question "asus g73"

erichblas2005erichblas2005 Your Native TexanHouston,Texas Member
edited March 2010 in Hardware
I returned my vaio yesterday. I'm looking to buy an Asus G73 with th ati 5870m. does anyone on here have one if so how does it hold up.

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  • mertesnmertesn I am Bobby Miller Yukon, OK Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    It's a brand new system, and Asus is working on getting it to distributors. I preordered one last month and expect to have it sometime in April. Immediately after it arrives I will put together a review.

    In the mean time, this is the best price I've seen on the A1 model...even beats Newegg's pricing on the A2 and X1 variants.
  • erichblas2005erichblas2005 Your Native Texan Houston,Texas Member
    edited March 2010
    I might by an alienware laptop if they have one equipped with the geforce 360m.
  • mertesnmertesn I am Bobby Miller Yukon, OK Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    If you go that route you will definitely:
    1. Pay way too much for the laptop (Alienware/Dell is notorious for having overpriced equipment).
    2. Still be missing DX11.
    3. Have a laptop with a rebranded 200 series which was rebranded from the 9000 series which was rebranded from the 8000 series. In other words, about a three year old GPU with little to no improvement over its predecessors.

    If you can hold off on the purchase, the Asus laptop will provide a far superior gaming experience at a much lower price.
  • erichblas2005erichblas2005 Your Native Texan Houston,Texas Member
    edited March 2010
    I'm going for the asus g73 micro center has it for 1499.99
  • mertesnmertesn I am Bobby Miller Yukon, OK Icrontian
    edited March 2010
    I couldn't find it on their web site. Which model is it? I've seen a G73JH-A1, A2, and X1. The A1 and A2 differ in their optical drive - the A1 has a Blu-Ray drive while the A2 sticks with DVD-RW. The X1 seems to only have a single 500GB hard drive (the other two have 2x500GB 7200RPM).
  • erichblas2005erichblas2005 Your Native Texan Houston,Texas Member
    edited March 2010
    it's not available on there web site but the print out he gave me has the specs below.

    SKU:548156
    G73JH-X2 $1499.99
    CPU: I7-720
    MEM: DDR3 1066
    HDD: 500GB 7200RPM
    OPTICAL: BLUE-RAY COMBO
    GPU: ATI RADEON HD 5870 1GB GDDR5
    ECT.......................
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