XoticPC’s G73JW: A Good Gaming Notebook Made Better?

Add another 460M in SLI and then you have the punch needed!

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 notebooks

@fstrthnu:
The new Asus G73SW on Xoticpc has sandy bridge

I'm waiting for a possible "G73SH" with Radeon 6970m, though it might never happen.

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 notebooks

XoticPC 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!

That is a pretty amazing laptop, I could definitely use one of those for LAN's.

Is it me or has the print button suddenly disappeared from these batch of articles?...

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.

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.

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.

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.

$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.

Sorry, but no.
I like the Clevo based alternatives a lot more. This is ugly and boring.
It does disappoint me however that the Clevo 18.4" is 16/9 and not 16/10, but neither is this.

Oh, and by the way, Sager sells its NP7280-S1 (Clevo) with the way I configured it with:
17" 1920x1080
Dual GTX 470M
i7-950 3.06GHz
12GB DDR3 (triple channel, so you get 4GB less memory, but 50% more bandwidth)
2x750GB 7200RPM + 120GB Intel SSD
6x Bluray reader/DVD writer
Intel Ultimate-N 6300 wireless
Bluetooth
3 year extended warranty
All for $3,643.

So, better CPU, better GPU (nevermind there's two of them), 3x the HDD storage and a 50% larger SSD, better warranty, and all for $40 more.
Screw you Zotac and Asus. ^_^

I'm pretty sure they had an Asus laptop on newegg just like this one, but maybe a bit lesser of an i7 and with a radeon 5870, minus the SSD, but was still only $1,500..

I agree with Travis and I like the Clevo systems better. I actually bought one from Xotic about 3 years ago and it is a solid laptop and it still gets the job done. The only complaint I have is my 8800m GTX in it died after about 1.5 years of heavy gaming, but I blame NVIDIA for that one.

If you are looking for an enthusiast laptop I definitely recommend checking these guys out and do your price comparisons. One nice bonus is you get a bloat free OS from them.

My two cents.

Beh, it's just OK when considering the asking price. I was expecting a little more action in the video graphics area TBH.

A direct competitor to this and better build quality and price.....Alienware M17x R3

Looks great.
Hope you review the SW version soon with the new Sandy bridge CPUs

If doing a review like this in the future, having the basic model in the test as well would be nice, so we could see exactly what the changes does to the performance.

curtis_87Is it me or has the print button suddenly disappeared from these batch of articles?...

I was wondering the same thing.

adribhel@fstrthnu:The new Asus G73SW on Xoticpc has sandy bridge I'm waiting for a possible "G73SH" with Radeon 6970m, though it might never happen.

Ummm....they are out already

http://www.pro-star.com/index.cfm

P150HM, P150HM-PS1, P170HM, P170HM-PS1

Pro-Star has the same Asus BTW, with blue or red KB backlighting rather than the flag thing for $200 cheaper.

Travis Beane......Sager sells its NP7280-S1 (Clevo) with the way I configured it with:17" 1920x1080Dual GTX 470Mi7-950 3.06GHz12GB DDR3 (triple channel, so you get 4GB less memory, but 50% more bandwidth)2x750GB 7200RPM + 120GB Intel SSD6x Bluray reader/DVD writerIntel Ultimate-N 6300 wirelessBluetooth3 year extended warrantyAll for $3,643.So, better CPU, better GPU (nevermind there's two of them), 3x the HDD storage and a 50% larger SSD, better warranty, and all for $40 more.Screw you Zotac and Asus. ^_^

$100 cheaper at Pro-Star's site