My baby is home! (Genesis IV)

[SimonG]

Yay, yay, yay, yay and yay!

My little baby arrived today while I was at work (house mate received it for me).
And all I can say is YAY! Ordered on the 30th, so just short of three full weeks later(scroll down for dates),
I'm now sitting here with my new shiny machine of awesomeness ready to install windows
and about 20 other applications I use! Fairly certain this is going to take me most of the night, haha!

edit: I can't seem to upload pictures, all I'm getting is "upload failed", sorry.
Installed windows 7 ultimate 64 and it's running flawlessly! Also installed Windows 8 on another partition,
however after installing the Intel beta drivers for my GT 630m(1gb) windows got all borked, so had to
fall back to the windows default driver for my gfx. Also tried the install the GeForce drivers for Windows 8, but I wasn't able to install
them at all (can't remember the error message now, incompatible hardware?).

Gotchas:
Fn+F10 Turns the webcam off. Was scratching my head for 10min wondering why it wasn't working!
To install the GeForce drivers for GT 630m (1GB), you have to install the Intel drivers first(both on drivers CD).

There's loads more, but I haven't had time to play with it enough (posting from it now though!).
One thing that confused me is how my gfx can score 5.1 on WEI on "desktop performance for windows aero",
and get 6.7 on "3D business and gaming graphics performance".

Stuff that's hard to tell before it arrived:
Left: Power, VGA, HDMI, SATA, Card reader, 2x USB, Lan
Right: DVD, 1xUSB, Microphone, Speaker

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Thank you Team PcSpecialist!

Simon

edit2: Adding spec (£684)

Chassis & Display - Genesis IV: 15.6" Glossy HD LED 16:9 Widescreen (1366x768)
Processor (CPU) - Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-3610QM (2.30GHz) 6MB
Memory (RAM) - 8GB SAMSUNG 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card - NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 630M - 1GB DDR3 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
Memory - 1st Hard Disk - 250GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD2500BEKT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (7200 rpm)
2nd Hard Disk - 1TB WD SCORPIO BLUE WD10JPVT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 8MB CACHE (5400 rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive - 2nd HDD HARD DRIVE OPTICAL BAY CADDY
Memory Card Reader - Internal 9 in 1 Card Reader (MMC/RSMMC/SD: Mini, XC & HC/MS: Pro & Duo)
Sound Card - Intel 2 Channel High Definition Audio + MIC/Headphone Jack
Network Facilities - GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® N130 802.11N (150Mbps) + BLUETOOTH
USB Options - 2 x USB 3.0 PORTS + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT AS STANDARD
Battery - Genesis Series 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (48.84WH)
Power Lead & Adaptor - 1 x UK Power Lead & 65W AC Adaptor
Operating System - NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED

Production Dates
Processed Date 30-05-2012
Pre-Production Date 06-06-2012
Build Date 14-06-2012
Test Date 15-06-2012
Awaiting Dispatch Date 15-06-2012
Dispatch Date 15-06-2012

 

[SimonG]

Lets try imageshack then, woho! it works!
Didn't bother wiping it off before taking pictures, so you
could also see how easy fingerprints sticks to it. Which is pretty
much the only negative thing I have to say about it at this time!

 

[keynes]

Nice pictures (+rep)

 

[PCS]

Great pics, + rep

 

[Narcotics]

Nice laptop +rep

 

[SimonG]

If anyone wants to know anything else, go ahead!
Only thing I can think of myself to add to the above is that the packaging was amazing.
The only way I can see that laptop getting damaged in transit would be if they dropped it off a building or something.

 

[ConorDuffield]

Hi Simon been looking at an exact replica of the laptop you have, only I will be getting an i5, not the i7 (jealous). So I was purely wondering whether that spec you have is any good for gaming? Some feedback would be great, Frame rates and recommended games also would be brilliant.. Thanks!

 

[062815566]

Hi Simon, just a couple of questions:
How much does it weigh?
How long is the battery life? (doing intensive things like gaming and just basic use like word processing)
How reliable has it been so far/how good is the build quality?

 

[Kieranovicci]

As an answer to Conner's question, it will do ok. I would definitely recommend the Optimus IV 15.6 over the Genesis. You can get a powerful machine for around £800. The GPU in the Genesis is a little underpowered if you are looking to use it for current games (on higher settings) or any games in the future. But you will be able to run some modern games on the higher settings with good FPS. I will list some FPS averages (high settings) for some games : CS:GO (64 fps) , Diablo 3 (42 fps), Mass Effect 3 (40 fps) , Sleeping dogs (17 fps) , Skyrim (19 fps) Hope this helps ; + Rep would help me

 

[JamesPeach]

hi,

yet another question from a fellow owner (i78gb 1tb 640) one dead pixel

does the touchpad drivers feature a scroll function on the right side? my driver cd doesn't work just awaiting a new one through the post i wanted to know if it includes such a feature

thanks

-James

 

[SimonG]

Sorry I've been away from these forums so I have not been monitoring this thread.
Better late than never, right?

Hi Simon been looking at an exact replica of the laptop you have, only I will be getting an i5, not the i7 (jealous). So I was purely wondering whether that spec you have is any good for gaming? Some feedback would be great, Frame rates and recommended games also would be brilliant.. Thanks!

I find this spec to be very satisfying for gaming, the only game I play nowadays however is Guild Wars 2, and that runs super smooth.

Hi Simon, just a couple of questions:
How much does it weigh?
How long is the battery life? (doing intensive things like gaming and just basic use like word processing)
How reliable has it been so far/how good is the build quality?

Not sure about weight (don't have the laptop here right now), but it's average, it's not super light (it's a laptop after all), and it's not super heavy (very easy to carry around from location to location).

I have never drained the battery in any one session (I'm plugged in most of the time), but the battery has lasted me a good 3 hours browsing the web / programming and general desktop use.
The laptop so far (and it's been quite a while now!), has been very stable, not crashed one, the build quality is amazing. Fingerprints sticks to the case like a fat kid to a cupcake however, if you're bothered by that...

hi,

yet another question from a fellow owner (i78gb 1tb 640) one dead pixel

does the touchpad drivers feature a scroll function on the right side? my driver cd doesn't work just awaiting a new one through the post i wanted to know if it includes such a feature

thanks

-James

Yes! They do! I've tested in both Windows 7 and Ubuntu. Unfortunately it did not work in windows 8, but tbh I didn't spend too much time on it.

Hope that helps.

ps: will update later with more feedback on it.

 

[mizarpanzer]

the reason that I love clevo laptop is the fact that you can clean the fan so easily with just one cover. No chopping through keyboards and forcing the back to open like on some other laptops.

 

[Yamikotai]

the reason that I love clevo laptop is the fact that you can clean the fan so easily with just one cover. No chopping through keyboards and forcing the back to open like on some other laptops.

I love this too. I was opening my Genesis IV yesterday and was very pleased at how accessible everything is - event the keyboard! That's basically a miracle as far as user repairability goes.