My New Laptop

[dinku]

For the last 10 years I have been a MAC addict. After nice cup of coffee sadly cut short life of my MBP I decided that I should try a Gaming laptop.

this is the first time I have ordered from PCS.

Here are the specs

Chassis & Display
Vortex Series: 17.3" Glossy Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-4900MQ (2.80GHz) 8MB
Memory (RAM)
16GB SAMSUNG 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
AMD® Radeon® HD 8970M - 4GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
500GB SERIAL ATA II 2.5" HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (5,400rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
6x BLURAY WRITER, 8x DVD ±R/±RW & CYBERLINK SOFTWARE
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 5.1 Channel High Definition Audio + SPDIF/MIC/Headphone Jack
Wireless/Wired Networking
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)

Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
DVD Recovery Media
NO DVD RECOVERY MEDIA REQUIRED
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 Gold Warranty (2 Year Collect & Return, 2 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Quantity
1


I will be changing the 500 GB HDD with a 512 GB OCZ Octane SSD.

ordered on 27/10/13

 

[keynes]

What are you planning to use it for? I would consider the killer 1202 wireless card.

 

[dinku]

The occasional gaming, photo editing, home video editing, and office.

 

[keynes]

The occasional gaming, photo editing, home video editing, and office.

For gaming I would consider the gtx 780m instead and the i7-4800mq would be fine, the increase in clock speed from the i7-4900mq doesn't really merit the price difference.

 

[dinku]

For gaming I would consider the gtx 780m instead and the i7-4800mq would be fine, the increase in clock speed from the i7-4900mq doesn't really merit the price difference.

Thanks. but order placed via finance

 

[keynes]

Thanks. but order placed via finance

If you are happy with the build go for it but you can still modify the spec even if done through finance. I know modified mine like 5 times also using hitachi

 

[dinku]

Thank you. I may consider using this as a server for home office. Do you think this spec is good for that?