Asus G73jh Laptop Packs Core i7, Radeon HD 5870
Asus revealed a meaty gaming laptop packed with Intel's Core i7 CPU and ATI's Radeon HD 5870.
Engadget reports from CES with news that Asus is sporting a smoking hot laptop branded with its infamous Republic of Gamers title. The Asus G73hj is apparently out to shame other wannabe gamer laptops by sporting Intel's Core i7-720QM CPU and ATI's Radeon HD 5870. That means gamers can bask in DirectX 11 goodness no matter where they go... or at least until the battery needs to be recharged.
In addition to the CPU and GPU, the portable gaming rig allows up to 8 GB or DDR3 RAM, up to 1 TB of HDD space (what, no SSD?), and 8-channel HD audio. To complete this armpit portable theater, the 17.3-inch display has a native resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels. There's also a Blu-ray / DVD combo drive and a mini-VGA connector.
Other bells and whistles featured in the Asus G73hj include an 8-cell battery, a 2-megapixel webcam, an 8-in-1 card reader, Bluetooth 2.1, gigabit Ethernet, 802.1b/g Wi-Fi, and more. Windows 7 Home Premium is also the operating system of choice, rounding out a rather meaty laptop.
Currently the price hasn't been announced. Stay tuned as more is revealed that the show.
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Why would they skimp out on the wireless with specs like that? No wireless n would be a dealbreaker for me...
agreed with the article, no ssd? and why only wireless b/g?!?
I don't think "infamous" is the correct word to describe the ASUS brand of gaming laptops...Should have used a synonym of famous, not an antonym. Unless you actually mean that ASUS has exceedingly bad laptops. Whatever.
Don't worry, Kevin's just a bad copy paste journalist. The spec photo I found on the engadget article listed connectivity as 802.11N (b/g).
I know it's an i7, but it's still only clocked at 1.6Ghz. This has CPU limited fps written all over it.
nice but power hog bet!!!!
Curnel_D i believe that the CPU speed is fine, for a quad core cpu whilst on the go, when you plug it in, turbo boost will kick in and it will go up to 2.8ghz, which is pretty good really. You're not likely to be gaming on the battery anyway, as battery life would probably be measured in minutes. This sort of thing really shouldn't bother with a battery as no sane person would try to use it for mobile computing, portable computing maybe.
ahhh...the turbo boost is needed. with that, its epic.
but if it didn't have it, Curnel_D would be on the mark
wow i guess you can game on a laptop. anyone rememeber their last laptop with a 4870x2. Man i love AMD/ATI.
I would say the price of this laptop costs about $4000 bucks. (correct me if I'm wrong).
Nice laptops but good luck getting more than 90 min worth on a battery charge. Nice addition of the 5870 mobile! but no Wireless N? its 2010 jees!
"up to 8 GB or DDR3 RAM"? Should be "up to 8 GB of DDR3 RAM". Proof read, please!
Don't worry, Kevin's just a bad copy paste journalist. The spec photo I found on the engadget article listed connectivity as 802.11N (b/g).
I call it parrot reporting. They repeat someone else, but they sometimes miss parts.
I'd love to have this
Battery life wouldn't matter to me cuz I leave my laptop plugged in when I play anyway.
Would be nice to have the full blown i7 in laptop form not a mobile version just for easy portability.
When has any manufacturer come out with a laptop with the best of all worlds? Its either decent hardware and crap extras, or heaps of great extras and average hardware.
Curnel_D i believe that the CPU speed is fine, for a quad core cpu whilst on the go, when you plug it in, turbo boost will kick in and it will go up to 2.8ghz, which is pretty good really. You're not likely to be gaming on the battery anyway, as battery life would probably be measured in minutes. This sort of thing really shouldn't bother with a battery as no sane person would try to use it for mobile computing, portable computing maybe.
Ahh, I wasnt aware that the turbo boost binned that high on these chips. But I've only had two chances to actually play with the new i7 mobiles, and both times were rushed because of low stock/backorder time.
Looks assume, but (likely) too rich for my blood. I love my G51J, although heat and battery life are definitely issues. But it was a great value and am quite happy with it. I'm not sure why someone would refer to ASUS gaming laptops as "infamous." I'd definitely buy one again.
er, looks AWESOME. Wish that there was an edit feature. Oh well.
im waiting for the mobile phenom 2 quad cores then this setup will be all worth it.
Cool, beastly laptop.
Things that I would have liked.
Wireless N
SSD
Intel Core i7 920XM would be nice with turbo boost to 3.2GHz
This laptop has been available for presale for the past couple weeks. It comes with 8GB (upgradable to 16GB) of RAM. It also comes with two 500GB HDDs which can (obviously) be replaced/upgraded to SSDs via online resellers or on your own. And yes, it has wireless N and a realistic battery life is < 1hr.
Base price is $1645.00, that includes all of the above, the 720QM processor and bluray. They also did some nifty stuff with the cooling system that looks promising.
Now... if only if it was less than $2k (which would be the minimum starting price for this) mark my words!
and the price? 4000-5000$ at least, while you could get an even bettter desktop for less than $1500.
LAPTOPS SUCK FOR GAMING
learn that
CPU speed is fine for gaming. Now the GPU doesn't most of the processing...
G73jh ???? wth? what kind of name is that. My first thought is that it looks like someone mashed on the keyboard
I wonder what the heat output for this beast is, with an i7 and a 5870 i think laptop is a misnomer, its going to end up being a table top machine only or there are going to be chestnuts roasting on an open fire.
Hunter, tabletop makes sense really. With netbooks and PDAs becoming so popular for mobile web browsing and the like, it seems as though the market is shifting away from laptops for this use and instead diverging toward desktop replacements for convenient gaming (think college student toting the computer home for the holidays) and smaller devices for more basic functions.
I still think it's disheartening to see so many manufacturers going to 1080 resolutions on what's otherwise a nice big screen and calling it HD. Fine for movies, but it's shortchanging the gamers IMO.
It is selling for 1650.00, not 3-4k lol! And no, laptops do NOT suck for gaming you tool. This thing will probably run circles around your desktop. It has hardware raid 0/1 support and DOES have wireless N!
ZD claims it will be available in February for $1,699 ... but I'm not sure how much I trust their info.
ZD claims it will be available in February for $1,699 ... but I'm not sure how much I trust their info.
ASUS probably excluded the 802.11n and SSD to keep price down. Not that wireless N should make it much more expensive, but something like this is surely slated for Best Buy and such, it must appeal the the average gamer. There is plenty of competition for that market, so the price must be competitive as well. Knowing from my computer sales experience, there are a lot of PC gamers that don't really know that much about the PCs themselves.
That said, the video card is whoop-ass, so the missing SSD and wireless N wouldn't matter as most games will be more than playable (40+ FPS on Crysis, for example).