Opinions please........ :)

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toondw

Bronze Level Poster
What do you think, over Budget by a few pounds but what the hell. It would need to last 3 years.....:helpsmilie:

Chassis & Display
Vortex II: 15.6" Glossy Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-2760QM (2.40GHz) 6MB
Memory (RAM)
4GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (2 x 2GB)
Graphics Card
1.5GB nVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 560M - DirectX® 11 (15.6" Vortex II)
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
240GB INTEL® 520 SERIES SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
SONY BD-5750H 6x BLURAY WRITER & CYBERLINK SOFTWARE (£79)
Memory Card Reader
Internal 9 in 1 Card Reader (MMC/RSMMC/SD: Mini, XC & HC/MS: Pro & Duo)
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
Intel 2 Channel High Definition Audio + MIC/Headphone Jack
Network Facilities
GIGABIT LAN & KILLER™ 1102 WIRELESS GAMING 802.11N NETWORK CARD
USB Options
2 x USB 3.0 PORTS + 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS AS STANDARD
Battery
Vortex Series 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (5,200 mAh/76.96WH)
Power Lead & Adaptor
1 x UK Power Lead & 180W AC Adaptor
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Keyboard & Mouse
INTEGRATED 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) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 5 to 7 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £1,353.00 including VAT and delivery.
 
mantadog

mantadog

Superhero Level Poster
Well i presume this is a gaming machine?

If so then you could cut back on a couple of components, and get yourself nearer your budget if you need to.

The most obvious candidate is the CPU, swap to the 2.2GHz CPU will save you about £100 and is only 10% slower. Drop to 4GB of the 1333MHz RAM as the kingston isn;t going to give you any performance gain. A 240GB SSD is a very big SSD, if i were you i would consider a 120GB SSD and getting a portable HDD for your music and photos etc.

If i had to pick one of those i would opt to drop the SSD down a notch, that would save you £120 and spend £50 of that on a USB hard drive. Just depends how much you need to save really.

EDIT

Upgrading to 8GB of RAM could be helpful as TJ suggested, especially as you want it to last a while.
 
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T

toondw

Bronze Level Poster
Thanks folks, I did actually have the cheaper quad core in mind........think I will change that and the ram. But the ssd I want to keep simply, because I have never had one, always had normal drives so I really want to give that a go and that is the biggest i can afford, it should be enough. It will only be used for gaming really, no music or movie storage...may also drop the blu ray drive as most blu rays I buy have DVD disks also included anyway.
 
T

toondw

Bronze Level Poster
Made some changes, saved some cash.....sounds ok? Thanks for the advice!


Chassis & Display
Vortex II: 15.6" Glossy Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-2670QM (2.20GHz) 6MB
Memory (RAM)
8GB SAMSUNG 1333MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (2 x 4GB)
Graphics Card
1.5GB nVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 560M - DirectX® 11 (15.6" Vortex II)
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
240GB INTEL® 520 SERIES SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
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
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
Intel 2 Channel High Definition Audio + MIC/Headphone Jack
Network Facilities
GIGABIT LAN & KILLER™ 1102 WIRELESS GAMING 802.11N NETWORK CARD
USB Options
2 x USB 3.0 PORTS + 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS AS STANDARD
Battery
Vortex Series 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (5,200 mAh/76.96WH)
Power Lead & Adaptor
1 x UK Power Lead & 180W AC Adaptor
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Keyboard & Mouse
INTEGRATED 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) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 5 to 7 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £1,214.00 including VAT and delivery.
 
mantadog

mantadog

Superhero Level Poster
Yeah that spec is almost identical to the one posted above in terms of real world performance, it just costs a bit less. Go ahead and get it ordered!
 
T

toondw

Bronze Level Poster
Doh! Ordered and 30 seconds later realised I'd forgot to put my discount code in, rang immediately but unfortunately I was told they could not guarantee to honour the discount.....so cancelled! And now I need to wait for the credit card refund before I order again. Curse you enter button! :stupid:

Mind you I would have thought it would have been easy to do to apply the discount via the phone as I gave the code and it was obvious I had just ordered but there you go! A risk to possibly loose a customer however, all for a few quid which would be nothing to them?
 
Music Guy123

Music Guy123

Prolific Poster
For that spec, a couple of things you should know, firstly, upgrade that thermal paste. Secondly, you can drop the wifi card down one notch. I think the ultimate n 6300 even has better range. Also, what i would do is drop the SSD to a 120GB kingston then get a 500GB black scorpio which is still a very fast drive. Put the OS, most frequently used programs and boot programs on the SSD, the rest on the HDD. You will then have to buy an external disk drive. I would get the spec below, much better gaming and all round.

Chassis & Display
Vortex II: 15.6" Glossy Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-2670QM (2.20GHz) 6MB
Memory (RAM)
8GB SAMSUNG 1333MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (2 x 4GB)
Graphics Card
2GB AMD® Radeon® HD 6990M - DirectX® 11 (15.6" Vortex II)
Memory - Hard Disk
120GB KINGSTON HYPERX SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 555MB/sR | 510MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk
500GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD5000BPKT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (7200 rpm)
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)
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)
Sound Card
Intel 2 Channel High Definition Audio + MIC/Headphone Jack
Bluetooth & Wireless
GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® ULTIMATE-N 6300 (450Mbps)
USB Options
2 x USB 3.0 PORTS + 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS AS STANDARD
Battery
Vortex Series 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (5,200 mAh/76.96WH)
Power Lead & Adaptor
1 x UK Power Lead & 180W AC Adaptor
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Keyboard Language
INTEGRATED UK KEYBOARD WITH NUMBER PAD
Notebook 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) (£5)
Insurance
1 Month Free Laptop Insurance inc. Accidental Damage & Theft
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 5 to 7 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £1,326.00 including VAT and delivery.

Configure Here: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/vortexII-15/
 
mantadog

mantadog

Superhero Level Poster
toondw said:
Doh! Ordered and 30 seconds later realised I'd forgot to put my discount code in, rang immediately but unfortunately I was told they could not guarantee to honour the discount.....so cancelled! And now I need to wait for the credit card refund before I order again. Curse you enter button! :stupid:

Mind you I would have thought it would have been easy to do to apply the discount via the phone as I gave the code and it was obvious I had just ordered but there you go! A risk to possibly loose a customer however, all for a few quid which would be nothing to them?
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Yeah that would be a bit of a pain. Lets face it, no company wants to give away money and if it was an online discount code then it was an online discount code. OK £15 isn't much on a single machine, but just think what it would be like if someone posted the code on the forums, 100's of people would probably want a refund after ordering.

I really do feel your pain, the waiting is the worst part.
 
T

toondw

Bronze Level Poster
Rep given! Well, possibly my mistake when ordering could work out ok then! I will consider this as I don't really need a DVD drive as I doubt I'd use it much.....if at all.... Decisions, decisions.....I have about 6 days to ponder over this now? :sweatdrop::sweatdrop:
 
T

toondw

Bronze Level Poster
mantadog said:
Yeah that would be a bit of a pain. Lets face it, no company wants to give away money and if it was an online discount code then it was an online discount code. OK £15 isn't much on a single machine, but just think what it would be like if someone posted the code on the forums, 100's of people would probably want a refund after ordering.

I really do feel your pain, the waiting is the worst part.
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It was a code from ********* so anybody could use it......still, have you seen the latest spec above? Tempting.....

Oh, just seen the entry re. Fast track! Woo hoo! Thanks for that......:clap:
 
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