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

Lolz I love ASUS if the G51JX didn't have delayed shipment dates pushed 3 times already I would have purchased one. I'm sure I will be more than happy with the Alienware. I would have purchased the G51j-A1 months ago if I hand't seen a 200 thread post about an unresolved BSOD issue. Bottom line it is Asus's fault for me not owning a G series.....

 

I love my Eee PC 1201N. This thing is way better than that clunky G73.

 

Let's be real. This thing is 1600 dollars. It doesn't have esata, expresscard, displayport. What other laptop out there can even compare to the internal components this thing is providing at anywhere near the cost. I can't think of one.

What it DOES have is the newest Ati mobile card out there, a nice 17 inch 1080p screen, what looks to be a good cooling system, ridiculously good battery life, and lots of horsepower under the hood. Like someone else said: This thing is like an exotic sports car. It's kinda impractical, but you know that going into the purchase. It's super fast and flashy, but it lacks standard comforts. I think we all understand this by now. It's not for everyone. If it's not for you, then just move onto something else.

 

Ok, so why are you posting in a thread of a machine you have no intention of buying? Is the AlienWare forum really that boring?

 

Lol ive never understood people who do that

 

Explain how any of what I said is a contradiction? For what we are paying we are getting a notebook with just as much if not more power than other notebooks $500 more. You are getting A LOT for what you are paying for. You should not expect it to have every imaginable feature for a $1600 notebook especially with some of the firepower that this thing will bring to the table.

 

Because they spend to much time on NBR and cant help themseves is all i can make of it....

I dont know why people feel compelled to comment on things they have no intention of buying either and better yet why is it that 99% of time its always negative ?...

Thats just how it is here so people need to get used to it....

You could always go to there neck of the woods and start slamming on there choices but lets hope you have more class then that ...

 

I dunno I think it's more analogous to a souped up honda civic than anything exotic. If it was built out of high quality material and had every option needed including RGB LED then you could make the exotic claim..hey that sounds like an Alienware! I'm just bored right now (yes the AW forum is boring right now) so I figured I'd rile you up a bit evensen.


/runs away back to the AW forum.

 

lol its not that I have more class than that but I have better things to do with my time

 

Well theres always that to but there are many who do not clearly ....

I spend lots of time on these boards but i just enjoy reading what others say and comment when i feel the NEED to not what ever is on my mind... If i did that i would 40,000 posts and 90% of that would be worthless...

 

yet you bought an alienware M15X when the previous M15X had heat/hinge issues, and the current M15X has known throttling issues on the GPU/CPU which are known and downtalked by Dell. I get really sick of opening up this forum and talking about Alienware like they were made by the hand of god, and then I go lurk in the alienware forum and see a dozen pages of issues with all AW models. I'm just going to start reporting the blatant fanboyism and asus flaming I see in here, as its pointless and rediculous.

 

Did a customerisation on Dell's website, it cost more than 3000 USD for get similar spec to the ASUS G73JH that I will be getting.

btw, Dell quality laptop really leave a lot to be desired..... (personal experience)

 

How many times did we go through this alienware vs asus thing in this thread alone?
We should stop being so childish, both brands have their positivity and negativity.

 

Well Evensteven if you read some of my previous posts I am still in the market to buy the G73 I stated I would use the Alienware when it arrives and then probably purchase the G73. If the G51 was out I would have purchased that before the Alienware but I am totally new to that market. Why don't you mind your own business. Have you ever heard of owning more than one laptop?? My idea Alienware on the go & the office / G73 as my permanent home desktop swap.

About my previous post regarding buying the G51j-A1 I was still in the market to buy that months ago and figured the BSOD would be resolved went on the forum and asked if I should still buy it and about 8 users informed me not to from the Asus community and to wait for the x waited waited waited purchased the m15x which ironically is not being shipped till about the time these laptops get released haha. But either way I love the G73 design and specs wish it had eyefinity but for the price you try putting those specs into an m17x you will be north of 2500. Why can't we have the best of both words an asus and alienware.

 

What is the travel time for ASUS G73 from Taiwan to the States... and when do the re-sellers get notified of that shipment?

 

I am not trying to bash, but am seeing a trend is all (in the machines, not the people here)

I am not trying to rain on anyones parade

It is absolutely true that the G73 packs a HUGE amount of punch for the price. But you cannot go around thinking it is the end all be all of value gaming laptops.

I know it has been mentioned here numerous times and is not so popular, but the M15x is an excellent comparison.You can price it to be the same as the G73. Yes it will probably perform about 15% less in 3D applications, but at the same time you will get alot more features. So it is simply a trade off for the buyer, features or raw performance. Some of the features I am referring to are:

Build quality - I am sure the Asus will be nice but the cooing of the M15x is known and proven and it is hard to be much more durable than aluminum
ExpressCard
Slot load Optical Disk drive
AlienFX - sure they are a personal taste, but I (and many others) really like them
DisplayPort - allowing you to have potential eyefinity (no one knows if this would actuall work or not yet - but it gives options)
Built-in IR Receiver (not sure if the G73 has this or not, but know the M15x does)

Those are of course all personal taste and preference, but just thought I would throw it out there. They may very well be worth it to the customer making the choice.

 

he would mind his own business I imagine, if you weren't here spouting off about asus. you added your business to the show in a public forum, if you don't like people taking it and running with it, you might as well not post.

 

Flaws are not brand wide but model to model...just like Asus and any other manufacturer.

And what did the cost of your G73 come out to? When you only give one side of the equation it is easy to sound dramatic. People will assume you are referring to the base G73 for about $1700 which I am sure you are NOT.

I absolutely agree, both brands do have plusses and minusses. More people need to realize this.

I am trying to remain completely objective here, I do prefer my alienware - that is why I bought it, but that does not mean my eyes are closed to all other laptop brands in the world.

 

Lol, I propose someone make a AlienWare Versus Asus thread and then we'll make a thread that is something along the lines of authentic Native American headdresses Versus rare documentaries dealing with the mating rituals of hammerhead sharks.

Entertaining though, Joker and Evenson going at it commando style. And that's kudos to the both of them.


Quick question though, that actually pertains to the spirit of the thread: Would a CPU intensive game like Empire Total War benefit from an upgrade to the 820QM or will it just be bucks wasted on very meager performance gains?

 

they are matters of personal preference, and if someone was looking for those options :O they'd find the alienware site. if it was of any importance to them, they wouldn't be looking here after finding out the G73 has it, and bam, end of discussion, the need for people to constantly say the alienware blah blah model has this spec, if they wanted an AW they'd be in that forum. there is ABSOLUTELY ZERO REASON for you to be posting here at all.

 

My apologies didn't mean to offend you.

 

I would imagine that thread would break every rule in the forums haha in 1 day. But for s#its and giggles Lets make the thread i'm sure allot of people have opinions to point out that would not be approved in these brand specific forums but a hybrid forum of the 2 would suffice.

 

You do not have to own a laptop to have something to say about it.....

That is a pretty elitist mentality. I have made as many helpful/constructive posts as "argumentative" ones in this thread. People come here to learn and help others (for the most part). I have no personal claim in what laptop is better than the others. My laptop is not #1 anymore because you can get the same thing with i7 now, I am fine with that. I do not have to have the best laptop in the world - because that is just a spending battle and represents no knowledge or skill whatsoever.

 

I never said you had to own it, but you also have no right to bash it if you 1. have no intentions of buying it. 2. can only compare it to systems that are way out of its price range or 3. keep repeating the same things over and over about the system that have been dragged through the mud in this thread repeatedly. you have something to say about it, you said it, yet you and others keep arguing those facts, and you shouldn't. this is not a debate forum, this is a forum for those interested in purchasing these laptops.

 

my customerised ASUS came out to be $2490 USD, including the cost of shipping to Australia.

Same spec Alienware cost $3397 USD ( excludes shipping cost)


go figure.....

 

Just checking, I am sure you can understand why both prices would need to be shown for a fair comparison

 

ENJOY


The FORUM Alienware vs Asus so we can keep it out of this forum and move it to the following HAPPY! : http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=455633

 

Well said. Only a couple of us on this forum I believe have played with, felt, caressed, and worked with this machine with their own hands in person. I being one of them and think this is an EXCELLENT CHOICE, especially for the price. The only reason I'm not getting it is that I am waiting for an SLI model to come out with either the new ATI or nVidia cards. If you’re not waiting for that GO FOR THIS ONE!

 

No problem, bro.

TBH, I seriously considered about getting an Alienware 2 month ago because apparently it has all the latest technology. However, I changed my mind and decided to look elsewhere as soon as I saw the price after customerisation and the fact Alienware was bought by Dell

 

This is 100% a speculation thread...so I can speculate just as well as someone who spent money on this and has not held it yet. This is absolutely a debate forum. I am not telling anyone how to spend their money - simply attempting to give an outside perspective. I can understand how everyone here is excited for this laptop. I do not blame you for it. But that excitement can easily make you blind to other options (I have been guilty of this as well, don't worry).

I do not consider the price range of the M15x and the G73 to be that different....sure if you max one or the other out there will be a big price delta, but most people do not do that.

I have not read all 440+ pages of this thread, I am not going to pretend to have done so. I have read much of it but have missed stuff too. I am sorry if what I said was a repeat. But at the same time, I would not have said it if I did not think it worth saying.

 

I cannot steer you one way or the other, but the fact that Dell owns alienware is not a con. Their customer service under Dell is far and away better than it was as Alienware and I can say that the build quality of my M17x has NOTHING to be un happy with. From what I have heard so far, the M15x has equally high build quality. The M11x (this is also speculation) also looks to be very high build quality but only time will tell there.

 

but you, and others, have said it repeatedly, over and over. you say you come to give a different perspective but when 2-3 of you hop in every few pages and go "but the G73 doesn't have this while the alienware blah does!!!11!" thats not debate, thats not speculating. what you're doing is not speculating, what you're doing is repeatedly dredging up the same topics over and over to put the asus in a dim light and alienware in a spotlight.

 

I'm on my iPhone and I made sure to zoom in on that pic

.... Just figured I'd throw something off topic to

 

The Asus is EASILY in a spot light over the Alienware....its price is second to none for what you will get - I absolutely agree here.

And you mention us Alienware owners being repetitive....but while we are pointing fingers....how much stuff has had to have been repeated for or by Asus (future) owners?

 

Nagasawa Masami is definitely worth the zoom in

 

the future asus owners can read the thread, if they don't want to or are too lazy too, they ask again. that is completely different from the same group of 4-5 people repeatedly posting the same crap over and over.

 

How about all of y'all shut up

the alienware ismore and has alot of features the asus doesn't

the asus is cheaper And there is no other laptop as good as it in the price range


Now one is better but cost much much more.

No need to compare them just leave it be .... Eachto their own no one cares about your e-peen or how awsome your laptop is. They just care about theirs

.....

 

I'm not trying to say one is better than the other, I'm just trying to get the annoying asus flaming/alienware worshipping out of this thread.

 

Yeah, way to go trolling the trollers, bro.

 

Hey do I need to link the bsod issues your average gpu temps or wosd's


????

Every lLaptop has issues ...


So please every shut shut up !

 

ahhhhh, ok, time for my nitely dose of NBR, in my fav G73JH thread......

Huh? What's this?..... all this Alienhead talk..... I must be in the wrong thread again..... lemme back outta here.......

 

LOL, man I had the same thought crossing my mind right now

 

Hmmmm, I am in the right thread........ AWwwww NO! IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN!

****WARNING****WARNING****TROLL PATROL****TROLL PATROL****

MODS! OHhhhhhh MODS !!!

GEEZZzzzzzzz !!!

LOL!

 

but you say you get what you pay for, the much more expensive alienware SHOULDN'T have those issues.

 

yeah, aliens invading the Earth known as ASUS. Where is Tom Jones when you need him?

 

If it makes you all feel any better, the G73 gets mentioned alot in the alienware threads as well.

We have a whole thread based on predicting the 5870m performance based off information from this thread. The forum titles are not law on what can and cannot be discussed

 

So you guys talk about Asus laptops in your own Alienware forums and talk alienware in our forums? lol

 

Then you did not READ the threads....we whole heartedly agree and have spent alot of time troubleshooting and complaining to dell to get fixes.

Dell is trying to make good on these problems by fixing them at least and not leaving their customers out to dry

 

We talk about both in both

It is that dual perspective thing again

 

Based on that arguement you say your laptop is cheap so it's ok to have them ?

I know it won't otherwise I wouldn't of preordered




PLEASE EVERY ONE JUST LEAVE IT ALONE.

There is no need to troll ..