@Grungeboy

Every laptop no matter which company you look at will have some sort of issues in a specific model. I'm running a Asus G74Sx-A1 right now and haven't had 1 single issue with it since day 1, and I've had it for over a month. In my opinion it's the best laptop I have owned, and was a major upgrade from my previous Dell Alienware; mainly because of the superior cooling. My GPU on full load never gets above 54c, which is seriously impressive; and to mention I'm not even using a cooling pad at the moment. The processor is ridiculously fast, the 3gb DDR5 560m can run any game, and I play Rift maxed out.

The G74 series is no where near garbage. Some laptops off the line just weren't built perfectly, like every company. If you'd rather buy something else why don't you go get an HP. Have a fun time dealing with their bullshit support and horrible laptops.

LOL. i bought my wife a HP. i was a early adopter of the Asus G-Series. i actually used to work for a company in LaVergne, TN called Quanta Computers. they handled warranty level repairs of Compaq, HP, and Gateway, they also manufactured motherboards for the Macbooks and Macbook Pros. so if you sent your laptop in because you dropped it in a pool or your 15 year old son put a password on it and can't remember, i was the guy who fixed it (obviously i mean i was one of the guys). cracked screen, dead wifi card, mostly stuff that had been broken by the user at some point, and usually we'd do everything we could to score the parts to fix it so that there wouldn't be any cost. sometimes if one was out of warranty, we'd set it aside until we got a similar model that was in warranty and then order the parts for that one to fix the out of warranty one at no cost.

i've seen it all man, saw a iphone 4 earlier today that had been backed over by a car, save for the fact that the front and back screens were completely shattered, it still worked.

the G74's have a extremely high failure rate, i hope that's the reason why they've held off on a G54, i want to see Asus fix the problem, but that doesn't mean they didn't strike out on this one. it's not like they didn't pack it with sweet hardware or a awesome feature set all for a reasonable price, but somewhere along the way something went wrong and it seems like there are major issues.

if anyone asks, my advice would be to get a G73 or whatever, but i couldn't in good conscience advise anyone to get a G74.

grungeboy wrote:
the G74's have a extremely high failure rate

Not to be argumentative, but this is based on what? It's very easy to start feeling negatively about a product line or the brand in general if you read everything on this board. But we have to keep reminding ourselves that the posts on this board are not indicative of anything larger. Based on the number of units that ASUS will sell for any of its products, the posts we get here are statistically insignificant. This is further skewed by the fact that happy customers don't take the time to find the ASUS website, create an account, and post their experience. It happens but it's very rare.

All of that is not to say that there aren't problems which seem to be affecting multiple customers and may affect many more who have not posted here, but there's no mathematically sound way to even estimate how many. We don't even know how many units have been shipped or purchased, let alone returned or RMA'd.

Mylar188 wrote:
I chose Asustek over another brand

i concour.