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ASUS G55V Ivy Bridge GTX 660M 15" Gaming Notebook Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips

2012-06-30
welcome to mind look at the a Seuss g55 V this is a gaming notebook that's actually been previously unboxed for the Vancouver men's show however clearly the last person who unbox this product was not the seasoned unboxing professional that I am because this is upside down terrible okay so let's cover what's on the outside first so lithium okay do not load a transport package of damage got it over here we've got the a soos a DW accidental damage warranty that is included with their notebooks a one-year warranty covering accidental drop spills power surges and fire damage including 24-hour toll-free support and a target 3 business day turnaround time for repair and replacement not including receiving and shipping time free one-way standard shipping from you suits to the user of your repair notebook so you have to pay to ship it back to them however throwing an accidental damage warranty is pretty crazy pretty crazy awesome to your international warranty so one year of which is a tw0 bright guarantee two ways free standard shipping okay I'm still confused I don't understand whether it's two-way free or one-way free but 24/7 tech support is backed up by both halves of that sticker for certain let's have a look at what we got in terms of specs here so this is a 15.6 full HD LED backlit monitor with not TV and but you know what this is a terrible spec sheet forget it I'm not looking at that okay let's just open her up yeah first thing we find inside is a gaming mouse I'm not even gonna bother opening it because it's not very good you should actually probably just buy a real Mouse not that I'm saying that you know it's not usable but it's like usable on like your sister's computer and then you can steal her awesome gaming mouse or something if you can convince her that the one that came with your rog gaming notebook is better alright we've got an inflated rog on notebook backpack which fits theoretically the notebook that it comes with and i'm going to sort of model this for you guys do my little turn on the catwalk so this is what i would look like if i was 15 in high school and I go back back and the joke they're actually the guys is that I do wear a backpack every day so this is what I look like if I walked around with a backpack on so there you go let's take that off actually no let's not take that off yet let's look inside it so here's our notebook pouch which hopefully if oh yeah there I was pretty disappointed for a second there hopefully is padded on the move that's not a lot of padding okay so yeah it's it's pretty cool but be careful you know don't drop your bag down like that if you have this particular backpack and you've got your expensive fancy notebook it's like got a small it's got a small tab in the bottom so it's not completely unpadded or anything and it's not like a nice soft thing going on in here but remember guys this is the free backpack that came with your notebook if I was buying a notebook like this and you're going to see just how awesome it is then I would definitely get myself a wicked gaming mouse and a wicked notebook backpack so that I could be all like ballin out with my notebook in my backpack in the mouse and like a boss like that okay opening it up I don't know if all the accessories are going to be in the right place like I said clearly unfort eat the mouse wasn't even in that box it was here so now you do get to see it it has the dpi change button it's got a scroll wheel it's got a couple buttons here a couple over here rubberized grip on the side and that's pretty much all she wrote about that guy moving right along we have our power brick and like I mean when it comes to bricks you could actually build with this thing because it's big and here's my iPhone for comparison which I know you guys love so very much BAM that's how big it is alright moving right along notebook itself this is what I'm excited about the soap we unboxed their G 75 quite recently which is a similar model but using a 17 inch screen now personally I find that a 17 inch screen is very awesome and very huge and great as a gaming experience but not quite as good as a portability experience and I definitely prefer for myself to have a 15 inch screen which is exactly what is included with this one so here we have a couple accessories we've got a cable tie for your power adapter warranty card drivers and a notebook user's manual including Lou ROG stickers very nice alright let's turn her on give me a second to get a boot it up on the bottom we can easily see all of the upgrade panels there's your battery upgrade more like removal and like putting back in if you need to for whatever reason here we have access to our memory as well as our hard drive so that covers that let's do the external of it so ultimate fighting machine Asus gaming notebook ROG Arsenal presents taking off the sticker so that we can see what they look looks like without it because most people won't keep it on on this side we've got a Kensington lock two USB 3.0 ports microphone headphones and a DVD multi-drive on the back we find ventilation so check this out we've got a full sized heatsink that runs all the way from here to here the rest of this is actually plastic filler so it looks like you know a massive heatsink was enough to take care of the 660 M as well as the until Core i7 quad core processor inside this machine I'm actually just going to take this off as well because that's sort of interfering with the gorgeousness the back of the unit has a soft touch feel which personally I quite like everyone's got a bit of a different opinion about soft touch but I really like cases anything that I'm not going to touch too much I like to see the soft touch finish on because it can wear out like I have a g9 Mouse that really wore out and then it kind of peels off but if you're not going to be all over it all the time it looks really good it stays really clean looking all the time and yeah I like it so shiny Asus logo Republic of gamers logo on the back as well moving around to the other side we've got gigabit ethernet power VGA Thunderbolt yeah HDMI as well as two more USB 3.0 SuperSpeed ports now you notice the lack of an SD card reader Ben there it is right in the front as well as all of your indicator lights for things like hard drive Wireless capsule number lock and all that good stuff speaking of number lock in spite of its 15 inch form factor this notebook has a full desktop ish keyboard meaning it's got a properly laid out set of arrow keys a full number pad as well as a full size backlit keyboard I want to get you guys a view of the backlighting on the keyboard if I could even move in the room here at all right now there's so much stuff all over the floor there we go how's it look awesome and white love it alright I'm actually I think white is probably either my favorite or my second favorite backlight keyboard color I do really like green as well speaking of soft touch they have a more durable type of soft touch here this has a texture to it so this will actually be far less likely to wear off when you have your palms resting on it all the time they've also got a nice big wide screen touch pad as well as left and right clicks which are to be expected at this point in time 2.3 gigahertz quad-core processor I don't know if I mentioned that before so that's a 36th nqm it also has a gtx 660 so with its bigger brother you get in Abood SSD you get a more powerful graphics card you do get a I mean those are the biggest things you get the bigger screen yeah one thing that you get with both of them though is the 3d capable display so your emitter is embedded in here somewhere all you got to do is source yourself some 3d glasses they're about 100 bucks I think and you are ready for 3d gaming as soon as you can say Bob's your uncle and you configure it in the Nvidia driver and I personally think that's pretty awesome so remember it's not only good for games but also for movies and whatever else you want to do in stereoscopic 3d if you have the supported applications installed has duel fans apparently which is kind of cool also has 12 gigs of ram as well as a 750 gig hard drive now there's no SSD that is disappointing but you can always go with the G 75 or you can rip the drive out and throw in an SSD very easily if you want because it's very accessible on the bottom and the cord fell out so apparently it does have a battery and I mean unlike the 17 inch bigger brother is much lighter and much more portable so it's just a deciding what you want out of it oh yeah hinge durability is one of the things that Isis has done a fantastic job with on their G Series notebooks look at these heavy duty hinges I really just don't expect them to break in in any way at any point in time love it and then finally the sound is done via the speakers all along the top here once again another upgrade that the G 75 has is the subwoofer on the bottom this one does not have that so the G 75 is clearly the higher-end machine but it is clearly designed for the more hardcore gamer that is willing to sacrifice the portability to get those extra bells and whistles so thank you for checking out my unboxing at first look at the G 55 V from Asus don't forget to subscribe to - tech tips from unboxings reviews another computer video
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