Asus G73jh Laptop Packs Core i7, Radeon HD 5870

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I wonder what the heat output for this beast is, with an i7 and a 5870 i think laptop is a misnomer, its going to end up being a table top machine only or there are going to be chestnuts roasting on an open fire.
 
Hunter, tabletop makes sense really. With netbooks and PDAs becoming so popular for mobile web browsing and the like, it seems as though the market is shifting away from laptops for this use and instead diverging toward desktop replacements for convenient gaming (think college student toting the computer home for the holidays) and smaller devices for more basic functions.

I still think it's disheartening to see so many manufacturers going to 1080 resolutions on what's otherwise a nice big screen and calling it HD. Fine for movies, but it's shortchanging the gamers IMO.
 
It is selling for 1650.00, not 3-4k lol! And no, laptops do NOT suck for gaming you tool. This thing will probably run circles around your desktop. It has hardware raid 0/1 support and DOES have wireless N!
 
ASUS probably excluded the 802.11n and SSD to keep price down. Not that wireless N should make it much more expensive, but something like this is surely slated for Best Buy and such, it must appeal the the average gamer. There is plenty of competition for that market, so the price must be competitive as well. Knowing from my computer sales experience, there are a lot of PC gamers that don't really know that much about the PCs themselves.

That said, the video card is whoop-ass, so the missing SSD and wireless N wouldn't matter as most games will be more than playable (40+ FPS on Crysis, for example).
 
As one who has attempted to game on a laptop (for 3 years until I got my desktop), yes, they do suck for gaming. Even if the specs are awesome, the heat output will bottleneck your computer. I had to put a desk fan on my laptop to pull out the higher framerates simply because it didn't output heat fast enough when gaming at higher resolutions. It's because laptops have a small form factor. There's just not enough room for airflow.
 
Price is a bit heafty for a laptop, for a desktop its good, for a portable gaming rig if the batt was 8-10cell and ran at least 2-4 hours of heavy gaming or BD playback, then it would be well worth it. Put it this way, DX11 isnt that great yet, its still new and right now there are cheaper better laptops to buy and play decent games. If you really want to play crysis down the road or "ON the road" arent you a bit late in the game to play Crysis anyway?!? Most higher end laptops can play most games today, so spend 200-400dollars less and just buy a new GPU for your REAL gaming RIG unless you have tonnes of cash to spend and spend for the sake of spending and having every single gadget that is on the top of the hill.

I wonder what the battery life on this is.... unless you are in a dorm or HATE desktops, then its not worth getting IMO. I hope ASUS will probably come out with a more efficient version of this down the road. Now when they have an SSD version, USB3.0, and when prices fall, this will be a great laptop by the end of next year! Games wont get more sophisticated by then. Hopefully prices will though....
 
I like.
I'm assuming it had dual 2.5" hard drives. If so, why say 1TB (500GBx2) when they could claim 1.28TB (640GBx2)?
I say put a 640GB 2.5" 7200RPM drive and a 2.5" 120GB SSD.

I want this... but sadly I just won't be able to afford it.
 
It's a mobility radeon 5870, not a desktop radeon 5870... These are different cards, different sizes... you are trying to measure an apple against a banana.
 
Ohh, wow ATI releasing Mobile versions of the 5xxx series already? Man they really wanna knock Nvidia outta the market.

Less impressed now though, considering their mobile cards generally perform about half as well as their desktop cards.
 
ofcourse is a mobile version of both cpu and gpu!, how coould you fit a fucking 11" graphics card on a laptop? laptop graphics are very reduced in size and penformance, and totally different from the full sized version.

are you a retard?
 
The article said a Radeon HD 5870, not a mobility Radeon HD 5870. Hence I thought someone actually put a desktop GPU into a laptop, which was why I was surprised.

Not my fault if the reporter screws up his facts and incorrectly named the GPU. He specified that the CPU was a mobile, but not the GPU, hence I assumed he was doing accurate reporting.
 
http://www.xoticpc.com/asus-g73jha1-order-p-2731.html

This laptop is out for pre-order. It's starting price is 1645 with a BD, and 1498 without... You guys were so off the mark with your 4-5k! From Xoticpc it comes with wireless b/g/n so hold your pants on before you flip out about such a little issue. I'm just glad this come finally came with 2 fans instead of 1 like in the G72. Im going to pre-order one tonight 😀
 
This is gonna be unreal!! Of course for gamers here in South Africa, we'll have to wait much longer. Best to get your friends from overseas to send you one! Its pretty weird that the 5870 measures as one of the highest end mobile gaming cards out there even though no product has been released yet for users to test it out. My hope is that this baby has some major cooling too... backlit keyboard?
 
Does the G73JH have a way to input and edit video?

I keep hearing both sides.
 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220695&cm_re=Asus_G73jh-_-34-220-695-_-Product

http://www.asus.com/News.aspx?N_ID=7ZVlycXrZr1TxoEw

Sounds like the best laptop for your money. Note that it is wireless N compatible. Also, it does have a backlit keyboard. I couldn't find anything specifically about the video input, but look around on the site I'm sure you will find it if it's there. I noticed some of you were worried about that stuff. Also, this site only gives one benchmark but it's the highest single mobile graphics card mark:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html

All in all, for the price (under 1600) I can't say I've seen a better laptop for the money out there.
 
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