New computer on his way home
I finally took a decision about my laptop upgrade (following my previous post).
Here it is : MSI GS70.
Rendez-vous on this screen for a unboxing'N'drooling session very soon !
Update: Well, I finally decided not to document the unboxing session... I was too excited to just stop and take some photos at the time. Here I am a month later (gee time flies) with this new (not too) shiny toy of a laptop and I must say I am quite impressed.
Positive points:
Weight: 2,6 kg for a 17'' laptop, not bad
Solidness: case is made of hard plastic and aluminium
Keyboard: a full keyboard with numpad, and with a great touch
Noise: the machine makes very little if constant fan noise when idle and it scales up nice for increasing cpu/gpu workload. Compared to this my Macbook air 2011 is a pumped up boombox...
Performance: dual SSD in Raid 0... 900 MB/s read speed
Upgradeability: I already added a HDD for data and opening the beast had been a walk in the park
Negative points:
Screen: 1 big dead pixel, but no big deal for me (it'd be a small problem when I'll sell this laptop)
Touchpad: I admit I was spoiled by the glass touchpad of the macbooks. This one is almost as big, but the general sensitivity is too weak.
Bios: limited functions (cannot manage the graphics part, no access to cpu tweaks)
Video out port: the HDMI and the 2 mini-display ports (which are nice to have, by the way) are connected to the discrete nvidia GPU. I have yet to manage to make a secondary LCD work in Linux...
Overall I'm happy with this laptop and I'm using it as my main web development workstation in Manjaro Linux (after a very bad experience with Ubuntu...) and gaming laptop in Windows 8 dual boot.
I think I'll keep a Macbook anyway, though, for my photography hobby. I'm getting a new Macbook air with a new huge LCD.
















