Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #5635 in Personal Computers
- Color: Black
- Brand: Asus
- Model: N75SF-DH71
- Dimensions: 1.55" h x
16.77" w x
11.42" l,
7.50 pounds
- CPU: Core i7 2.2 GHz 2.2 GHz
- Memory: 8GB DIMM
- Hard Disk: 1000GB
- Graphics: GeForce GT 555M 2000MB
- Processors: 4
- Native resolution: 1920 x 1080
- Display size: 17.3
Features
- Intel Core i7 Processor 2.2GHz
- 8GB DIMM RAM
- 1TB 7200RPM Hard Drive
- 17.3-Inch Screen, NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
ASUS N75SF-DH71 17.3-Inch Versatile Entertainment Laptop (Black)
Product Description
N75SF-DH71**BLACK** 17.3" FHD (1920*1080); Intel Core i7-2670QM (2.2GHz); 8GB DDR3. Nvidia GT555M 2G. 1TB 7200 RPM. Blu-ray writer enabled DVD Rw/CD-RW. W7 Home Premium (64bit); 802.11BGN. 2.0 MP webcam. Bluetooth 3.0. 6 Cell Battery. USB 3.0 Premium Audio with Bang & Olfson Icepower. 2YR Global/1YR Accidental Damage/30-Day Zero Bright Dot/2-way FREE shipping/24-7 tech support
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
I've Had a Great Experience So Far!
By Watching
I'm somewhat surprised by the other reviewers having problems as they have. I have had mine for almost 3 months and I have no big issues. The touch pad does take some getting used to but mine doesn't need excessive pressure. The one thing it does occasionally is go into zoom mode accidentally, but I think it's caused by touching it at more than one place while typing. I went in to the options and set it up like I like it when it was days old. The keyboard is reasonably good for me. It's not the best I've ever tried, but it is far from the worst and I prefer it to the HP and the Acer that are also in my household. I like the Mac keyboard my daughter has a little better.I don't have any other issues. I bought mine from one of the large vendors that allow you to customize the laptop when you buy it. I put a 120GB SSD in lieu of the standard primary drive and a 750GB 7200 RPM unit as the secondary drive. I deleted the Blu-Ray burner and replaced it with a cheaper Blu-Ray player to cut the cost a little bit and because I don't anticipate burning Blu-Ray discs. I don't remember the other changes, but there were a few. I have 8GB of RAM, but slightly better than the original. I had the software installed by the vendor after the changes were made, without putting all the ASUS bloatware back in.The monitor is very, very good. I had a previous ASUS (M70) with the same resolution but the colors were washed out on that one when watching movies or playing games. This one is fabulous. Everyone who tries it is very impressed. I like the way it gets rid of heat. I would prefer a different 12V connection because I like to hold it between my legs in a recliner occasionally and it sticks out in the way. The Mac solution is the best and I don't know why all vendors don't do something similar. Oh, yeah, the touch pad is getting shiny where I use it all the time. I've only played one game on it: Sniper- Ghost Warrior. It runs it at max settings without problems and it is beautiful. It is awkward to use this touch pad for gaming and I would prefer a mouse if I wasn't sitting in my recliner. Because of back problems, I can't sit upright in a different chair for long periods playing games, so for me I just make do. I might try some kind of a game controller.I hope that this helps some of you to see that not all are dissatisfied.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
I love it
By antiraza
Unfortunate that other folks have had negative experiences. I have not.I've had mine for about 9 months now, I use it as a professional 'moving-workstation', doing a lot of heavy creative development work, (Adobe Suite, 3D graphics, Motion Tracking etc.)Hardware: A+. The GFX card combined with the generous default RAM and Processor set up have enabled me to do everything I need to, and I do some fairly heavy duty graphics work. The monitor is bright and crisp. I recently upgraded the machine to 16GB ram and it is now performing even better. I have done some 3D gaming on the machine and it holds up comparably to its specs. The 1TB harddrive has been more than enough for my needs. I considered swapping it out for an SSD, but at this point the extra space is more valuable than the speed.Sound: Good enough. I don't watch movies that much on it, but when I do, the sound is good. I have only used the subwoofer attachment once, because I don't think it added enough value to merit carrying it around.Nits: The keyboard could be better. I love having a full keyboard with num-pad, because I can do a lot of shortcut key work using the num pad, but I do wish it could have had chicklet style keys (not possible with this screen size and also including a numpad, they did the best they could given the form factor).The trackpad multi touch is good but not Apple good. I hate Apple stuff for a lot of reasons, but they are simply the leaders in multi-touch responsiveness and reliability. Asus gets close with this, and the multitouch is functional and adds a lot of efficiency. It's reliable, but it's not delightful.The DVD eject button is very difficult to press, I usually have to lift the machine up and look at the button to find it before I can press it. However, I honestly have only needed optical media a handful of times since I got the machine.There is a fair amount of bloatware, but I have not uninstalled it as they all seem to be serving a valuable purpose (eg. USB charging when the machine is off, Instant On and battery management).The glossy lid material sucks. It's a fingerprint magnet. I do wish it was matte.It is not a very solid feeling machine (eg. an aluminium MBP), it feels plastic in the lid area, but it is actually quite solid. It has held up fine (no drops or abuse at my end, but I do travel a lot by plane (including international travel), and it has taken all that moving around without so much as a ding or scratch)./NitsThe keys on the left hand side that shortcut to various items do not bother me. I rarely press them accidentally (as they are too stiff to do so), but I also only use the volume control keys and the rest just take up space.Instant On is very reliable and works excellently. I love it.HDMI out is a great +, and have used it often. USB 3 and the USB always-on charger port have also been great things to have. My phone died while I was out on a job in the middle of a chaotic environment, ran a cable from my backpack into my pocket, and made it through the rest of the day. Got on a plane and my phone was near dead, plugged it in and napped through the flight, disembarked with a fully charged phone and barely a dent in my battery life on the laptop.Heat management is quite good. It runs hot when the GPU really goes to work, as you would expect, but even then it is not so hot as to be uncomfortable to hold on your lap while working. During normal use the temperature is nominal.The power management is fairly good, I get 5-6 hrs of regular use, 2-3 hours of heavy use (Video editing etc.) Standby seems to last forever... Long enough for a regular use machine If you are looking for a machine with a longer battery life, you would need to compromise on power and weight. This is a good balance of power, weight and battery life. I love the fact that the battery does not charge if it is plugged in and the level is >97%. Thank you ASUS for protecting me from unnecessary battery decay.It's not light, it's not unbearably heavy. It is not a light machine, but again, this is a powerful workstation, and so portability is sacrificed slightly.Overall, and for the cost, if you need a gaming rig or a 3d/2d graphics workstation on a budget, and are willing to making some partial sacrifices in the battery life and scale departments, this machine simply cannot be beat. I have a MacBook Pro from my office and I absolutely loath using it for graphics work as opposed to this bad boy, it is SO much snappier and more stable.Why then, a 4 star review and not 5 stars?1) Glossy lid, matte would have made my machine look cleaner and feel cleaner.2) Not chicklet style keyboard (I know it would not have been possible, but I still wish for it).3) More more more more/Less less less less. More battery life. Less weight. Possible? Probably not, but again, I wish for it.4) I wish the multitouch was more 'delightful' to use (but it is fully usable in its current state).
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Buyer Beware
By Overquoted
I have edited this review multiple times out of a sense of fairness. After all, things go wrong sometimes. A single piece of faulty hardware does not implicate an entire line. But terrible warranty repair? Multiple times? A driver issue that many customers have and Asus cannot or will not fix? I am so angry at this point that I am opening a case with the BBB. Asus has gone beyond bad service into actually damaging whatever value is left in my laptop. I shall spend the semester saving money to buy a brand new $1000+ laptop I can ill-afford just to replace this utter piece of crap.Straight of the box, the NS7SF is pretty awesome. The only complaint I had was the touchpad, which had buttons chosen for aesthetics without regard for how much pressure is required to use them. But the screen was brilliantly vivid; whites were bright enough to require a lowering of the brightness and blacks were pitch-black even at the highest brightness settings. The videocard ran modern games like Left 4 Dead 2 on high settings without overheating. And the sound was fantastic, even without the sub-woofer. A friend of mine walked into my living room and thought I was playing music from my tv instead of the N75SF. There really wasn't anything I wasn't satisfied with aside from the touchpad. Even the case seemed sturdy; unlike my previous laptop, the back of the LCD panel didn't bend inward if I happened to place something on top of it.This lasted until the USB ports started having issues with a half-dozen different devices. Code 10 error after using them once and then plugging them back in later. The only way to fix it was to restart the entire system. Kind of a pain if you are multi-tasking and just need to do one small thing on a USB device. I tried multiple factory resets without any change. Eventually, I RMA'ed it. But this was only after the power-harness became so loose I had to fight with the jack to get it to charge. This all by April, and I bought the laptop in October.So, Asus pays for the shipping to/from the RMA center and are pretty quick about it, too. Maybe two weeks, including shipping time. But when I get it, I find out that the harness is still slightly loose, though not nearly as bad; I suspect I will run into the exact same power issue within six months, however. The motherboard was replaced, but didn't fix the USB issues (meaning it was a driver issue that Asus *somehow* was unaware of up until then). They also replaced a speaker somewhere because I was having issues with the sound disappearing, but there's no telling if it was hardware or driver.Finally, they replaced the LCD screen. This was neither desired nor requested by me. They saw some problems with the screen (a few small bright spots that had never bothered me because they were only visible against extremely light backgrounds). That, initially, seemed quite lovely. They saw a problem and took proactive action, right? Wrong. They replaced the screen with a substandard, non-stock model. This screen was duller than the $300 Compaq screen in my old laptop. It lacked any vividness and whites were not white, but grey. I was furious, but I was busy with moving.Fast forward less than a month, the day before a trip to the city I was moving to, and the LCD screen fails entirely. Would not come on at all. Obviously, Asus is using refurbished parts, regardless of their condition, to satisfy their warranties. So it gets sent in again. I get it back fairly quickly and they've replaced it with a slightly different LCD model, but at least it's somewhat comparable. It's not as bright and reflects like a mirror (unlike the original), but at least it's brighter than the Compaq laptop (unlike the first replacement). But it's also refurbished since it came stock with dead pixels. I also just absolutely love that they managed to break the speaker plate above the keyboard; neither end will stay down now.So, to reiterate, Asus first tried using a sub-standard, non-stock replacement part for an undesired and unrequested repair. When that part failed, they went with a better model (but still refurbished) replacement part, but broke a part of the laptop before sending it back to me. My $1300 was certainly money well spent; multiple reinstallations, multiple RMA's, and at the end of the day, I still have a slightly broken laptop.That said, if the only thing you care about is a very quick warranty service that will get your laptop functioning enough to use (even if only for a little while), Asus is perfect.I give props to their (I suspect foreign) customer service representatives (I contacted them through e-mail). They were always very polite, even when my temper was frayed. But that is absolutely the only positive thing I can say about my experience with Asus.
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