ASUS G75V Ivy Bridge GTX 670M 17.3" Gaming Notebook Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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2,630 words · ~13 min read
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welcome to my unboxing of a super exciting product I've had quite a few
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requests to take a look at this guy this is the g75 V more specifically is the as
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g75 VW v3g m-18
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13-1 basically this is the ASUS g75 this
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is their next Generation Ivy Bridge gaming notebook which not only has Next
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Generation ivybridge processing behind the CPU it also has Next Generation
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Graphics powered by NVIDIA 600 series
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gpus so this is an incredibly exciting
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product and it comes with a Targus
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backpack I'm going to let that sink in Target's backpack uh okay no but
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seriously you guys it has um like a republic of gamer branded thing going on
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here and for an included backpack I can already tell you guys it feels really
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good there's actually genuinely padding on it whereas most like free bonus gift
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backpacks are usually pretty horrible so
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uh yeah there you go it's got like a Seuss branding on the uh the the lining
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and then your notebook goes in there your other stuff you know I'm not going to spend too much time on the backpack
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here but I feel like I should just kind of show it to you at least all right so
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there's your included Rog backpack here's what is presumably an included
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Rog
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Mouse okay there you go it's got like a DPI
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adjust button scroll wheel you know some buttons that go here here and here some
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rubberized grips some slippy pads on the bottom pretty basic um I mean handy to
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have an extra Mouse don't get me wrong but uh get a real gaming mouse if you
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sort of care about that sort of thing um
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so before we get into the specifics of the g75 let's talk about General ASUS
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advantages so ASUS knows how to manufacture things um sort of goes
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without saying they are experts so take
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that to the bank number two is they stand behind the things they manufacture
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you have a one-year warranty covering accidental damage drops spills power
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surges and fire damage holy crap normally that costs you an extra what I
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don't know 150 bucks on an Apple probably something along those lines
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more more s is sort of indicating to me 24-hour toll free phone support Target
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is three business day turnaround time for repair and replacement and free
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oneway standard shipping from ASUS to the user so you do have to ship it back
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to them 2-year international warranty so it's one year of accidental damage
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2-year overall warranty zero bright dot guarantee on the screen two-way free
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standard shipping okay I don't understand which of these is going on
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here but 24/7 tech support so all that's on there either way ASUS does stand
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behind their products they do have the best default warranty that I'm aware of
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you can get better extended warranties than this on products but not out of the
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box not without paying a bunch more money um okay 17.3 in full HD LED
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backlit screen USB 3 I don't know what that has to do with the LCD maybe we'll
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figure that out later uh okay without 3G
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without TV 6X Blu-ray on this particular
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skew okay we've got a 3610 qm that's a
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quad core i7 256 gig SSD boot drive and
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750 G 7200 RPM drive that is the perfect
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Drive configuration gold star ASUS for
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getting it exactly right because we see a lot of dual Bay uh notebooks that are
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configured with like dual hard drives in rid zero or like one hard drive in them
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by default no you need a boot SSD you need a mass storage Drive perfect and
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you need a high-speed mass storage Drive 7200 RPM Drive good job ASUS 16 gigs of
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RAM Windows 7 Premium and and all of that looks sort
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of pretty I can't believe that on a gaming notebook they actually don't have
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a GPU spec on the spec
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sheet simply phenomenal okay well guess we'll figure
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out it's probably a 675m if it is what I think it is but uh I was sort of
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expecting it to say for sure on the side of the unit but whatever uh power brick
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is as we've come to expect with gaming notebooks not exactly small so you know
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if you you were expecting it to be petite then you can expect to be
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disappointed but you have to power a lot of power to a powerful notebook so
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that's that's how they that's how we roll uh a couple speaker grills it looks
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like okay so we'll find out what those are for after power cable to go with
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your power brick and power battery to go
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with your like power power biceps to open the
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package battery notice I believe the battery is only one year warranty or
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like 90day or something um usually the battery has a lesser warranty than the
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rest although it looks like I'm totally wrong this has nothing to do with that
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it just has to do with making sure you don't dispose of it in fire which is a
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terrible idea I mean you shouldn't dispose of almost anything in if it's
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not made of paper you shouldn't be disposing of it in fire okay can we just
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sort of all agree on that I mean wood Wood's okay but not painted wood you
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know these are common sense things that uh ASUS sort of is explaining to us and
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I mean nice of them it's it's good that they don't want us to you know inhale
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toxic fumes and Destroy IM mate our environment but uh it seems a little
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self-explanatory so there's your battery pack you kind of throw the thing in
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there and pop the thing in there and you're good to go the bottom is covered
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in rubber grippies here here here here
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here and here and these are just plastic ones so I think they're just for looks
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but whatever um so they've put a lot
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more support behind the screen because the screen is big and they put less
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support behind the rest of it because the rest of it is not so big and I think
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that's all pretty pretty straightforward so on the back of the unit bam
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ventilation huge heat sinks here and
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here with heat pipes running through them these are cooling that high-end GPU
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and that high-end quad core CPU Kensington lock for security gorgeous
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little branding accents there this this looks really sharp it looks it almost
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looks like imagine this kind of guys okay so from from back a little bit
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further so kind of want this angle there's your headlights there's your
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emblem in the middle there's your front grill sort of thing it kind of looks
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like a performance vehicle I think and that's uh you know probably totally off
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in terms of what their design philosophy was for it but it looks fantastic on the
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side we've got two USB 3.0 super speed ports a Blu-ray disc player an SD card a
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microphone and headphone jack on the front we have indicator LEDs for a
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variet of different things including caps lock uh number lock Wireless hard
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drive activity battery and apparently a light bulb maybe power uh wow two more
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USB 3 super speed ports so no USB 2 uh
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we've got Thunderbolt HDMI gigabit
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Ethernet VGA good inclusion because every once in
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a while you will still need to Output to VGA and it's good to have it and since
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it doesn't have DVI you don't have those analog pins in the DVI connector so
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you've got digital analog great uh Power
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in and let's go ahead and open her up so the top is again very beautiful this is
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pretty similar to the last generation g74 in terms of the look of the hinge
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and the look of the top of the unit Republic of Gamers badge and ASUS logo
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on the back look very very sharp you've got a soft touch feel to the overall
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outside of the unit which is very nice and it also gives you a little bit of
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durability it's harder to scratch soft touch than it is something like a glossy
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plastic surface ultimate fighting machine sure why not got one of those
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protectors for the keyboard against the uh the screen itself and this is oh this
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is nice we got like a brushed aluminum thing going on here let's see if it's
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got enough of a charge to turn on right out of the box here so brushed aluminum
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um backplane for your keyboard which is Led backlit I'm going to turn off the
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lights in the room for a second so you guys can see what the uh what the
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backlight looks like it's beautiful I I
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I love white LED backlights um I think in my favorites kind of go like green
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and then white and then like other
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um so it's booting up right now you got a full number pad and no glaring errors
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on the keyboard layout full size shift full size shift backspace and enter
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wonderful perfect way to go ASUS because it kills me when I see keyboard layouts
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that are that are broken due to the notebook however it's easier on a 17in
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than it is on uh smaller form factor notebooks so you know there you go um
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right so it has a GTX 670m which is a pretty beefy graphics
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card and and that'll go with the uh the quad core processor so I'm just going to
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put uh demo demo I guess I I don't know
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they're going to be using this at the uh
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no I don't want a Bing Bar are you kidding me oh man okay use recommended
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settings we are in Pacific time uh Tech
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tipn doesn't have any internet connectivity right now anyway oh okay I
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thought I was getting a call but it's just my Twitter feed going nut for some
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reason um okay so moving on you've got
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all the usual hot Keys here so you got your brightness up and down you've got
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your keyboard brightness up and down your wireless sleep uh external display
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internal display turn off the touchpad and your audio controls I wouldn't have
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minded seeing media control oh there they are uh there's your play pause back
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forward and stop ah love that dedicated
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stop button so many devices aren't doing dedicated stop buttons anymore because
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they're like oh no pause is good enough because pause is good enough for Apple
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um Apple started this with no stop button stop means like off go away and
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so good job uh We've also got their
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shoot I forget what The Branding name for this is but it controls all your
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different um Power modes and all of that so that's your your function for the for
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the space bar here we go gamer friendly ergonomic design intelligent cooling
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plus Easy Clean system Easy Clean system
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wonder what makes it easy clean no way look at that so you can
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either open this up up with one screw fantastic or you can open up this with
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one screw and clean out the cooler see that's the see manufacturing
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expertise understanding the challenges and then just like addressing it instead
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of ignoring it that that is what sets
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apart and I have I still have no idea what these are for but uh moving right
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along like are they for like okay I I
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got nothing I'm sorry guys um CPU GPU
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Extreme Performance it sure does oh right so I have left out the best part
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for last so it has two-year warranty etc etc comes with macafe Internet Security
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as well as ASUS's web storage that's handy as well um has instant on oh
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that's cool so it uses um it uses
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Intel's latest chipset technology to
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instantly power on so here I'll show you guys um cuz I'm sure this is going to
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work even though this is a completely live demo and you can see what a
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difference the SSD makes if you guys have ever turned on a new computer oh
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crap ask me later go away if you guys have ever turned on a new computer then
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you probably know that they don't usually turn on that fast and initialize
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for the first time SSD is amazing and
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everyone should have one so we're going to go into
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sleep and we're going to see when it goes into sleep I'm so confident that
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this will be fast there it's in sleep and we're going to turn it on and it is
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going to be on and Bam
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instant on excellent uh right so Best For Last this
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screen is what I'm all about so you can
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see right here there's a built-in transmitter what is that for oh there's
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a webcam too but every notebook has a webcam uh there's a built-in transmitter
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so what is that for that is for your
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okay I'm just going to go away and I'm going to find them hold on hold on wait
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for it yes that is for your balling out
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3D Vision glasses because this notebook
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display is 3D Vision ready and 3D Vision
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ready with light boost if you guys remember any of what I've said about
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light boost in the past then um I don't
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need to say this next part but if you don't then I do light
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boost is amazing light boost takes the 3D Vision experience from for me a
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little bit headache inducing after about 30 seconds to comfortable and awesome
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light boost is amazing it not only increases the brightness of the display
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when you're in 3D mode with the 3D glasses it also dramatically reduces the
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cross talk between the images which is what I get the headache from where I can
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see a little bit of the left eye image through my right eye because the panel
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isn't switching fast enough and it's not modulating the backlight in order to
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optimize it for me so that is fantastic
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I love light boost it is amazing it is magical it's like it's like I could
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stand up and deliver a keynote speech about how it is magical and uh I would
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actually genuinely believe myself unlike some things that have been presented as
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magical in the past so there you go 1080p light boost ready 3D Vision
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display awesome awesome performance and
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yeah it's okay it's kind of heavy but that's sort of life when you have a
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gaming Notebook thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the
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