ASUS G75VW-NH71 Notebook Intel Core i7 3630QM(2.40GHz) 17.3" 12GB Memory 500GB HDD 7200rpm DVD±R/RW NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M

Pros: Great screen size and battery life. The laptop performs perfect for gaming and visuals for video editing.

Cons: Audio is bad. Worse than advertised. And one of the speakers blew 2 months into it.

Other Thoughts: I've given this laptop 2 eggs for this reason: I bought this laptop with the knowledge that the audio would be sufficient for my on-the-go video editing. At first it was, however it lacked the quality I hoped for. But then 2 months into it, while I had the volume at 80 playing a song that was not intense, one of the speakers blew. This is the most frustrating thing I've experienced with a computer. This complication has set me back significantly, and I'm not happy with the laptop anymore.

Manufacturer Response:

Hello Joel,

I am sorry that one of your computer's speakers no longer work. The laptop is a very good system; however, the speakers are decent at best. Have you had a chance to contact ASUS yet? I have a direct contact you could email to check what options you have available with the laptop. Please make sure to include the reason for the email along with your laptop's serial number. The email is cl-jolene@asus.com. Have a nice day!

Regards,

Mark
ASUS Customer Loyalty

Pros: great screen, decent battery life considering it's screen size. boots up pretty quick for a standard hard drive

Cons: not a con per se but just know that it's a heavy heavy laptop. Think of it more as a portable computer than a laptop.

would be nice to have a solid state drive or at least an option.

Other Thoughts: power adapter failed about 5 months after purchase. Advance RMA process looks pretty good on the surface. However they sent me the wrong part. They actually sent me an ac adpater and power cord that were incompatible with each other i.e. couldn't plug them together. In additon the replacment looked nothing like the original even the power specs were off. They did not proactively communicate what the action I should take was, then required me to send both the broken and incorrect parts back (shouldn't they know what they sent me or what I should need?) before sending me the correct part. They had already received my broken one. I had also responded to the RMA email with a picture showing exactly how this was incompatible.

Then after receiving no proactive communication about the status, chatted with tech support and found out that the RMA department claims that *I* sent the wrong part in. Just crazy stupid...

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued Customer,

I am very sorry for your negative experience sending in your defective power supply. Usually the process of sending in a defective power supply should be a hassle free experience. As you know, this was not the case. I would like to help if I can.

Have you contacted the support team since your review? If you have not, or if you have any questions, please send me an email to cl-mark@asus.com including your laptop's serial number/RMA number, and I will look further into this case for you.

Regards,
Mark
ASUS Customer Loyalty

Pros: Fast and very nice looking.

Cons: Full of bloatware and does not come with a windows 8 CD to preform a clean install. SUPER angry right now having to find win8 online to clean my computer.

Manufacturer Response:

Greetings Jay,

Thank you very much for your feedback on your ASUS laptop. We value all of our customer's feedback, and we thank you for sharing your review. I am very sorry that you had issues with the pre-loaded software on your computer. I am glad to know that everything is working as it should now.

Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, or concerns about ASUS products, please let me know. My email is cl-mark@asus.com

Best regards,

Mark
ASUS Customer Loyalty

Pros: solid laptop easy to use

Cons: no cons yet

Pros: Excellent specs for the price. Slap a SSD in this baby and it screams!

Cons: The monitor. In my first review (premature apparently) I lauded the excellent monitor. That's because, when it was brand new it looked fantastic.

2 months later, I am experiencing faint vertical lines across the entire panel, most noticeably in dark areas. I have tried every available driver release to no avail. After searching the problem, I have learned it's quite common.

Asus are quite aware of the problem and RMA's only results in a replacement of the same brand/manufacturer panel that is clearly a manufacturing defect in a VERY large percentage coming from this plant. ROG forums are full of same complaints, loaded with multiple RMA's only to continue to have the same problem.

I'm not going to bother with an RMA given Asus just replaces the panel with the exact same panel that has problems. All the meanwhile, my $1400 is in shipping more than it is in my possession.

Last ASUS product for me.

Other Thoughts: Good news, I fixed the BSOD from iusbmon drivers. Just download the ones direct from Intel.

Pros: This is a quite powerful laptop that I bought for my birthday to use as a backup since I don't always don't want to have my workstation on all the time... With this laptop, I am able to run Modo and Zbrush on this with almost no lag. I also run Unity, which is used for game authoring and some of my my scenes run smoothly. Haven't played anything heavy on it yet to really push it, but I think Crysis 3 and BF3 will run well.

I also like the fact that the laptop has a matte finish which won't show too much dirt and it easy to clean. I also added a Seagate Momentus XT at 750 and my boot time is snappy.

-- I also love the backlit keyboard... so no more worrying about not being able to see the keys at night.

Cons: -- Heavy (that is expected with a laptop like this one). I knew what i wanted so, no worries here.

-- Short Battery Life: I really hope ASUS addresses this because although for a week now, I have had my laptop plugged in most of the time, and I am not doing anything too intensive, except for browsing. Even with all of this power, they have to balance this... I tried darkening my screen and using the battery saving feature while I work.

-- Bloatware: I ended up blanking the hard drive and doing a fresh install.

Other Thoughts: Despite it being whisper quiet, I would get a laptop cooler that will keep this baby cool... I saw a Coolermaster U3 that would be nice for this :)

Pros: well this is one of the best laptop i have ever owned.......well it pretty beefy in spec and can handle all games and everything else. play all the game titles with no problem all setting on hight or ultra. loving the matt screen which alot of the laptop manufacturer nowaday fail to do. u can play for hour without ever worrying about heating because the exust is awsome. and keyboard is by far the best i have ever seen.... beats msi steel series keyboard in my opinion.

Cons: well this laptop is not portable by any means well over 8 pounds...cant complaint because its desktop replacement. you will need a desk for it. track pad is not suitable for gaming, you will need a mouse. i didnt get blueray with mine :(

Other Thoughts: all i need now is SSD

Pros: I don't know yet... I'm not going to use the thing until my screen is fixed. I took it out of the box the day I got it and immediately sent it back to Newegg. After I got it back from Newegg, I sent it to ASUS, after I got if back from ASUS, I sent it back to ASUS again... Currently waiting...

Cons: The Screen on this laptop is HORRIBLE! For a 1920x1080 display at 17.3" I figured the screen would be beautiful! However, as soon as I turned the laptop on my eyes started to cross. I could see very faint vertical lines across the entire screen. The lines seem to be most prominent when the screen displays colors around light-blue and green, however you can see the lines on most colors that have ANY green in them. I took some macro (close up) pictures of my screen so I could see the pixels making up the image and found the issue causing the problem.

Here's what I found.
All pixels on standard LCD screen are made up of RED GREEN and BLUE sub-pixels. Pixels are arranged in a grid pattern across the entire screen... So a 1920x1080 screen will have 1920 columns of pixels from left to right across the screen and 1080 rows of pixels from top to bottom. That makes for a total of 2,073,600 individual pixels on a 1920x1080 screen. Looking at the picture I took of the monitor displaying a light blue color I can see that every other column of pixels is displaying a green sub-pixel that is brighter than its neighbor column.

For Example:
Let's say we have a screen with a resolution of 5x5 pixels representated by the figure below.
Each "RGB" is a pixel.
The columns with the lower case "g" are the problem columns that are causing the lines on the screen.

RGB RgB RGB RgB RGB
RGB RgB RGB RgB RGB
RGB RgB RGB RgB RGB
RGB RgB RGB RgB RGB
RGB RgB RGB RgB RGB
1 2 3 4 5

Other Thoughts: I'm not sure what's causing this, maybe it's a manufacturing problem with the screen. But it annoys me enough that I am completely unhappy with this product and have sent it back to Newegg once... Only to have them say they can't see the problem. I've sent it to ASUS, who, according to my paperwork replaced the Harddrive, motherboard, video card and processor, but not the screen. It is about to go back to ASUS for a second time, this time I've included pictures to back me up.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued Customer,

Sorry to hear that you are experiencing vertical lines. Please provide me with your serial number and I will check what screen you have installed on your notebook.

If you have any questions or comments you can email me again at cl-jeffrey@asus.com which I reside in the U.S

ASUS strives to meet and exceeds our customer expectations within our warranty policy.

Regards,

Jeffrey
ASUS Customer Loyalty

Pros: Excellent specs for the price. Runs everything you can throw at it effortlessly. Very nice screen. Installed a 60G SSD as Win 7 64 OS Drive and second 256G SSD for programs. Wonderfully fast!

Cons: There is something seriously wrong with the USB on this machine. Minidump points to this everytime it BSOD's and it happens once every couple of days.

I have gone so far as to see if it was Win 7 64bit, Win 8, SSD vs Mechanical Drive. Mouse manufacturer between two mice, Audio interface vs no interface. Driver updates from Asus vs directly from Intel. BIOS Update. There is no difference, BSOD on iusb3mon.

Not really sure how much more I can do to remediate this issue beyond waiting for better USB drivers

If it were not for this issue it would get 5 stars easily!

Other Thoughts: I am absolutely certain the BSOD issue is driver related and not hardware related given the consitency of the minidumps. Can it be fixed? Who knows. Certainly don't want to RMA over bad drivers

Pros: The specs for the price point are very good.
The laptop has a very clean look, and the rubberized exterior is nice touch.
The keyboard is high quality, better than many run of the mil laptop keyboards.
The keyboard is also back-lit, and has 3 levels of dimming.
I love that the fans venting out the back have removable filters that can be easily cleaned and replaced.
A second hard drive bay is available for an SSD or more storage.
High res screen looks great, and the finish is not glossy (great for gaming).

Cons: The laptop comes with Windows 8 which still has compatibility issues and bugs.
It comes pre-loaded with: trial software, bloatware, and badly designed update software that can corrupt your system and cause various issue.
The LCD failed after a few hours of light use. I have set up an RMA, but now I will have to wait (guessing several weeks) before I can get it back and start using it.

Other Thoughts: Suggestions: Get an SSD to use as a boot drive as it can extend battery life, decrease load times, and increase performance.
Install Windows 7 on the SSD, and format the 500gb HDD to use as storage.
Even if you don't get an SSD, I highly recommend a clean install of the OS to remove the pre-installed software.

Overall it seems to be a great laptop, but I think the QA at Asus is lacking compared to other (much more expensive) laptop brands.