does anyone know if the g73SW-xa1 offer dual hdd support? debating between buying the xa1 or the a1, does anyone know if the xa1 comes with the dual hard drive slot?
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Yes it does, but you have to buy a hard drive caddy from the asus estore. It costs around $30, which includes shipping.
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Yes, I am using W7 and have no problems. It will take a bit more of available disc space for the extra stuff included that I will not use myself. Seems like a good external HD. (I have the 500 GB model)
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Reporting as promised! just did the swap, first time I've done this, no problems whatsoever. Fits the FW like a glove. Bought the acomdata tango external enclosure and used Acronis Migrate Easy 7.0 (free 15 day trial) to clone the hard drive. Now I have 243gb free space instead of 9gbs. The whole thing took 4 hours (because the 250gb HD was practically full). Very easy. So, go for it I guess. Oh, and the windows experience index jumped from 4.6 to 4.7 due to the higher HD transfer rate (which went from 5.1 to 5.9)also boosting the graphics performance from 4.6 to 4.7. Good luck.
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The one I got from here was 1 TB hard drive and Win 7 Pro x64 ; it is a pretty good machine / I have two other ASUS x64 boxes and all three are great !! I would recommend to anyone wanting a hard working processor and good solid machine.
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Does anyone know if there is more than one slot? I currently have 2 matching SODIMM's at home, and want to know if this netbook supports 2x1GB, or if there is only 1 slot, and I would have to purchase the 2GB memory SODIMM?
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hi. i was wondering how upgrading the hard drive went for you cuz i was thinking of doing it. also, did u buy ur hard drive off of ifixit's website if you did and does making imporvement dissuade any warranty on the laptop? thanx.
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Yes, you can upgrade the RAM, but only to 8 G. Also, it only has room for one chip and make sure you get the right one. As far as changing out the HD drive, I believe you can, but I am not sure which one you could use. Maybe when you change the RAM you can check what is possible with the drive since you have to pull the whole bottom off to access the memory. I've been using the laptop as is and it works well for all I do. I woul recommend using the laptop for awhile before you change anything. Maybe it will work just fine "as is" for you?
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This model comes with no hard drive. As stated by others, I installed a 2Tb hard drive and it has worked flawlessly. Very simple hard drive installation. A couple screws and one plug.
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I just picked mine up from the Microsoft store yesterday. What a beautiful machine. The model # is XE700T1A-A04US. It has the 128GB drive and Windows 7 Pro. The sim slot only has a cover but nothing behind it. I was able to open the sim cover bur no sim slot :( It wasn't a deal breaker but it would have been great if it was there.
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Yes, but you may have problems with configuring the wd black. I eventually return mind for my alienware m17
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Ryan: I am very interested in finding a case, possibly one with a slot load drive. I read you mentioned a case you found but where's the picture of the case? I would love to see it if you could please provide me a link or photo. Thanks so much. -cindy
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Bluetooth: Yes. X75 has two bay for HDs. Mine has two 512 GB HD (1 TB). I'm sure you can order 2.5 GB or swap for a bigger HD (even SSD if you want).
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1) I'm sorry, I do not know. 2) Xbox does not really support 3rd party hard drives, I would just buy one thats Microsoft/Xbox branded.
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Im wondering the same thing, cause i still cannot find a deal as good as this anywhere, You can follow a forum ive been posting on past couple days, heres the link http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/564778-what-do-you-think-about-asus-g73sw-xa1.html
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The Hard drive has dual functionality. It works for both usb 2.0 and 3.0. It just works more efficiently with 3.0.
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The 5400rpm Best Buy's (NP700Z5B-W01UB) model HDD was a deal breaker for me. Besides Amazon's tax savings offset the price difference, so you get all 4 additional features (7200 HDD, 8G SSD, backlit keyboard, better video) for about $100 considering shipping and the current $150-$200 price difference. However the mention of the 5400rpm drive in S03 (and I'm sure S04) models made me think again. It's gotta be some difference with S01/S02 and the drive seems to be it. Another thing that one reviewer (of the S04) confirmed is that the 8G SSD is indeed proprietary tech (built into and inseparable from the HDD) and thus unavailable as a separate drive letter. I use Linux as my primary OS, so I don't care about Windows startup or IE speed. I don't think Linux would pick up the SSD at all. Which makes me go back to the stripped down Best Buy model. I'd simply swap its slow HDD with a full-size (256G+) SSD which can be had for $300 nowadays. I can live w/o the backlit keyboard and as far as the less capable video card, it's a business notebook, not a water-cooled gaming rig anyway.
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That's exactly what I'm doing and why I bought this; however I am certainly no hardware guru. It takes a while for it to show upon explorer (4-5 secs), windows needs to read it, etc. I would go to the internet and find a forum that has a topic for hardware, giving them the model, intent, etc. Let me know what you find out. I am interested. My final goal it to set up a RAID, still need one more hard drive.