Asus G73JW as replacement for BB G73jh

I have owned the Best Buy G73jh for 2 months now and noticed that there are no Best Buys selling this model anymore. If Best Buy is phasing this model out, any ideas if you will be able to exchange the G73jh model for the G73jw model if I purchased the extended warranty through bestbuy and my G73jh dies? ( this is my 2nd BB model as the first one died a horrible death).

 

If they don't have another option, then yeah probably.

 

Seeing that the new model has a 120hz screen and 480m im sure it is going to be more expensive. I've never had a warranty exchange for a laptop, I was worried that BB would try to do an exchange for a cheaper model instead of a more expensive model. Would I have to pay the differance?

 

Would be worth it I think.

 

For sure. I wonder if Asus is for sure phasing out the G73jh. Its a great selling inexpensive model. I would tend to think that this model would live on with the newer JW being the more expensive model to coexist with the JH. Heres to hoping though!!

 

I guess it would all depend on what the terms of the warranty are.

But I believe it is reasonable to assume that if you had a problem with the unit (real or otherwise), and you wanted it exchanged with a unit of higher value, you would have to pay the difference.

 

Perhaps. Perhaps you could insist on equal dollar price replacement, as well. Sometimes, you'll get lucky and they'll bump you up if they've got extra stock of a high end unit ... but I wouldn't expect that they do it.

Now, when asus replaces a broken laptop under warranty, they do often bump you up to a better model if your model has been refreshed/is no longer offered.

 

how do you know it has that screen and card

 

Bestbuy is known to run out of stock with some time for restocking, specially the G73jh success, im guessing the Bestbuy version also sold a lot specially at $1199, the G71 was out of stock for two months when mine got stolen, replaced with a last batch that appear for couple of weeks, then sold out again, then the G72 replaced it with the release of G72.

I dont think we are so close to a release of the G73JW yet, probably just went out of stock.

 

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Don't hold your breath for too long. It took a good 2 months after the initial release of the G73JH before BB got their watered down model.

No date has been announced for the release of the G73JW but for now it's just that, an announcement. It probably won't hit store before late this summer and then you will probably have to wait a little for BB to get their version.

Don't expect much before maybe september.