Joined on 01/16/14
Great performance with XPS 15 bezels
Pros: -The bezels make this laptop seem much smaller than any other 15 in (besides xps 15) -GTX 1060 and i7700, Crushes XPS 15 1050 and matches razor blade -512 SSD (although it could be faster that M.2) -Huge laptop battery! Best for any gaming laptop -Very attractive build -Feels high quality despite plastics used. ie doesn't creak or have flaws -I love the keyboard and touch pad -very portable! -Doesn't look or light up like a flaming gaming computer -Availability of Aero in Canada, seriously Razor, garbage effort to sell to Canada at competitive exchange rate prices and without duties. You're $2000 American Blade is like $4000 Canadian on **cannot use site name but it's not newegg** online realtor. Pathetic.
Cons: -Blocky design with plastic/metal. Although it's a great build I'd prefer the rounded mac rip off razor blade for build quality. -Bloatware...just no -PRICE, its a great laptop but was it worth 2.7k Canadian pesos after tax? thats a lot of beer.
Overall Review: If its worth the money to spend on a great gaming computer that has the attractive Dell XPS 15 bezels and powerhouse specs of the Blade then for sure, Buy it!
No HDMI?
Pros: Seems like a pretty good quality monitor
Cons: Came with a reg VGA cable No HDMI output!!!!! DVI-D cable cost 65$! until replaced with cheap e-day one.
Piece of garbage
Pros: Maybe its cooler..
Cons: The ****ing hose came off while installing. What a cheap cooler. Soaked the entire case Mobo,gpu cpu. Nightmare to clean up. Luckily my comp is ok with a few setbacks (mobo has great short circuit protection) Cosair products are overrated
Great potential for price
Pros: -Paid $1000 CAN -Amazing CPU and Motherboard for price -4820k and MSI x79A-GD45 PLUS -2x4 GB RAM (not high Quality but was expecting 2x2x2x2) -No bloated junk software like ASUS does. -Big case, very clean. Lots of USB front and back. Lots of space and up to 4 ram slots! -Seems pretty quiet now, bought a liquid cooled fan for when I overclock -Even being impatient with comps I dont find Win 8.1 all that bad... -Very fast shippping thank you new egg.
Cons: -AMD 7770 video card. Although for this price this is what you get, Very underpowered for this machine. -The fact that this card came with this machine when advertised as 250x makes me bad, its the principal newegg! -If your playing graphics demanding games like battlefield 4 star citizen or such this will definitely need replacement. -Graphics card will play other less demanding games at high quality like bioshock/boarderlands/thomas the tank engines greatest adventures. -Small SSD and HDD. Price shows again in this regard. But SDD has enough for OS and maybe a few games or applications (just get a new SDD when prices drop in like a year) -Keyboard and mouse are garbage. -May very well need a better fan if your overclocking
Overall Review: This computer is a steal for the price of 1000 feb 2014(for Canadians, considering everything's always more exp for us up here) Its a steal because of the upgrade potential, looking past the underpowered videocard and storage. the CPU is better than your high tier 4770k. Mother board is amazing and case is pretty decent, those 3 things alone amount to 5-6 hundred. Very Happy with purchase so far.