Official Asus G73JH Owners Lounge

[evensen007]

Originally Posted by ziddy123

So they create a false sense of high demand by limiting availability. Lame.

Trust me, it's not a false jacking up of demand. This is Ati's newest flagship mobile gpu and CES covered the G73 extensively. Look how many pages and views the main G73 thread has. It's got to be close to a record. More interest in that one thread than the whole Alienware forum.

[TheStiletto]

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?

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.

[JohnnyFlash]

Originally Posted by ziddy123

So they create a false sense of high demand by limiting availability. Lame.

True, but it makes us want it more because we can't have it. This is nothing new, companies have been doing it for years. The Wii and the newer VW bug come to mind. Or better yet, how many times have you seen a giant line outside a club, but can see that it's still pretty much empty inside.

Along as they start releasing a few and continue the flow, they'll do fine.

I'm with you though, I don't want to wait either, but such is life.

[ziddy123]

Vicious or anyone mind explaining the performance difference between the 1066 and 1333 Ram?

I read the FAQ in the lounge forum but that only covered the amount. If this has already been asked I apologize.

Also does G73 support 1600 Ram? I've seen this ram being made available online for laptops. Spending $120 on 4 GB of 1600 might be better I'm thinking.

[ViciousXUSMC]

Originally Posted by ziddy123

Vicious or anyone mind explaining the performance difference between the 1066 and 1333 Ram?

I read the FAQ in the lounge forum but that only covered the amount. If this has already been asked I apologize.

Also does G73 support 1600 Ram? I've seen this ram being made available online for laptops. Spending $120 on 4 GB of 1600 might be better I'm thinking.

The performance increase is quite minimal for the faster ram, so much so that you wont notice it outside of a memory benchmark. The other reason its a bad idea to upgrade to faster ram is due to the all too comon problem of faster ram still running at the slower ram speed because you cant change the ram settings in the bios and its locked to be compabile with the built in overclocking software.

[ziddy123]

So Vicious the 1066 may be the best speed for compatibility with software, bios etc? Or 1333 still ok? Cause getting this tomorrow from ExCalibre and spending less can upgrade it to the 8GB 1333 seems more favorable than waiting 1.5 months to sludge through Xotic's waiting list.

Thanks for your quick reply.

[GTO_Greg]

Originally Posted by ziddy123

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.

Have you been able to confirm your order w/ Excaliber?

[ziddy123]

Originally Posted by GTO_Greg

Have you been able to confirm your order w/ Excaliber?

I've been calling and calling, but it's futile. They have an insane phone hours of 10 PST, sheesh, day is more than half done here!

[mk1freak]

Vicious, wanted to say thanks for the thread clean-up! My baby is pre-ordered too up here(canada)and i get in on the first shipment (usually a week after you guys in the states) can't wait for this baby!

[ziddy123]

Originally Posted by mk1freak

Vicious, wanted to say thanks for the thread clean-up! My baby is pre-ordered too up here(canada)and i get in on the first shipment (usually a week after you guys in the states) can't wait for this baby!

Damn lucky you to get on the first shipment!

Originally Posted by GTO_Greg

Have you been able to confirm your order w/ Excaliber?

The Asus G73 is 3 miles away from XCaliber and the representative said with my express processing I should expect to see it tomorrow. I got into the first shipment!
- I'll be cancelling Xotic, and if I need faster ram or HDD I can just order that from NewEgg for less anyhow!
- Would like to say, if Xotic had it in stock I would be happy to do business with them. Their sales department are informative, helpful, very quick. I highly recommend XoticPC, just not for me if the wait time is over a month and can get it now elsewhere.