Thking of buying the Clevo P370SM

I did a lot of research and reading here. I want the thunderbolt connection and also big screen 17,3. My concern is the noise, i heard its really bad. I intend to use it for heavy audio tasks, not so much GPU. I dont care if the clickpad is bad. Are there any better alternatives and what are the drawbacks that i might have overlooked? The places im thinking of ordering from have very expensive SSD drives so im thinking maybe i update that myself if its easy.
Whats the general word on this? is it still a good buy?

 

If you get it with a single GPU instead of dual and you don't use that GPU then it's going to be a pretty quiet machine. So long as you're using an external mic that has some sort of background noise filtration or you can do that in editing you'll be solid. You see reports of people saying it's loud because they're running the hardware through benchmarking, games, stress tests, etc... what you intend to do with it won't come near what they are.

 

I see, thats great to hear. Thanks for the reply. Is there a big difference between the 377 and the 370? It looks like branding and bling stuff
but i cant find much more.

 

Haswell is the difference. Great machine btw, but are you aware than next gen GPU are a matter of weeks and the heat/output difference over 880M is very significant? And the 880M was not exactly NVidia's proudest achievement. Unless you need to start using it tomorrow, I'd wait until next month.

 

Unfortunatly, i cant buy from Xotic because i live in Scandinavia. I need the keyboard with my language, so the one i looked at got an AMD Radeon M290X. Will it make a difference to wait? And the bad part is that i really wanted the 377 but it its hard to get that from my country. Shipping included is very costly. Maybe ill wait anyway.. see if they change the offer when the new ones hit. Thanks

 

Could always contact a Clevo builder around you and see if they'd let you buy the keyboard independently. If so it's very easy to replace.

 

Thats a good idea. The only ones that have them is a competitor i believe, so maybe they dont want to help out.
Is shipping to Scandinavia really bad? It can get stuck in customs if i am unlucky. I wish you had an EU department!

 

We don't have the P377 (decided not to for reasons to long to discuss here!!) but we have the P370M available, XMG P724. Our office in Sweden has Swedish and Danish keyboards available and R290X, 860M and 880M - I'm sure they will help you out if you contact them

 

suppliers cant post links on nbr so here they are:

here is their Sweden website mySN.SE | XMG | Schenker Technologies

P370M / XMG P724 mySN.se | XMG | Schenker Technologies - XMG P724 17.3" Pro Gaming Notebook