W670SRQ Build Quality

I can't find any hands-on reviews, or really much information at all, about the W670SRQ -- anyone have one of these? Seems like a fantastic value, but I'm scared that the cost is low because corners were cut on the build quality.

 

I bought one for my dad (well the SHQ I believe - same machine GTx740m, gk208 variant)- I've certainly got no complaints about quality!

It's not exactly up to my W230ST or previous GTX 780m P150SM in terms of features but build quality is exactly the same.

It's a nice keyboard and the keys have a nice action,

The touch pad is huge and very precise , it doesn't have dedicated button instead the left and right lower corners of the whole pad click, fashion over function - I found when I pressed the cursor moved slightly - I hope a "no go" zone can be setup in the options to stop this but it's more about getting used to it I think.

Temperatures were extremely low, 55-65 max when gaming, the fans where almost completely silent but this is with a 3550m pentium (Haswell) and obviously that newer GK208 silicon in the GT740m GPU.

I've now got an i7-4700mq ton it's way to put in it, it will be interesting to see how that affects temperature - and if it affects performance much, as that 3550m surprised me , it' wasn't struggling at all, gaming like a treat on it!

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Worth noting it doesn't have the rubberised texture finish, it's a high gloss patterned finish, I thought I prefered the rubber texture - but it's a bast*rd to keep clean - it picks up fingerprints like a CSI unit - so maybe good old gloss isn't such a bad thing!

To summarise, build quality I found excellent (no sharp edges, solid enough feel, nice quality touchpad, keyboard and power button etc) it doesn't feature the exotic materials of an expensive machine like aluminium keyboards and covers but it's very nice all be it gloss plastic.

I've certainly not seen another machine for the same price that's better - but I have seen more expensive machines that are worse!

 

What's the limit of the video card on this? I like the price tag..

 

The GTX740M is very middle tier. Better than Intel HD 4000 graphics, but not by a lot. You can see game benchmarks near the middle of this page.

 

Hd4000 is closer to a GT 710m and even still over shadowed.....

The GT740m is a superb card,I think I can comfortably say there isn't a game on the market that it won't handle at its native res and I expect that statement to ring true for at least another 12 months and then you might just see a few games where you'll have to sacrifice some resolution to keep the FPS skywards of 35