I've finally decided on my machine of choice!

I've been constantly going back and forth between the MSI and Clevo laptops and finally opted on the PowerPC R 12:17.

If there's any real things I should try to go for otherwise, please speak up now since I'll be pulling the trigger in about two weeks.

17.3" Full HD (1920x1080) MATTE LED backlit Widescreen LCD
nVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M 256bit w/2.0GB GDDR5
Built-in Steelseries Backlit Keyboard
Intel® Core™ i7-2670QM (2.2~3.1GHz, 45W) w/6M L3 Cache - 4 Cores - 8 Threads
IC Diamond Thermal Compound applied to CPU + GPU
12GB (3x 4GB) DDR3/1333 Memory
x2 750GB HDDs in Raid0
6X Blu-Ray Reader/8x Super Multi Combo Dual Layer DVD +/-R/RW CD-R/RW Drive
Intel® Centrino® Advanced-N 6230 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi + Bluetooth™ 3.0+HS Combo Card
No OS (I have a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate)
180w Power thingy
3 Year Parts - Free Ground Shipping - 24/7 DOMESTIC Toll Free Support + Lifetime Labor

Comes out to $2,210 which is sterling for what I wanted... Get the fastest GPU currently out, amazing CPU, ample RAM (I use it all btw ), Raid0 larger HDDs (figure it should be similar in speeds to what I have now if not faster), better and MATTE screen, AND a bluray player.

How's that? It LOOKS like an upgrade in every way from my current machine.

Mind you all, I looked at options from Alienware, Malibal, XoticPC, Sager, and even the local PC repair places that get 30% off an Alienware didn't seem appealing enough for what I really wanted.

 

It looks really good, but personally I would prefer to use an SSD and back it up to the secondary drive. I don't use a ton of space though, so that's just me.

Other than that, looks great imo.

 

Yep looks good, bit expensive though but you get all the features you need.

 

Damn, that warranty is expensive. Unless your completely computer illiterate, I think your just wasting money on that extended warranty. I figured that before that warranty starts paying for itself, more than $200 of parts need to go up in my laptop. On top of that, I don't even know if I'm going to keep this for 3 years.

In my opinion, I would just drop the extended warranty and a nice SSD which will obviously be much much faster than RAID 0.

 

vertex 2 is noticeably faster than even seagate momentus xt raid 0. i know because i had one.

 

Specs look good I would swap in a SSD instead of the Raid though. Awesome machine.

 

Basically the same specs as the GT783R, which retails at $2299. You can get them cheaper than that though if you look. If you like the looks of the whitebook model over the regular though, you still save a little bit. Very solid build.

 

Is it really that big of a difference? o.o I just want a more rounded machine.

Boot times aren't that big of a deal with me, but the overall deal of a Raid0 array seems to be a bit better just judging by the price/performance. Instead of having a SSD as the boot drive and all the games on a slower 500GB drive in the background.

The Warranty is only $129 for three years. I had much better piece of mind when mine was still under warranty in all honesty, so this is a must for me.