welcome to my unboxing in first look at the ASUS G55 V this is a gaming notebook
that's actually been previously unboxed
um for the Vancouver men's show however
clearly the last person who unboxed this product was not the seasoned unboxing
professional that I am because this is
upside down
terrible okay so let's cover what's on the outside first so lithium okay do not
load a transfer package of damaged got it over here we've got the ASUS ADW
accidental damage warranty that is included with their notebook so one year
warranty covering accidental drop spills power searches and fire damage including
24-hour toll-free support and a Target three business day turnaround time for
repair and replacement not including receiving and shipping time free oneway
standard shipping from isus to the user of your repair notebook so you do have to pay to ship it back to them however
throwing an accidental damage warranty is pretty crazy pretty crazy awesome
2year international warranty so one year of which is ADW Zer bri. guarantee
two-way free standard shipping okay I'm still confused I don't understand
whether it's two-way free or oneway free but 24/7 tech support is backed up by
both halves of that sticker for certain
let's have a look at what we got in terms of specs here so this is a 15.6
full HD LED back lit monitor with with
not TV and you know what this is a terrible spec sheet forget it I'm not
looking at that okay let's just open her up yeah first thing we find inside is a
gaming mouse I'm not even going to bother opening it because it's not very good you should actually probably just
buy a real Mouse um not that I'm saying
that you know it's not usable but it's
like usable on like your sister's computer and then you can steal her
awesome gaming mouse or something if you can her that the one that came with your
R gaming notebook is better all right we've got an included
Rog uh notebook backpack which fits
theoretically The Notebook that it comes with and I'm going to sort of model this
for you guys do my little turn on the catwalk so this is what I would look
like if I was 15 and in high school and I wore a backpack and the joke there
actually guys is that I do wear a backpack every day so you
know this is what I'd look like if I walked around with a backpack on so
there you go let's take that off actually no let's not take that off yet
let's look inside it so here's our notebook pouch which
hopefully is oh yeah there I was pretty disappointed for a second there uh
hopefully is patted on oo that's not a lot of padding okay so yeah it's it's
pretty cool but be careful you know don't drop your bag down like that if
you have this particular backpack and you've got your expensive fancy notebook
It's like got a small it's got a small pad on the bottom so it's not completely
unpadded or anything and it's got like a nice soft thing going on in here but
remember guys this is the free backpack that came with your notebook if I was
buying a notebook like this and you're going to see just how awesome it is then
I would definitely get myself a wicked gaming mouse and a wicked notebook
backpack so that I could be all like balling out with my notebook and my
backpack and my mouse and uh like a boss
like that okay opening it up I don't
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
that box it was here so now you do get to see it it has a DPI change button
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
pretty much all she wrote about that guy
moving right along we have our power brick and like I mean when it comes to
Bricks you could actually build with this thing because it's big and uh
here's my iPhone for comparison which I know you guys love so very much bam
that's how big it is all right moving right
along the notebook itself this is what
I'm excited about so we unboxed their g75 quite recently which is a similar
model but using a 17in screen now personally I find that a 17in screen is
very awesome and very huge and great as a gaming experience but not quite as
good as a portability experience and I definitely prefer for myself to have a
15-in screen which is exactly what is included with this one so here we have a
couple accessories we've got a cable tie for your power adapter warranty card
drivers and a notebook users manual including ooh R stickers very nice all
right let's turn her on give me a second to get it booted up on the bottom we can
easily see all of the upgrade panels there's your battery upgrade panel more
like removal and like putting back in if you need to for whatever reason uh here
we have access to our memory as well as our hard drive so that covers that let's
do the external of it so ultimate fighting machine ASUS gaming notebook
Rog Arsenal presents taking off the
sticker so that we can see what the notebook looks like without it because most people won't keep it on on this
side we've got a Kensington lock two USB 3.0 ports microphone headphones and a
DVD multi-drive on the back we find
ventilation so check this out we've got a full-sized heat sink that runs all the
way from here to here the rest of this is actually plastic filler so it looks
like you know a massive heat sink was enough to take care of the 660m as well
as the Intel Core i7 quad core processor
inside this machine I'm actually just going to take this off as well because
that's sort of interfering with the gorgeousness uh the back of the unit has
a soft touch feel which personally I quite like
um everyone's got a bit of a different opinion about soft touch but I really
like cases anything that I'm not going to touch too
much I like to see the soft touge finish on because it can wear out like I have a
G9 mouse that really wore out and then it kind of peels off but if you're not
going to be all over it all the time it looks really good it stays really clean
looking all the time and uh yeah I like it so shiny ASUS logo Republic of Gamers
logo on the back as well moving around to the other side we've got gigabit
Ethernet power VGA
Thunderbolt yeah a HDMI as well as two
more USB 3.0 super speed ports now you
notice the lack of an SD card reader bam there it is right in the front as well
as all of your indicator lights for things like hard drive Wireless caps
lock number lock and all that good stuff speaking of number lock in spite of its
15inch form factor this notebook has a full desktop is keyboard meaning it's
got a properly laid out set of arrow keys a full number pad as well as a
fullsize backlit keyboard I want to get you guys a view of the backlighting on
the keyboard if I could even move in the room here at all right now there's so
much stuff all over the floor there we go how's it look awesome and white love
it all right I'm actually I think white
is probably either my favorite or my second favorite backlit keyboard color I
do really like green as well speaking of soft touch they have a more durable type
of soft touch here this has a texture to it so this will actually be far less
likely to wear off when you have your palms resting on it all the time they've also got a nice big widescreen touchpad
as well as left and right clicks which are to be expected at this point in time
uh 2.3 GHz quad core processor I don't know if I mentioned that before so
that's a 3610 qm it also has a GTX 660
so with its bigger brother you get an boot SSD you get a more powerful
graphics card you do get a um I mean
those are the biggest things you get the bigger screen
um yeah one thing that you get with both
of them though is the 3D capable display
so your emitter is embedded in here somewhere all you got to do is Source
yourself some 3D glasses they're about 100 bucks I think and you are ready for
3D gaming as soon as you can say Bob's
your uncle and you configure it in the NVIDIA driver and I personally think
that's pretty awesome so remember it's not only good for games but also for movies and whatever else you want to do
in stereoscopic 3D if you have the
supported applications installed has dual fans apparently which is kind of
cool it also has 12 gigs of RAM as well as a 750 gig hard drive now there's no
SSD that is disappointing but you can always go with the g75 or you can rip
the drive out and throw in an SSD very easily if you want because it's uh very
accessible on the bottom and the cord fell out so apparently it does have a
battery and I mean unlike the 17-in
bigger brother it is much lighter and much more portable so it's just a matter
of deciding what you want out of it oh yeah hinge durability is one of the
things that that ASUS has done a fantastic job with on their G Series
notebooks look at these heavy duty hinges I really just don't expect them
to break in in any way at any point in time love it and then finally the sound
is done via the speakers all along the top here uh once again another upgrade
that the g75 has is the subwoofer on the bottom this one does not have that so
the g75 is clearly the higher end machine but it is clearly designed for
the more hardcore gamer that is willing to sacrifice the portability to get
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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