After much deliberation I decided to dump the large and noisy desktop pc for a gaming laptop. of course my 1st stop was Dell/Alienware wow 4 billion light combinations great.... £400 pound more than the awesome PC specialist review laptop I ended up purchasing: http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/systems/pc_specialist_vortex_iv_x780_laptop_review/1
I brought the review laptop as it was nearly £200 cheaper than the same specification if I choose the parts manually.
After waiting for the system to be built (wish I had the money to speed up the build but I didn't) Finally it arrived unboxed plugged in the battery plugged in the power away we went.
1st thing 1st copy my Steam directory to the laptop 2nd drive non SSD 10 hours to copy... strange download a quick drive test app found to be faulty downloaded western digital test app ran that (several hours later) found several faults.
Contacted support sent them the output from western digital new hard drive ordered that day next day drive arrived swapped my faulty one with the one in the box refitted away we went 30 minutes to copy the Steam directory.
Finished setting up the laptop running every game in full res everything switched on no problems in any game I have run.
I'm a pc support tech and most of our customers use Dell for support and I have to admit they are fantastic if you pay for the extra support (standard is also very good)
So far yes PC Specialist should have picked up of the faulty drive after all there was 2 days on test! however getting it replaced was a cinch.
So though I had an issue I cannot fault their support and the kit though it doesn't have the 4 billion light combination on the case (I'd rather is was stealth anyhow) the same kit is £400 cheaper than the Dell system.
I recommend this system and again cannot fault their support. Also noticed to day they were advertised on the TV! welcome to the big time Pc Specialist.
Spec of system if you can't be bothered to click on the review system
Chassis & Display Vortex Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU): Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-4700MQ (2.40GHz) 6MB
Memory (RAM) 16GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 780M - 4.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
Memory - Hard Disk 120GB KINGSTON HYPERX 3K SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 555MB/sR | 510MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk 750GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD7500BPKX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (7200 rpm)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 6x BLURAY ROM, 8x DVD ±R/±RW & CYBERLINK SOFTWARE
Thermal Paste STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card Intel 5.1 Channel High Definition Audio + SPDIF/MIC/Headphone Jack
Bluetooth & Wireless GIGABIT LAN & KILLER™ 1202 WIRELESS GAMING 802.11N + BLUETOOTH 4.0
Warranty 3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Change to: 3 Year Gold Warranty (2 Year Collect & Return, 2 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Dead Pixel Guarantee NONE
Change to: 1 Year Dead Pixel Guarantee Inc. Labour & Carriage Costs
Sorry I can't post any pictures when I upload they are not being added to the system.
I brought the review laptop as it was nearly £200 cheaper than the same specification if I choose the parts manually.
After waiting for the system to be built (wish I had the money to speed up the build but I didn't) Finally it arrived unboxed plugged in the battery plugged in the power away we went.
1st thing 1st copy my Steam directory to the laptop 2nd drive non SSD 10 hours to copy... strange download a quick drive test app found to be faulty downloaded western digital test app ran that (several hours later) found several faults.
Contacted support sent them the output from western digital new hard drive ordered that day next day drive arrived swapped my faulty one with the one in the box refitted away we went 30 minutes to copy the Steam directory.
Finished setting up the laptop running every game in full res everything switched on no problems in any game I have run.
I'm a pc support tech and most of our customers use Dell for support and I have to admit they are fantastic if you pay for the extra support (standard is also very good)
So far yes PC Specialist should have picked up of the faulty drive after all there was 2 days on test! however getting it replaced was a cinch.
So though I had an issue I cannot fault their support and the kit though it doesn't have the 4 billion light combination on the case (I'd rather is was stealth anyhow) the same kit is £400 cheaper than the Dell system.
I recommend this system and again cannot fault their support. Also noticed to day they were advertised on the TV! welcome to the big time Pc Specialist.
Spec of system if you can't be bothered to click on the review system
Chassis & Display Vortex Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU): Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-4700MQ (2.40GHz) 6MB
Memory (RAM) 16GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 780M - 4.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
Memory - Hard Disk 120GB KINGSTON HYPERX 3K SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 555MB/sR | 510MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk 750GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD7500BPKX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (7200 rpm)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 6x BLURAY ROM, 8x DVD ±R/±RW & CYBERLINK SOFTWARE
Thermal Paste STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card Intel 5.1 Channel High Definition Audio + SPDIF/MIC/Headphone Jack
Bluetooth & Wireless GIGABIT LAN & KILLER™ 1202 WIRELESS GAMING 802.11N + BLUETOOTH 4.0
Warranty 3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Change to: 3 Year Gold Warranty (2 Year Collect & Return, 2 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Dead Pixel Guarantee NONE
Change to: 1 Year Dead Pixel Guarantee Inc. Labour & Carriage Costs
Sorry I can't post any pictures when I upload they are not being added to the system.
