Hi guys...I am thinking of buying the ASUS G73JH-A1 laptop, in this forum i saw that u can buy online from Xoticpc, provantage n Mucro....so, what is the availability of this model on that website? in Mucro they are saying that "end-May" I've emailed them asking the availability of the model, but have yet to receive an answer...huhuhu...one more thing... as far as I know, buying/importing laptop is tax free.....but now i'm reading here that some forumers had a very very BAD experienced  with our customs..huhuhu.....I am now in doubt...should i buy, or shouldn't buy online.....huhuhuhhu....pls advice...

my G73 arrived today in CubeHub, going to SG this friday to pick it up

Any news bout your laptop ? Hope u can get it soon. Else like what I said try to get the Malaysian embassy to help u sort it out as your a student studying there or maybe your college. Usually if ur college or uni can talk on your behalf it might be better as german talking to germans should be better and friendlier.

thanx man....I'll take up your offer on that...next month I'll be buying it for sure....now I'm still not back in Malaysia...huhuhuhuhu...

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Added on June 8, 2010, 11:32 pmbut Jeffry1987, does GentechPc has ready stock available? so far Xotic back order have to wait for 6to8 weeks or more (not including shipping time), same as Provantage, Mucro no reply(huhuhuuhu)..Amazon has ready stock, but price is higher than fore mentioned e-sellers...so the best choice here IS GenTechPC, provided they can surely deliver in a few weeks times....( I dun have the patience to wait) huhuhuhuhuhuhu...After careful considerations (and alot of "racun"..) I will by this model next month....thats why I'm researching now for the best priced, reliable seller, etc.... hehehe... btw this IS the first time I'll be buying anything from the net......huhuhu

ok..roger that......care to share ur experience? becoz last time i went to the Sepang Customs to take some documents (in which i dunno why my company didn't sent thro' DHL, UPS, etc) i got some bad experience...1st, i had to take a pass at one of the guard office...when reaching there, i was denied acces just becoz i am not wearing a collared shirt (wtf! how should i know the dress code or wuteva...) but after some explaining and a little bit of begging...ok..i can take my pass...but then i need some kind of letter from company, saying that THE PACKAGE is for me....ok after a few calls company fax the letter direct to the office..then i have to pay rm5 for the pass....huhuhu then got the pass...got thro the gate...got lost inside...huhuhhuhu....then reached the counter for retrieving my documents, got to pay rm30 for processing.....huhuhuhu.......btw this customs place that i mentioned is the one near LCCT terminal...izzit THAT same place where you collect your laptop??

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Added on June 9, 2010, 2:29 amand....btw... when u ordered from GentechPc, how much was the shipping charges?

Nice!!   

did you guys get laptop cooler for this monster?

wow 6 dvd? even for an empty laptop?

Wow, 6 DVDs ..that's a lot ...including all the bloatware also??

hehe.. i m so jeolous oredi! 

Congrats . . and didn't I already told you its HUGE

Gratz bro alas u get ur babe edi. Hope u can test it out properly and later if needed upgrade to the 209 bios. I kinda miss it but the size is really huge. Kinda waste as I couldn't see if it could fit the Alienware Orion backpack or not. Just got the backpacks today. 

@Jeffrey1987: care to explain more about your keyboard protector? is it a layer of rubber or somethin?

isn't that will disturb your cooling mechanism?

air will suck in from the space between the keyboard rite?

since you'd mentioned NBR, i can't argue more...

lulz then its just a hype about the cooling that have something to do with degree of steepness of keyboard?

Hrmm..if u were to remove your keyboard protector after maybe an hour usage . . I am quite sure you will feel hot air coming from the keyboard. Or . . maybe that's just me lol

I whack on a keyboard protector since day 1, even the M15x I also whack one since day 1. My room got lots of dust and hair due to my pet. I rather the dust stick on the protector instead inside of the keyboard. I cleared those stuff on my older laptop which is a hp I almost got shocked of the dusts and fur collected inside. Since it's a black laptop it never seem to me that it might have been that much. 

  nice, mate!

how much you bought? and pls share us the ebay url too. 

Hi everyone, been following not only this thread, but also several others regarding the same laptop, and i just wanna share my two cents.

I bought mine from eBay, seller was PortableOne, and was quite satisfied initially, except for a teeny dead pixel in the bottom right(in spite of their $45 all-round laptop check prior shipping). Price: er, well, better than our local offerings(at the time of purchase). my own personal opinion: get yours from the US, we have the stronger currency, singapore is the poorer choice imho. the thing arrived late May. Customs didn't bother me at all..no trips to Sepang etc. item sent straight to my front door.

My g73 is A2, with 1TB HDD and 8gb ram.

1. The video drivers are very tricky to update, for most laptops, using ATI 10.4 and above will crash every few minutes into a game. two solutions at hand: a) updating the videocard BIOS with a clevo/MSI/third-party one, risking a 'bricked' vcard, or b)updating to Asus' 10.1 drivers(not the latest by ATI though). I did the former, which disabled the HDMI and VGA(until the next legit vbios comes along).
2. for some, the main mother bios itself might be problematic(missing keyboard strokes anyone?), fortunately, a legit Asus update (BIOS 209) is already out. those of us who used bios 206 will experience disabled keyboard lights and a PowerPlay glitch which still maintains the underclock once you switch battery>plug. I upped mine with a 209 beta from a German asus site, too lazy to reupdate.
3.Only once i've browsed through the complaint sites do i realize, Asus software support is really poor...and there are many who RMA'd faulty g73jh units back, and of those who did RMA, some had to return their units twice(three times too!)..all i can say is, open your package with bated breath, friend.

The good aspects?

1.Most games are at least playable at 1920x1080.
2.Personally i like the radical design.

In spite of all that, I definitely enjoyed my new laptop(probably my last one - my pa is especially frustrated with me wasting my money on every curious gadget i come across), and hope you guys do as well. happy gaming!