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welcome to my unboxing in first look at the ASUS G55 V this is a gaming notebook

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that's actually been previously unboxed

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um for the Vancouver men's show however

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clearly the last person who unboxed this product was not the seasoned unboxing

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professional that I am because this is

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upside down

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terrible okay so let's cover what's on the outside first so lithium okay do not

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load a transfer package of damaged got it over here we've got the ASUS ADW

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accidental damage warranty that is included with their notebook so one year

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warranty covering accidental drop spills power searches and fire damage including

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24-hour toll-free support and a Target three business day turnaround time for

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repair and replacement not including receiving and shipping time free oneway

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standard shipping from isus to the user of your repair notebook so you do have to pay to ship it back to them however

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throwing an accidental damage warranty is pretty crazy pretty crazy awesome

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2year international warranty so one year of which is ADW Zer bri. guarantee

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two-way free standard shipping okay I'm still confused I don't understand

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whether it's two-way free or oneway free but 24/7 tech support is backed up by

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both halves of that sticker for certain

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let's have a look at what we got in terms of specs here so this is a 15.6

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full HD LED back lit monitor with with

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not TV and you know what this is a terrible spec sheet forget it I'm not

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looking at that okay let's just open her up yeah first thing we find inside is a

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gaming mouse I'm not even going to bother opening it because it's not very good you should actually probably just

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buy a real Mouse um not that I'm saying

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that you know it's not usable but it's

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like usable on like your sister's computer and then you can steal her

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awesome gaming mouse or something if you can her that the one that came with your

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R gaming notebook is better all right we've got an included

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Rog uh notebook backpack which fits

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theoretically The Notebook that it comes with and I'm going to sort of model this

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for you guys do my little turn on the catwalk so this is what I would look

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like if I was 15 and in high school and I wore a backpack and the joke there

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actually guys is that I do wear a backpack every day so you

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know this is what I'd look like if I walked around with a backpack on so

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there you go let's take that off actually no let's not take that off yet

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let's look inside it so here's our notebook pouch which

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hopefully is oh yeah there I was pretty disappointed for a second there uh

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hopefully is patted on oo that's not a lot of padding okay so yeah it's it's

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pretty cool but be careful you know don't drop your bag down like that if

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you have this particular backpack and you've got your expensive fancy notebook

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It's like got a small it's got a small pad on the bottom so it's not completely

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unpadded or anything and it's got like a nice soft thing going on in here but

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remember guys this is the free backpack that came with your notebook if I was

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buying a notebook like this and you're going to see just how awesome it is then

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I would definitely get myself a wicked gaming mouse and a wicked notebook

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backpack so that I could be all like balling out with my notebook and my

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backpack and my mouse and uh like a boss

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like that okay opening it up I don't

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know if all the accessories are going to be in the right place like I said I clearly un see the mouse wasn't even in

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that box it was here so now you do get to see it it has a DPI change button

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it's got a scroll wheel it's got a couple buttons here a couple over here rubberized grip on the side and that's

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pretty much all she wrote about that guy

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moving right along we have our power brick and like I mean when it comes to

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Bricks you could actually build with this thing because it's big and uh

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here's my iPhone for comparison which I know you guys love so very much bam

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that's how big it is all right moving right

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along the notebook itself this is what

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I'm excited about so we unboxed their g75 quite recently which is a similar

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model but using a 17in screen now personally I find that a 17in screen is

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very awesome and very huge and great as a gaming experience but not quite as

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good as a portability experience and I definitely prefer for myself to have a

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15-in screen which is exactly what is included with this one so here we have a

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couple accessories we've got a cable tie for your power adapter warranty card

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drivers and a notebook users manual including ooh R stickers very nice all

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right let's turn her on give me a second to get it booted up on the bottom we can

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easily see all of the upgrade panels there's your battery upgrade panel more

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like removal and like putting back in if you need to for whatever reason uh here

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we have access to our memory as well as our hard drive so that covers that let's

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do the external of it so ultimate fighting machine ASUS gaming notebook

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Rog Arsenal presents taking off the

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sticker so that we can see what the notebook looks like without it because most people won't keep it on on this

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side we've got a Kensington lock two USB 3.0 ports microphone headphones and a

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DVD multi-drive on the back we find

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ventilation so check this out we've got a full-sized heat sink that runs all the

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way from here to here the rest of this is actually plastic filler so it looks

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like you know a massive heat sink was enough to take care of the 660m as well

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as the Intel Core i7 quad core processor

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inside this machine I'm actually just going to take this off as well because

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that's sort of interfering with the gorgeousness uh the back of the unit has

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a soft touch feel which personally I quite like

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um everyone's got a bit of a different opinion about soft touch but I really

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like cases anything that I'm not going to touch too

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much I like to see the soft touge finish on because it can wear out like I have a

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G9 mouse that really wore out and then it kind of peels off but if you're not

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going to be all over it all the time it looks really good it stays really clean

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looking all the time and uh yeah I like it so shiny ASUS logo Republic of Gamers

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logo on the back as well moving around to the other side we've got gigabit

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Ethernet power VGA

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Thunderbolt yeah a HDMI as well as two

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more USB 3.0 super speed ports now you

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notice the lack of an SD card reader bam there it is right in the front as well

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as all of your indicator lights for things like hard drive Wireless caps

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lock number lock and all that good stuff speaking of number lock in spite of its

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15inch form factor this notebook has a full desktop is keyboard meaning it's

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got a properly laid out set of arrow keys a full number pad as well as a

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fullsize backlit keyboard I want to get you guys a view of the backlighting on

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the keyboard if I could even move in the room here at all right now there's so

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much stuff all over the floor there we go how's it look awesome and white love

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it all right I'm actually I think white

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is probably either my favorite or my second favorite backlit keyboard color I

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do really like green as well speaking of soft touch they have a more durable type

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of soft touch here this has a texture to it so this will actually be far less

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likely to wear off when you have your palms resting on it all the time they've also got a nice big widescreen touchpad

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as well as left and right clicks which are to be expected at this point in time

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uh 2.3 GHz quad core processor I don't know if I mentioned that before so

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that's a 3610 qm it also has a GTX 660

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so with its bigger brother you get an boot SSD you get a more powerful

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graphics card you do get a um I mean

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those are the biggest things you get the bigger screen

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um yeah one thing that you get with both

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of them though is the 3D capable display

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so your emitter is embedded in here somewhere all you got to do is Source

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yourself some 3D glasses they're about 100 bucks I think and you are ready for

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3D gaming as soon as you can say Bob's

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your uncle and you configure it in the NVIDIA driver and I personally think

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that's pretty awesome so remember it's not only good for games but also for movies and whatever else you want to do

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in stereoscopic 3D if you have the

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supported applications installed has dual fans apparently which is kind of

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cool it also has 12 gigs of RAM as well as a 750 gig hard drive now there's no

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SSD that is disappointing but you can always go with the g75 or you can rip

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the drive out and throw in an SSD very easily if you want because it's uh very

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accessible on the bottom and the cord fell out so apparently it does have a

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battery and I mean unlike the 17-in

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bigger brother it is much lighter and much more portable so it's just a matter

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of deciding what you want out of it oh yeah hinge durability is one of the

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things that that ASUS has done a fantastic job with on their G Series

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notebooks look at these heavy duty hinges I really just don't expect them

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to break in in any way at any point in time love it and then finally the sound

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is done via the speakers all along the top here uh once again another upgrade

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that the g75 has is the subwoofer on the bottom this one does not have that so

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the g75 is clearly the higher end machine but it is clearly designed for

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the more hardcore gamer that is willing to sacrifice the portability to get

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those extra bells and whistles so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the G55 V from isus don't

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