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welcome to my unboxing of a super exciting product I've had quite a few requests to take a look at this guy this is the G 75 V more specifically is the ASD 75 V W underscore V 3 GM def 181 /u 3-1 basically this is the Asus G 75 this is their next generation IV Ridge gaming notebook which not only has next generation Ivy Bridge processing behind the CPU it also has next generation graphics powered by Nvidia 600 series GPUs so this is an incredibly exciting product and it comes with the targets backpack I'm gonna let that sink in target's backpack oh no but seriously you guys it has like a republic of gamers branded thing going on here and for an included backpack I can already tell you guys it feels really good there's actually genuinely padding on it whereas most like free bonus gift backpacks are usually pretty horrible so yeah there you go got like a sous branding on the the lining and then your notebook goes in there your other stuff you know I'm not going to spend too much time on the backpack here but I feel like I should just kind of show it to you at least alright so there's your included ROG backpack here's one is presumably and included ROG Mouse okay go it's got like a dpi just button scroll wheel you know some buttons they go here here and here some rubberized grips slippy pads on the bottom pretty basic I mean handy to have an extra melt don't get me wrong but I get a real gaming mouse if you try to care about that sort of thing so before we get into the specifics of the G 75 let's talk about general Asus advantages so Isis knows how to manufacture things sort of goes without saying they are experts so take that to the bank number two is they stand behind the things they manufacture you have a one-year warranty covering accidental damage drops spills power surges and fire damage holy crap normally that cost you an extra what out of 150 bucks on an Apple probably something along those lines more Moore's like is sort of indicating to me 24-hour toll-free phone support target is three business day turnaround time for repair and replacement and free one-way standard shipping from a soos to the user so you do have to ship it back to them two year international warranty so it's one year of accidental damage two year overall warranty zero right guarantee on the screen to a free standard shipping okay I don't understand which of these is going on here but 24/7 tech support so all that's on there either way a soos does stand behind their products they do have the best default warranty that I'm aware of you can get better extended warranties than this on products but not out of the box not without paying a bunch more money um ok 17.3 inch full HD LED backlit screen USB 3 I don't know what that has to do with the LCD maybe we'll figure that out later okay without 3G without TV 6x blu-ray on this particular SKU okay we've got a 36 10 Q M that's a quad core i7 it's 256 gig SSD boot drive and 750 gig 7200 rpm drive that is the perfect drive configuration goldstar a sous for getting it exactly right because we see a lot of dual bay notebooks that are configured with like dual hard drives and raid 0 or like one hard drive in them by default no you need a buddhist st you need a mass storage drive perfect and you need a high speed mass storage drive 7200 rpm drive good job isus 16 gigs of ram Windows 7 premium and all that looks sort of pretty I can't believe that on a gaming notebook they actually don't have a GPU spec on the spec sheet simply phenomenal okay well guess we'll figure out it's probably a 675 in if it is what I think it is but I was sort of expecting it to say for sure on the side of the unit whatever power brick is as we've come to expect with gaming notebooks not exactly small so you know if you were expecting it to be petite then you can expect to be disappointed but you have to power a lot of power to a powerful notebook so that's that's how they that's how we roll a couple speaker grilles it looks like okay so we'll find out what those are for after power cable to go with your power brick and power battery to go with your like power power biceps both on the package battery notice I believe the battery is only one year warranty or like ninety day or something usually the battery has a lesser warranty than the rest although it looks like I'm totally wrong this has nothing to do with that it just has to do with making sure you don't dispose of it in fire which is the terrible idea I mean you shouldn't dispose of almost anything if it's not made of paper you shouldn't be disposing of it in fire okay can we just sort of all agree on that any wood woods okay but not painted wood you know these are common-sense things but Asus sort of is explaining to us which is I mean nice of them it's it's good that they don't want us to you know real toxic fumes and destroy emulate our environment but seems a little self-explanatory so there's your battery pack yeah kind of throw the thing in there and pop the thing in there and you're good to go the bottom is covered in rubber grippies here here here here here in here and these are just plastic ones so that i think they're just for looks but whatever so they'd put a lot more support behind the screen because the screen is big and then they put less support behind the rest of it because the rest of it is not so big and I think that's all pretty pretty straightforward so on the back of the unit BAM ventilation huge heat sinks here and here with heat pipes running through them these are cooling that high end GPU and that high-end quad core CPU Kensington lock for security gorgeous little branding accents there this this looks really sharp it looks it almost looks like imagine this kind of guy so kites up from from back a little bit further so I don't want this angle there's your headlights there's your emblem in the middle there's your front grille sort of thing looks like a performance vehicle I think and that's a you know probably totally off in terms of what their design philosophy was for but it looks fantastic on the side we've got two USB 3.0 SuperSpeed ports a blu-ray disc player an SD card a microphone and headphone jack on the front we have indicator LEDs for a variety of different things including caps lock number lock Wireless hard drive activity battery apparently a light bulb saving power Wow two more USB three SuperSpeed ports so no USB 2 we've got Thunderbolt HDMI Gigabit Ethernet VGA good inclusion because every once in a while you will still need to output the VGA and it's good to have it and so if it doesn't have DVI you don't have those analog pins in the DVI connector so you've got digital analog great power in and let's go ahead and open her up so the top is again very beautiful this is pretty similar to the last generation G 74 in terms of the look of the hinge and the look at the top of the unit Republic of gamers badge and Asus logo on the back look very very sharp you've got a soft touch feel to the overall outside of the unit which is very nice and it also gives you a little bit of durability it's harder to scratch soft touch than it is something like a glossy plastic surface ultimate fighting machine sure why not no more those protectors for the keyboard against the the screen itself and this is all this is nice you got like a brushed aluminum ii thing going on here let's see if it's got enough of a charge to turn over right out of the box here so brushed aluminum on backplane for your keyboard which is LED backlit i'm going to turn off the lights in the room for a second so you guys can see what the what the backlight looks like it's beautiful i love white LED backlights um i think in my favourites kind of go like green and then white and then like other solids booting up right now you've got a full number pad and no glaring errors on the keyboard layout full-size shift full-size shift backspace and enter wonderful perfect way to go a soos because it kills me when I see keyboard layouts that are that are broken due to the notebook however it's easier on a 70 than it is on smaller form factor notebooks so you know there you go right so it has a GTX 670 M which is a pretty beefy graphics card and that'll go with the quad core processor so I'm just going to put a demo game um I guess I don't know they're going to be using this at the no I don't want a Bing bar are you kidding me oh man okay these recommended settings we are in Pacific time tech tips n doesn't have any internet account activity right now anyway I thought I was getting a call but it's my Twitter feed going that's for some reason um okay so moving on you've got all the usual hotkeys here so you got your brightness up and down you've got your keyboard brightness up and down your wireless sleep external display internal display turn off the touchpad and your audio controls I wouldn't have minded seeing media control here huh there's your play pause back forward and stop ah love that dedicated stop button so many devices aren't doing dedicated stop buttons anymore because they're like oh no pause is good enough because positive good enough for Apple um Apple started this with no stop button stop means like off go away and so good job we've also got there I shoot I forget what the branding name for this is but it controls all your different power modes and all of that so that's your your function for the for the spacebar here we go gamer friendly ergonomic design intelligent cooling + easy clean system easy clean system makes it easy clean no way look at that so you can either open this up with one screw fantastic or you can open up this with one screw and clean out the cooler see that's the deep manufacturing expertise understanding the challenges and then just like addressing it instead of ignoring it that that is what sets apart and I still have no idea what these are for but ah moving right along like are they for like okay how do I got I'm sorry good CPU GPU extreme performance it sure does oh right so I have left out the best part for last it has two year warranty etc etc comes with mcafee internet security as well as a Seuss's web storage that's handy as well as instant on oh that's cool so it uses it uses Intel's latest chipset technology to instantly power bomb so here I'll show you guys because I'm sure this is going to work even though this is a completely live demo and you can see what a difference the SSD makes if you guys have ever turned on a new computer oh crap ask me later : if you guys have ever turned on a new computer then you probably know that they don't usually turn on that fast and initialize for the first time SSD is amazing and everyone should have one so we're going to go into sleep and we're going to see when it goes into sleep I'm so confident that this will be faster since late and we're going to turn it on and it is going to be on and bam instant-on excellent right so best for last this screen is what I'm all about so you can see right here there's a built in transmitter what is that for oh there's a webcam too but every notebook has a webcam ah there's a built-in transmitter so what is that for that is for your okay I'm just going to go away I'm going to find the ball oh wait for it that is for your ball and out 3d vision glasses because this notebook display is 3d vision ready and 3d vision ready with light boost if you guys remember any of what I've said about light boost in the past then um I don't need to say this next part but if you don't then I do light boost is amazing light boost takes the 3d vision experience from for me a little bit headache-inducing after about 30 seconds too comfortable and awesome light boost is amazing it not only increases the brightness of the display when you're in 3d mode with the 3d glasses it also dramatically uses the crosstalk between the images which is what I get the headache from where I can see a little bit of the left eye image through my right eye because the panel isn't switching fast enough and it's not modulating the backlight in order to optimize it for me so that is fantastic I love light boost it is amazing it is magical it's like it's like I could stand up and deliver a keynote speech about how it is magical and I would actually genuinely believe myself unlike some things that have been presented as magical in the past so there you go 1080p light boost ready 3d vision display awesome awesome performance and yeah it's not a it's kind of heavy but that's sort of life when you have a gaming notebook thank you for checking out my unboxing your first look at the Zeus G 75 notebook don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos