welcome to my unboxing of a super exciting product I've had quite a few
requests to take a look at this guy this is the g75 V more specifically is the as
g75 VW v3g m-18
13-1 basically this is the ASUS g75 this
is their next Generation Ivy Bridge gaming notebook which not only has Next
Generation ivybridge processing behind the CPU it also has Next Generation
Graphics powered by NVIDIA 600 series
gpus so this is an incredibly exciting
product and it comes with a Targus
backpack I'm going to let that sink in Target's backpack uh okay no but
seriously you guys it has um like a republic of gamer branded thing going on
here and for an included backpack I can already tell you guys it feels really
good there's actually genuinely padding on it whereas most like free bonus gift
backpacks are usually pretty horrible so
uh yeah there you go it's got like a Seuss branding on the uh the the lining
and then your notebook goes in there your other stuff you know I'm not going to spend too much time on the backpack
here but I feel like I should just kind of show it to you at least all right so
there's your included Rog backpack here's what is presumably an included
Rog
Mouse okay there you go it's got like a DPI
adjust button scroll wheel you know some buttons that go here here and here some
rubberized grips some slippy pads on the bottom pretty basic um I mean handy to
have an extra Mouse don't get me wrong but uh get a real gaming mouse if you
sort of care about that sort of thing um
so before we get into the specifics of the g75 let's talk about General ASUS
advantages so ASUS knows how to manufacture things um sort of goes
without saying they are experts so take
that to the bank number two is they stand behind the things they manufacture
you have a one-year warranty covering accidental damage drops spills power
surges and fire damage holy crap normally that costs you an extra what I
don't know 150 bucks on an Apple probably something along those lines
more more s is sort of indicating to me 24-hour toll free phone support Target
is three business day turnaround time for repair and replacement and free
oneway standard shipping from ASUS to the user so you do have to ship it back
to them 2-year international warranty so it's one year of accidental damage
2-year overall warranty zero bright dot guarantee on the screen two-way free
standard shipping okay I don't understand which of these is going on
here but 24/7 tech support so all that's on there either way ASUS does stand
behind their products they do have the best default warranty that I'm aware of
you can get better extended warranties than this on products but not out of the
box not without paying a bunch more money um okay 17.3 in full HD LED
backlit screen USB 3 I don't know what that has to do with the LCD maybe we'll
figure that out later uh okay without 3G
without TV 6X Blu-ray on this particular
skew okay we've got a 3610 qm that's a
quad core i7 256 gig SSD boot drive and
750 G 7200 RPM drive that is the perfect
Drive configuration gold star ASUS for
getting it exactly right because we see a lot of dual Bay uh notebooks that are
configured with like dual hard drives in rid zero or like one hard drive in them
by default no you need a boot SSD you need a mass storage Drive perfect and
you need a high-speed mass storage Drive 7200 RPM Drive good job ASUS 16 gigs of
RAM Windows 7 Premium and and all of that looks sort
of pretty I can't believe that on a gaming notebook they actually don't have
a GPU spec on the spec
sheet simply phenomenal okay well guess we'll figure
out it's probably a 675m if it is what I think it is but uh I was sort of
expecting it to say for sure on the side of the unit but whatever uh power brick
is as we've come to expect with gaming notebooks not exactly small so you know
if you you were expecting it to be petite then you can expect to be
disappointed but you have to power a lot of power to a powerful notebook so
that's that's how they that's how we roll uh a couple speaker grills it looks
like okay so we'll find out what those are for after power cable to go with
your power brick and power battery to go
with your like power power biceps to open the
package battery notice I believe the battery is only one year warranty or
like 90day or something um usually the battery has a lesser warranty than the
rest although it looks like I'm totally wrong this has nothing to do with that
it just has to do with making sure you don't dispose of it in fire which is a
terrible idea I mean you shouldn't dispose of almost anything in if it's
not made of paper you shouldn't be disposing of it in fire okay can we just
sort of all agree on that I mean wood Wood's okay but not painted wood you
know these are common sense things that uh ASUS sort of is explaining to us and
I mean nice of them it's it's good that they don't want us to you know inhale
toxic fumes and Destroy IM mate our environment but uh it seems a little
self-explanatory so there's your battery pack you kind of throw the thing in
there and pop the thing in there and you're good to go the bottom is covered
in rubber grippies here here here here
here and here and these are just plastic ones so I think they're just for looks
but whatever um so they've put a lot
more support behind the screen because the screen is big and they put less
support behind the rest of it because the rest of it is not so big and I think
that's all pretty pretty straightforward so on the back of the unit bam
ventilation huge heat sinks here and
here with heat pipes running through them these are cooling that high-end GPU
and that high-end quad core CPU Kensington lock for security gorgeous
little branding accents there this this looks really sharp it looks it almost
looks like imagine this kind of guys okay so from from back a little bit
further so kind of want this angle there's your headlights there's your
emblem in the middle there's your front grill sort of thing it kind of looks
like a performance vehicle I think and that's uh you know probably totally off
in terms of what their design philosophy was for it but it looks fantastic on the
side we've got two USB 3.0 super speed ports a Blu-ray disc player an SD card a
microphone and headphone jack on the front we have indicator LEDs for a
variet of different things including caps lock uh number lock Wireless hard
drive activity battery and apparently a light bulb maybe power uh wow two more
USB 3 super speed ports so no USB 2 uh
we've got Thunderbolt HDMI gigabit
Ethernet VGA good inclusion because every once in
a while you will still need to Output to VGA and it's good to have it and since
it doesn't have DVI you don't have those analog pins in the DVI connector so
you've got digital analog great uh Power
in and let's go ahead and open her up so the top is again very beautiful this is
pretty similar to the last generation g74 in terms of the look of the hinge
and the look of the top of the unit Republic of Gamers badge and ASUS logo
on the back look very very sharp you've got a soft touch feel to the overall
outside of the unit which is very nice and it also gives you a little bit of
durability it's harder to scratch soft touch than it is something like a glossy
plastic surface ultimate fighting machine sure why not got one of those
protectors for the keyboard against the uh the screen itself and this is oh this
is nice we got like a brushed aluminum thing going on here let's see if it's
got enough of a charge to turn on right out of the box here so brushed aluminum
um backplane for your keyboard which is Led backlit I'm going to turn off the
lights in the room for a second so you guys can see what the uh what the
backlight looks like it's beautiful I I
I love white LED backlights um I think in my favorites kind of go like green
and then white and then like other
um so it's booting up right now you got a full number pad and no glaring errors
on the keyboard layout full size shift full size shift backspace and enter
wonderful perfect way to go ASUS because it kills me when I see keyboard layouts
that are that are broken due to the notebook however it's easier on a 17in
than it is on uh smaller form factor notebooks so you know there you go um
right so it has a GTX 670m which is a pretty beefy graphics
card and and that'll go with the uh the quad core processor so I'm just going to
put uh demo demo I guess I I don't know
they're going to be using this at the uh
no I don't want a Bing Bar are you kidding me oh man okay use recommended
settings we are in Pacific time uh Tech
tipn doesn't have any internet connectivity right now anyway oh okay I
thought I was getting a call but it's just my Twitter feed going nut for some
reason um okay so moving on you've got
all the usual hot Keys here so you got your brightness up and down you've got
your keyboard brightness up and down your wireless sleep uh external display
internal display turn off the touchpad and your audio controls I wouldn't have
minded seeing media control oh there they are uh there's your play pause back
forward and stop ah love that dedicated
stop button so many devices aren't doing dedicated stop buttons anymore because
they're like oh no pause is good enough because pause is good enough for Apple
um Apple started this with no stop button stop means like off go away and
so good job uh We've also got their
shoot I forget what The Branding name for this is but it controls all your
different um Power modes and all of that so that's your your function for the for
the space bar here we go gamer friendly ergonomic design intelligent cooling
plus Easy Clean system Easy Clean system
wonder what makes it easy clean no way look at that so you can
either open this up up with one screw fantastic or you can open up this with
one screw and clean out the cooler see that's the see manufacturing
expertise understanding the challenges and then just like addressing it instead
of ignoring it that that is what sets
apart and I have I still have no idea what these are for but uh moving right
along like are they for like okay I I
got nothing I'm sorry guys um CPU GPU
Extreme Performance it sure does oh right so I have left out the best part
for last so it has two-year warranty etc etc comes with macafe Internet Security
as well as ASUS's web storage that's handy as well um has instant on oh
that's cool so it uses um it uses
Intel's latest chipset technology to
instantly power on so here I'll show you guys um cuz I'm sure this is going to
work even though this is a completely live demo and you can see what a
difference the SSD makes if you guys have ever turned on a new computer oh
crap ask me later go away if you guys have ever turned on a new computer then
you probably know that they don't usually turn on that fast and initialize
for the first time SSD is amazing and
everyone should have one so we're going to go into
sleep and we're going to see when it goes into sleep I'm so confident that
this will be fast there it's in sleep and we're going to turn it on and it is
going to be on and Bam
instant on excellent uh right so Best For Last this
screen is what I'm all about so you can
see right here there's a built-in transmitter what is that for oh there's
a webcam too but every notebook has a webcam uh there's a built-in transmitter
so what is that for that is for your
okay I'm just going to go away and I'm going to find them hold on hold on wait
for it yes that is for your balling out
3D Vision glasses because this notebook
display is 3D Vision ready and 3D Vision
ready with light boost if you guys remember any of what I've said about
light boost in the past then um I don't
need to say this next part but if you don't then I do light
boost is amazing light boost takes the 3D Vision experience from for me a
little bit headache inducing after about 30 seconds to comfortable and awesome
light boost is amazing it not only increases the brightness of the display
when you're in 3D mode with the 3D glasses it also dramatically reduces the
cross talk between the images which is what I get the headache from where I can
see a little bit of the left eye image through my right eye because the panel
isn't switching fast enough and it's not modulating the backlight in order to
optimize it for me so that is fantastic
I love light boost it is amazing it is magical it's like it's like I could
stand up and deliver a keynote speech about how it is magical and uh I would
actually genuinely believe myself unlike some things that have been presented as
magical in the past so there you go 1080p light boost ready 3D Vision
display awesome awesome performance and
yeah it's okay it's kind of heavy but that's sort of life when you have a
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