Just ordered an ASUS G73JH-A3, just wondering if anyone has gotten a hold of one of the G73-series laptops and had a go with FSX. I've enjoyed my desktop for as cheaply as I got it but now I'm in need of more mobility so ordered this as a potential replacement (or might just keep both, we'll see how the next few weeks play out :( ) Should arrive Wednesday, pretty excited!

Yea, I have one. Got it about a month ago. I wanted something high-end for designing when traveling plus I am moving so I am using this as a go-between system until I get into my new place.What can I say - best laptop I have ever owned but I only had one before this, ha! I first installed FS9, added a 737 commercial add-on, and installed 9Dragons to try er out. I set the max FPS to 25 as I figured this would be all a laptop could handle (you gotta remember I was coming from an AMD 1.6Ghz SINGLE-CORE laptop about 3 years old so I wasn't sure what to expect). Ha, silly me. It ran 25 FPS solid. So I put all sliders to max and set FPS to unlimited. Holy-moley - 60-70FPS on the ground at the airport (my old desktop would only get mid-teens!) and around 170fps in the air around the airport. Studder? What's a studder? So for kicks I loaded FSX (don't really use it yet), as I was curious. With a stock install, no tweaks or overclocking, sliders around 50% I was getting a good experience. Say teens-20's. But when I moved it to 3/4 and up on the sliders it crashed the system. Hence back to FS9. But I'm sure if you do the tweaks, do a clean install of Win7 to get rid of the bloatware, etc., you could probably do better than me.I will say it has an great design for airflow. After running say 1/2 hour the unit wasn't even warm let along hot! And I had this tied to a 25" 1900x1200 monitor. So I am quite please with my purchase.Hope that helps.Clutch

Thanks for the reply!I got mine a few days ago - runs FSX and FS9 (obviously) smooth as can be - I currently have FSX maxed out except water is one notch from it and along with the Buffer Pools Tweak, it's smooth and solid in the mid to upper 20's for fps all the time! Very happy with this machine so far!

I had the G73JH, but when I tried to use FSX, the video card crashed. Be weary...any issues, send it back. It is not fair to pay $1000+ and get a defective unit. Use it in the best of health!