SkyFire II or Vortex III?

[dlatimer]

Hi,

Would like to gather opinions between the SkyFire II and Vortex III options.

The spec that I'm thinking of purchasing contains the following:

i7-3610M
GTX 675m
120GB Kingston HyperX SSD
8GB Samsung RAM
No OS installed

The price difference between the two with the same spec is £85 (Vortex more expensive). The SkyFire boasts the bigger screen of the two models as well.

Are there any notable differences between the two that would explain why a SkyFire is cheaper?

Thanks in advance,
Darren

 

[brukin]

The Vortex 3 uses the Clevo 150/170EM chassis. Not sure what the Skyfire laptops use but doubt it's as configurable or upgradable a model. given the only choices are the 670 or 675. Whereas the Vortex 3 using MXM 3.0 (Mobile PCI Express Module) graphics modules can take the latest and greatest GPUs GTX680M and AMD 7970M.

Some other spec list differences are...
Onkyo High Quality Speakers
External 7.1CH audio output supported by headphone, microphone, Line-in jack, S/PDIF
Firewire (IEEE 1394)
Backlit Keyboard
Better selection of video outputs (DVI and display port)
Fingerprint scanner