ASUS G73Jh: Today's Top Gaming Laptop
by Jarred Walton on April 17, 2010 2:25 AM ESTG73Jh: Keep It Plugged In
Pack a bunch of high performance parts into a notebook and the drop in battery life is a foregone conclusion. Until we start seeing something like NVIDIA's Optimus Technology on high-end mobile GPUs and quad-core CPUs that can drop to CULV power draws when idle—not to mention the dual hard drives, large LCD panel, and four SO-DIMMs—battery life is never going to be a strong suit for gaming notebooks. Plan accordingly. As always, we calibrated the laptop to run at ~100nits on battery power; with the G73Jh a brightness setting of 53% gave us the desired result.
The G73Jh does turn in respectable scores relative to the competition, if only because it has a 75Wh battery compared to a paltry 42Wh battery on the W870CU. Idle battery life just squeaks past the two hour mark, Internet surfing lasted 1.75 hours, and x264 playback drained the battery in 80 minutes—not even enough to make it through most short movies. So if you had thoughts of playing games in the great outdoors, you might consider a small handheld gaming device instead.
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MinaAndrei - Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - link
I have this computer from over 2 years and i like it very very much.No signs of weak.It runs all the games that i through to him all the modern games like:Cod Modern warfare,L4D2,A vs P,Crysis,Gta 4 and a lot lot others.i run all thus games at max settings.Asus G73jh is the best gaming laptop i had ever had.It's the "Best money can buy".I love my computer.Maybe i have some gramatical mistakes in my english because i'm from Romania.
(Romania is in Europe)
ost2010 - Thursday, August 19, 2010 - link
Comparing the G73JH with the Qosmio Q888Both have 1920x1080 full HD displays but the Qosmio has a larger screen at 18.4'.
Maybe a little lower on RAM (4GB), HDD (500GB) and GPU (Gefore GTS 360M) but also advances with the i7 740 QM processor and the Bluray.
They are both about the same price and differ slightly in specs. But I heard it had alot of heat issues, what would you say about that?
And for gaming would the difference between them be that much of a difference?