G75? Can we "upgrade"?

[AdelaisAer]

I bought my G74SX last month, but then G75 is coming out in April. :S Makes me wish I waited for the G75. Is there a possibility of "upgrading" to the G75 for 25~50% off, or should I just wait until I can afford to buy a G75?

And I am thinking this only because of some of the issues with the G74 that I *HOPE* are fixed in G75.

[dabigin]

I would wait Until the new processors have been out for at least a couple months. Just like with the first sandy bridge processors for mobile I'm sure the next step up will have its problems. I am in love with this laptop and i just have a minor step down from yours. I may get a new laptop next year. But this year I'm going to get myself parts for a big rig gaming rig 🙂 I done codenamed this laptop Kraytos What are you looking to get out of it. It really depends on the games you play or what you do with your laptop.

[Nirneath]

olounda wrote:
there is only 1 reason why I would upgrade from my current g74, and its as simple as 2 little words. "Num Lock". Sure the rest of the specs look fabulous, but just because the g75 comes out does not mean that a finely tuned g74 can no longer compete in todays market. I'm too am with the idea of letting this new model pass by.

Maybe Asus placed the Calculator instead of Num Lock on G74 so that people like you would buy the next model? 😉
In all seriousness it seems that they listened to it's customers, seems like Num Lock will be returning on G75, rejoice^^

[fostert]

I gotta say that one thing I *do* like about the G75 is the ability to get at the fans for the necessary occasional cleaning and WD40 in the bearings (I swear by this!). That and the numlock key would make me take a second look later this year, maybe. But for now me and my G74 are getting along just fine.

[Akaz]

Is there a master list of Asus G74 models? just trying to find good price is near impossible as every retailer seems to have different model (NH71, XC1 etc) and all retailers list specs in different way so its headache inducing to find the differences in the model. So the differences i have tried to line up.

bluray vs simple DL DVD/RW
HDD/SSD flavours (one or two and different sized)
screen (900p, 1080p, 1080p LED, 1080p LED 3D) (this is espcially troublesome as i dont know if can believe reviews as they usually tend to be of the high end displays and i might end up with something else entirely)
RAM (6 - 16GB)
Vid card (apparently bestbuy ones are nerfed. not sure if its a specific model or just best buy)
CPU (so far two flavours of i7. 2Ghz and 2.2GHz)


Anything else?

[BrodyBoy]

Akaz wrote:
Is there a master list of Asus G74 models? just trying to find good price is near impossible as every retailer seems to have different model (NH71, XC1 etc) and all retailers list specs in different way so its headache inducing to find the differences in the model. So the differences i have tried to line up.

bluray vs simple DL DVD/RW
HDD/SSD flavours (one or two and different sized)
screen (900p, 1080p, 1080p LED, 1080p LED 3D) (this is espcially troublesome as i dont know if can believe reviews as they usually tend to be of the high end displays and i might end up with something else entirely)
RAM (6 - 16GB)
Vid card (apparently bestbuy ones are nerfed. not sure if its a specific model or just best buy)
CPU (so far two flavours of i7. 2Ghz and 2.2GHz)


Anything else?

No, there's no master list. Welcome to the joys of Asus. 😉 I think the easiest approach is to decide which options you want, within the parameters that difer. And as you noted, there aren't that many of those.

• 3D or 2D
  
• ODD
  
• HDD config
  
• RAM
  
• Processor speed
  
• Full HD or HD+
  
• Video bus width & VRAM
  

Once you have decided which options you'd prefer, then look for a configuration to match.

[Akaz]

Just picked up the following:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=637440&sku=A50-1733001

Could any here confirm that this is not the crippled 560M?

[dstrakele]

The ad states "3 GB GDDR5" which has the 192-bit Memory Bus width. But don't take my word (or the ad's) for it. Load up HWINFO64 on your new laptop and confirm it for yourself.

[Boosted_R]

dstrakele wrote:
The ad states "3 GB GDDR5" which has the 192-bit Memory Bus width. But don't take my word (or the ad's) for it. Load up HWINFO64 on your new laptop and confirm it for yourself.

yup, 10 min after I got my G74 from Amazon I loaded HWINFO64 to confirm 192bit...... first thing any new owner should do when expecting 192bit GPU

[AdelaisAer]

:S Well, can I upgrade my 560M in my laptop? Or is that one of the things I cannot swap out?

[Boosted_R]

AdelaisAer wrote:
:S Well, can I upgrade my 560M in my laptop? Or is that one of the things I cannot swap out?

nope, its integrated with the motherboard