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

No say it aint so.......

Haha figured it would get moved back again......another week of wait time.

 

Wow I can expect quite a few people are going to shed a silent tear when they read that. Now I really hope I make it into the first shipment cause March 2 is a looong ways away.
Now I can bask in the glory of being right in one of my first posts where I postulated that the release date was too close for no confirmations and that most likely it will be delayed

 

Silent my azz!

Lets burn this mother****er down!

That sucks. It doesn't sound like I'll have it in time for my big beach lan party.

 

Maybe, you know...the previous old date (Feb 10th and Feb 17th) shipments merged into 1 shipment date. Just to save cost. Who knows!

 

ATI Confirms Grey Screen Issue, Promises Fix

While AMD has confirmed a bug in the Catalyst drivers that results in crashes, it claims it only affects a "small number" of users.

Company spokesman Dave Erskine has stated that "only a small number of ATI Radeon HD 5800 series and ATI Radeon HD 5700 series cards are exhibiting the behaviour" and promises that " the [Radeon] team is testing a driver hotfix and initial tests indicate that it resolves the issue."

 

As we have seen with releases going back to the W90 along with the G50/G70 series this unfortunately follows previous trends with past ETA's.

 

Well well.....March is still Q1 right...getting close to Q2 though......tick...tock

 

That 5870 is looking ....er....better ? Of course there going to say a "small number" I mean what ya wamt..."our whole shipment up till now is FUBAR" ?

 

Get a life.

 

Say what you want, I am not gonna jump on aneother asus/ati marriage early adopter....got screwed over once....not again and that just reinforces my point.

 

is there any information about the size of the shipments? I was planning on being in the third shippment in march but now it seems that the third shipment (if it exists) will come in mid to late march.
Or did they merge shipments 1 and 2 together and the second shipment in march is now equivelent to what we thought would be third shipment?
I would hate to get my laptops past march...

 

I lol'ed at work. Serious.

 

From what Ken said on the other thread (or was it this one) there's still room in the 2nd shipment. Mind you this was before Justin posted the whole 1 week delay for 1st shipment.

 

Any idea how big the first shipment is?

 

Well that news will def change peoples minds on pre-order or cancel all together. I was already expecting 2nd shipment and now waitin til March for sure now. Not sure I want to wait over a month.

 

who cares about your experience?
we don't need your negativity here. This thread alone you didn't provide anything constructive yet told us about your bad experience with Asus.
go cry somewhere else, will ya?

 

Just wondering, but what would you get otherwise?

 

I hear ya, the waiting is tough! At the very least, this extra time will give some people some space to view other machines that might come out from other vendors as well. It might also give some people time to get their tax refunds in the bank to order it!

 

I waited for a month and now I need to wait another half a month?
oh god. If I stop posting here I might have died from anxiety.

 

I'm guessing some other vendors like Toshiba, MSI, and Dell may introduce some models with the m5870.

 

wwoods, your chosen path is obvious, by looking at your SIG. So why come to this thread and badger? You aren't going to become another Alienhead troll, are you?

I posted an update about the 'grey screen' issue, because concerns of this were raised earlier in this thread. I was trying to be helpful..... your negativity is not. Are these post of yours here, really necessary wwoods?

 

"Fans Kim with a piece of paper"

 

we're just feeding the troll. let's be smart and ignore him now.

 

No doubt I ordered mine on Jan 8th and my current lappy is barely working.....wait is killing me as well.

 

Who else would jump if another OEM releases i7 w/5870XF before that time? I'm guessing lots. Asus should not allow the competition to catch up and release 5870s also.

 

You'd still have to wait though! At least with this model, there is a fairly finite amount of time you'd have to wait. It's already been announced, and most of the places you pre-order do not charge you until the item is ready to ship.

I guess what I'm saying is patience is a virtue

 

Just breathe bro, if you die, someone else will get your laptop

 

No doubt. I'm not jumping ship; just explaining what other vendors might be up to. Although a 5870 xfire.......

 

I don't know what to do I work from home so I need a laptop now!I guess I can go buy a laptop from bestbuy and just take it back in two weeks untill my laptop comes in.(i know thats low but what else can I do)

 

Yeah, that's low

 

So no one has one yet?

 

nope. not even resellers.

 

<----- went to Kmart this morning and purchased a 2 week supply of virtue. Should be good now...

 

Wait, what? You picked up a 2 week supply of virtue, but no patience? I think you might still have a problem...

 

Ive been saving up for a new gaming rig (without having anything to play on) for over half a year now. Two more weeks aint gona kill me. I think...

 

Patience was included, but batteries were separate...

 

Spec sheets vary widely on the Asus G73JH-A1. For example both EXcaliberpc and J&R list the model as having the following:
1 x IEEE 1394 port
1 x E-SATA
1 x ExpressCard 54/34 slot
Other resellers such as Xoticpc and Gentech omit these ports. Justin, from Xocticpc, confirmed to me by email that the G73JH-A1 does not have them.

We need those ports, as well as the Raid0 capability, because we are building a poratable video capture station.

What's up with this specification variability? Is it resller customization, or sloppy specmanship?

 

you can trust the resellers rather than stores like J&R. They probably didn't update it yet.

 

Dude, from Kmart? How virtuous can it be, really?

 

Check the pictures yourself.....those ports are not there.....both GenTech and Xotic have confirmed no firewire, esata, or expresscard.

Some of my other options if this keeps getting pushed back include:
Acer 8940G
Toshiba 805
Sony F11

The Sony only has 1 HD but other other two have options for 2 HD's I believe....not sure on the raid options as I wasnt planning on using Raid so never really looked.

 

I got the Socrates Brand Virtue, s'posed to be top notch. So far it's working, the ants in the pants have stayed away despite the additional wait. Only time will tell

 

Or, for a portable video capture system look at the ASUS N71JQ.

It has:
1x ExpressCard
3x USB 2.0
1x USB 3.0
1x eSATA
1x HDMI
2x Hard Drives

 

Another great option....as a matter of fact I may look at this instead of waiting what I feel will almost certainly be another push back into March which I'm not willing to wait for.

Would have to drop to a 1600x900 screen and a 5730 but considering I dont play much of anything past WoW might not be much of an issue...current lappie is 1440x900 so still an improvement in resoluton. Would gain the extra ports including a USB 3.0 which would be nice and could afford to upgrade to a full blu-ray writer instead of just a reader or stay with the reader and save some cash.

 

I agree, the N series is pretty nice. Well designed with the latest technology (blu-ray, USB 3.0 etc). How does the 5830 video card compare to say, a 260M? Sorry abit OT. I guess others may be interested in looking for a different model due to these delays!

 

so Donald/Justin/Ken, can you guys give us any information whether it's just everything pushed back or would shipment one and shipment two be merged into one (i.e. a larger shipment on 17th Feb to cater for everyone who were originally on shipment 1 & 2)?

 

G73Jh-A2 will arrive first which is Feb. 10th and A1 got push back to Feb. 17th.

 

no way. Ken, so I'm getting the Feb 17th one?
I took bluray out.

 

Ken, would this have anything to do with the shortage of blu-ray players due to the fire at the factory of the major manufacturer of blu-ray players I've been reading about?

 

1. Since we never know how many are coming in or how many will be allocated to each reseller there is no way to know if the 2/10 and 2/17 shipments were combined.

2. Anyone that pre-ordered with the Combo Dual Layer DVD +/-R/RW CD-R/RW Drive originally will get the A2, so the chances are that only those who pre-ordered very early will be affected by the one week delay to 2/17.

 

People who ordered without BD we can just switch to A2 instead.

That could be however, Asus not very open on talking about the reason for delay. But I was told there is a very big shipment stuck on US custom waiting for inspection, it happens twice a year to Asus.