A quick & short P150SM review

VegyBS

New member
First of all, this is my first experience of PC Specialist - simply, I would and will promote this company to anyone after a laptop (if not PCs too). A simple system that works exactly as you want - I've just come back from a Designing Service Catalogue workshop and this website is a perfect example of a service catalgue.
I also had to call to cancel my saturday post - spoke to Jack Turner who was more than happy to help and got this sorted quickly. The DPD service was excellent too, it let me choose to post it to anyone in my street as I was away for the day.

Chassis & Display
Vortex Series: 15.6" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-4800MQ (2.70GHz) 6MB
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (2 x 4GB)
Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 780M - 4.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
120GB KINGSTON HYPERX 3K SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 555MB/sR | 510MB/sW)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
2nd/3rd HDD HARD DRIVE OPTICAL BAY CADDY
Memory Card Reader
Internal 9 in 1 Card Reader (MMC/RSMMC/SD: Mini, XC & HC/MS: Pro & Duo)
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
Sound Card
Intel 2 Channel High Definition Audio + MIC/Headphone Jack
Wireless/Wired Networking
GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® ULTIMATE N-6300 (450Mbps)
USB Options
3 x USB 3.0 PORTS + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT AS STANDARD
Firewire
1 X 1394a FIREWIRE PORT
Battery
Vortex Series 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (5,200 mAh/76.96WH)
Power Cable
1 x UK Power Lead & 180W AC Adaptor
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit w/SP1 - inc DVD & Licence
DVD Recovery Media
Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit) DVD with paper sleeve
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Keyboard Language
INTEGRATED BACKLIT UK KEYBOARD WITH NUMBER PAD
Mouse
INTEGRATED 2 BUTTON TOUCHPAD MOUSE
Webcam
INTEGRATED 2.0 MEGAPIXEL WEBCAM
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
SATURDAY DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (BEFORE 12 NOON)
Build Time
FAST TRACK 3 WORKING DAY DISPATCH
Quantity
1

This is what I went for, I'll ignore the spec as it's really the chassis I'm interested in. I've only used it for around 5 hours.
Pros:
  • Sturdy, well built
  • Lovely rubbery finish
  • Finger print reader - I have a iPhone 5S so have experienced the benefits to this
  • Monitor hinges aren't going to go anytime soon

Cons:
  • Right angles on the base of the laptop where your wrist/forearm touches the laptop. Actually quite annoying unfortunately!
  • Only 1 space for HDD, glad I swapped the DVD drive out for a second caddy
  • Light leaking on the left and right of the monitor, undecided as to whether this may cause me to request an RMA or not as of yet.

So yea, going to give it the weekend to decide on whether Cons 1 & 3 will push me to raise an RMA or not, 1 is an issue with the chassis and 3 may just be luck of the draw!

Veg
 

keynes

Multiverse Poster
Nice review :)
Only 1 space for HDD, glad I swapped the DVD drive out for a second caddy
You can use the mSATA slot for the SSD to be set as the primary drive, I wasn't aware of it when I placed my order but that would free the HDD slot and allow you to keep the dvd drive.
 

VegyBS

New member
I'm thinking of purchasing 2 mSATA drives, I currently have the 120GB HyperX plus the same SSD again as I already owned one - However, these days 240GB isn't much!
 
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