WEBVTT 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:12.240 So today I'll be unboxing a pretty new notebook from ASUS. And this is the ASUS 00:00:06.759 --> 00:00:15.280 G73 JH2. So it's an Intel Core i7 720 QM 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:19.439 processor, 8 gigs of RAM, two 500 gig 00:00:15.280 --> 00:00:21.039 hard drives, and it features an HD 5870 00:00:19.439 --> 00:00:26.560 mobile graphics card. So that's the fastest graphics card you can get in a 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:31.199 notebook at this time. Now, just to give you some idea of the scale of this 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:36.480 notebook, it's a really really heavy and b really, really big. Okay, so why don't 00:00:34.160 --> 00:00:41.120 we just kind of get started here. So, the difference between the G2 and the G1 00:00:38.879 --> 00:00:46.559 is just that the G1 has Blu-ray as far as I can tell. So, um I grabbed the G2 00:00:44.160 --> 00:00:50.920 since I don't have any particular use for Blu-ray on the go at the moment. And 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:55.360 let's see if we can Yeah. See, this is why I need a 00:00:53.360 --> 00:01:01.600 knife because scissors don't quite cut it. Get it. Cut 00:00:58.199 --> 00:01:05.280 it. Yeah. Okay. So, the first thing we 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:07.479 find inside the box is an ASUS or Oh, 00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:12.960 no. A Targus backpack. All right. So, watch out. This 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:18.560 is a choking hazard. Do not put in reach of small children or dogs. All right. 00:01:16.240 --> 00:01:23.280 And uh I'm going to go ahead and assume that this notebook bag fits the notebook 00:01:21.439 --> 00:01:27.520 in question. So it would have to be quite large to fit a 17inch notebook. 00:01:25.119 --> 00:01:32.240 But as you can see, it is. And I guess I might as well do my little turn on the 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:37.680 catwalk here. And we'll throw the backpack on. Yeah, there we go. So 00:01:36.240 --> 00:01:47.720 that's what I would look like if I wore a backpack every day. Okay, there we go. 00:01:41.759 --> 00:01:51.520 Next we have Oh man, that's heavy. Okay, 00:01:47.720 --> 00:01:54.320 this G series. It's got their Republic 00:01:51.520 --> 00:01:58.960 of Gamers branding all over it. Okay, Republic of Gamers. Got the color scheme 00:01:56.560 --> 00:02:04.920 going on here. Not really a whole lot in terms of anything there. So, let's get 00:02:01.119 --> 00:02:08.160 this box opened up. All 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:11.000 right. Uh, let's do this first. This 00:02:08.160 --> 00:02:14.000 looks like an accessory sort of 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:21.840 box. Okay. Well, it'll come out. There 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:26.800 it goes. Even that's heavy. Wow. This must be like the battery or something. 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:34.319 Okay. Open it up. So, the first thing we find in here is a power cord and then um 00:02:30.480 --> 00:02:40.239 the AC adapter. Wow, that is huge. So, 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:42.360 this is a 1 19.5 vol 7.7 amp AC adapter. 00:02:40.239 --> 00:02:48.000 This thing has some real heft to it. Okay. Next thing we have is the 00:02:45.760 --> 00:02:52.080 battery. The battery is actually surprisingly Oh, all right. Cameraman 00:02:49.920 --> 00:02:56.480 wants me to do his whole iPhone for scale thing. Here, here. Here. Okay. 00:02:53.680 --> 00:03:01.200 Okay. So, this is the cameraman's iPhone next to the battery pack. And it doesn't 00:02:58.720 --> 00:03:04.560 look that big now. Oh, but look at me now. It's huge. And it's heavy. It's a 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:08.720 lot heavier than an iPhone, we'll tell you that much. Okay, battery. We'll show 00:03:06.959 --> 00:03:13.599 you the size of the battery as well. Just you It's It's actually not It's 00:03:10.959 --> 00:03:17.599 surprisingly not big. I'm I'm very shocked at how small the battery is. So, 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:21.599 you put it next to the phone. You can see the uh width and height of it. It's 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:26.400 very very deep, though. So, I'm guessing it's like double stacked inside there or 00:03:23.519 --> 00:03:34.440 something like that. Okay. Uh, next thing we find here is a black box which 00:03:31.480 --> 00:03:40.400 includes Oh, a gaming mouse. That's nice. So, this appears to be based on um 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:42.640 Oh, shoot. I should recognize this, shouldn't 00:03:42.680 --> 00:03:47.599 I? Rats. Okay, I don't recognize the OEM 00:03:45.920 --> 00:03:52.159 design that this is using, but it looks like a pretty decent little gaming mouse. You got a back and forward 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:57.120 button, nice rubberized grip here. You got your DPI adjustment. uh mouse wheel, 00:03:54.879 --> 00:04:00.080 left and right click. Not too bad. All right. It's nice of them to include that 00:03:58.720 --> 00:04:03.120 as part of the package. I mean, you're buying an expensive notebook. You know, 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:06.879 you might as well throw in some accessories for their customers. Much 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:11.560 appreciated, ASUS. If I could just get this back inside there. Okay. And then 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:16.400 we finally have a cable tie. How very random. Actually, it's not 00:04:14.640 --> 00:04:21.040 that random. Normally, a cable tie would be attached to the power adapter, but it 00:04:19.359 --> 00:04:26.560 isn't. So, they provide you with an extra one. Okay. And then that is it for 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:31.120 accessories. We are down to the notebook itself. I'm surprised at the lack of any 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:36.040 documentation inside here. There's there's nothing in terms of instructions 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:41.280 or uh CDs. So I guess the OS is probably on a uh on a partition on here. And then 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:45.759 I'm guessing all of your drivers are also on that partition. So why don't we 00:04:43.759 --> 00:04:50.680 just first of all install the battery. So you can see that it just kind of 00:04:47.840 --> 00:04:56.320 slides in right like that and then just locks in place. Okay. 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:59.360 So the battery is in and that is a pretty sleek looking machine. Let's get 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:03.600 this box out of the way. Thank you, cameraman. And then we'll just kind of 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:09.360 put this down here. So it's a matte black slightly rubberized finish to the 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:11.520 back of it. You've got a silver shiny 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:15.680 ASUS logo on the back as well as their Republic of Gamers Shield. Okay. The 00:05:13.840 --> 00:05:20.560 hinge design I'll comment on once I actually get it open, but it looks 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:25.840 fairly beefy and solid at the moment. On the back, we've got huge ventilation. 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:30.479 So, you've got a heat sink here, and that's normally about all you would find 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:34.880 on a typical notebook. But then over on the other side, past the Kensington lock 00:05:32.400 --> 00:05:39.360 and the antenna hole, you've got another huge ventilation hole. All right, let's 00:05:37.520 --> 00:05:45.120 go around to this side where we will find power in, VGA, HDMI out, so you can 00:05:42.960 --> 00:05:49.919 do both analog or digital out. Then you've got a couple of USB ports as well 00:05:46.880 --> 00:05:52.639 as an SD card slot. Around the front, 00:05:49.919 --> 00:05:58.479 you've just got uh indicator lights, so you got your wireless hard drive, 00:05:54.479 --> 00:06:02.400 battery, and a light bulb. And then you 00:05:58.479 --> 00:06:05.199 have gigabit LAN, another USB port, DVD 00:06:02.400 --> 00:06:10.160 multi or in the case of the uh of the other version of this laptop, you would 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:12.319 have a Blu-ray drive, USB mic in and 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:17.720 headphone out. Let's go around to the bottom here. So you can see the bottom 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:21.440 is where all of that 00:06:17.720 --> 00:06:23.759 um oh yeah, whatever. Okay. Where all of 00:06:21.440 --> 00:06:27.919 that air is going to be coming from. So, these there are probably blower fans 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:32.720 right around here and then they're sucking air into these vents and then 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:35.520 out the back of the unit is my assumption. Either that or one of them 00:06:34.080 --> 00:06:38.560 is an intake and one of them is an exhaust. I have no way of knowing 00:06:37.440 --> 00:06:44.160 without opening it and I don't particularly want to do that though. So, anyway, there's the bottom. You can see 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:48.400 you've got easy access for upgrades to uh what appears to be the RAM here and 00:06:46.080 --> 00:06:52.400 probably wireless hard drive and all of that good stuff. So, let's flip this 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:56.560 back over. And uh now I've gotten it all dirty. Oh, well, there we go. Okay, so 00:06:54.720 --> 00:06:59.599 we'll open up the front. Okay, there's no uh there's no unlock or anything like 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:05.039 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 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:11.680 little uh sleeve. Okay, so the first thing we see inside is obviously the 00:07:07.039 --> 00:07:13.199 17in widescreen LCD. And uh here's a 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:17.280 little bit of information that ASUS includes about this notebook. So, you've 00:07:15.280 --> 00:07:21.280 got a 2-year global warranty. That means that if you buy it in Canada and take it 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:25.199 to Europe, you're still covered by your ASUS warranty. You've got a zero bright 00:07:23.440 --> 00:07:29.840 dot guarantee. So, a bright dot is kind of like a dead pixel except it's um like 00:07:27.440 --> 00:07:34.720 a colorful spot. Then you've got two-way free standard shipping for your RMA and 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:41.039 24/7 technical support. That's pretty darn good for a standard warranty. And 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:43.520 they even include no way. They include 00:07:41.039 --> 00:07:47.880 the ASUS accidental damage warranty. So, you have a one year covering accidental 00:07:45.440 --> 00:07:52.639 drops, spills, power surges, and fire damage. Go figure. All right. So, here, 00:07:51.440 --> 00:07:57.440 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 00:07:55.599 --> 00:08:00.800 speakers here. That's going to take care of your sound. And then there's also a 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:04.639 subwoofer grill that we saw on the bottom of the unit already. That's okay. 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:07.680 We already saw that. And then, so let's have a look at the screen itself. I'll 00:08:06.319 --> 00:08:12.680 just kind of angle it so you can have a look here. You've got a webcam up at the 00:08:09.479 --> 00:08:15.520 top. Little glossy thing around 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:18.319 there. Okay, we're starting up Windows. Why don't we have a look at the 00:08:16.479 --> 00:08:22.639 keyboard? Cuz keyboard is such a big thing for uh for any notebook. You can 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:27.199 see this is quite a comfortable full-size keyboard and it's using the 00:08:25.039 --> 00:08:30.240 chicklet keys which are very popular although they're not my personal 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:37.200 favorite. ASUS gives you a little outline of the specs of this again. So 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:38.719 they've got the i7720 5870 with 1 gig of 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:45.279 video RAM which I hadn't covered already. 17.3 in screen. It includes uh 00:08:41.680 --> 00:08:46.720 wireless N as well as uh yeah that's 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:51.040 pretty much everything that we already talked about. And they oh they had these 00:08:48.560 --> 00:08:54.480 labeled. Look, they're both exhausts. So, there you go. So, the air intake is 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:58.320 actually at the bottom. Okay. And then we've got more badges over here. So, 00:08:56.399 --> 00:09:05.519 your Core i7 badge, Windows 7 is included, obviously. Uh HD5870 graphics 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:07.279 as well as a Creative EX. And then, oh, 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:10.640 hey, here we go. So, it's booted up already. We can check the English 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:14.000 language. Cameraman is indicating something to me. Oh, I like this. Look 00:09:11.920 --> 00:09:17.600 at this touchpad. This is an enormous touchpad. That's a huge advantage for 00:09:15.760 --> 00:09:20.959 this laptop cuz if you have a nice big high-res screen, the last thing you want 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:27.519 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 00:09:24.959 --> 00:09:29.680 comfortable. Um, that's pretty comfortable, too. Actually, this whole 00:09:28.640 --> 00:09:33.680 thing's a pretty good experience, actually. Cameraman, if you want to have a look at the screen, you can see it 00:09:32.320 --> 00:09:37.519 there. But, I think that pretty much covers everything that I have to say 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:44.480 about this particular notebook. Thank you for checking out my unboxing of the 00:09:39.640 --> 00:09:44.480 G73 series ASUS gaming notebook.