so today we've got the opportunity to unbox another assus laptop as you can
see the first thing we notice about this box is that Smart Notebook equals smart
you so assus is pretty much saying if you buy their notebook you are smart
okay also on the front you have that assus one 3,56 Awards in 2008 good for
them okay and then oh this is great so this is the ASUS accidental damage
warranty which is included in the purchase price of this notebook it is
not something you have to buy extra onee warranty covering accidental drops
spills power surges and fire damage your
laptop gets on fire and you can still claim warranty support that's terrific
and then after the first year with The Accidental damage warranty you have
their regular uh Global Warranty so that means that you can actually buy this
notebook here in Canada you could move to somewhere else and ASUS would still
cover your warranty even though it's a Canadian Model A lot of Manufacturers
won't do that and it's region specific so this is the
n61jq and it is specifically the 2 ax-2
model okay so that means we've got included features are a 16 you know what
why don't we just talk about this as we open up the notebook that might be a
little bit more efficient I've gone and forgotten a knife again but that's okay
cuz at least I have my keys on me today you know I actually got a YouTube
message this morning that uh someone wanted to buy me a knife and send it to
me he asked me for my shipping address and um I really appreciate the kind
offer but um yeah I I I don't I don't I don't
actually need a handout knife I just need to be more
organized so the first thing I find inside the box is a power cord okay
pretty bog standard power cord so I'm not going to dwell on that too much and
then we have a little cardboard uh insert here that protects the notebook
I'm going to try and find the accessory boxes first before I take out the
notebook book itself okay so these two right here are the accessory boxes and
I'm just going to reach down in there and see if I can fish out some
accessories okay then we have the other
business end of the power adapter so there's your power brick it's rated for
let me see 19 volts 4.74 amps okay so
it's a relatively High powerered notebook just because you do have a
pretty good dedicated video card in it it's a 5730 if memory serves and I'm
going to cheat a little bit here and yes it is a
5730 1 gig okay next we've got the
battery which is um pretty big I believe this is a six cell battery okay so you
can see it's going to be stylized to match the notebook itself so we'll
install that battery when we actually get the notebook out of the box and I can show you what it looks like with and
without it next we've got a whole bunch of documentation stuff in here so assus
notebook update information the system recovery DVD is no longer
included in the product package if you need to recover your notebook's OS refer
to the section using recovery partition in the user manual for more details you
can also create your own system recovery DVD should you so desire okay then we
have um a bag oh they include an LCD
cleaning cloth that's very nice made up of a special combination of interwoven
microfibers as well as a little users manual thank you assus next we have the
express gate manual so if you don't actually want to bother booting up into
your OS you just need to use your computer really quick jot a couple notes
or use Skype or go on the internet there's uh like a a Linux based OS
loaded right onto the computer that you can boot up really fast next we have a
cable tie that's for your power cable then we have the assus drivers and
utility DVD uh don't use this you basic
I mean it'll come with everything installed but then you want to make sure that whenever you reinstall you're
updating with the latest drivers off the ASUS website here's the warranty card
um yeah they want you to complete this and mail it to the address register
within 60 days and get an extra one-year accidental damage warranty okay so it
looks like you do have to register the warranty to get that accidental damage
warranty but that is a small price to pay considering how much it costs to buy
an accidental damage warranty from most notebook vendors so let's go ahead and
put some these back in there that pretty much does it for accessories so we'll get the notebook
itself open up here
okay there we go I unveiled it so I'll
just kind of put the box
here and then let's have a look at this
notebook so this is a core i5 based
notebook as I recall it is a oh sorry
it's an i7 this is an i7 based notebook so this is using Intel's latest and
fastest series of notebook CPUs
there we go and it specifically uses the i7 720 it's got 4 gigs of DDR3 RAM
because all i7s use DDR3 RAM and then as
I mentioned before it has a 4730 notebook GPU so it's not the most
powerful out there but it's still going to provide a decent casual gaming
experience in a very convenient form factor I mean it's a notebook so okay so
includes True Entertainment real sound so includes video magic boost DVD
quality to full HD okay 1 gig dedicated graphics memory and symphonic audio
enjoyment I'd be curious to know what that does here's another summary of
their warranty which we already went over then we got a little uh keyboard
protector inside here you know a lot of people actually keep these I was surprised to find that out um around
University I would often see people take this off of their notebook every time
they go to use it CU it keeps you from getting little key-shaped dents in the
top of your LCD if you're carrying it around in a backpack all the time
hey this is cool this notebook has USB 3.0 I had no idea check that out USB 3.0
is actually implemented into this particular notebook model you've got GPU
Computing three-finger multi-touch touchpad so it's a gesture ready and
because it features Windows 7 which is completely multi-touch and touchscreen
ready there you're going to have a lot of extra support for that next we've got
the actual specs of this notebook which I haven't really gone over in too much
detail it's got a 16 in HD LED backlit
display it's got a 500 gig hard drive I mentioned already 4 gigs of memory
802.11n so that's Wireless N as well as Bluetooth DVD super multi so you don't
have support for Blu-ray or HD DVD but
you can play back HD video clips as long as they're files with the integrated ATI
Mobility rad on I mean the core i7 could handle it on its own but whatever it
includes Windows 7 Premium and then why
don't we go ahead and have a look at some of the physical characteristics of
this thing so you got a glossy top here that has kind of um a patterned this is
kind of interesting it's sort of like a wave or like blade of grass pattern but
they're using little dots to draw the shapes on the top of the notebook can
you really see that with the camera no that's pretty tough to see isn't it can
you can you get it from this angle anyway it's kind of nice looking it's
it's a little bit classier than just a plain black and it should also make it a
little bit less susceptible to showing fingerprints because you've already got
these small uh swirly shaped patterns on here so that's that's a very nice touch
around the side of the notebook we find uh headphones microphone USB eat
the DVD multi recorder right here another USB an antenna thingamajiggy
there then on the back we find the battery which I'm going to go ahead and
just quickly install and that took not very long to do and then around the
other side we have a Kensington lock
power in ventilation slot VGA out which
is you know what I I've had people say
oh why do you have VGA out on a modern notebook the reason is that a lot of
projectors need VGA so if you're going to use this notebook for any kind of
serious business use you better have a VGA port because the last thing you want
is to have some huge DVI to VGA dongle hanging out of your notebook and it
doesn't make sense so they build in a VGA it costs them next to nothing and
it's very convenient for people who do need that feature gigabit and then
there's HDMI remember if you need DVI out you can always adapt HDMI and so
many things use HDMI natively these days it doesn't even matter this is the
perfect output combination in my opinion got a little uh Express card there then
you have USB 3.0 port and a wireless
onoff switch moving around to the front
we have an SDHC card reader just like that and then let's go
around to the bottom where I am not going to show our viewers the product
code for the Windows 7 Home Premium included with this laptop the lap lamp
in this display contains Mercury okay so at the bottom we find Convenient doors
to access the important pieces of Hardware inside here so I'm going to go
ahead and guess that down here is your memory as well as your wireless card and
in here based on this symbol is the hard drive they've also got a technical
support phone number on the bottom so it's a 24hour 7 days a week except
holidays hotline very nice and I think that pretty much wraps up everything
that we need to say about the n61 J thank you for checking out my boxing and
uh you know what that doesn't quite wrap it up I'm sorry here's the power button
oh I turned it on excellent and then here is the oh cameraman's telling me to
wrap it up cuz we're hitting 10 minutes here's the chicklet keyboard quite comfortable well spaced out you've got a
dedicated number pad which is great for business use and up here you've got a
couple of media keys for volume up volume down as well as play and mute and
thank you for checking out my unboxing of the n61 J