What's the difference between the 17.3" Elmina and Elmina Pro?

[Fuzzball]

Looking to get a new 17.3" gaming laptop after my last PCS one of four and a half years has completely died. Glad that the RTX 3000 series mobile GPUs have just been announced. I'm thinking I will probably go for the Defiance, but was looking at all the options available.

I'm not hugely knowledgeable about the fine details of things, so I just can't work out what's the difference between the Elmina and Elmina Pro. They have the same screen and and GPU, but the Elmina Pro possibly has a worse CPU? (That's from my very limited understanding looking at the numbers.) Also the Elmina has a "multi-colour" keyboard while the Elmina Pro has a "single zone RGB" keyboard. (Don't know what the difference is there, but it is a difference apparently!)

Yet the Elmina Pro is more expensive by standard, despite having (in my limited understanding) worse hardware? Is there something I'm getting wrong here?

 

[Bhuna50]

Not a lot of difference in price when you start to build it up

Here’s some comparisons of the new models out:

17.3" RTX 3000 SERIES LAPTOPS AT PCS.

OK - I have done something similar for the 15.6" laptops, so here is the 17.3" version. Was interesting to see that the Defiance price gap between the 15.6 and 17.3 is a huge whopping £1 for the two models and the same price for the third model - yes I did go check the 15.6" to ensure I hadnt...

www.pcspecialist.co.uk

Personal speculation is they’re using up stock and the Pro might eventually get a 1440p screen like the 15” version has

15.6" RTX 3000 series laptops at PCS.

Just a quick comparison for people to see whats available PCSPECIALIST - 15 inch Laptops for Gaming, Custom Laptops : It should be noted that you should not take these as gospel when making your decision and prices are as per when I did this (13/1 9am ish). This was put together reasonably...

www.pcspecialist.co.uk

Warning though the Pro 17” is a TongFang chassis. Suggest you do a search on here for some comments about TongFang.

Also I suggest asking PCS when the AMDs might be coming.


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[SpyderTracks]

I would avoid all TongFang chassis, we’ve had major problems with so many of them. I’d stick with clevo.

 

[Fuzzball]

I would avoid all TongFang chassis, we’ve had major problems with so many of them. I’d stick with clevo.

Is th 17.3" Defiance a CLEVO chassis? That's the model I think I'm going to go for in the end.

 

[SpyderTracks]

Is th 17.3" Defiance a CLEVO chassis? That's the model I think I'm going to go for in the end.

If you get a quotation on a laptop and select "post to forum" it states at the bottom what chassis it is.

 

[Bhuna50]

The new 3000 series GPU 17” Defiance laptops are Clevo.


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