Ok so I parted out my i7 desktop over the last few weeks in hopes of snagging up a new laptop. I decided to get myself a bad ass laptop since I am never at home, but it is for school in order to do AutoCAD work as well as photo editing.
Well I started to look around at HP, Dell, Alienware, Toshiba, Lenovo, and ASUS. I found a few Lenovo's that I liked, but the thing was that with all the Lenovos, the GPU sucked balls, and he screen resolution was stupidly low. I wasnt asking for much, but to have a Blu-Ray drive an not support 1920x1080 is a little half ass backwards if you ask me...
Well then I was looking on Engadget, the bible for nerds, and saw something that caught my eye. ASUS G73 laptop, First laptop with directX 11 support. Well I figured ok lets take a look a it.
I start to look at it and I instantly fell in love. Here are the BASE specs on the unit...
17.3 inch 16:9 1920x1080 FHD LED
ATI HD5870 1GB GDDR5, DX11
Intel Core i7-720QM, 1.60-2.80GHz, 2.5 GT/s, 45nm, 6MB, 45W
8GB DDR3 1066 (2G X 4)
HD 1 500GB 7200rpm SATA II
HD 2 500GB 7200rpm SATA II
RAID- 0, 1 or disabled
4X Blu-Ray Read/DVDRW Optical Drive
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit Pre-installed w/System Recovery DVD\
So yeah, its a fucken beast. So I figured yeah whatever, its probably a $2,000+ laptop and it wont be out for another 6 months so I decided to just let it go.
Well a few days later I had to contact ASUS about a special order at my work and decided to ask about the laptop and get a ETA on the release. I got a response that it will retail at $1699 with the base configurations that were posted above and that it will be out in Spring. I was like WTF, only $1699, so I decided to pre-order one.
Well I put my order in last Saturday and today I got a email back form ASUS stating that I will be one of the first 50 people to get their G73 laptops, HELL YEAH.
It will ship either the 10th, or 11th of Feb, and once it gets in I have two 160GB Intel X25M drives waiting for it.
Until it comes in and I can do a review on it, here are some Pure Sex photos of the beast. Enjoy and look forward to seeing a full review and benchmarks on it.