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This is a work in progress, will add more as I go through.
First off, before it even arrived, customer service was good in answering me questions, but shipping was a little iffy for me. I would have ordered rush processing had I known the laptop would take this long to arrive even with the 2 day air from NY. Ordered 12/20 and received it 1/4.
I'm not going to do some complete unboxing type of thing with pictures, just my current thoughts as I go along.
About unboxing: I've received a few laptops over the past few years, from Lenovo, Asus, and HP. All of their boxing is undoubtedly better. Boxes look nicer, have more foam, etc. This one is pretty generic one w/ the Chinese/english font thing.
It was minimal I guess. There's the outside box, which just is only slightly bigger to fix the inside box, which has a handle. Inside, a partition of cardboard and foam to the left, which contained a huge power brick, power cable, battery, and a dvi converter. I didn't get any software or anything else. On the right was the black business case, with the laptop inside with just plastic covering. I can imagine it could have moved around a bit in shipping since there was no padding to stop movement.
First inspection of the laptop revealed to me a piece of hair and some dirt between the screen and the screen protector. Nothing bad, I just removed all the little protective sheets and laptop looks fine. My glaring issue though, is the optical drive bay. I paid for an optical drive hdd caddy to replace my optical drive (which, in hindsight, is not a great choice, I could have bought it myself and done it myself cheaper). The drive has sticker residue on it. It's very obvious sticky residue, so I'm pretty peeved about that. I paid for the bay so it would not look crappy if I bought one from ebay, but it still looks crappy, cost me more, and I'm out of an optical drive. <-- This is what kinda bothered me the most because I was a bit undecided whether I wanted to get the caddy and lose the optical drive or not, and it turns out I made an awful decision.
I haven't found a dead pixel. Screen looks excellent compared to my lenovo t500's matte screen. I have a glossy 95% gamut, very bright and the colors are vivid.
I had some trouble installing W7 Pro. First 2 boots gave me an error blue screen, tried the USB boot drive on my other laptop, it worked, then I tried it again on the P150HM and it worked.
My LAN and WLAN drivers didn't install automatically, had to transfer files over via USB which was a minor annoyance. Some other things too like USB 3, touchpad, but I didn't expect those automatically from W7 anyway. My main concern was getting the internet first though, so I can directly install stuff to the laptop. I still have some hardware without drivers I don't know what it needs yet.
Base System Device
Base System Device
PCI Simple Communications
SM Bus Controller
The keyboard isn't great, but it's better than other chiclet keyboards I have tried, other ones were membrane mushy, these feel a bit like scissor switches (which i'm currently using on my Lenovo T500). As a touch typist, the chiclet style really bothers me since it's a different type of feel. It will take some getting used to. I might get myself a mechanical keyboard to replace it, but really ruins portability.
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He didn't purchase an OS from us, otherwise - we would have installed it.
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Important thing is you did get it Enjoy mate! It's not going anywhere now...
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Just received my Malibal P150HM
Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Chango99, Jan 4, 2012.
