XoticPC’s G73JW: A Good Gaming Notebook Made Better?
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Thomas Soderstrom
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XoticPC offers gaming notebook buyers an alternative to the boring and heavy Clevo-based units sold by most of its competitors. Asus’ hefty (but not grotesquely-so) G73JW is the starting point for the custom build XoticPC sent over for our evaluation.
Benchmark Results: Audio And Video Encoding
Even though all three configurations use the same processor, Apple iTunes gives a slight nod to the X8100-based platform.
That slight X8100 advantage continues through HandBrake.
DivX and Xivd also prefer the X8100, though MainConcept shows the expected performance parity.
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Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.
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fstrthnu With all of the flair going on over Sandy Bridge, one might as well just wait till someone comes out with the Sandy Bridge gaming notebooksReply -
adribhel @fstrthnu:Reply
The new Asus G73SW on Xoticpc has sandy bridge ;)
I'm waiting for a possible "G73SH" with Radeon 6970m, though it might never happen. :/ -
Crashman fstrthnuWith all of the flair going on over Sandy Bridge, one might as well just wait till someone comes out with the Sandy Bridge gaming notebooksXoticPC just wanted to show off its custom work and sent this in December. We're looking forward to the G73SW to be delivered in a similar configuration in the near future, so please stay tuned!Reply
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curtis_87 Is it me or has the print button suddenly disappeared from these batch of articles?...Reply -
Is the problem a lack of strength? Or is it a heavy level of apathy? You can build the same machine in desktop form for significantly less.Reply
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kkiddu Although it's totally not fair to compare it with a desktop PC, but I've been confused on what to go for as I'm going to college next year, one option being the bare $1500 version of the G73, and the other being a netbook + a desktop. The problem with the desktop is that I'll have to haul it back home every vacation.Reply
But seeing that performance for $3000 is just 'good', I'm gonna stick with a $1400 desktop. I think I can get a 50% performance increase with half the price. -
nevertell Why oh why didn't they fit a larger keyboard ? Look at the room on the sides of the keyboards, waiting to be filled with keys.Reply -
Big Daddy Rhino $3600? I literally LOL'd. Just built a Sandy Bridge, GTX 570 desktop that will smoke that laptop and I've got $2400 left over for hookers and booze.Reply