After a few weeks of research I decided to go with a P170HM 3D Satori Notebook from MALIBAL, and wanted to take the time to share my buying experience.
A little about myself. I have been in the computer industry 20+ years and have been the proud owner of 12+ top of the line gaming notebooks, from Sager, Dell XPS, ASUS, ... among others in the past. What is important to me in a Laptop- Gaming performance, 1080p screen for Software Development and high res gaming, and notebook aesthetics (has to look good so you can be proud of your baby)![]()
After a lot of research I chose the P170HM 3D and MALIBAL as my vendor of choice.
Here are the specs I went with-
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Satori P170HM
Display: 17.3" 1920 x 1080 FHD LED Backlit 120Hz 3D 72% NTSC Matte Display
Display Upgrades: A+ Grade Panel With 45 Day Perfect Pixel Warranty
Processor: Intel® CoreT i7-2860QM, 8MB L3 Cache, 2.5-3.6GHz
Memory: (8GB) 8192MB, PC3-12800/1600MHz DDR3 - 2 SO-DIMM
Graphics Card: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 580M 2GB GDDR5
Hard Drive: 120GB Intel® (510) SATA III 6Gb/s SSD2 Drive
Hard Drive 2: 750GB 7200rpm 2.5" SATA 300
Optical Drive Bay: 6X Blu-ray Burner 8X DVD+/-R DL Super-Multi Drive
Wireless: Bigfoot Networks KillerT Wireless-N 1103 802.11A/B/G/N LAN Card
Cooling: IC Diamond 7 Thermal Compound, CPU & GPU
Keyboard: English: US & Canada
Power Cord: US & Canada
Build Time: 5-7 Business Days
Warranty: LIFETIME Ltd. Labor and 1 Year Parts
Warranty with 24/7 Support (USA)
I called MALIBAL last night and spoke with Matthew (names may or may not have been changed to protect the innocent ;-)) He was very professional, communicated very well, and was very willing to take the time to make sure my order was accurate and correct. Example- I had ordered 8Gigs of the 1866 memory and there have been some rumors of it not playing well in the P170HM and suggested I go with the 1600 speed memory instead. We took a few minutes and spoke about Notebooks, you can tell he is a notebook enthusiast himselfI had some challenging questions regarding screen warranties which he answered very professionally
A tribute to MALIBAL. ;-)
I received some very well organized emails regarding my order number, machine specs, and financial info.
I called today to verify that all was well with the order- spoke with Matthew again, he informed me that by about 2pm EST my order had cleared and been added to the build queue. I received an nice professional email with the same info as well. I was informed that there is a 5-7 build time and that it probably will not ship before Thanksgiving (this is when you wish you had sprung for the $50 extra- 1 day build, when you realize there is only a 3 day week next week and a 4 day weekend you could have played with the new machine.) Matthew again took the time to make sure that everything was in order with my purchase and was very personable.
So far my experience with Malibal has been A+ top notch from their well organized web site, their well layed out emails, and their professional and personable sales department.
More to come...![]()
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Your customization is almost top of the line, must be a big Xmas present to yourself.
I have had some trauma from past buying experiences so I am very cautious these days. Dropped CA$3.2k many years ago on a Toshiba Satellite from Futureshop, 6 months of gaming it died (was only playing CS + wc3 at that time), returned it for repairs which took like almost 3 months during which I could not wait and bought a CA$2.8k gateway desktop. Laptop returned but was never the same, start-up slower than before, it was just a piece of crap, I left it in the corner and only used my desktop, 3 years later when I graduated and was gonna shift, I sold the laptop for CA$150-200 I think. I know it was mostly my fault for not doing enough research and I placed too much trust on pricing (thought that if I bought the most expensive rig from futureshop it must be the best). -
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