HD 5870 and GTS 360M notebooks available for pre-order

I too leery on the GTS 360. Usually it takes awhile for the mobile chips to come about compared to the launch of the corresponding desktop series...if they're released at the same time either nvidia has been working hard, or, as lostandwandering said, it's just another rebadge.

Edit: Also, what's up with that pricing? That doesn't seem remotely equal; a midrange chip, less memory, and a smaller screen for (practically) the same price as a machine with a 5870M?

The link doesn't say much else other than the 360 is a rebadged 240...I could say the same thing with as much truth behind it at this point. We need proof.

Well i thought GTS 360M wouldn't be a whole new card,i at least hope HD 5870 will be a powerful card,waiting for benchies

GeForce 8, 9, 200 and now possibly the 300. So that's three, definite, and counting.

wow, the 5870 laptop sounds pretty mad.

anyone feel like loaning me a few thousand dollars?

1024MB GTS 360M? Yeah the 360 chip is suppose to have a 384-bit bus so that doesn't work out at all. I'm more willing to believe that it's a G92 chip with GDDR5. DX10 only .

I think the GT200's were just too big for notebook use. They eat power and the chips were..well, huge. It's probably a nicely-modded G92.

Yes it looks tempting hope it performs well

Lucky, Mind sharing where/how?
I would take this one back, buy the 550 and use the remaining 500$ for a nice 42 inch 120MHZ 1080P

I hear it's the equivalent of a desktop 5750, according to notebookcheck at least.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/ATI-M [...] 073.0.html

surely if it were the same as a desktop 5750, that would make it less powerful than a laptop 4870? aren't they comparable to a desktop 4850? all these comparisons confuse me :S

Which is rather lame since it really won't be any better than a card that was developed 2 generations ago. way to go ATI

This is huge, not many recent Asus laptops have had this, but Asus just made me glad even more that I pre-ordered my G73jh!

It supports raid 0 on it's 2 500gb 7200rpm hard drives! Something the previous G72 and G51j didn't.

http://hothardware.com/Articles/As [...] w-Laptops/

Proof is right there!

Good base prices, but upgrading the Corei7 pricing is ridiculous, the 920XM costs ~$200 more than the chip itself, meaning that you get no discount for having started from the 720QM , frickin' brutall !!

I just set one up for a friend. The thing is lightning fast, was watching bluray movie off the drive through hdmi on a sharp aquos 42 and playing modern warfare demo on the pc, and the bluray did not skip. The game was a little slower than usual though. Still very impressed. The WIFI is stronger than I expected, was getting a superb signal in an area where my other notebooks usually drop.

The things that I did not like:

-Asus did not pre-install in RAID. The OS is on a 120GB partition and the other partition is 340GB Data on same drive, the other drive is butchered into two partition as well. That gives you 4 drive letters, what a mess. Need to reinstall to take advantage of the raid features. Pain in the ass.
-No USB 3.0, right now not a big deal, but 2 years from now this will be a problem.
-No BluRay Player bundle from Asus, had to download Cyberlinks PowerDVD 9, runs great, but its a demo.
-The mouse that comes with this thing is wired, come on Asus! WTF?@# 3 extra bucks is that much of a big deal?
-No remote, ok I knew that, but since the mouse is wired, it makes it a further hurdle if you are using it to watch movies in the living room and have the pc next to the tv. At this price I would think they would include a remote. (Luckily my friend still has one from multimedia Asus she bought 4 years ago)

Conclusion:

Thing still kicks serious ASS and I would buy one if I had the coin to spare.

EDIT: BTW, there are (TWO) 2 X 500GB (7200rpm) drives in the G73JH-A1.