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Is it just me, or are these new Alienware machines they announced today pretty sweet? I'm in the market for a gaming laptop soon as a temporary desktop replacement (about a year before I rebuild), and the timing couldn't be better. I was leaning towards an MSI, but those and the Sagers are just so ugly. Does anyone here see any glaring faults at first glance? (I'd link but I'm on mobile, sorry)
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InstantInfidel posted:You have a large, glowing, Alien-shaped contraceptive on your laptop. What's the build quality on those bigger gaming laptops like anyways? Never seen one in person. For the record, this gaming laptop won't even be leaving my home except for the very rare LAN party. I just need to be barely in my own home.
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Jun 11, 2013 13:33
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For the record, there are plenty of gaming laptops with user upgradeable GPUs now. There is a small subset of people for whom a gaming laptop is a good idea. I'm one of them, and I got the same load when I asked for advice here on which was a good buy. I never asked if I should buy one, because I'm savvy enough and know my situation better than anyone here. It was pretty frustrating to get blown off, but whatever. If you're sold on one, and price isn't a barrier you're worried about, don't let these guys talk you out of one. I'm leaning towards the new MSI GT60 myself, but still have another month to decide. If price is something you're worried about, then their advice should definitely be considered. These guys really just wanna save you some cash, which is very nice of them.
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Jun 27, 2013 04:08
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LurkingAsian posted:So I just ordered a Clevo W230ST from these guys. I'm ordering mine on the 21st, please post your thoughts when yours shows up. What specs did you end up ordering?
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Jul 10, 2013 18:57
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SoggyGravy posted:I am confused, other than a place like xoticpc where can I buy the Clevo W230ST laptop? Are they the best place to go to? I am almost totally convinced that bang for buck this will be the way to go instead of spending 2300 on a blade. It seems almost too good to be true. What do you guys recommend customization wise to get the most bang for buck out of this guy given that I don't want it to be a portable brick or super duper loud/hot becuase I chose to get the higher wattage cpu that wasn't necessary. I am not up to speed on all the latest CPU units since it has been about a year since I last built a PC. In my googling last night, I found a good laptop subreddit with a list of reputable Clevo/Sager resellers. http://tinyurl.com/q7bxgr9
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Jul 11, 2013 02:07
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Airconswitch posted:How do Lenovo's Ideapads stack up? I was looking at one of the Y410p models listed in that B&N link, namely this one. Is this reasonable, or should I go with a proper Thinkpad? How's the build quality on Ideapads? I'll use it for school with some gaming mixed in (Kerbal Space Program at least, who knows what else). Mine is arriving tomorrow. I have pretty modest expectations, but I'll happily review it tomorrow night or Thursday for this thread.
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Jul 31, 2013 03:18
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Meydey posted:Just received a Y410p in the mail yesterday. Ordered it on Thursday, and recieved it 5 days later from North Carolina. Couple things to add after having mine for a couple of days: -The trackpad is poo poo, but I use a mouse. Just a heads up for people who will use it, though. -Even after calibration, the screen seems a little washed out. I've been playing a bunch of Planetside 2, Max Payne 3, and WoW so far. It seems to run great, and I haven't seen my GPU temps go above 73c yet. It's running the FFXIV benchmark very well, which is one of the games I intend to play a lot on it. Build quality isn't anything to write home about, but I don't think it feels cheap at all. All in all, I'm not disappointed for what I paid. I was mostly worried about the heat, but that seems well within my acceptable boundaries.
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Aug 2, 2013 02:35
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A couple of things about the y410p I found while doing some research that may also affect some peoples choice in purchasing it: They haven't been very consistent in announcing when the ultra-bay addons will be released for this laptop. As it stands, your only options at the moment for upgrading are as follows: 1: Buy a $10 HDD caddy from eBay that mostly fits, and put the existing HDD in there. The outside panel may not fit perfectly snug with the rest of your laptop, but it will work. You can then put an MSATA SSD into the slot the Main HDD was in. 2: Buy a very expensive and, at this point in time, rare M.2 NGFF SSD for the second drive. The second slot doesn't support MSATA, it's only this M.2 slot with drives that aren't available for consumers yet. Supposed to be quite fast when they are, though. 3: While an SLI 750m ultra-bay was initially something they used as a selling point, they haven't announced any official release date for this yet. Honestly, I doubt it would even do anything before you would get thermal throttling, anyways. 4: I believe there is planned to be a ultra-bay fan upgrade as well, in the future. Some people are reporting serious connectivity issues with the Intel wireless card that comes with the machine. Lenovo has a hardware white-list in place in the bios that prevents you from swapping it out for any other cards. People made a hacked bios for the previous version of this laptop that removed the white list, but no such thing exists yet for this laptop. Someone on NBR is claiming you can simply disable secure boot in the bios to install other wireless cards, but no one has actually confirmed this. FWIW I have had zero issues with my wireless at all.
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Aug 2, 2013 03:33
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A bunch of us posted some good info on the y410p a few pages ago. Some pros and cons. To sum it up: Good keyboard Average screen Wifi might have issues, and is bios locked so you can't change the internal card until someone hacks the bios Trackpad isn't good Plays most games on medium/high at 30-60 fps (1600x900) Mine hasn't gone above 76c so far after any hours of gaming Screen hinge on the y series screen occasionally has issues, no problems here so far I don't find the build quality to be that lacking. Better than my last HP Despite the list of cons, none of which are deal-breakers. I'm quite happy with mine. The y510p will have the same specs and a bigger screen, so you'll probably be turning down graphics a bit more on the newest games to run at 1080. Not sure how that screen will look running at 1600x900. I wouldn't get sli, it'd run too hot. You're better off buying a caddy for the ultra-bay and putting in an SSD with the money.
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Aug 12, 2013 13:37
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Fwiw, I have been playing the following on my y410p: FFXIV Payday 2 DOTA2 Dishonored Batman: Arkham City Assassins Creed 3 Skyrim with an ENB Planetside 2 I get a solid 35-60 on most these games at high to medium settings. I usually turn down AA and pick the least important dx11 or other effect to turn down a bit. That's at 1600x900, too. Edit: if a solid 60fps is very important then a solid stack of medium settings will be necessary. I haven't had to run a single game on low/med. Switched.on fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Aug 17, 2013 |
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Here's one more vote for "idea pads suck, don't buy one" mine cooked itself after 13 months and I always used it on my desk on a cooler. Lenovo support was useless as well.
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