did i make a mistake?

Alright, i think i jumped the gun and ordered a G53SX after some advice in the forums. Then i read that the gpu in the SX is gimped and now i feel like an idiot. Thing is my budget is low and i went over it when i ordered the SX. Now i keep reading that the 460 is still better than the gimped 560. Amazon has a SW XN1 for less than 1k and a jh for around 850-940. My question is should i cancel the order? If so, which one should i get, the SW or the JH? Also, i dont need it to last me a long time, just more or less 2 yrs when i make capt. And should be able to afford the newest thing in the block.

 

I went with the SX because it seems that the SW has terrible reliability.

 

Crossroads man, what would entertain us if it wasnt for them ...
Between the 53 and 73, its really a matter of having a HUGE and heavy thing on your lap pad or a nice 15 inch pretty heavy laptop, I d rather have bought a 15 inch laptop to also hold me for 1 & half years till i could afford whatever i choose, but for the price i found it there was no going wrong for 8GB DDR3Ram/2 HDs/a 17inch 1080P screen,the ATI 5870/intel i7 i had to jump on it. I can tell you one thing about the G73JH , its HUGE .
Im in love with it for that price i payd, but if in your situation if you're gonna spend the $800-1100 for a laptop i would stick with the G53SX . I dont know what kind of gaming and work you do but if you feel like it will hold it for you for the 2 years, stick with it .
The g73jh kills me not having a USB 3.0 or a esata port to connect my main external hard drive that i have to connect on USB 2.0 and even worst doesnt have a PCIE card slot which is what i had to add 2 esatas to my old XPS1530 and have all my files on sata speeds, but then again i dont need a external hard drive having 2x HDs on this but between having 2 HDs + the usb3.0 on a 15inch, it bothers me .
I say you stick with he 53sx specially if it has 1440x900+ Res with 2 hard drives, usb3 ...
This is my first ATI video card based computer ever, all computers i had before were Nvidia GForces and maybe its because im only with this computer for 6 days now, but i like Nvidia graphics/images way more, ATI does seem a little more vivid solid colors, but it seems glitch as hell and skips between frames on games, all my other systems with Nvidias had somewhat crispier image on games and less glitches skips between frames, maybe i need to tune my video card a little more, but thats the thing ... I DIDNT have to tune the nvidias to not be glitchy.
At the end they are all nice computers SX JH SW i d rather always have 15 inches specially if it has the same kind of hardware a 17 holds .

 

as a g73jh owner, I love my notebook, it's worked perfectly out of the box and plays every game out there. up on tell now, but with the Vbios updates and using the newest ati drivers it now works great once again.

here is my problem with it. the screen res is way too high. some applications are very very hard to read, i had to goto the optometrist and get new reading eyeglass because it just give me way too much eye strain at the default screen res, 1920x1080 makes everything too small for a 17" notebook and I could never find any real options in windows to fix this problem other then turning down the res but that makes the screen less sharp. if I could find a time traveling delorean, I would get a 15" gaming notebook at a smaller screen res. That's the real problem with these notebooks, unrealistic screen size. but it's not really that big of a deal, it's just something I didn't think would bug me so much. I have a lot of eye strain problems so It's sorta a deal breaker for me.

I can only play a computer game for about an hour before my eyes feel like they are going to fall out of my head.

 

This really depends on what you want. If you like to play games at max settings, you're gonna have quite some trouble with a gimped GPU. If you don't mind playing at lower settings, it'll do the job.

 

G53sw would have been the best option.

 

Well the SX is still on backorder on tigerdirect so i still have a chance to cancel it and go with either a G53sw or the 53jh. So cancel then? Which one has the better gpu, the sw or the jh? Also i dont have to have max settings. As long as i can play on high and maybe very high on some games im good. If the gimped 560 is better than the 6770 in the dv6t i might then just keep it and wait until the next best thing comes in 2 yrs

 

You mentioned in an earlier post that the GTX460 has poor reliability. While it's not the most reliable card out there, as long as you keep an eye on the temperatures, it's fine. And the GTX560 is pretty much the same card, built with the same technology, in other words equally unreliable. Or reliable, since I just did 100 hours in Skyrim on my G53SW-A1 with temps between 75-85 oC and nothing bad happened. It would take years of regular use to see such abuse.

If I were you, I'd cancel the G53SX order and get a G53SW. It's the exact same laptop minus the gimped video card.

I have also discovered a solution to the tiny fonts on a 15.6in 1920x1080 screen. You can set Windows 7 to scale the fonts and screen elements 10% higher, and for my eye sight it's perfect. Still get to keep the sharpness of the native resolution, but everything is perfectly legible. I found that scaling up 25% is too much.

 

Thats good because i have eyesight problems and i have a hard time seeing letters at full hd. If the sw has everything except a gimped card i might as well cancel and get it. I might not get one with blueray but the gpu is more important. Now lets see if i can find one for less than 1k because budget is limited and i already went over it with the SX

 

Ok found these at amazon:
new
ASUS G Series G53SW Notebook Intel Core i7 2630QM(2.00GHz) 15.6" 6GB Memory 500GB HDD 7200rpm DVD Super Multi NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M:Amazon:Computers & Accessories

Refurbished
ASUS G53SW-A1 Republic of Gamers 15.6-Inch Gaming Laptop:Amazon:Computers & Accessories

Used
ASUS G53SW-XA2 Republic of Gamers 15.6-Inch Gaming Laptop (Black):Amazon:Computers & Accessories

ok which one would be the better deal?

 

I'd personally go with the brand new G53SW.

I hate throwing a wrench into your plan, but have you considered the Malibal P151hm1? It's in your price range, has the same specs as the G53SX, and after all the options it comes to under $1k. The Malibal's GTX560 might not be gimped, but I can't guarantee it.

I was not aware of it when I bought my G53SW, otherwise I'd have strongly considered the Malibal P150hm. For a bit more money than the G53SW you get a lot of video card options, ranging from the GTX460 to GTX580 and from the HD6970 to HD6990.

Consider all the available options, and now is the perfect time since you have not spent a dime.

 

Well i have already spent money i paid cash for the sx and im way over budget. I took the extra money from my christmas vacation. I have checked the P151hm but its still over what i can pay. It has to be under 1k including the operating system and i have to wait until i get refunded the money from tigerdirect