Just ordered my NP9150 SE from Xotic

Hey everyone

Just ordered my NP9150 Special Edition from Xoticpc.com with the specs below

Been told around 14 days shipping, hope is comes sooner Can't wait been without a laptop for over a month and going crazy lol. Desktop is on the boat so can't use that right now.

Thanks for all the help i have had over the past couple of week from everyone on the forums, you really supplied me with a lot of great information and helped me decide on my final build.

And lastly, Thanks to Hutsady @ Xotic for being so patient and working with me this whole time cant wait to see how my skin turns out

 

Congrats on the new laptop, the SE is a great deal. You're going to love the 680m!

 

Congrats! I'm sure Hutsady will be here before too long to say the same thing, glad we could help.

 

Congrats and you're very welcome, you know how to get a hold of me with any other questions :thumbsup:

 

No flame to Xotic, but I paid $1000 less for my laptop. Although I got the 7970m, no copper cooling upgrade, no IC diamond thermal compound, only 1 drive, and it's not a "special edition".

What gives it such a special designation anyway?

 

It's special because you get the 680m, 16gb of 1600mhz ram, IC compund, the network card upgrade all at a huge discount. You would pay a lot more for the standard np9150 with the same settings. It's $1719 with everything at "stock "

 

lol..

I'll keep my comments to myself.

Congrats on the new laptop OP.

 

Haha, just as N1kkon point out, will all the upgrades that come stock on the SE it's about a $280 discount in total. Pretty sweet deal.

 

lol yeah all of my upgrades are worth over $1000 most likely the GPU alone is a $400 upgrade, just found out my screen might be on back order though (wasn't when i ordered it) which will not be happy about if its the case as the 95%screen will be great for my Adobe work ...

Hoping they can figure this out. they are working closely with me through the process.

 

Good for you OP!

With any technology purchase, there is ALWAYS a better price, a better deal, more freebies, etc. What matters at the end of the day (according to my old econ professor) is the happiness utlitization factor of the dollars spent. So if you end up enjoying your new rig for a few years (which you will!) even if someone paid half of what you did, it only amounts to a dollar or less a day. Basically a cup of coffee or enough to feed one of Sally Struther's kids. Enjoy your new machine.

 

I will be when it gets here, damn screen is on back order until Feb 26th

Xotic are keeping me posted

 

Congrats. Nice rig and good company to deal with. Your going to love it when you get it.

 

Thanks just wish that the 26th would roll on faster as still have to wait for it to be built and skinned after that ol

FLY TIME FLY damn it lol

 

Time goes by slowest while waiting for the computer.

 

Tell me about it

 

damn op, reading this made me wish i would have jumped at this deal instead of buying last fall. but to me, i guess my extra 2" on the np9170 is worth more than all those upgrades... i think

 

17.3 is nice but i have desktop for that :0 nice one too, this is for carrying around

 

woot just found out that Sager found me a 95% screen so don't have to wait until 26th for one should ship to Xotic soon for my modifications

 

Nice, the wait wasnt as bad as we thoought it would be :thumbsup:

 

Yeah

I'm at Phase 3 now custom skinning and modifications. Fingers crossed i get it with no problems

 

The skin will take the longest part but should still be pretty quick, the longer part of phase 3 is just shipping from Sager to us.

 

Great! Now post a reply in this thread to get Lucid Logix MVP Mobile from Sager for your machine. This supposedly improves the performance of your machine by 20%. You don't know what it is? Do you really need to know the difference? Better battery life and better gaming performance? Yeah, google or research if you want, but post a reply. Sign the petition.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/709189-sager-petition-virtu-mvp-mobile.html

 

20% would suggest the intel IGP is 1/5th the speed of the 680M which has me... doubtful.

 

MainGear are boasting 30% increase.

 

I looked at some of the numbers you posted with the 660M (384 shader part) and you expect it to give the same percentage increase with the 680M (1344 shader part)?

I think this could be very interesting for the next generation though with the next generation intel part.

 

I don't know, but I'd like whatever performance I can get. I think anyone who has switchable graphics with Optimus or Enduro can agree, this Muxless Switchable Graphics tech is not all that it claims to be.

 

I use an optimus based system and the only issue I have had is my 800FPS benchmark run in 3dmark's first test got capped by the PCI-E bus lol.

 

No idea what that is will look it up, but there are plenty of posts about it on here, please don't make this another one thanks

 

New Topic...

I'm trying to get everything i need in order to get this laptop up and running smoothly together now so when it gets here I will have everything ready.

Should I use the drivers from this page:

NP9150 Software Upgrade

Or are newer/better ones i should be using? Also what is the latest BIOS I should be running for Windows 8 support and the GPU Fan to work correctly when needed?


Any other info anyone can link me to would be greatly appreciated.

Just trying to get all my ducks in a row so I can get it up and running ASAP when it arrives.


Thanks in advance

 

Your questions are answered in the stickied threads. Try reading them. Welcome in advance.

 

I kinda wanted to see if i could get it all in one place hence the reason for asking, I took a look and that helped but still would be nice to get peoples input it what they used and why rather then just going with what a post says.

Thank you

 

Dont worry man, fell free to ask all the questions you have, thats the reason you started this thread right. If someone doesn't want to help, dont let him get to you.
You'll get a drivers disc but if any do need to be updated they will post them there. Besides that you can try any updated video card drivers from Nvidia.

 

Thanks Hutsady

 

After just under a month my Laptop is finally on its way to my hands

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Scheduled Delivery: 08-March-2013

Had a couple of problems with things not being in stock but got over them and don't blame Xoticpc for that at all.

Thanks Hutsday for being a trooper through this process.

I will most likely write up a small review when i receive the laptop when i have time.


I'm Stoked

 

The wait is almost over :thumbsup: