KIller Notebooks

Is the price premium of these notebooks really worth it? I see they have a lot of customization done to them and special modded drivers and a core optimization program people are raving about.

A Nagamaki with a q9200 OC'd to 2.93ghz, dual ati 3870's, 4GB of 1333 OCZ DDR3 memory, WUXGA, 8x DL DVD-RW, bluetooth, wireless a/b/g/n, 2x 128GB SSD's in RAID 0, and all their custom mods to the heatsinks and custom drivers, and their exclusive core optimization program which allows you to prioritize what programs run on what core and basically allows you to fully utilize your quad by putting background processes on core 3 and 4 and having core 1 and 2 completely free for your main programs basically it distributes the workload exactly how you want it and people say it does a great job. They also do special OS tweaks and also offer a no dead pixel guarantee of 1 year included.

The price is 3814. I know it's quite expensive but you get a very high quality build with great support. Anyone with any experience from this company think it's worth it.

 

It is very subjective whether it is worth the price premium. The OCZ or ASImobile Arima/Flextronics 840 DI Whitebook it is based on appears to be no longer in development (rumor has it that it will not get the ATI 4870 gpus) or will receive further support with updated Bios and such so buyer beware. You may get more support from Mark at KN but at this point it may be wiser to wait a little longer for a new notebook from Clevo/Sager/Pro-Star (D900F or M980nu) or a whitebook equivalent of the upcoming Alienware allpowerfull, if there will be one.

 

you may also want to consider asus w90.

Sincerely it really depends on the model. for example the nagamaki doesn't have a custom heatsink other then holes in the chassis. Other models have a custume heatsink. There's little differences. and the support is not so great nowadays. and what the program does you can do it with windows task manager... processes > right click> set affinity. of course a program is cool...
so what you get in the nagamaki?
-death pixel warranty
-low shipping costs
-windows xp drivers (you can search in google and get them anyway)
-core optimization (you can do it without the program)
-holes in the bottom of the notebook (easy to mod...)
-higher foots in the bottom
-excelent quality (the notebook will arrive ready to use without any problem (not like alienware pseudo quality control 200points etc bla bla and sometimes you get tape on the gpu...))
-no heatsink mod

Also I don't known what kind of SSD's they use now... they are 250$ each though... they vary a lot in performance and price. It really depends on the SSD's.
Anyway 3814$ is a high price... Configure it in another websites. you've a list of sellers in the OCZ subforum. Also check if the QX3000 is a oem chip (though little or any difference between them the ES is half price).
If the price it's not very high comparing to others I would recommend killer notebooks.


but just as an example...
http://www.xoticpc.com/force-extrem...-ocznbim17a-w840di-p-2495.html?wconfigure=yes
get in xotic with
p8600
2x3870
2x2gb ddr3
1x250gb hdd
=2078$

then buy a Qx3000 ES on ebay or somewhere else (400$-500$) and 2x Gskill falcon 128gb SSD (great price quality 230MB/S read 190MB/S write (newegg for example 340$x2)) =842$+2078$
=2920$
-3814$
= -921$ +250gb hdd + p8600cpu

not worth it imho... but if you are rich go for it.

 

i am selling my whitebook /alienware

but -_-_- stated it will be cheaper to get the system from xoticpc.com and it would still perform good for alot cheaper