Noise levels

I am considering buying a 15 inch malibal laptop with the following components

My only concern is the noise of the machine and I ws wondering if I were to go for the same components in a 17inch machine would it be any quiter ?

Display: 15.6" 1920 x 1080 FHD LED AUO B156HW01 V.4 95% NTSC Matte
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-2760QM, 6MB L3 Cache, 2.4-3.5GHz
Memory: (12GB) 12288MB, PC3-10660/1333MHz DDR3 - 3 SO-DIMM
Graphics Card: AMD® Radeon HD 6990M 2GB GDDR5
Hard Drive: 120GB Intel® (510) SATA III 6Gb/s SSD2 Drive
Optical Drive Bay: 500GB 7200rpm 2.5" SATA 300
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® 7 Home Premium; 64-bit
Wireless: Bigfoot Networks Killer™ Wireless-N 1103 802.11A/B/G/N LAN Card
Cooling: IC Diamond 7 Thermal Compound, CPU & GPU

 

Noise is noticeable, but the newest Bios should make it basically whisper quiet on idle and with basic tasks. During heavy gaming or with the fans maxed out, it can get decently loud though. This thread should answer lots of other basic questions too:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sag...ntly-asked-questions-read-before-posting.html

 

I had the same concern before I buy my P150HM, this is my second day with it and I can say comfortably that for regular load and office tasks it is really quiet and very similar or better than mainstream laptops.

I can clearly feel that P150HM noise is lower than my old Dell Inspiron and HP Pavilion.

Also, I see in your configuration you are selecting SSD, it is generally cheaper to configure the laptop with a normal HDD and buy the SSD by yourself it can save few over $100. I personally purchased Crucial M4 128GB but for sure Intel and Samsung 830 are all great and most reliable SSDs.