Recent content by Halcyon

First of all, a minor rant, if you all don't mind. I ordered my Vortex IV laptop on the 9th May, and received it on the 2nd June. After a few days I began to realise there was a persisting problem; the display kept flashing green every time the resolution changed (during boot-up, for example)...

I've been having a few problems with my 17.3" Vortex IV, most of which I have managed to resolve, however one problem is persisting with the display and I feel like it may be hardware related. When I power on the laptop the PCS boot splash appears and dissapears as normal, but at the point...

I received my Vortex IV yesterday and I would like some confirmation on the number of HDD/SSD bays it should have. When I ordered this laptop, I was under the impression that there was space for two disk drive bays alongside a CD/DVD drive (or three with a caddy). Indeed, when I tested this in...

Hi, I have a small request for anyone who owns a 15/17" Vortex IV laptop. Can you please tell me if there is an option to disable Secure Boot in the UEFI boot menu? (You should be able to access the menu by pressing F2 at boot-up.) And one other question, is there a non-OS-specific means of...

So I read that some new Clevo laptop chassis are going to be available on PCSpecialist soon, presumably replacing existing models on offer. Does anyone have details and/or images of these replacement chassis? I'm interested to know what model, if any, is replacing the 15.6" Vortex IV.

I would like to get a laptop cooler stand, one of either the Cooler Master Ergostand II or the Zalman ZM-NC3500. Both appeal to me, so I'm trying to understand their pros and cons to help me decide. If anyone owns or has owned either (or both) of these coolers, then your input would be quite...

Hi, I'm looking at getting a 15.6" Vortex IV laptop and have a couple of quick questions about the RAM cards available. The configurator gives a choice of either a Samsung 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 card/s or a Kingston Hyper-X Genesis 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 card/s. Both appear to be similar, so I wanted...

Hello. I have a couple of questions about the laptops sold on the PCSpecialist site, particularly about the Enigma IV and Optimus IV lines. Has anyone had any experience installing and using non-Windows operating systems on these computers, specifically GNU/Linux-based distributions like...