Recent content by flobber238

I just wanted to share the joy. P.S. you may be interested to know this email arrived 90 mins after it went from "building" to "testing".

So Windows backup is not working for me, giving some reason to do with 400MB zips files. I don't buy that; I think it's just being mardy. How do you guys backup? Do you spend money on it?

Has any owner of a 95% matte display had a chance to look at the macbook retina laptop? I'd very much like to know how they compare, particularly in terms of colour richness, accuracy, and other colour-theory-related words. I do video editing and photo editing, as well as gaming and all that...

It's no secret to those who keep up with the tech industry, that CPU manufacturers and GFX manufacturers all time their new upgrades at different times, so as to make it less clear to the customer when they should upgrade. Further, laptop options develop at a similar and unclear pace. I wonder...

Quote below; this is max possible price, priorities are office apps, lots of internet tabs, moderate gaming. It's for a student. Please advise :) Chassis & Display Optimus II: 17.3" Glossy Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080) Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i5 Dual Core Mobile Processor i5-2430M...

The Vortex II 15.6 and 17" laptops can both be configured to an equal, very high and expensive level (ignoring that new matte display). Does anybody know the resulting performance difference at these high levels? I would expect that the smaller laptop would suffer a reduced cooling capability...

Hey. A new option on laptops is improved thermal compound. I do not know the performance improvement which this causes, but at an additional cost of £9, is it really necessary to give it as an option? There are two possible scenarios- 1) the compound does not offer significant improvements, in...

Wow, how naughty of PCS! So there I was seeing that there's a lovely new 3D 17" laptop available, when suddenly I realise how cheeky they've gone and been! If I were to get a new laptop, it would have to be 17" and it would have to have the very best graphics card in it, i.e. the 485m. Now all...

Hey people on the forum, For a while I've been fantisicing about getting an all-powerful top-specs laptop from PCS, then I talked to my friend and he's turned my plan on its head! He says go for an iMac, get quality hardware from a big trusted company. I thought no, you can't get the top specs...

The Vortex SSDs are coming out soon, but let's just forget about them and stick with the stable Intel 510s. 120gb costs £212 -> 240gb Raid 0 costs £433 250gb costs £433 So two drives in Raid with 10gb less costs just the same. This is with that 17" model laptop. I would say that most people...

Are they? Can you give us any details on them please! It could be quite a selling point.

Hi, Which is better? My instinct says the extra 267MHz is better than the extra 8GB, but the Samsung 16GB config is much more expensive than the other one.

K I plan to get at least this: Vortex II-17 i7-2720QM 4GB 1600MHz GTX 460M 250GB 510 SERIES SSD BLURAY ROM/DVD WRITER (NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED) £1,633.00 My budget would be around 2K and I want to choose between more RAM, more CPU or SSD Raid (-yeah I know, try not to jizz). I don't...

HI! I propose a thread dedicated to benchmarks of PCSpecialist laptops (PCs?) by all the owners. This would include 3DMark scores, Wprime and all that, and more importantly BOOT TIMES which is actually relevant to users and buyers!! I'm not an owner; I own a Clevo machine from a German company...