p150sm vs p157sm - more than just chassis?

Hi guys,

Really impressed with the wealth of knowledge on these forums. I have 3 burning questions and hope you can shed some light:

1) from what I have read the clevo p150 models are known to have 'louder' fan noise and higher heat than other gaming laptops in the same category. Are there are any differences in the internal parts relating to cooling and fan (eg. heatsink, fan placement/size/speed etc...) between the p150 vs p157? I presume the p157 model is designed for more hardcore gamers so should be designed to cope with the GTX780m better, and so should have better cooling/fan systems?

2) In Australia we have access to the Origin EON (also in USA) and Metabox, both sell notebooks using the clevo chassis. When Clevo ship their chassis to these sellers, what internal parts are provided? Or is it simply the 'exoskeleton' and the sellers have to source in all internal parts? Again, my question relates to heat and fan, so if I purchase Metabox vs Origin (both use same clevo chassis) would it have the same cooling/fan parts? Some of these resellers like Origin are much expensive than Metabox so I'm wondering whether it's business and/or Origin sources in better internal parts.

3) Any other specific differences between p150 vs p157sm (not including what is customisable, like CPU, GPU, hardd rive etc...)...is it simply the chassis, or (like in Q2 above) it depends on what internal parts the sellers source in.

Thanks

 

1) Cooling is the same, the new improved GPU heatsink.

2) Depends on their deal, they may order in complete systems or they may get the barebone and build it up.

3) the 157SM is a tad bit heavier with a 7mm 2.5" bay (for slim SSDs) bay extra.

 

What about the different intake?

It's possible the p157sm might have slightly better cooling?