So today I'll be unboxing a pretty new notebook from ASUS. And this is the ASUS
G73 JH2. So it's an Intel Core i7 720 QM
processor, 8 gigs of RAM, two 500 gig
hard drives, and it features an HD 5870
mobile graphics card. So that's the fastest graphics card you can get in a
notebook at this time. Now, just to give you some idea of the scale of this
notebook, it's a really really heavy and b really, really big. Okay, so why don't
we just kind of get started here. So, the difference between the G2 and the G1
is just that the G1 has Blu-ray as far as I can tell. So, um I grabbed the G2
since I don't have any particular use for Blu-ray on the go at the moment. And
let's see if we can Yeah. See, this is why I need a
knife because scissors don't quite cut it. Get it. Cut
it. Yeah. Okay. So, the first thing we
find inside the box is an ASUS or Oh,
no. A Targus backpack. All right. So, watch out. This
is a choking hazard. Do not put in reach of small children or dogs. All right.
And uh I'm going to go ahead and assume that this notebook bag fits the notebook
in question. So it would have to be quite large to fit a 17inch notebook.
But as you can see, it is. And I guess I might as well do my little turn on the
catwalk here. And we'll throw the backpack on. Yeah, there we go. So
that's what I would look like if I wore a backpack every day. Okay, there we go.
Next we have Oh man, that's heavy. Okay,
this G series. It's got their Republic
of Gamers branding all over it. Okay, Republic of Gamers. Got the color scheme
going on here. Not really a whole lot in terms of anything there. So, let's get
this box opened up. All
right. Uh, let's do this first. This
looks like an accessory sort of
box. Okay. Well, it'll come out. There
it goes. Even that's heavy. Wow. This must be like the battery or something.
Okay. Open it up. So, the first thing we find in here is a power cord and then um
the AC adapter. Wow, that is huge. So,
this is a 1 19.5 vol 7.7 amp AC adapter.
This thing has some real heft to it. Okay. Next thing we have is the
battery. The battery is actually surprisingly Oh, all right. Cameraman
wants me to do his whole iPhone for scale thing. Here, here. Here. Okay.
Okay. So, this is the cameraman's iPhone next to the battery pack. And it doesn't
look that big now. Oh, but look at me now. It's huge. And it's heavy. It's a
lot heavier than an iPhone, we'll tell you that much. Okay, battery. We'll show
you the size of the battery as well. Just you It's It's actually not It's
surprisingly not big. I'm I'm very shocked at how small the battery is. So,
you put it next to the phone. You can see the uh width and height of it. It's
very very deep, though. So, I'm guessing it's like double stacked inside there or
something like that. Okay. Uh, next thing we find here is a black box which
includes Oh, a gaming mouse. That's nice. So, this appears to be based on um
Oh, shoot. I should recognize this, shouldn't
I? Rats. Okay, I don't recognize the OEM
design that this is using, but it looks like a pretty decent little gaming mouse. You got a back and forward
button, nice rubberized grip here. You got your DPI adjustment. uh mouse wheel,
left and right click. Not too bad. All right. It's nice of them to include that
as part of the package. I mean, you're buying an expensive notebook. You know,
you might as well throw in some accessories for their customers. Much
appreciated, ASUS. If I could just get this back inside there. Okay. And then
we finally have a cable tie. How very random. Actually, it's not
that random. Normally, a cable tie would be attached to the power adapter, but it
isn't. So, they provide you with an extra one. Okay. And then that is it for
accessories. We are down to the notebook itself. I'm surprised at the lack of any
documentation inside here. There's there's nothing in terms of instructions
or uh CDs. So I guess the OS is probably on a uh on a partition on here. And then
I'm guessing all of your drivers are also on that partition. So why don't we
just first of all install the battery. So you can see that it just kind of
slides in right like that and then just locks in place. Okay.
So the battery is in and that is a pretty sleek looking machine. Let's get
this box out of the way. Thank you, cameraman. And then we'll just kind of
put this down here. So it's a matte black slightly rubberized finish to the
back of it. You've got a silver shiny
ASUS logo on the back as well as their Republic of Gamers Shield. Okay. The
hinge design I'll comment on once I actually get it open, but it looks
fairly beefy and solid at the moment. On the back, we've got huge ventilation.
So, you've got a heat sink here, and that's normally about all you would find
on a typical notebook. But then over on the other side, past the Kensington lock
and the antenna hole, you've got another huge ventilation hole. All right, let's
go around to this side where we will find power in, VGA, HDMI out, so you can
do both analog or digital out. Then you've got a couple of USB ports as well
as an SD card slot. Around the front,
you've just got uh indicator lights, so you got your wireless hard drive,
battery, and a light bulb. And then you
have gigabit LAN, another USB port, DVD
multi or in the case of the uh of the other version of this laptop, you would
have a Blu-ray drive, USB mic in and
headphone out. Let's go around to the bottom here. So you can see the bottom
is where all of that
um oh yeah, whatever. Okay. Where all of
that air is going to be coming from. So, these there are probably blower fans
right around here and then they're sucking air into these vents and then
out the back of the unit is my assumption. Either that or one of them
is an intake and one of them is an exhaust. I have no way of knowing
without opening it and I don't particularly want to do that though. So, anyway, there's the bottom. You can see
you've got easy access for upgrades to uh what appears to be the RAM here and
probably wireless hard drive and all of that good stuff. So, let's flip this
back over. And uh now I've gotten it all dirty. Oh, well, there we go. Okay, so
we'll open up the front. Okay, there's no uh there's no unlock or anything like
that. You just kind of lift it. It's heavy enough I doubt it's going to come out on its own. Okay, we'll remove the
little uh sleeve. Okay, so the first thing we see inside is obviously the
17in widescreen LCD. And uh here's a
little bit of information that ASUS includes about this notebook. So, you've
got a 2-year global warranty. That means that if you buy it in Canada and take it
to Europe, you're still covered by your ASUS warranty. You've got a zero bright
dot guarantee. So, a bright dot is kind of like a dead pixel except it's um like
a colorful spot. Then you've got two-way free standard shipping for your RMA and
24/7 technical support. That's pretty darn good for a standard warranty. And
they even include no way. They include
the ASUS accidental damage warranty. So, you have a one year covering accidental
drops, spills, power surges, and fire damage. Go figure. All right. So, here,
let's have a look at the Let's see if the battery came charged. Wouldn't that be lucky? So, you got a couple of
speakers here. That's going to take care of your sound. And then there's also a
subwoofer grill that we saw on the bottom of the unit already. That's okay.
We already saw that. And then, so let's have a look at the screen itself. I'll
just kind of angle it so you can have a look here. You've got a webcam up at the
top. Little glossy thing around
there. Okay, we're starting up Windows. Why don't we have a look at the
keyboard? Cuz keyboard is such a big thing for uh for any notebook. You can
see this is quite a comfortable full-size keyboard and it's using the
chicklet keys which are very popular although they're not my personal
favorite. ASUS gives you a little outline of the specs of this again. So
they've got the i7720 5870 with 1 gig of
video RAM which I hadn't covered already. 17.3 in screen. It includes uh
wireless N as well as uh yeah that's
pretty much everything that we already talked about. And they oh they had these
labeled. Look, they're both exhausts. So, there you go. So, the air intake is
actually at the bottom. Okay. And then we've got more badges over here. So,
your Core i7 badge, Windows 7 is included, obviously. Uh HD5870 graphics
as well as a Creative EX. And then, oh,
hey, here we go. So, it's booted up already. We can check the English
language. Cameraman is indicating something to me. Oh, I like this. Look
at this touchpad. This is an enormous touchpad. That's a huge advantage for
this laptop cuz if you have a nice big high-res screen, the last thing you want
is to have a little tiny touch pad that you're going to the edge and then going back tracking like that. So, keypad's
comfortable. Um, that's pretty comfortable, too. Actually, this whole
thing's a pretty good experience, actually. Cameraman, if you want to have a look at the screen, you can see it
there. But, I think that pretty much covers everything that I have to say
about this particular notebook. Thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
G73 series ASUS gaming notebook.