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    W150 vs P150

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by maddmatt21, Apr 15, 2012.

  1. maddmatt21

    maddmatt21 Notebook Guru

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    Is the W150 quieter than the P150 or do these have the same number of fans?

    Also, is there any local retailers (bay area CA) or way to check these out weight wise besides just kind of ordering blind and hoping it turns out to be what I'm looking for?
     
    maddmatt21, Apr 15, 2012
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  2. Anthony@MALIBAL

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    The W150 models only have a single fan that is shared by the GPU and CPU. The P150 has two- one for each of those parts. The W150 tends to run warmer because of the shared heatpipe, but it's also lower powered components to begin with so it comes out to a wash. In terms of noise, they probably are about the same at idle- though the P150 might come out ahead because it can cycle the fans lower by not having to share the fan.

    The weights should be listed on their respective pages for most resellers. The big difference will be in the power brick, not the chassis. The P150 has a much bulkier and heavier brick.
     
    Anthony@MALIBAL, Apr 15, 2012
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  3. R3d

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    Hm, that's kinda disappointing. Is the W150 easy to take apart (e.g. to do a repaste) like the P150 is?
     
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    Yep. It's just as easily accessible. You just cannot remove/swap out the GPU as it's soldered on, rather than MXM based.
     
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    Awesome. Thanks. Is Malibal going to offer the w150 for sale? The website only shows the P150 variants.
     
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    can we get actual db stats?
     
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    Palandin posted db stats for the P150 in another thread.

    stats
     
    AlwaysSearching, Apr 15, 2012
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    Same question. I was originally going to get the W150HM from MALIBAL, but figured I would wait until the refresh. Hopefully they will be offering something...
     
    jrzengel, Apr 17, 2012
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    Are there stats available for the W150?

    I'm not too concerned about noise while under load, I don't care about that at all. I am concerned about noise when I'm just doing a bit of word processing or web surfing.
     
    maddmatt21, Apr 17, 2012
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  10. Heihachi_1337

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    We do not have any testing stats to offer for the W150, unfortunately. :(
     
    Heihachi_1337, Apr 17, 2012
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  11. Burtonjp

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    Sorry for the bump, but I'm also curious as to whether or not Malibal will be offering a version of the W150. It sounds a lot more portable than the P150.
     
    Burtonjp, Apr 28, 2012
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    It actually sounds about the same to me portability wise. Weight looks to be about the same etc.

    Though of course with pretty much zero info (or wrong info) available on the model I'm looking into just getting an Asus instead. Pretty sad when you can't find a video of a laptop that you're expected to shell out a grand for sight unseen.

    How about a still photo of the p150 next to a w150 from the side and the front? or the power bricks of the various models next to each other? differences in the keyboard types (the w150 looks to be chiclet instead of whatever the p150 is), report on the fan noises at idle from both?
     
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    I'm waiting for info and stats on the 660m that'll be my deciding factor between the 150ER and 151EM

    (mostly battery consumption and battery life vs performance gain)
     
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    Except that can't really be trusted because the W150 picked up a half a pound somehow in the latest iteration.
     
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    From what I understand of the W150/P151<--what i asked about (thanks to Mythlogic) there are two fans in the P151 and one in the W150, the speakers are better in the P151 than the 150, and the P151 offers firewire and the W150 doesn't. The last one is incredibly important to me since I do firewire sound recording.
     
    Burtonjp, May 1, 2012
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