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

Thanks for the welcome and help from all the replies. Even though I wanted a 15" this baby has everything I want. Can't wait to get my hands on it. As far as my name its the name of my favorite character in a funny movie. Not saying I have money to burn though lol.

 

I will vouch for powernotebooks. The guys over there have helped me with my machine . They have answered all my questions no problem.

They also help others with their business which is a huge deal for me.

Here i come G73

 

Yay Moo! Now post on the owner's lounge like the rest of the cool kids

 

i must not be able to PM you yet (maybe not enough posts?) but was wondering (hopefully not a stupid question)...how do you ensure that your brand new g73 doesn't grow legs and walk away in a deployed setting?

do we plug lappies into the same sockets in a deployed setting - need for big surge protectors or not?

how many cans of that spray will you go through to prevent all that sand from screwing up the laptop?!?!?

(I'm sure I have more but those come to mind at the moment)...

 

I totally have g73 envy...I totally want to just say "screw it" and pre-order....oh what to do!?!?!

 

LOL! The Owner's Lounge has officially been re-named to the........

*Official ASUS G73JH Crew Member's Lounge*

Nobody noticed!

 

Damn Striker now I need to make a sig picture with that title xD

 

LOL!

My new SIG is courtesy of fellow Crew Member, EIement (very cool Bro!, Thanks again!)!

 

Just a quick question about the mxm (or whatever ati calls their mobile slot). I know that asus reverses the pinout on the module so you cannot upgrade it with a normal module, but would you be able to upgrade it with an asus module?

 

Oh dude, we should get him to make an official one for everyone LOL I remember his G51 looked pretty good

As far as I remember, yes you can.

 

I won't be able to order this machine till the end of feb, when my exams get over and i become a doctor!
so, i was thinking of waiting till CeBIT 2010 (mar 2-6) gets over. fermi will probably be released there along with with new mobile solution(if it exists). Clevo is also going to announce their new notebooks then, and maybe hopefully their 3D notebook might be affordable and awesome

Now all of what i said makes complete sense in my head, but whenever i see a pic/vid of this machine i feel like buying it right now!!

 

Is it really worth it to wait til March-ish for Fermi though? I know about all the serious hype, but I'm just wondering. I'm waiting to pull the trigger and get a new laptop, but this makes me pause for a sec...

 

Fermi's mobile chip will most likely not even be out by March...so I don't know..if you need a machine now, get this. If you want to wait for a Fermi mobile chip then it can be as long as like 6 months later (who knows)

 

Agreed! I came up with the title in gest, and EIement's creative mind went to work, LOL! I think he suggested something to that effect.

YEAH, Crew Member tags!

 

So you actually have one of these already striker? like, physically have it?

 

so what happened to iaTa? i thought he was going to run 3Dmark06 and stuff?

 

No, but I am fully vested..... and standing in line (1st in line) like everyone else.

 

Too much fun in Vegas! (let him have his fun.... he'll be back!)

 

Silent lurker here - have decided to take the plunge with this beast.

Any opinions on whether the 400$ upgrade to i7-820QM is worthwhile

cheers

 

iaTa is probably recovering from sensory overload!

 

Or he probably stolen one of the promo models and has now gone into hiding.

 

That upgrade to the 820 would be worth it for most people. You get better turbo boost as well as more cache. Both good things to have

 

Yea and noone can find him because its based on a Stealth bomber

 

According to this dutch website http://www.automatiseringgids.nl/te...r-vertraging-voor-nvidias-fermiprocessor.aspx the fermi project has major issues: the chips are too big, make to much heat, are ful with errors which they can't seem to fix, and the promised power is already lessened by 1/8.

 

I would agree if the upgrade was 200$ and not 500! Not worth that price difference IMO. In 6 months you will be able to buy it for half that or better.

 

So my June predictions are pushed back even farther

 

Wow, did not realize the price delta was so large....is normally a $350 difference or so, for $500 more I would say not worth it

 

mmmk my G51VX is boxed up and I miss it already haha. It was my only PC so I pulled my 500mhz P3 out of the closet lolz...10GB HDD..384mb ram ftw.

 

An early congrats for you then - but that's a pretty odd time (feb) to become a doctor...and may i ask...a doctor of what? (Ph.D, M.D, O.D, DDS, etc)

 

Dude, I boxed up my G51J too, its going bye bye tmw. But I have my desktop keeping me company in the meantime till the G73 ships

 

I don't think there is a set period for graduating as a doctor, you just take as many years as you need (usualy 3-4 in combination with work) to complete your research, then you present it in front of some kind of jury, and voila, you become a made man ^^

 

being totally witless around laptops....could one buy a base g73 and let's say, in a year, plop in a i7 820 or 920(?) and make it work? kind of like what one would do in a desktop computer?

 

Works, but if you do it yourself, it'll void the warranty.

 

I have a desktop too...it was just built in like 1995..

 

That's lame man, you're gonna be using that for at least this month then

 

wow hahhahhahhahh

 

So what's the deal with Xotic changing their pricing so frequently?

 

Acer does the same with its graphic cards. Thats why so many acer models have an easy switchable gpu using an mxm slot.
Sony/Dell for example also constantly offer better cpu's in their same models.

 

You will have a very fancy desktop soon enough

 

http://i.imagehost.org/download/0002/untitled_8

 

Dang....I got a laptop faster than that!


VERY interested to see what kind of benches this new Asus will pull though, I also am eager to see some pics of the insides, as the G51 cooling was obviously lacking - I want to see what they tried here

 

hehehe...I think ima OC this beast =D...lol. And yea, they definitely did a better job here than cooling the G51. Just from the few press shots they showed, dual heatpipes and dual fans.

 

M.B.B.S. and i'm in India, timings here different..
and well i technically won't be becoming a doc then, i still have to do a 1 yr internship and then i get my degree and license!
but since so many doc's here in India, wont be gettin a decent job till i do my MD/MS so thats atleast 3-4 years more :/

Since, dont want post to be completely off-topic... someone had posted a amazon link of G73 pre-order which was removed quickly, is it back up?

 

hope the GPU cooling is good, the W90 GPU cooling was not impressive to me (although the CPU cooling was)

 

I know its dangerous to make generalizations but ren't ati cards usually cooler than nvidia? (remember their overheating 8series? I'll never forgive nvidia that).

 

that's what i figured...what about in 2 years when the ASUS warranty has expired...could one then slap on a new CPU or is this something a trained professional should likely do instead?

i've always heard that when you buy a laptop, you're kinda stuck with it - that most laptops only allow you to change HDs and memory...but if at some point in time, one could swap out the CPU safely, that'd be an added bonus. From the little i understand though, GPUs typically are not things that can be upgraded huh? (e.g. in a G73)

 

i have no idea what a mxm slot is...could you "dumb it down" for me please?

 

^--^
This is not really true.

Changing a processor is not that difficult, and if you have a good support team available from you vendor you should be able to get them to walk you through the process if you need help with it.

There are also plenty of guides on the Internet. Just Google for them.

 

You'll find everything here http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=396320

 

what about with GPUs...are you stuck with what you buy with the orignial laptop or like the other poster had mentioned, swapping is possible with ACER laptops?

oddly enough, i have no problems partcipating in surgeries on people, but i find it very intimidating -the prospect of opening up a laptop and trying to put a new processor in....