dstrakele wrote:
1) I think it's safe to buy a G75 as long as your retailer has a good exchange/return policy. You may need to exchange the laptop to get one without defects (e.g. overheating, as described by @Destroyer99 above). Just return it and get another if your 1st G75 has this issue.
2) ASUS hasn't bothered to tell anyone what the BIOS updates fix, so I can't comment. I can't recall a thread where someone reported an issue was resolved by a BIOS update.
3) A fix is awaited for the subwoofer audio issue. Read about it. If it is unacceptable to you, better wait until it is resolved. Otherwise, there doesn't appear to be other serious issues.
4) I'll let others present the video card pros & cons.
dstrakele sums it all up nicely... particularly number 1.
I guess I feel like a minority here, but I have had zero regrets so far with this laptop and I am what most would call "picky" and definitely fall into the "demanding enthusiast" category. Even with those personal characteristics I myself have fell in love with this laptop over the last month.
I recently had to go out of town for 2 months to receive major surgery and recover. (surgery over and all is well.. now I am recovering)... I needed a hardcore laptop that would allow me to game (and when I say game I have like 350 games on Steam ... not to mention origin/GoG/amazon/etc/mmo'/etc... so hardcore gamer is putting it lightly. I have an appetite for long duration gaming and high end graphics on a wide genre.
I also do 3D animation and video editing work for my business....which are both very intensive computer tasks.
So you could easily say I put this laptop heavily through its passes over the last month.
I picked the 660m model which from what I read around forums is perhaps...."knock on wood".... the more trouble free unit over the 670m??? Not sure about this or not.
All I can say, is since I got the laptop I dropped more ram and an SSD into the laptop within 1st day. I reinstalled the OS from scratch (no recovery). I hand picked all the latest drivers (no Asus update or Asus easy mode downloader "do it for me" tools). Perhaps since everything was pristine and installed by hand I am getting better results?
Long story short (too late I know.. sorry) I love this laptop... it kicks some serious ass. For games and work it eats everything I throw a it and impresses me. It almost feels like I am not away from my home rig while I am away and I dropped close to 4 grand on that thing, so for this laptop to impress me is saying a lot. Especially since I spent maybe like 1500-1600'ish bucks on this laptop? It easily has the juice of a 2k+ laptop if I went the Alienware route. I am not advocating that brand, but let's face it, for high end gaming laptops it is the king of name drops.
For me to be this happy on the Alienware camp I would definitely have had to drop 500+ bucks more... and frankly I love the chasis design of this Asus G75 (as an artist, I am particular of the design look of my laptop and rig cases) Alienware's definitely have good looks too, but overall I rather save money if another product can touch on ALL of the same bulletpoints and make me happy.. which I feel this G75 did for me.
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