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It's everything the Alienware, ASUS, Lenovo, MSI, Gigabyte, Razer or Acer BGA gamer turdbooks should have been, including the price. I mean c'mon. That's a really good price in spite of the soldering. I can see why Brother
@B0B is an advocate for them. Good option for someone on a severely limited budget that wants something better than anything else with the same specs, for less money. The metal chassis is a nice bonus feature. Pretty hard to be extremely critical at this price point.
That's the right price for a BGA laptop for mass manufacturing and selling.
Even with limitless budget of AW,Asus etc.. they can't make a good BGA laptop and most of are overpriced.
You see... People being screwed by Azor's overpriced and
overheating TRIPOD Trash. Why pay more than what it's worth? But $799 for mentioned model in OP is still on the high side.
It can be a matter of choosing the lesser among evils when it comes to BGA turdbooks. None are actually good. The silver lining to the dark cloud, if there is one, is the price is closer to being in proper alignment with the compromises. Something that indirectly resembles value is there relative to the more expensive alternatives that carry some pretty glaring design defects in spite of their higher price tags, like the tripod garbage. But, value remains elusive, if not absent, in the truest sense. It is still a disposable one-shot wonder with a fixed configuration and emasculated performance, in a chassis too small to accommodate truly powerful components. There is an element of sadness that goes along with being in the predicament of choosing the least undesirable product from a plethora of undesirable options.
I won't spend a dime above $499 on BGA. More than that I rather would save them for a desktop... Or put $250 on laptop and saved up the rest. Damn, remember we have
4 5 years free warranty here home. Within I have used it up (put it in the trash can). I would have enough money for a new desktop. Or a proper LGA laptop with Prema firmware. This if I hadn't enough cash ready for a proper laptop today.
Edit. See... My Clevo is soon 4 years old. And Works as day one. In the meanwhile I have saved up money for my next purchase. I don't spend my money on less. Save up if I haven't the money ready. I won't buy something
halfbaked. Although I have the free 5 years warranty.
That is a really good question. I did not notice any BIOS exploration in the videos by Brother
@B0B yet. Maybe the BIOS has some decent options in it already. I would be curious to know what options there are for disabling Secure Boot and running CSM support. There is no point in buying a laptop like this for overclocking, but I would want the ability to run whatever OS I feel like running and not be limited to using a broken piece of crap like Windoze OS X.
That is a pretty incredible deal. Even has a two-year warranty. Good luck to any other company selling gaming laptops …
Walmart also has the
Overpowered 17+ for $999 with similar specifications, but a 17.3-inch display, and it doubles the RAM to 32GB of RAM and the hard drive space to 2TB.
Yes indeed. Seagate HDD or SSHD with 2TB and 32GB of SK Hynix or Hyundai RAM is a steal at 999$.
Damn they should release the same laptop with same pricing in India too.
This is what I've been talking about when mentioning how ridiculous prices of mid-range laptops have become... with poor cooling execution (or design implementation) by 'major' brands.
Alienware, Asus, Lenovo, MSI, Gigabyte, Razer, Acer and others should take a queue and learn something from this.
When an unknown company makes a cheaper and far better implementation of same hardware for practically HALF the price, major OEM's should take note... otherwise, people WILL eventually take notice and not bother.
If I hadn't gotten such a good deal on my Razer Blade, I would have probably grabbed one of these. It's too bad Thunderbolt 3 isn't available. I'd have happily paid another $200 or so to have the option of adding an eGPU down the road.
It is most unfortunate that the warranty of this laptop would most likely never be supported in my nation. The specs are excellent for the price, but the warranty issues/maintenance/repairs would surely be a nightmare.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
