Opinions on the Asus ASUS G73JH-A1 Screen

I know not too many people have them, but was wondering how the screen is. How are the viewing angles and colors?

I may need to preorder one due to the fact the M17X I have on order is taking way too long and I need something for 3D AutoCAD.

Thanks
AwHw

 

The screen on every Asus G73JH model is the same...

Sure, it is no Dell RGB LED but it is a very nice screen. It has wonderful rich color and nice contrast. My only small complaint might be I wish it had better vertical viewing angles, but it definitely isn't bad at all. It won't disappoint.

 

You have to be specific with the RBG. I know one member here who seems to have owned every performance laptop He would take the G73 screen over a Dell XPS RGB any day. But the Dell/Alienware RGB is a different beast and prefers that.

So pretty much aside from the Alienware RGB this is as good as they get for the time being.

 

The screen is very nice. I would also say that the vertical viewing angles are below average but everything else is above average including brightness and color.

 

It clips blacks at the lowest levels.

Other than that, It truly is an awesome screen with great brightness and color.

 

From some new user remarks I was under the impression that the vertical angles were quite good but the horizontal angles weren't great.

I'm interested to know how the g73 screen compares to the g51 screens which IMO are quite poor. When designing on the g51, an object near the top appears darker when near the bottom of the screen. Very uneven brightness/contrast levels from top to bottom. Really bad .. is it the same with the g73?

 

The Vertical viewing angles on mine were great it was the horizontals that are not so hot but no biggie.... The RGB in the M17x is just in another league but that's not to the say the G73 screen is not good because its a very good screen... The RGB was so bright that you had to turn it down or it was burning your eyes which is rare in a laptop ...

 

I've never seen the g51 screen but I would say the issue is similar to the G73.

 

here is a video of the view angles.

starts at 4:03 minutes into the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouKqnZm79mU

 

When he pushes the screen back and is viewing from below...that is the issue I see but the video actually looks a bit worse. Maybe my viewing angle was as extreme.

 

I don't know what they call it, but you can see it when the computer boots at the Microsoft logo. All four edges have light bleed, like the edges have a thinner coating than in the middle of the screen. Anything other than nearly all black and the screen looks great.

 

For $1,550, I don't think you can expect more. If you want better, there is better, it's the Alienware RGB.

That's the simple answer.

Or simply don't use notebook screens.

 

Having gone from a G51 to the G73, I can say the screen is a night and day difference. The G51 had one of the worst screens I had ever used. The G73 screen is in a different league from the G51.

 

That's great. Sure G series screens won't be professional grade or the thing would cost far far more but sounds like the g73 screen is good enough. I wanted a laptop to game AND work on so this series is perfect.

Even in the video it seemed that he needed to move the screen quite far to get that negative effect. I can get that looking straight on with a dark scene.

Thanks for the responses Still love my g51 even still

 

This might be a little irrelevant but mandrake , how easy was it for u to change the CPU to 920XM and how is the BIOS as regards to OCing... When i buy it . i'll most probably only get a 720qm and upgrade to 920xm myself... i'm a poor student...

 

If you know what you are doing should be ok. But time consuming. You have to take off the keyboard, the bottom everything.

The 920 unlocks the bios so you can overclock it. But the 720 and 860 I believe are locked. Only the 920 unlocks the bios.

Have fun with it.

Here is a picture Mandrake posted

 

Wow thanks for all the response...
Sounds like it will be fine, as stated above the price is right...
Well like I said i have the M17X on order but not sure if I'll ever get it so I will preorder from xoticpc.com or if any other sellers could be recomended.

Thanks again
AwHw

 

Yes, hit the benchmark thread. Lots of info there including how I OC'ed and pics of the bios.

 

The bleeding issue brought up has been floating around for years. It was even polled what people thought. I think bleeding is all but too normal though i did not notice it on the g73 most likely because i was not looking for it. if it is there it is faint and does not impede use. With that said a lot of people expect perfection for 1500$

 

The G73JH was my first laptop, as was my first experience with Windows 7, so perhaps I had higher expectations then most and more reason to stare at the screen the first time it was powered up. Like I mentioned, anything other than near dark and the screen looks great.

Unfortunately, I was never able to test how much of an impact the bleeding was under different conditions due to all the crashing. My experience with bleeding came from watching the dark logo screen a lot.

Be that as it may, IMO the bleeding was apparent from the beginning and adjusting the brightness down does smooth it out some. I think a buyer, especially a first time buyer, should be aware this does happen and, I guess, should considered bleeding as normal for cheap laptops.

 

crashing? dont think i saw that post. I had a crash during my very long review. It never repeated again. the thing that strikes me odd about the notebook is how it will not proceed without any hard drives and circles into bios automatically when both hard drives are out. I ve said this in the past and i say it again. There is no sych thing as a perfect notebook.

 

I know we've had this screen compared to the Alienware RGB screen, but has anyone had the opportunity to compare it to the Sager NP8760 screen? This ASUS and that Sager (Clevo 870) are my final two choices... need to narrow it down to the final choice..

 

The thread is located here.

Once it started to crash I could get it to crash on command by going to the "Ease of Access Center". Re-installing the OS from the Recovery and Drivers discs only delayed the crashing.

Could that have something to do with the way BIOS defaults to the hard drive instead of the DVD drive as first boot device?

I understand that the boot time can be trivially faster with the hard drive in boot order slot number one, but it's nice to have the DVD drive immediately accessible for booting.

The thing that puzzles me is what's written in The A$U$ Info Booth - Read before posting sticky thread at the top of this forum. Specifically item number 13, which reads in part:

"Alternatively, enter the BIOS and change the order of the boot devices to have the ODD or removable device at the top (whichever you need). The disadvantage of this method is that once you're done you need to go back and change it back to the way it was".

I see no reason why you would " need" to change it back.

However, there are different levels leading up to perfection. In the case of bleeding on the G73 screen, IIRC, the notebook defaults with the brightness level turned all the way up.

Try this, with the brightness turned all the way up and in a dark room, go to Control Panel and change the screen saver to "Blank" and click the "Preview" button.

On my G73's the bleeding is all around the display and extends into the screen over an inch as it fades into the normal Blooming one would expect to see. The first quarter of an inch being the worse and the most noticeable.

You can change the viewing angle or brightness accordingly to improve on it some. But again, as long as the G73 isn't displaying a nearly all dark screen it's great. It's also possible that our screens have different levels of perfection. Perhaps my G73 was more of a lemon than I originally thought?

 

You may be in luck as I am pretty sure that a reseller has stated that they have the exact same screen.