 So today I'll be unboxing a pretty new notebook from ASUS and this is the ASUS G73JHA2 So it's an Intel Core i7 720 QM processor, 8 gigs of RAM, 2 500 gig hard drives and it features an HD 5870 mobile graphics card So that's the fastest graphics card you can get in a notebook at this time Now just to give you some idea of the scale of this notebook, it's A, really heavy and B, really really big Okay, so why don't we just kind of get started here So the difference between the G2 and the G1 is just that the G1 has Blu-ray as far as I can tell So I grabbed the G2 since I don't have any particular use for Blu-ray on the go at the moment And let's see if we can... Now see, this is why I need a knife, because scissors don't quite cut it Get it? Cut it? Yeah Okay, so the first thing we find inside the box is an ASUS, or oh no, a Targus backpack Alright So watch out, this is a choking hazard, do not put in reach of small children or dogs Alright, and I'm going to go ahead and assume that this notebook bag fits the notebook in question So it would have to be quite large to fit a 17-inch notebook, but as you can see, it is And I guess I might as well do my little turn on the catwalk here and we'll kind of throw the backpack on Yeah, there we go So that's what I would look like if I wore a backpack every day Okay, there we go Next, we have... Man, that's heavy Okay, this, G-Series It's got their Republic of Gamers branding all over it Okay, Republic of Gamers, got the color scheme going on here Not really a whole lot in terms of anything there, so let's get this box opened up Alright Let's do this first, this looks like an accessory sort of box Okay, well, it'll come out, there it goes Even that's heavy, wow, this must be like the battery or something Okay, open it up So the first thing we find in here is a power cord And then the AC adapter, wow, that is huge So this is a 19.5-volt, 7.7-amp AC adapter This thing has some real heft to it Okay, next thing we have is the battery The battery is actually surprisingly... Oh, alright, cameraman wants me to do his whole iPhone for scale thing Here, here, here, okay, okay So this is the cameraman's iPhone next to the battery pack And it doesn't look that big now Oh, but look at me now, it's huge and it's heavy It's a lot heavier than an iPhone, we'll tell you that much Okay, battery, we'll show you the size of the battery as well It's actually not, it's surprisingly not big I'm very shocked at how small the battery is So, you put it next to the phone, you can see the width and height of it It's very, very deep though, so I'm guessing it's like double stacked inside there or something like that Okay, next thing we find here Is a black box, which includes... Oh, a gaming mouse, that's nice So this appears to be based on... Oh shoot, I should recognize this, shouldn't I? Rats, okay, I don't recognize the OEM design that this is using But it looks like a pretty decent little gaming mouse You got a back and forward button, nice rubberized grip here You got your DPI adjustment, mouse wheel, left and right click, not too bad Alright, it's nice of them to include that as part of the package I mean, you're buying an expensive notebook You know, you might as well throw in some accessories for their customers Much appreciated, Asus, if I could just get this back inside there Okay, and then we finally have a cable tie How very random Actually, it's not that random, normally a cable tie would be attached to the power adapter But it isn't, so they provide you with an extra one Okay, and then that is it for accessories We are down to the notebook itself I'm surprised at the lack of any documentation inside here There's nothing in terms of instructions or CDs So I guess the OS is probably on a partition on here And then I'm guessing all of your drivers are also on that partition So why don't we just, first of all, install the battery So you can see that it just kind of slides in right like that And then just locks in place, okay So the battery's in, and that is a pretty sleek looking machine Let's get this box out of the way, thank you, cameraman And then we'll just kind of put this down here So it's a matte black, slightly rubberized finish to the back of it You've got a silver, shiny Asus logo on the back As well as their Republic of Gamers shield Okay, the hinge design I'll comment on once I actually get it open But it looks fairly beefy and solid at the moment On the back, we've got huge ventilation So you've got a heat sink here And that's normally about all you would find on a typical notebook But then over on the other side, past the Kensington lock and the antenna hole You've got another huge ventilation hole All right, let's go around to this side Where we will find power in, VGA, HDMI out So you can do both analog or digital out Then you've got a couple of USB ports as well as an SD card slot Around the front, you've just got indicator lights So you've got your wireless hard drive, battery and a light bulb And then you have gigabit LAN Another USB port, DVD multi Or in the case of the other version of this laptop, you would have a Blu-ray drive USB, mic in and headphone out Let's go around to the bottom here So you can see the bottom is where all of that... Oh, yeah, well, whatever Okay, where all of that air is going to be coming from So these, there are probably blower fans right around here And then they're sucking air into these vents And then out the back of the unit is my assumption Either that or one of them is an intake and one of them is an exhaust I have no way of knowing without opening it And I don't particularly want to do that, though So anyway, there's the bottom You can see you've got easy access for upgrades to what appears to be the RAM here And probably wireless hard drive and all of that good stuff So let's flip this back over And now I've gotten it all dirty Oh, well, there we go Okay, so we'll open up the front Okay, there's no unlock or anything like that You just kind of lift it, it's heavy enough I doubt it's going to come out on its own Okay, we'll remove the little sleeve Okay, so the first thing we see inside is obviously the 17-inch widescreen LCD And here's a little bit of information that ASUS includes about this notebook So you've got a two-year global warranty That means that if you buy it in Canada and take it to Europe, you're still covered by your ASUS warranty You've got a zero bright dot guarantee So a bright dot is kind of like a dead pixel, except it's like a colorful spot Then you've got two-way free standard shipping for your RMA And 24-7 technical support That's pretty darn good for a standard warranty And they even include... No way They include the ASUS accidental damage warranty So you have one year covering accidental drops, spills, power surges, and fire damage Go figure Alright So here, let's have a look at the... Let's see if the battery came charged Wouldn't that be lucky? So you got a couple of speakers here That's going to take care of your sound And then there's also a subwoofer grill that we saw on the bottom of the unit already That's okay, we already saw that And then, so let's have a look at the screen itself I'll just kind of angle it so you can have a look here You've got a webcam up at the top Little glossy thing around there Okay, we're starting up Windows Why don't we have a look at the keyboard? Because keyboard is such a big thing for any notebook You can see this is quite a comfortable full-size keyboard And it's using the chiclet keys, which are very popular Although they're not my personal favorite ASUS gives you a little outline of the specs of this, again So they've got the i7 720, 5870, with 1GB of video RAM Which I hadn't covered already 17.3-inch screen It includes wireless N as well as, yeah, that's pretty much everything that we already talked about And they, oh, they had these labeled Look, they're both exhausts So there you go So the air intake is actually at the bottom Okay, and then we've got more badges over here So your Core i7 badge, Windows 7 is included, obviously HD 5870 graphics as well as a creative EAX And then, oh, hey, here we go So it's booted up already We can check the English language Cameraman is indicating something to me Oh, I like this Look at this touchpad This is an enormous touchpad That's a huge advantage for this laptop Because if you have a nice big high-res screen The last thing you want is to have a little tiny touchpad That you're going to the edge and then going back, tracking like that So keypad's comfortable That's pretty comfortable too, actually This whole thing's a pretty good experience Actually, cameraman, if you want to have a look at the screen You can see it there But I think that pretty much covers everything that I have to say about this particular notebook Thank you for checking out my unboxing of the G73 Series ASUS Gaming Notebook