After a long tweak and much chin stroking. Eureka!

CEUOTC

Enthusiast
Hi all, well have been longing to get a high end Laptop for a while, infact toyed with the idea at the begining of the year however convinced myself my desktop would be safe from my daughter (then 18mnths old ) however as she gets nearer to 2 yrs old! She now know how to switch it on and break the keyboard lol, so time for a platfrom shift to the Vertex III:

Chassis & Display
Vortex Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-3610QM (2.30GHz) 6MB
Memory (RAM)
2GB SAMSUNG 1333MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (1 x 2GB)
Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 680M - 4.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
1TB WD SCORPIO BLUE WD10JPVT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 8MB CACHE (5400 rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
8x SATA DVD±R/RW/Dual Layer (+ 24x CD-RW)
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 (£9)
Sound Card
Intel 5.1 Channel High Definition Audio + SPDIF/MIC/Headphone Jack
Network Facilities
GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® ADVANCED-N 6235 (300Mbps) + BLUETOOTH
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 Lead & Adaptor
1 x UK Power Lead & 220W AC Adaptor
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit w/SP1 - inc DVD & Licence
Office Software
FREE Microsoft® Office Starter 2010 (Limited functionality Word & Excel)
Anti-Virus
BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY - FREE 90 DAY TRIAL
Keyboard & Mouse
INTEGRATED BACKLIT UK KEYBOARD WITH NUMBER PAD
Mouse
INTEGRATED 2 BUTTON TOUCHPAD MOUSE
Webcam
INTEGRATED 2.0 MEGAPIXEL WEBCAM
Warranty
3 Year Gold Warranty (2 Year Collect & Return, 2 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£69)
Dead Pixel Guarantee
1 Year Dead Pixel Guarantee Inc. Labour & Carriage Costs (£19)
Delivery
SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS & UK OFFSHORE ISLANDS / N IRELAND (£12)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 6 to 8 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £1,477.00 including VAT and delivery.

Great price considering what l am getting.

Will post pics as soon as l can.

Regards.

C.

:stuart:
 

LDog

Member
what made you go for 2GB SAMSUNG 1333MHz why not 1600? do you have your own ram? and i guess this is for gaming as you have NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 680M - 4.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
 

CEUOTC

Enthusiast
what made you go for 2GB SAMSUNG 1333MHz why not 1600? do you have your own ram? and i guess this is for gaming as you have NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 680M - 4.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11

Aye l have 16 gig of CV sitting in my M11x R3 atm, will be swapping out for 8 gig of Kingston hyper X and fitting the CV into the Vertex :) also looking to fit and msata and and maybe two Crucial 256M4 to the mix if l fit a Caddy, however not sure on that atm.

Aye went for the 680 as it is the closest l could get to my 7970 in my desktop atm. WoT and BF3 should run pretty good on my BenQ 2420t :) While having to 1080p monitors will make writing assessment a lot easier.

Regards.

C.
 

AzY

Gold Level Poster
Any reason for the scorpio blue primary drive, or im guessing you got a ssd which your going to add on it, and but the blue in secondary
 

CEUOTC

Enthusiast
Any reason for the scorpio blue primary drive, or im guessing you got a ssd which your going to add on it, and but the blue in secondary
Aye for the now will go with the 1TB as primary before looking to add an SSD and mSATA SSD in the near future.

Regards.

C.
 

CEUOTC

Enthusiast
It's nearly here!

CONFIRMED AT DEPOT 11-09-2012 @ 15:00:00 Northern Highlands
HUB SCAN 10-09-2012 @ 19:48:00 Hub 3 - Birmingham
PARCEL DATA 10-09-2012 @ 16:31:00 Leeds
AUDIT SCAN 10-09-2012 @ 12:28:00 Leeds

Twiddling thumbs :)

Regards.

C.
 

brukin

Silver Level Poster
They could have sent my 15.6" Vortex 3 up to Aberdeen with the same delivery since it's been at at "Awaiting dispatch" since yesterday morning (08:07:38 according to the update email) :)

Enjoy the new laptop, this is the first one I have ever bought (always had work laptops with no real graphics capabilities before).
 
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