ASUS i7 Gaming Laptop - Asus G73JH-A1 Reviews

The Asus G73JH-A1 Laptop comes with a 17.3 inches FHD colour shineasus-g73jh-a1-laptop Asus G73JH-A1 Laptop display with 1920 x 1080 pixels maximum resolution. This smart model is provided with Intel HM 55 Express chipset and 1333 MHz data bus speed. In addition, it consists of 6 MB L2 cache memory, 8 GB DDR3 SDRAM with 1066 MHz speed and a 1000 GB hard disk drive. It consists of Intel core mobile i7 quad processor.

This stylish black laptop is very small and compact measuring just 18.4 inches in width, 12.4 inches in depth and 1.8 inches in height. It weighs 8 lbs. This device supports 8 cells 5200 mAh capacity battery for backup. It needs 100 to 240 V AC supply with 50/60 Hz frequency. This versatile unit supports Blu Ray disc drive. Besides, it consists of an 8 in 1 card reader.

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The sleek Asus G73JH-A1 1 TB Laptop is provided with ATI HD 5870 graphics processor with 1 GB RAM. It consists of a built-in 2 megapixels video camera. Further, this diligent unit supports 802.11 b/g/n WLAN. In addition, it supports Bluetooth V2.1 + EDR. The connectors include 1 x VGA port for external monitor, 4 x USB 2.0 ports, 2 x Audio jack : 1 Head phone / 1 Mic-in, 1 x LAN RJ-45 and 1 x HDMI. For data input, it provides you a numeric keyboard and a touchpad. The indicators include bluetooth on status, wireless status on and power on/suspend. It is provided with genuine windows 7 home premium 64 bit OS.

Other features include BIOS booting, HDD User Password Protecting, Notebook Lock and Kensington lock slot. It consists of 4 built in speakers and array microphones. Besides, it supports Dolby Home theatre and Altec Lansing co-brand speakers. It comes complete with gaming mouse and gaming backpack. The company provides 2 years warranty.

ASUS i7 Gaming Laptop - Asus G73JH-A1 Full Specs

General Info
Brand	Asus
Model	Asus G73JH-A1 Laptop
Colours Available	Black
Weight	8 lbs
Dimensions	16.33 x 12.59 x 1.8 inches
Processor Type	Intel Core Mobile i7 Quad Core
Hard disk capacity	1000 GB
RAM capacity	8 GB
RAM type	DDR3 SDRAM
Speed	1.60GHz
Screen size	17.3 inches
Screen resolution	1920 x 1080 pixels
Graphics card	ATi HD5870
USB ports	4
Optical drives	Blu-Ray Disc Drive
Removable media slots	8 in 1 card reader
Wireless technology	Yes
Operating System	Windows 7
Features
CD/ DVD Read/write	Yes

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IPhone Tantalizes, Frustrates Forensics Experts

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Connecting the iPhone to a laptop through a USB write-blocker is one way to forensically examine the device.

Photo: Derrick Donnelly, Blackbag Technologies

Technophiles may love the iPhone, but you criminals? Watch out. The iPhone may reveal more about your misdeeds than you realize.

Derrick Donnelly, chief technology officer of Blackbag Technologies, a Silicon Valley-based company specializing in Apple forensic solutions, is tempted by the rich array of potential evidence an iPhone might contain.

Will its data favor the defense or the prosecution? "There is more information in there than your average cell phone," explains Donnelly. "The ease of use lends itself to more use … and more use creates more artifacts."

The iPhone's web, e-mail and phone functionality -- combined with its 4- or 8-GB storage capacity -- means it can serve as a window into the personality, lifestyle, social circle and actions of the user. "Even though there might not be a smoking gun right in there," explains Donnelly, "a lot of these smaller pieces could add up to a bigger piece that could lead you to further evidence."

But not every forensics expert is convinced. "The iPhone is evil," says Amber Schroader, CEO of Utah-based Paraben, a leader in digital-forensics software development. "It's Mac OS X, and it's a completely closed system."

In other words, it's not easy for a forensics team to guarantee that the data extracted from an iPhone has not been tampered with. The result is that juries may find reasonable doubt in how that data was extracted.

The digital-forensics industry is dominated by PC experts, mirroring the larger percentage of PC users in the marketplace. Mac forensic analysis is considered a highly specialized service. "To know the iPhone is to know the Mac or vice versa," explains Donnelly. "Because it's a different file system and a different operating system, right off the bat the things you're usually looking for are not in the same places and they are in a very, very different format."

But even Mac experts like Donnelly are struggling with how to get the data off the iPhone's closed system without altering the data by turning on the device. Currently, the iPhone is not compatible with existing forensic software and data-extraction systems. Forensic experts may be left with old-school techniques like photographing data as it is displayed on the screen itself -- as if it were a yellow-taped crime scene.

Finding a laptop or desktop computer on the scene could help significantly. "You might not be able to get the information off the iPhone," says Donnelly, "but you may be able to get other devices that the iPhone was connected to." If the user had uploaded their phone's data, analysts may find copies on the linked computer.

The vast amount of personal data the iPhone can store and personal habits it can track means it has the potential to say a lot about the user. But the first challenge may be getting this closed-mouthed phone to talk.

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iPad vs HP Slate – Where Do You Stand in this Mac vs PC War?

Apple iPad was unveiled by Steve Jobs yesterday in a mega event held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. In a nutshell, the iPad is a larger iPod touch with an additional iBooks Store and iWorks suite of apps. With iBooks, Apple is surely taking Amazon’s Kindle head-on with their own offering – the iPad, which besides reading, can do things like playing games, access social networks, display photos, videos, web browsing and a hell alot more.

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Here is a look at how it stands again the popular Amazon Kindle DX.

So which one are you going to go for? Let us know in the comments section below.

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100,000 iPads Sold on First Day?

Business Insider is reporting that approximately 91,000 iPads were sold in the first 6 hours of the presale. With the presale lasting 8 hours, they must have hit 100,000 pre-orders today. These numbers are just estimates, but still impressive.

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Business Insider’s Source, Philip Elmer DeWitt, had been following the sales throughout the day. He estimated that Apple had sold 20,000 iPads in the first 2 hours, 74,000 in the first 4.5 hours, and finally 90,000 in the first 6 hours. If these numbers are any where close to accurate, then Apple must have surpassed 100,000 units by the end of the day.

Of course, these numbers are not official. They are estimates from 3rd parties. It is not known if Apple will report their numbers right away. They usually like to announce a giant number at one of the keynotes.

Did you order your iPad today? I reserved one for pick up, so I can take part in the launch festivities. Only a few more weeks!

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Apple iPad’s Display Is More Like a TV Than a Laptop

Apple iPad’s most striking feature, its gorgeous 9.7-inch touchscreen display, uses liquid crystal display technology — but with a few unusual twists — to present a vivid image and a wide viewing angle.

“The iPad’s display uses the same capacitive touchscreen technology as the iPhone and iPod Touch,” says Vinita Jakhanwal, principal analyst for iSuppli. “At the same time, it offers a better picture quality than conventional LCDs.”

After months of speculation, Apple launched its tablet, the iPad on Wednesday.  The lightweight device (1.5 pounds) features a luminous touchscreen and a user interface similar to the iPhone. The iPad, which can cost $500 to $830 depending on the model, runs an expanded version of the operating system used in the iPhone.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPad’s screen as a LED-backlit with In-Plane Switching (IPS). Jobs was referring to a type of LCD screen that is more often found in HDTVs than it is in mobile devices.

So-called twisted nematic LCDs have dominated consumer laptop and phone displays. The viewing angle on these screens is limited, ranging from 110 to 120 degrees. When the screen is viewed outside this optimal range, its colors can look “off” and the overall image is faded or invisible.

In-Plane Switching helps fix those problems. In IPS LCD screens, the crystal molecules are oriented so their motion is parallel to the panel, instead of perpendicular to it. For viewers, the result is a very wide viewing angle — up to 180 degrees — with brilliant color.

“TVs have always used some variation of IPS in their LCD screens but now we are seeing this move to smaller computing devices,” says Jakhanwal.

The iPad’s screen, though, doesn’t have a wide aspect ratio, which is unusual in the TV-display world, says research firm DisplaySearch. Instead of a 16:10 or 16:9 aspect ratio, the iPad screen uses a 4:3 ratio.

“Perhaps they were trying to find a middle ground between the requirements for books, magazines and newspapers and the requirements for video and gaming,” say analysts at DisplaySearch.

The iPad display has some other interesting features. It is arsenic- and mecury-free and has a fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating, which Apple had introduced in the iPhone 3G S. The iPad’s 1024 x 768 display resolution, at 132 pixels per inch, has chunkier pixels than the iPhone 3G S, which has a smaller display but a resolution of 163 pixels per inch.

But that may not be a fair comparison, says Jakhanwal. “If you have a smaller form factor, you need a higher resolution to better read the information on the display,” she says. Also, she adds, “the iPad has a more vivid display than a laptop screen.”

The iPad’s display is likely sourced from LG Display and Innolux, says iSuppli.

The biggest disappointment for tech enthusiasts is the lack of an OLED screen option in the iPad. That should be no surprise, say DisplaySearch and iSuppli. Display manufacturers just don’t have the fabrication capacity to create large quantities of big OLED displays, says Jakhanwal.

“The single supplier for active-matrix OLED screen today, Samsung Mobile, [its] current production capacity is all taken up by the mobile phone market,” she says. That means large volumes of very small screens.

“It’s unlikely they will scale back on that to produce lower volume, larger displays for Apple.”

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Sony also produces OLED screens but in limited quantities, largely for its own products, like the Sony XEL-1.

Though Apple showed the iPad’s potential as an e-book reader, iSuppli and DisplaySearch remain skeptical about it. LCD screens, even in black-and-white mode, get washed out in bright sunlight. And if users turn on the backlight to improve the contrast, they are likely to draw down the device’s battery. On top of that, reading on an LCD means you’re staring into a light source, which produces more eyestrain than reading words by reflected light, as you do with printed pages or E Ink displays like those used in the Kindle, Nook and Sony Reader.

“Ultimately, reading for a few hours on a handheld LCD screen can be quite a strain,” says Jakhanwal.

Taiwan will get the iPhone 3G on December 13th

The largest operator in the Taiwan region, Chunghwa Telecom, has finally given us a date when they will be releasing the iPhone 3G in Taiwan. Looks like those who have had to wait for so long will finally get their hands on the iPhone 3G in less than two weeks.

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The company said it would sell iPhones exclusively for an unspecified period, with a two-year service contract carrying a minimal month fee of NT$1,049 (about US$ 31). To get a free iPhone with 8GB memory space, people will have to sign a two-year contract with a monthly charge of NT$2,549 (about US$ 76). Or they can buy the phone from Chunghwa Telecom for at least NT$26,600 (about US$ 800) and get a prepaid number.

December 13th is the day that Taiwan residents will be able to pick one up, legally anyway. Chunghwa is also talking with HTC to bring the T-Mobile G1 to Taiwan.  Chunghwa is currently offering pre-sales of the iPhone 3G that will run until December 10th. By targeting the holiday season, Chunghwa plans to sell 50,000 units by March of 2009.

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Asus: Preview of Upcoming NBs

Asus is all set to lure the notebook (NB) industry with two new NBs; the W5Fe with dual screen, and the G1S for mobile gaming.The W5Fe or the slide-show notebook as it is called, is the world's first to have dual screens, claims Asus. The small screen on the outer body is a shortcut to viewing a wide range of information, including photo slide-show, meeting schedules, phone numbers, addresses, and e-mails, etc, without actually starting Windows.Based on Intel Core 2 Duo mobile technology, the compact 12.1-inch wide-screen notebook comes with a built-in 1.3 mega-pixel Web cam, which can be swiveled 235-degrees forward and backward. Other specifications include: 160GB hard disk, 8x Super Multi DVD Writer, 128MB internal VGA memory, Bluetooth, 8-in-1 card reader, and 3 x USB.The other notebook awaiting launch is G1S, aimed at redefining mobile gaming with advanced graphics solutions, display technologies, and design details. Powered by Nvidia GeForce Go 8600GT with 256MB GDDR3 VRAM, G1S integrates Asus's Direct Messenger, which is an in-game information control panel for monitoring messengers, emails, alarms, and battery capacity while the user is engaged in full screen gaming. In addition, the notebook also features Direct Flash sidelights that auto glow while playing DirectX 10 games.The G1S sports a 15.4-inch wide LCD screen, and a 1.3 mega pixels Web cam, and bundles a gaming laser mouse. Gaming hotkeys on the keypad are highlighted in Green for easy access.Francis Kao, business development manager for notebooks at Asus, even said, "We are officially launching the G1 gaming series notebooks in India because they enjoy so much popularity as was witnessed during a recent Asus gaming event."The G1S is scheduled to launch in the country next week, while the W5Fe will be launched a week after that.Other projects in the Asus pipeline include: the next generation Lamborghini laptop, and the U1, a lightweight 11-inch laptop.

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Asus Lamborghini VX1 laptop

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Seems like every company is producing its own brand of laptop these days, especially if it belongs in the high-end logo driven market. First there was the Ferrari laptop, and now, we have the Lamborghini laptop.

You can finally lay your hands on the actual item, after the sneak peek preview about seven months ago. The Asus Lamborghini VX1 laptop features a 2GHz Intel Core Duo T2500 chipset and Intel’s Centrino technology with a WiFi adapter built in. Also features a 15” VX1 with Color Shine high-resolution LCD screen. The machine completes with a gig of RAM, a 120GB hard drive, Bluetooth capability and a DVD burner.

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Performance aside, would you just look at how sexy this thing is! Comes in black or yellow, the notebook features the trademark Lamborghini logo with exceptional mirror painting finish. It looks as gorgeous as sin, and to those lucky few who are able and willing to fork out the big bucks, it’ll cost you a pretty $3,500 USD. (No, don’t even ask, the car does not come with the laptop.)

The only thing I can think of that will make it an even “cooler” toy would be for the cover to open up like the race car itself – like a pair of wings.

The information is in Chinese, but if you want to look at more detailed pictures, check out Taiwan – CNET .

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iPad Reviews – Not a Laptop Killer, But Pretty Close

First of iPad reviews are now popping up on the Internet. From Wall Street Journal, to USA Today, to PC World, to New York Times, all have great things to say about the product. One thing however most of them have agreed upon is the fact that it is not really a notebook/netbook replacement, but rather a great companion which could do tasks like email, web browsing, music, videos, book reading and so on with great ease.

Image via The Sydney Morning Herald

According to The Houston Chronicle’s Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus, the iPad creates a new category of mobile devices:

It turns out the iPad isn’t as much a laptop replacement as I thought (though it could easily be used as one). Instead, it’s an entirely new category of mobile device. For example, now when I want to surf the Web from the couch or back deck, the iPad is the device I choose. Starbucks? Same thing. Think of the iPad as a new arrow in your technology quiver, an arrow that will often be the best tool for a given task.

I had high expectations for the iPad, and it has met or exceeded most of them.

Mossberg of WSJ found the battery life of the iPad to be exceptional – he got well over the quoted 10 hours. He managed to “watch four feature-length movies, four TV episodes and a video of a 90-minute corporate presentation, before the battery died midway through an episode of The Closer” – all on a single charge! Now that is amazing! His verdict on the iPad is:

So I’ve been using my test iPad heavily day and night, instead of my trusty laptops most of the time. As I got deeper into it, I found the iPad a pleasure to use, and had less and less interest in cracking open my heavier ThinkPad or MacBook. I probably used the laptops about 20% as often as normal, reserving them mainly for writing or editing longer documents, or viewing Web videos in Adobe’s Flash technology, which the iPad doesn’t support, despite its wide popularity online.

If you’re mainly a Web surfer, note-taker, social-networker and emailer, and a consumer of photos, videos, books, periodicals and music—this could be for you. If you need to create or edit giant spreadsheets or long documents, or you have elaborate systems for organizing email, or need to perform video chats, the iPad isn’t going to cut it as your go-to device.

I will be getting mine by the end of this week, we’ll for sure have a review of it, along with some hands-on videos. Stay tuned!

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