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I have used this laptop for a week now and can say that I am impressed.First of all mine came from TigerDirect and arrived prompt and in perfect condition.It is shipped in three boxes: the original ASUS box which is colored in a black and red theme and carries the ROG markings which houses the laptop quite securely,a brown cardboard box in which the original box is encased and another bigger box.I stated earlier that I bought mine from TigerDirect because up to this date (July 28th,2010),the laptop is still shipping with DDR3 1333Mhz 4Gigs Ram and since I am a computer person I was glad for the plus that mine came with 1333Mhz rather than the 1066Mhz stated on the packaging box for the same price of the laptop.A 4Gig DDR3 1333Mhz kit costs about 0.You can check this easily in the BIOS of the laptop at the info screen.
The laptop is a fingerprint magnet but it comes with a display cleaning cloth that can double to clean the shiny lid.The look of this laptop in reality outweighs the fingerprint magnet thought for me because it just looks awesome with its lighted logo and side lights on the lid.There is a problem you will read in reviews that the keyboard flexes a little too much and that is true but you can counter that easily with a USB keyboard like I did because generally I have never found keyboards on laptops comfortable for long term typing or gaming.It also runs warmer than your average laptop because of its i7 quad core and also the Nvidia 360m GTS GPU.The heat sink on the left of the laptop is responsible for the cooling of the processor and the GPU so the heat blown off is expected.I recommend a cooling pad or use the system propped up at the back to allow its fan to breathe in an ac environment or with a fan.The display is also superb,full HD 1080p,clear,sharp and comes with an array of color settings thanks to the Splendid Technology ASUS uses in their display products.There is always two other facts that should be taken into consideration..1)The lid lights do not change color depending on the fan speed in this model.It stays white all the time and 2)The center bar under the lighted ASUS ROG logo does not light up.It is not a manufacture defect..its just not wired physically to light.
If you have read the customer's review before me with the backup & bios problem, note that the laptop comes with a recovery partition like most laptops and you can access this to recover the system at the initial boot screen by pressing F9.Flashing the bios of any laptop is a very delicate process compared to flashing a desktop motherboard since laptops do not carry advance bios recovery or dual bios,etc.Be sure to double check to see if the new bios matches your motherboard model #,laptop model # and do a little research before upgrading your bios.Don't just go downloading from the Asus website and flashing.
There was a bit of junk ware on the system which I removed on first use.It will run any game you can throw at it up to this point and even if not maxed out it will run any game with slightly lower than max but still super comfortable settings with eye candy such as anti aliasing on.The pixel density of the display is very high and even resolutions of 1280x720 looks reasonably smooth in games.I own a lot of items from ASUS including monitors,motherboards and graphics cards and none have failed me yet or given me problems.The ASUS brand is always in my list and would recommend this laptop and the premium ASUS brand to anyone.
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