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Originally Posted by ziddy123
I also called BTO and get the same message. But I believe my order is pushed back into middle of March so I'll probably cancel with Xotic anyways.
I placed an order with ExcaliberPC who say it's in stock and having it shipped overnight. It seems the G73 may come stock with the 1333 (hoping), if not I can just upgrade it at a later time, waiting 1.5 months is going to suck more than slightly slower ram. Once Excaliber is open and I call to confirm the order, I'll cancel the Xotic.
Too bad Asus couldn't meet the demand. I wonder if it was ATi or Asus dropped the ball on this. I just don't see a high demand for high performance gaming laptops.
- Example I play with a very large gaming community and told them I pre-ordered this. Response unanimous.
- Dude those are awesome specs. But it still sucks cause it's still a laptop, lol at you.
- On top of that it's always. You should have got an Alienware. Aren't Sager's better? Asus makes gaming laptops?
- Few who knew, dude, Asus has heating issues with their gaming series laptops. Don't get it!
So yeah even among gaming enthusiast I just don't see a huge demand for these. Considering Asus is such a large manufacturer, I'd place my bet it was ATi that dropped the ball on making HD5870 more available. I don't remember where, but remember reading AMD outsources the manufacturing of ATi chips right?
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Gaming enthusiast does not equal hardware/software enthusiast. Just because a guy likes to buy fast cars and drive them around doesn't mean he knows an oil filter from a brake pad. It's sad how many people are lazy about their hobbies.