and desktops, so i trust this. Pitty the prices are still high.

Hope this site is usefull for you guys, it will update every day.

 

they needed to make money back from that group buy somehow because even the base price for the laptop has increased

 

Umm, what? Keep these posts out of this thread please.

 

Are these numbers good? bad? Are we able to get at least a baseline comparison on a computer with an i7 280m GTX as iaTa requested? Suprised no one commented on this...

 

Well, Gentech is the way to go now with that nice little increase.....

 

woops sorry

 

Anyway, I think I'm out. Considering that the Clevo here in Italy will have the same specs for less (without any problem due to shipping fees), I'll go with a Clevo. Possibly, once Guru Notebook (the cheapest one in EU) will add the 5870 to the Guru Fire i7.

 

the decisions to make!!! i think pouring over this and other threads have only added to my confusion and my wife's fury as i still can't decide what laptop to buy...maybe i'll have to start my own thread and have ya'll help me decide....what to do...what to do....

 

pull the trigger??? im gettin one and im in Iraq right now.. so!!! Saddle up battle!

 

Xotic Pc have also increased the base price form $1645 to $1675.

The best cooling solution is now an extra $45 instead of the original $15.

And removing the Bluray drive no longer saves you $99 but around $70.

I hope other retailers don't follow suit... Although they price match anyway so maybe they're just hoping to catch out the people who don't obsessively compare prices online?

 

I would so greatly appreciate a darn ETA right about now. I'm starting to hate the rig I have right now. -_-

 

Well, all we have so far are rumours and speculation but if a senior asus rep at CES really said end of January and all these European sellers which are being linked to are each putting that up as the date as well, I think we can feel pretty confident that wired.com's Q2 prediction was way off the mark.

Not long to wait now *crosses fingers*