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Product Description

Take a giant leap ahead of the competition with the ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) G73JH gaming notebook. The G73JH takes the latest games to the next level of realism with Full HD graphics at a blistering fast framerate. Featuring an Intel Core i7 quad-core processor, graphics powered by an extremely powerful DirectX 11-enabled ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 graphics processor with 1GB GDDR5 VRAM, and 8GB DDR3 of system memory, the G73Jh-A2 unleashes its hypersonic performance to render today's and tomorrow's most demanding games with ease. The G73Jh-A3 boasts 1TB of 7200RPM hard disk space (500GB x 2) plus 4gb ssd, high-speed wireless N (802.11 b/g/n @2.4GHz), ASUS CPU Level Up performance boost, Bluetooth v2.1, HDMI connectivity, a 2.0Mp camera, DirectX 11 support, and Altec Lansing speakers with EAX Advanced HD 4.0 sound. Also included are a complimentary Republic of Gamers backpack and ROG laser gaming mouse (3200 DPI). The G73JH comes with a 2 year ASUS 360 global warranty and 1 year Accidental Damage Warranty with 30-day Flawless Display Guarantee.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4955 in Personal Computers
• Color: Black
• Brand: Asus
• Model: G73JH-A3
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 16.50" h x 11.40" w x 19.70" l,
• CPU: Intel Core i7
• Memory: 8GB
• Display size: 17.3

Features

• Intel i7-720QM (1.60GHz Quad-Core)
• 8GB DDR3 1066MHz, 4 SODIMM Sockets, up to 8GB
• 1TB (500G 7200RPM x2) HDD; Blue-Ray Disk Combo Drive; 802.11 b/g/n (According to cust., manufacturer states it doesn't come with 4 GB SSD)
• ATI 5870 Graphics with 1G GDDR5; Windows Home Premium 64-bit Operating System
• 17.3-Inch Full HD (1920x1080) LED Display; 2.0M Webcam; Gaming Backpack and Mouse

Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Fantastic notebook
By KWAN O CHOI
At first, I was confused when I looked at product description. There is no different between G73JH-A1 and G73JH-A3. I made a decision to purchase G73JH-A3 anyway. I bought it via one business delivery, and it was delivered last night. I found that the spec of G73JH-A3 is different from G73JH-A1. G73JH-A3 has

1 8G 1333 MHz Memory, not 1033 MHz.
2. Yes, A3 has 4G SSD. You can select statup applications by FastBoot utility and it boosts up the Windows 7 startup speed a lot.

I am a programmer more than 30 years and I used more than 40 notebooks. Recently, I ordered Dell Studio 17 but Dell could not deliver it on time and I cancelled the order and purchased this G73JH-A3. The ASUS quality is much better than Dell, I guess. My other notebook, Dell Studio XPS 1640 has many troubles for me and I fixed it several times.

This notebook is perfect to me, because I develop applications by Java, and I need memory and hard disk space. I am using Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04. G73JH-A3 works well at both OS.

When I setup G73JH-A3 today, it was crashed several times. Specially, when I played MS media player, it was always crashed. I set TDT at bios disabled and it is now O.K or upgrade bios to version 209.

I am very satisfied with this notebook. G73JH is not only a gaming machine. It supports my development a lot. Also, it looks like a normal notebook(At least, front look). I could use it at my office.

Good:
1. Nice quality, good keyboards, sound and display
2. Many Asus utilities to customerize configuration.
3. Good price

Bad:
1. Where is express card slot? G73JH does not have it. I could not use my sound blaster express card.
2. Touchpad is useless. The buttons are too firm to press.
3. Old fashioned battery (8cell) - 12 cell recommended. It could make half hour longer life without external power.
4. I hope that G73JH will have audio control buttons on the top. Sometimes, I will use this notebook at office, and audio buttons are recommended.
5. Lack description at manuals: Yes, I know what they are without explanation. I am a programmer. But, the manuals does not explain manythings(VT-d, TDT, UEFI boot or PXE ROM). Normal people don't know them and they could not find any information from ASUS web site.
6. Asus update tool looks not working.


Asus G73JH-A3 Republic of Gamers 17-Inch Gaming Laptop - Black

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
The Stealth Bomber!
By Genarus
This Version of the G73JH IS AWESOME... completly different from the others

One this one has that is different from the A1 is simply put

Blue-ray player/DVD-RW
8GB 1333 not 1066 like the A1 so its faster
1TB of space which is 2x 500gb HD at 7200rpm but its divded by 4 drives in the system when you bring up your HD's on my computer which makes its nice to organise where you want to instal things. The C:/ has the OS and is nice place for all you system programs.
4gb SSD which i haven't messed with yet.
Completly different mouse which makes it even more a bang for your buck.

I have thrown BFBC2/LFD/LFD2/COH/X3/ARMA2/And many other games at it and it runs like a champ but if you have the anti-aliasing to high it runs somewhat slugish but other than that the performance is insane for a laptop. It cools really well. Its a 17" screen but it has a high resolution 16:9 1920 x 1080 which for a laptop is freaken awesome!

Haven't got a chance to update the bios yet but atm the system is running a little slugish without the update.

Pros:
Beast of a gameing laptop
WILL GIVE YOU A BANG FOR YOUR BUCK END OF STORY!
Nice sound system
LARGE HD ON LAPTOP!
A freaken radeon 5870 with 1gig of ddr5 BOOM BABY!
Nice mouse and backpack
LED backlit screen helps alot
BLUE-RAY
4gig SSD
HDMI port
Great Cooling System
Backlit keyboard.......
There is alot of shiney things on it and its ruberdised which is really nice.
IT HAS AN I7 CPU yes its a 720 but it runs like its got 8 processors which is crazy!
There is more good stuff to go with it but its alot!

Cons:
touch pad not really meant for gaming little hard to use but the mouse covers for that.
Bios needs to be Upgraded make note on that and do it, it will help alot
on certain games when loading and the screen has a black background it will have a line of lighting up in the top of the screen but its nothing of an issue.

Not really that many cons at least from what i have seen. Its a perfect gaming rig and will meet all your needs for a mobile/laptop gaming system if thats what your looking for. Was alot cheaper from the desktop i was going to get that would cost me about $2500 for all the parts and saved me money but funny thing was it was pretty much the same thing only thing diff was the cpu. Also if you don't have space for a desktop atm it helps. At least my next deployment will be more entertaing OH and it comes with a 2.0 mega pixel camera.

So all and all its a freaken bargain and is cheaper than its competitors if you look else where for a rig with the same stuff this thing has it would cost you about $3500 so your not getting riped off and you not paying for a title your getting your money's worth and more so this beats the cake hands down.

THIS THING IS AWESOME END OF STORY... well its awesome for laptop of its kind atm!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Asus G73JH-A3 Republic of Gamers 17 inch gaming laptop
By BullettBob
I am extremely happy with this product. It is well made and performs flawlessly. My only comment is I did not see in the product description that the hard drives were partitioned. Mine has 2 physical hard drives and a total of 4 logical partitions.