W230ST - The 13" We've been waiting for!?

Félicitations Monsieur! Do post some pics and maybe an un-boxing video if it's not too much trouble, when you get it.

 

Thanks! Will do!

Btw does anybody know if the screen is IPS? It's written "13.3 Full-HD 1920x1080 LED-MAT" on the specs but nothing more...

 

from the specs alone I think the dual cores would have launched by the shipping dates, 649 euro gives hope for the 1k price in the US

totally unrelated but I just saw the dassault systemes recreation of paris, interesting... or not, bad graphics

 

Someone was asking about it on their forums

New 14 inch Clevo chassis?

 

Dont be daft. the price would never be that low. i think barebones would be a prob 699 euros. no the price will be around £749 sterling and thats probably with 900p but i cant be sure how they will start of f like if both screen options will be available from the start. if it just a 1080p i think £799. that figure is based on my trend. actualy that doesnt seem all that bad. on paper. but lol £100 more than id want to spend. us wont get an exact conversion price. theres will work out cheaper....they always do. and £100 off £799 actually converts to $1099 which is a fair price to me.

 

im not being daft just capable of reading french on a french page, that has prices in euros

 

oh fair, and being in the middle between £600 and £850 isn't all that bad considering what Scan baselines are (mid range dual core if available, low end quad if not, 500GB HDD, 8GB of RAM). I'll still wait and see but I'm feeling more and more like I'll end up buying from Scan, they've just gotta not mess it up on the storage front, last time I only went with their competition as I couldn't get an Intel 335 SSD fitted, they only offered a kingston which I didn't know the reliability of.

 

why not just get the drive of ur choice as an aftermarket upgrade urself? way cheaper that way anyways

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So is this thing out anywhere in the US yet?

 

They also didn't have the option of shipping with no drive and at the time that particular ssd was very expensive, so £50 of wasted hdd and £40 extra to buy it standalone. When the competition would just give me the drive I wanted and end up £40 cheaper it was a no brainer.

 

Mid to late July.

 

If Scan is a Clevo builder or Sager reseller, at least here in the US you can ask for a build without hard drive/SSD and it may take a little longer but they will provide you with a special build configuration.

 

scan is a bit more than that, now to get the custom config without somethings... I dont really now.

 

I wonder if pwnpcs will carry this in uk? I was able to buy my p150em from them completely stripped down, which helps when you already have your own CPU / RAM /SSD.

 

Aye, I just had to get a human involved and I really couldn't be bothered

 

sorry if i appeared rude. it was meant in a too good to be true reply. you do know that 649 euros is around 550 pounds. besides all other configured spec laptops in the 15" range are about 799 pounds also. last year i nearly bought the w110er from scan or pcspealist. i ended up choosing pcspecialist. i was going to buy it on finance but there process was alot longer than i thought so never bothered as i didnt want to pay upfront.
pcspecialist has more upgrade options than scan. i do fnd that scans upgrade prices way more inflated.
if i spec both exactly the same. pcspecialist cost £506 and scans cost £530. this is with i3 cores in both same ram exact hard drive no os etc. when i put an i7 3632qm in both. pc specialist cost £647, a £141 upgrade cost and scans cost £738 for the same upgrade cost £208 which is a 48% increase for the same part. somethings may cost more or less on each site but overall pcspecialist is better imo and has way more option choices. so when the dual core haswell chips are available. you can price it down cheaper better for those that want to upgrade it themselves.

but if you could buy one from that french outlet if they think it will cost that....jump all over it and tell us where to get it from so we can all do it :thumbsup:

 

ah no, I was commenting on the price that was listed at that french reseller, I would never buy anything in euros if I wasnt in europe. US is much cheaper for me.

 

Woah, aye Scan seem to have updated their prices, used to be they'd sell 16GB of RAM for £70 with a system whereas the stand alone price was £100, things like that. Anyway, still hoping for absolutely fabulous prices on this laptop

 

Well I abandoned ship when I saw the bluemobility prices, and bought a Y410p. That was a mistake, returned my Y410p because of the glossy screen and M.2 42mm NGFF SSD slot. I am back and waiting for this again. I hope to god the US pricing is reasonable.

 

Anyone know the weight and thickness on this thing?

Currently stuck between this and the Razer Blade 14". I will probably get more performance for the buck on this one, but I absolutely adore the design and build quality on the Razer.

How is build quality on Clevo? Do they feel solid and compact?

Btw, why won't my avatar and signature show up?

 

1.25" thick and 4.4lbs

I would be all over this if it was thinner/lighter. Kind of disappointing.

Build quality for Clevo is great imo

 

Oh, man. I don't see the point in buying a small gaming laptop if its that thick. Thats really disappointing...

Thanks for the answer. I guess I'll be looking for more options other than the Razer Blade 14" cause that is a really expensive laptop.

 

The problem is that those two laptops are king of this size unless you want to count the m14x in there as well. Anything other than these three is either bigger or weaker

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I don't even care about laptop thickness, even up to a 2" thick brick I wouldn't mind... Just goes to show the different desires in the market I guess.

 

what did u expect with so much computing power in such a lil chassis? the cooling system isnt driven by magic but rather MASS, namely copper/aluminum and lots of it

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I hope the touchpad isn't the same as on w110er cause its driving me insaine. But from a looks of it i seems to be the same

 

Yeah, they should at least use the same touchpad as the W740SU.

 

LOOOOL! What? 1.25" thick? 4.4lbs is too big/heavy? This ain't an underpowered Macbook. Go buy the Razer Blade if you want thin (0.7"), and lighter (4.1lbs). But also likely cost you $500-800 more, and lose any expansion options, get a mediocre 1600x900 screen, limited to i7-4702 37W CPU, and lacking many ports. All of the competition is thicker and heavier than the W230ST (MSI, Asus, Alienware). And as jaybee83 points out, that mass is required to keep it running cool. It's going to support the 47W Haswell quad core CPU's, so it needs some beef to it.

 

Or he could just go for the slightly larger P34G which has almost the same specs at 0.84"
We haven't seen any benchmarks or temperature reports of this model so far, however the first blade reviews report that it doesn't get too heated up so it might simply be a wasteful and unnecessarily heavy design by clevo.

 

I'm not so sure that's a good option either, a 47Wh battery for instance vs 60 in the W230ST, 70 in the blade. Weaker expansion options due to having fewer mini pcie ports, a weaker GPU, and possibly weaker cooling due to the size.

Gonna be really interesting to see reviews of all these systems, but thickness is of no real concern to me so I'd rather get a good display (bye bye blade) and good battery life (bye bye gigabyte) along with beefy cooling so I can overclock a bit, hope Prema's watching these machines closely

 

How thick is the MSI GE40 Dragon Eyes ?
Because we have here 4 competitors :

1) Clevo W230ST : 13.3", 1.25" thick, 4.4 lbs
2) Razer Blade : 14", 0.7 thick, 4.1 lbs
3) MSI GE40 : ?
4) Gigabyte P34G : ?

 

MSI GE40

Specifications -
Screen: 14'' - 1600 x 900 matte or 1920 x 1080 matte
Processor: Intel Haswell mobile processor Core i7 37w quad
Graphics: GTX 760m Optional 2GB NVIDIA with Optimus
OS: Windows 8
Memory: 16GB max (2 SOdimm slots)
Storage: SSD 2x in RAID 0 + 2.5" HDD bay
Weight: 4.4lbs (1.99kg)
Dimensions: 13.34" x 9.42" x 0.87 ~ 1.14" (W x D x H) 339mm x 239.4mm x 22.3 ~ 29.2mm (W x D x H)
Ports: USB 3.0 (2), USB 2.0 (1), HDMI, RJ45 LAN, VGA
Price: Starting at $1.200
Availability: now

its actually thinner than the w230st, that is indeed the thickest model, not that I care about it

 

Add the Lenovo y410p.
It got slimmer (0.6" - 15.3mm) however it might just be it's thinnest point which should translate to 20-30mm in the thickest point.
I guess the dual gpu is not a very favorable build but it's viable and it's probably the best bang for the buck.
Shame it's pretty hefty at 2.4kg.

 

I wouldnt consider that one, since the ivy models were hot.

 

It says 0.59 - 1.29 inches, so 0.59 for it's thinnest to 1.29 at its thickest.

 

Here's comparison of sizes...

EDIT: THESE ARE NOW BEING TRACKED IN THE FIRST POST OF OWNER'S LOUNGE: http://forum.notebookreview.com/sag...-clevo-w230st-sager-np7330-owners-lounge.html

METRIC
dimensions in mm, weight in kg, Battery WHr

Laptop	Width	Depth	Thick	Weight	Battery
Clevo W230ST 13" 900p/1080p 765m	330	227	32	2.0	62
Razer Blade 14" 900p 765m	345	235	17	1.9	70
MSI GE40 14" 900p 760m	339	239	29	2.0	65
Gigabyte P34G 14" 900p/1080p 760m	340	239	21	1.7	48
Lenovo Y410p 14" 768p/900p 750m	350	245	33	2.5	62
Alienware M14x 14" 768p/1080p 750m/765m	335	258	42	2.8	69

IMPERIAL
dimensions in inches, weight in lbs, Battery WHr

Laptop	Width	Depth	Thick	Weight	Battery
Clevo W230ST 13" 900p/1080p 765m	13.0	8.9	1.3	4.4	62
Razer Blade 14" 900p 765m	13.6	9.3	0.7	4.1	70
MSI GE40 14" 900p 760m	13.4	9.4	0.9	4.4	65
Gigabyte P34G 14" 900p/1080p 760m	13.4	9.4	0.8	3.8	48
Lenovo Y410p 14" 768p/900p 750m	13.8	9.6	1.3	5.5	62
Alienware M14x 14" 768p/1080p 750m/765m	13.3	10.2	1.6	6.1	69

Ok, so I lied about sizes, but really the only competitor is the Blade with similar specs. The MSI and Gigabyte have 760m, Lenovo has 750m, and M14x is really not a true contender if you want small and portable. +/- 0.3lbs is trivial, +2lbs is significant.

 

how come you say the m14x aint a true contender? its da roxxx <3

 

I'd like to add battery capacity to that table since it's a pretty important factor, because the easiest way to get a light laptop is to leave out the battery

 

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Can anyone confirm battery sizes for MSI GE40? I linked the value to an article I found but can't find it in official MSI specs anywhere. Also Lenovo only lists a 6-cell, I just guessed 48 since that's what the Y400 uses.

 

Jeez, 90Wh from 6 cells, that doesn't sound right but if it's correct then holy moly is that the one to go for

 

6-cell 5900mAh 11.1v 65Wh

 

Is that for MSI GE40 or Lenovo?

 

Its for MSI GE40.

 

Thanks, will update. Do you have a source/link for this?

 

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2849748

 

Lenovo Y410p,
5800mAh 10.8V 62Wh

Lenovo IdeaPad Y410P Review [Core i7 Gen 4 Haswell]

 

Sneak Peek!!

 

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ETA Middle July....