[_AVALANCHE_]

http://www.pwnpcs.co.uk/?q=laptops/s...-gaming-laptop

http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/vortexIII-17/

Both have the 7970 on pre-order, will have ivy, Full HD (matte), backlit keyboards, external speakers are better, SSD options, even the new mSATA ones are an option, though who'd want one anyway (yet).

[Elessar]

Originally Posted by _AVALANCHE_

http://www.pwnpcs.co.uk/?q=laptops/s...-gaming-laptop

http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/vortexIII-17/

Both have the 7970 on pre-order, will have ivy, Full HD (matte), backlit keyboards, external speakers are better, SSD options, even the new mSATA ones are an option, though who'd want one anyway (yet).

Thanks Avalanche, but are these not rebranded Schenker computers? They look exactly the same.

Have you ever bought from those companies? Pcspecialist offers a 3 year warranty but I wonder will they honour it for Irish customers (collect and return etc)...

Also, when's Ivy Bridge out?

[_AVALANCHE_]

Originally Posted by Elessar

Thanks Avalanche, but are these not rebranded Schenker computers? They look exactly the same.

Other way around, Schenker are rebranded clevo. Same thing though yea, whole load of sites buy clevo chasis/shell, customise and sell on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clevo#Vendors

Originally Posted by Elessar

Have you ever bought from those companies? Pcspecialist offers a 3 year warranty but I wonder will they honour it for Irish customers (collect and return etc)...

Also, when's Ivy Bridge out?

PC specialist is sound...I can only assume they honour the warranty, well reviewed company so easy to find out, don't know much about pwnpcs, only came across them a couple of weeks ago.

[_AVALANCHE_]

Originally Posted by Elessar

Also, when's Ivy Bridge out?

Tomorrow for some of the chips (desktop and higher laptop), middle of May for some others, start of June should be loads around.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2402625,00.asp

[Morbert]

Originally Posted by _AVALANCHE_

http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/vortexIII-17/

I have pretty much settled on this or the XMG 702. A question though: The GTX675 is 100 quid more expensive than the GTX670. From what I'm reading, both are just tweaked 500 cards, but I am wondering if the 100 quid is really worth it. Consoles seem to be driving most single player games, and multiplayer games like Minecraft,Eve,WoW, and Diablo don't demand too much either.