Bought my PowerPro R 11:36 (MS 16F2) from PowerNotebooks.com

Man, after a bunch of reading, and going back and forth between an Hp Envy 15 and a Sager np165, I ended up with a PowerPro R 11:36 from Powernotebooks. They had great customer service and ended up saving me over a 500 dollars with much better performance compared to the Sager. Just giving a recommendation to anyone looking for a laptop with decent portability but awesome gaming prowess to take a look at this one.

 

I want the same thing but from XoticPC. It sounds like you are thrilled, congrats! These are the specs I am looking at:

- FREE Copy of Battlefield 3 with any MSI Laptop w/ nVIDIA GeForce GTX
- 15.6” FHD 16:9 LED Backlit Wide screen (1920x1080) Super Clear Matte Type Screen (SKU - X1R354)
- NO Professional Monitor Color Calibration
- Contact us about our Significant Savings on our 30-Day No Dead Pixel Warranty. Heavily Discounted!
- 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-2670QM, 2.2-3.1GHz, (32nm, 6MB L3 cache) (Limited Availability) (SKU - X2N161)
- Stock OEM Thermal Compound ( IC Diamond Thermal Compound - CPU + GPU Provided FREE with Processor Upgrade!)
- nVidia GeForce GTX 580M 2,048MB PCI-Express GDDR5 DX11 - (Available Mid-January) (SKU - X3R510)
- No Video Adapter
- 8GB DDR3 1333MHz Dual Channel Memory (2x4GB SODIMMS) - Special (SKU - X4P982)
- Standard Finish
- 750GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache Buffer (Serial-ATA II 3GB/s) (SKU - X5R304)
- No Second Hard Drive (SKU - X6R953)
- HDD Raid Settings - OFF
- Combo Dual Layer SuperMulti DVDRW/CDRW Drive w/ Software (SKU - X7R451)
- No Extra Optical Bay Hard Drive Caddy
- No Back Up Hard Drive
- NO External USB Optical Drive
- Stock OEM Thermal Compound ( IC Diamond Thermal Compound - CPU + GPU Provided FREE with Processor Upgrade!)
- Internal 7-in-1 Card Reader (MS/MS Pro/MS Duo/MS Pro Duo/SD/Mini-SD/MMC/RS)
- No Back Up Software
- Internal Bluetooth + EDR
- Intel® Advanced-N 6205 - 802.11A/B/G/N Wireless LAN Module (SKU - X8R103)
- No Network Accessory
- Integrated Digital Video Camera
- No TV Tuner
- Sound Blaster Compatible 3D Audio - Included
- No Carrying Case
- Spare Smart Li-ion Battery (9-Cell)
- No Car Adapter
- No Spare AC Adapter
- No Dock/Hub/Adapter
- No Fingerprint Reader
- No Headset
- No External Keyboard or Mouse
- No Notebook Cooler
- No Thanks, Please do not Overclock my system
- No Operating System Redline Boost
- Windows 7 Home Premium - 64-Bit
- No Office Software
- No Software Bundle
- 3 Year Complete Care Warranty - 3 Year Parts with Ground Shipping, 24/7 Telephone Tech Support & Lifetime Labor Warranty (SKU - X9R005)
- No Xotic PC Gear

$1,909.00 before cash discount

 

$1900 seems high to me for a 15" lappy. The only real significant piece of hardware in that configuration is the vcard - no backlit keyboard, no SSD...maybe I'm going to wait a while for prices to cool off. *sigh*

 

1080p screen, 9 cell battery, quad core CPU are also all in there.

Also you hit the nail on the head, the 580M is not cheap, try and find a machine with one for less (still with a quad core CPU).

The 570M especially after tweaking will get you most of the performance but if you want THE best, you will pay dearly for it from Nvidia.

It's the very reason MSI went with the 570M/560M it lets them stay competitive while keeping most of the performance.

 

Am talking to donald from PowerNotebooks too.. Seems like a genuine and patient guy
am deciding between sager and powerpro 15 inches too

 

Got my order in with Donald yesterday. Highly recommend PowerNotebooks!