The stock Atheros card has bad wireless range and limited to 150Mbps wireless transfers rate. I will be carrying this notebook around so might need to use some WiFi spots sometimes. I want to make sure my unit have decent wireless capability. Anyway the upgrade is not too expensive, around RM 70 - 80   

Well if you mean the internal audio cards handles SPDIF signals then I need to check but I bet it can. However there are no standard SPDIF ports in this unit. Trust me, the information provided in this model is abysmal. I can find more information in this thread than all the instruction, warranty, etc. manuals they provided 

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Added on July 7, 2010, 8:16 pm

Thanks for the translation, I'm a yellow banana, LOL! Can speak but cannot read and write   

IMHO is?? huu.
sorry kinda new to this forum..
heeee..
owh..
if i compare this laptop..
with the sager n9285 with it geforce gtx480
which is better?

been saving alot lately.. huhu..
thats y..
it was last week or last two that i thinking of buy macbook pro..
but then.. when i open this forum..
saw this thread..
that i change my mind by buying this rig..

owh yeah what the differ between a1 and a2??

how bout with this spec ??

Mucro Sager NP8850

SYSTEM CPU: CORE i7-720QM 1.6 GHz

Graphics Card: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M w/2GB

SYSTEM MEMORY|*2 DIMMs: 8GB* DDR3 1333MHz

HARD DISK DRIVE UPGRADE: 500G 7200rpm SATA II

IMO, Sager is good but you must bear in mind that the warranty is not covered in Malaysia. Just wanna to let you know. 

Use your imagination, LOL!  UGPM you on the method 

Update:

I've removed most all of the bloatware and thus far this machine works wonderfully. I regretted doing the LCD test as I found one dead pixel (Micro Dot Dark Spot). Thank god it's near the bottom left and I never noticed it until I did the test, LOL! Now I'm aware of it I see the spot all the time The Asus ZBD warranty doesn't apply to dark spots so I guess I have to live with it  Attempting a software to fix it but I doubt it will work. Oh well, I never noticed it before and after sometime I will forget about it. 

  Speechless!

I believe there are no one who does that. Anyway, our TS is inactive too. 

I heard that the G53 will be equipped with GTX460 if I'm not mistaken. The advantage of using this GPU is less heat emission than 5870. In terms of pricing, I have no idea. So you have any link regarding on this?

OIC. However, the price of N73JQ is quoted around 1355 USD. So, is it possible that G53 will be cheaper than that?  Anyway, wait and see how Asus will set the price. Hopefully, it will be another great gaming machine from them again. 

yeap very frustrated.. even if it clears next month i could only use it on september.. sigh..

owh, the only video issue i heard off is the green screen... have u had any problems with the video driver?

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Added on July 18, 2010, 11:11 pm