Well after some help from some members on here in a thread awhile back I finally ordered a new laptop. Came last week.
Its a Malibal Satori P170SM. 17" so its not a "compact" laptop by any means, very thick and heavy but I wanted something with good performance that was portable enough to basically move from table to table not really looking for ultra portable. Needed something fast for movie editing and such.
Kept the stock 4th gen i7 4700 processor
Upgraded to 16gb of RAM
Upgraded to Nvidia GTX770M but didn't figure I'd need the GTX780 which was another $350
Upgraded HDD to a 512gb Samsung 840 Pro SSD
Left the other HDD slot empty as well as both mSSD slots. I figure at the pace SSD tech is moving by the time I need more storage there will be bigger faster and better drives for less money.
Upgraded to a Blu-Ray burner/reader
Upgraded to Intel wireless/bluetooth.
My favorite upgrade though was the $35 I spent to get windows 7 instead of windows 8. Much nicer especially considering there is no touch screen on this computer.
Like I said its pretty bulky and it sure isn't the sleekest most stylish thing but its not bad looking. Clean and simple. It's fast and thats what I wanted, the SSD loads everything so much faster.
The only real complaint I have the is MASSIVE power brick, it is literally the size of a real brick and weighs about the same.
Pictures are a little blurry but give some perspective, I was playing Super Mario 64 on an emulator in this pic. Really trying to test out the graphics on this thing with some mid 90s games haha.
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Its a Malibal Satori P170SM. 17" so its not a "compact" laptop by any means, very thick and heavy but I wanted something with good performance that was portable enough to basically move from table to table not really looking for ultra portable. Needed something fast for movie editing and such.
Kept the stock 4th gen i7 4700 processor
Upgraded to 16gb of RAM
Upgraded to Nvidia GTX770M but didn't figure I'd need the GTX780 which was another $350
Upgraded HDD to a 512gb Samsung 840 Pro SSD
Left the other HDD slot empty as well as both mSSD slots. I figure at the pace SSD tech is moving by the time I need more storage there will be bigger faster and better drives for less money.
Upgraded to a Blu-Ray burner/reader
Upgraded to Intel wireless/bluetooth.
My favorite upgrade though was the $35 I spent to get windows 7 instead of windows 8. Much nicer especially considering there is no touch screen on this computer.
Like I said its pretty bulky and it sure isn't the sleekest most stylish thing but its not bad looking. Clean and simple. It's fast and thats what I wanted, the SSD loads everything so much faster.
The only real complaint I have the is MASSIVE power brick, it is literally the size of a real brick and weighs about the same.
Pictures are a little blurry but give some perspective, I was playing Super Mario 64 on an emulator in this pic. Really trying to test out the graphics on this thing with some mid 90s games haha.
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