 Welcome to my unboxing of a super exciting product. I've had quite a few requests to take a look at this guy. This is the G75V, more specifically it is the ASG75VW-V3GM-1AT1-U3-1. Basically this is the ASUS G75. This is their next generation Ivy Bridge gaming notebook, which not only has next generation Ivy Bridge processing behind the CPU, it also has next generation graphics powered by Nvidia 600 series GPUs. So this is an incredibly exciting product and it comes with a Targus backpack. I'm going to let that sink in. Targus backpack. No but seriously you guys, it has a Republic of Gamers branded thing going on here and for an included backpack I can already tell you guys it feels really good. There's actually genuinely padding on it, whereas most free bonus gift backpacks are usually pretty horrible. So yeah, there you go. It's got ASUS branding on the lining and then your notebook goes in there. Your other stuff, I'm not going to spend too much time on the backpack here but I feel like I should just kind of show it to you at least. Alright so there's your included ROG backpack. Here's what is presumably an included ROG mouse. Okay, there you go. It's got like a DPI adjust button, scroll wheel, some buttons that go here, here and here, some rubberized grips, some slippy pads on the bottom. Pretty basic. I mean handy to have an extra mouse, don't get me wrong, but get a real gaming mouse if you care about that sort of thing. So before we get into the specifics of the G75, let's talk about general ASUS advantages. So ASUS knows how to manufacture things, sort of goes without saying, they are experts. So take that to the bank. Number two is they stand behind the things they manufacture. You have a one year warranty covering accidental damage, drops, spills, power surges and fire damage. Holy crap, normally that costs you an extra what, I don't know, 150 bucks on an Apple probably? Something along those lines? More, more slick is sort of indicating to me. 24 hour toll free phone support. Target is three business day turnaround time for repair and replacement and free one way standard shipping from ASUS to the user so you do have to ship it back to them. Two year international warranty, so it's one year of accidental damage, two year overall warranty, zero write down guarantee on the screen, two way free standard shipping. Okay, I don't understand which of these is going on here, but 24 seven tech support, so all that's on there. Either way, ASUS does stand behind their products. They do have the best default warranty that I'm aware of. You can get better extended warranties than this on products, but not out of the box, not without paying a bunch more money. Okay, 17.3 inch full HD LED backlit screen, USB 3. I don't know what that has to do with the LCD, maybe we'll figure that out later. Okay without 3G, without TV, 6X Blu-ray on this particular SKU. Okay we've got a 3610 QM, that's a quad core i7. 256 gig SSD boot drive and 750 gig, 7200 RPM drive. That is the perfect drive configuration. Gold star ASUS, forgetting it exactly right because we see a lot of dual bay notebooks that are configured with like dual hard drives in RAID 0 or like one hard drive in them by default. No, you need a boot SSD, you need a mass storage drive. Perfect. And you need a high speed mass storage drive. 7200 RPM drive, good job ASUS. 16 gigs of RAM, Windows 7 premium, and all of that looks sort of pretty. I can't believe that on a gaming notebook they actually don't have a GPU spec on the spec sheet. Really phenomenal. Okay well I guess we'll figure out, it's probably a 675M if it is what I think it is, but I was sort of expecting it to say for sure on the side of the unit, but whatever. Power brick is as we've come to expect with gaming notebooks, not exactly small. So you know, if you were expecting it to be petite then you can expect to be disappointed. But you have to power a lot of power to a powerful notebook. So that's how we roll. Couple speaker grills it looks like. So we'll find out what those are for after. Power cable to go with your power brick. And power battery to go with your power biceps. Let's open the package. Battery notice, I believe the battery is only one year warranty or like 90 days or something. Usually the battery has a lesser warranty than the rest. Although it looks like I'm totally wrong. This has nothing to do with that. It just has to do with making sure you don't dispose of it in fire, which is a terrible idea. I mean, you shouldn't dispose of almost anything. If it's not made of paper, you shouldn't be disposing of it in fire. Okay, can we just sort of all agree on that? I mean, wood, wood's okay, but not painted wood. You know, these are common sense things that Asus sort of is explaining to us, which is I mean, nice of them. It's good that they don't want us to, you know, inhale toxic fumes and destroy or enolate our environment, but it seems a little self explanatory. So there's your battery pack. You kind of throw the thing in there and pop the thing in there and you're good to go. The bottom is covered in rubber grippies here, here, here, here, here, and here. And these are just plastic ones. So I think they're just for looks, but whatever. So they've put a lot more support behind the screen because the screen is big and then they put less support behind the rest of it because the rest of it is not so big. And I think that's all pretty straightforward. So on the back of the unit, bam, ventilation, huge heat sinks here and here with heat pipes running through them. These are cooling that high end GPU and that high end quad core CPU Kensington lock for security. Gorgeous little branding accents there. This looks really sharp. It almost looks like, imagine this kind of guys. Okay, so from back a little bit further. So kind of want this angle. There's your headlights. There's your emblem in the middle. There's your front grill sort of thing. It kind of looks like a performance vehicle, I think. And that's probably totally off in terms of what their design philosophy was for it, but it looks fantastic. On the side, we've got two USB 3.0 super speed ports, a Blu-ray disc player, an SD card, a microphone and headphone jack. On the front, we have indicator LEDs for a variety of different things, including caps lock, number lock, wireless, hard drive activity, battery and apparently a light bulb, maybe power. Wow, two more USB 3.0 super speed ports. So no USB 2.0. We've got Thunderbolt, HDMI, gigabit ethernet, VGA. Good inclusion because every once in a while, you will still need to output to VGA and it's good to have it. And since it doesn't have DVI, you don't have those analog pins in the DVI connector. So you've got digital, analog, great. Power in and let's go ahead and open her up. So the top is, again, very beautiful. This is pretty similar to the last generation G74 in terms of the look of the hinge and the look of the top of the unit. Republic of Gamers badge and Asus logo on the back look very, very sharp. You've got a soft touch feel to the overall outside of the unit, which is very nice. And it also gives you a little bit of durability. It's harder to scratch soft touch than it is something like a glossy plastic surface. Ultimate fighting machine. Sure, why not? You've got one of those protectors for the keyboard against the screen itself. And this is, oh, this is nice. You've got like a brushed aluminum thing going on here. Let's see if it's got enough of a charge to turn on right out of the box here. So brushed aluminum back lane for your keyboard, which is LED backlit. I'm going to turn off the lights in the room for a second so you guys can see what the backlight looks like. It's beautiful. I love white LED backlights. I think my favorites kind of go like green and then white and then like other. So it's booting up right now. You've got a full number pad and no glaring errors on the keyboard layout. Full size shift, full size shift backspace and enter. Wonderful, perfect way to go Asus because it kills me when I see keyboard layouts that are broken due to the notebook. However, it's easier on a 17 inch than it is on smaller form factor notebooks. So there you go. Right, so it has a GTX 670M, which is a pretty beefy graphics card and that'll go with the quad core processor. So I'm just going to put demo, demo, I guess. They're going to be using this at the, no, I don't want to Bing bar. Are you kidding me? Oh man. Okay. Use recommended settings. We are in Pacific time. Tech Tips N doesn't have any internet connectivity right now anyway. I thought I was getting a call, but it's just my Twitter feed going nuts for some reason. Okay. So moving on, you've got all of the usual hot keys here. So you've got your brightness up and down. You've got your keyboard brightness up and down, your wireless sleep, external display, internal display, turn off the touch pad and your audio controls. I wouldn't have minded seeing media control. There they are. Here's your play pause back, forward and stop. Ah, love that dedicated stop button. So many devices aren't doing dedicated stop buttons anymore because they're like, Oh no, pause is good enough because pause is good enough for Apple. Apple started this with no stop button. Stop means like off, go away. And so good job. We've also got their, shoot, I forget what the branding name for this is, but it controls all your different power modes and all of that. So that's your, your function for the, for the space bar. Here we go. Gamer friendly ergonomic design, intelligent cooling plus easy clean system. Easy clean system. Why do it makes it easy clean? No way. Look at that. So you can either open this up with one screw. Fantastic. Or you can open up this with one screw and clean out the cooler. See, that's the, see manufacturing expertise. Understanding the challenges and then just like addressing it instead of ignoring it. That that is what sets apart. I still have no idea what these are for, but moving right along. Like are they for like, okay, I got nothing. I'm sorry guys. Um, CPU, GPU, extreme performance. It sure does. Oh right. So I have left out the best part for last. So it has two year warranty, et cetera, et cetera. Comes with McAfee internet security as well as Asus's web storage. That's handy as well. Um, has instant on. Oh, that's cool. So it uses, um, it uses Intel's latest chipset technology to instantly power on. So here I'll show you guys, um, cause I'm sure this is going to work even though this is a completely live demo and you can see what a difference the SSD makes. If you guys have ever turned on a new computer, oh crap. Ask me later. Go away. If you guys have ever turned on a new computer, then you probably know that they don't use it. They usually turn on that fast and initialize for the first time. SSD is amazing and everyone should have one. So we're going to go to sleep and we're going to see when it goes into sleep. I'm so confident that this will be faster since sleep and we're going to turn it on and it is going to be on and bam, instant on. Excellent. Uh, right. So best for last. This screen is what I'm all about. So you can see right here, there's a built in transmitter. What is that for? Oh, there's a webcam too, but every notebook has a webcam. Uh, there's a built in transmitter. So what is that for? That is for your, okay, I'm just going to go away and I'm going to find them. Hold on, hold on. That is for your ballin out 3d vision glasses because this notebook display is 3d vision ready and 3d vision ready with light boost. If you guys remember any of what I've said about light boost in the past, then, um, I don't need to say this next part, but if you don't, then I do. Light boost is amazing. Light boost takes the 3d vision experience from for me a little bit headache inducing after about 30 seconds to comfortable and awesome. Light boost is amazing. It not only increases the brightness of the display when you're in 3d mode with the 3d glasses, it also dramatically reduces the crosstalk between the images, which is what I get the headache from where I can see a little bit of the left eye image through my right eye because the panel isn't switching fast enough and it's not modulating the back light in order to optimize it for me. So that is fantastic. I love light boost. It is amazing. It is magical. It's like, it's like I could stand up and deliver a keynote speech about how it is magical. And I would actually genuinely believe myself on like some things that have been presented as magical in the past. So there you go. 1080p light boost ready 3d vision display. Awesome awesome performance. And yeah, it's not okay. It's kind of heavy, but that's sort of life when you have a gaming notebook. Thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Asus G75 notebook. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews and other computer videos.