Are Gaming Notebook Vendors Scared of MobilityGuru?

[warlordpompey]

I'd love to see some tests run on WidowPC gaming notebooks.

They seem quite full of piss and vinegar and eager to prove themselves, as benefits a younger business. Certainly, they use clevo products like many companies, but they claim to have superior synergy with their components.

Why not give them the opportunity to do so in this environment?

 

[TTrojan]

Just joined, so I could say a few things. And before anything else, please understand that these are all my opinion, and not facts.

Now I own a VoodooPC ENVY U:732. As far as I know it is a clevo, just painted and a bit customised for me. Now someone here posted why Voodoo's are soo expensive. I will give a few reasons:

1. The have a sleek paint job and also offer tattoos which can ad a nice touch to the exterior of your lappie. Now you have to understand that it is nothing more than a painted Clevo, but still it is painted, and they charge pretty high for the paint job.

2. Voodoo is the luxury of the PC world, just like GUCCI or FENDI is in the world of fashion. It is a fashion statement, it is something intangible, it is the experience of owning such a PC. Now there is one other reason for it to be expensive.

VoodooPC in the mobility market have nothing extra really, just that they have that experience and the exterior. Performance wise they would be pretty similar across the board, as most gaming lappies are made by a few companies like Clevo. Just like anyother Boutique vendor, Voodoo is also coming up with their own SLi notebook, now I don't think it is different from anyother SLi notebook that is coming out except of the paintjob.

As for being afraid, I do not know that, why dont you guys ask them for a taste.

Again this is all my opinion and hence not facts.

 

[theholylancer]

i guess in defence of theese laptop venders i should say that many of these operations are small teams of people (whom acts as support, builder ad poster, etc. on their owm) which ensures quality, and if you are asking them to make a laptop which no one migh buy, this is kinda out of the question as parts are expensive and they are some times scarce (anyone look at quad sli, not for laptop, but i'm sure that there will be some hard ware in the laptop field that is like that), so if you are asking them to build a laptop worth 4000+ USD, then no one migh buy it, and the stuff inside will devalue, then many of these companies will not do so, its companies like dell with the big muscle that are able to send ya these things (where the quality drops in terms of support and other field, the people whom assemble your comp might be certified, the people whom support you are not, whereas in a small company the one that builds the comp, support it)

so give these companies a break, they are relevetally small compared to dell and may not have that big a sack of $$ to swing around

 

[keen5336]

Falcon-nw For Teh WIN!!!!

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[keen5336]

i guess in defence of theese laptop venders i should say that many of these operations are small teams of people (whom acts as support, builder ad poster, etc. on their owm) which ensures quality, and if you are asking them to make a laptop which no one migh buy, this is kinda out of the question as parts are expensive and they are some times scarce (anyone look at quad sli, not for laptop, but i'm sure that there will be some hard ware in the laptop field that is like that), so if you are asking them to build a laptop worth 4000+ USD, then no one migh buy it, and the stuff inside will devalue, then many of these companies will not do so, its companies like dell with the big muscle that are able to send ya these things (where the quality drops in terms of support and other field, the people whom assemble your comp might be certified, the people whom support you are not, whereas in a small company the one that builds the comp, support it)

so give these companies a break, they are relevetally small compared to dell and may not have that big a sack of $$ to swing around

But getting kick a$$ parts together and showing it to Mobile Guru is arguably much more effective than posting an add at the back of a PC magazine. I would think it would be worth the investment. I'm not a national PC vendor, but I'm telling you, if THG or any of the affiliates touched on the nitch custom PC market I make systems for, I would be all over it!

 

[theholylancer]

but that means that w/e company sent in a samople is in a status of war, and that with each generation of graphic/cpu upgrade they have to send in a new one, only the biggest and the ones with excess $$ can do this, sure this is better than an ad, and how many times have ya actually seem any of these smaller elite companies place ads in expensive places like tv or else more than 1 ful colour page in a gaming maz?

 

[lawrocks]

Having been in the market recently I looked and almost bought a Dell, but for a number of reasons I went with the following:

HP Pavilion dv8000t

The meat and potatoes of the machine is:

Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP Media Center Edition
Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo processor T2600 (2.16 GHz)
- 17.0" WSXGA+ BrightView Widescreen (1680x1050)
- 256MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) Go 7400
- 2.0GB DDR2 SDRAM (2x1024MB)
- 100 GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive
- DVD+/-RW/R CD-RW Combo w/Double Layer

The main difference being the graphics card which I know is not a fast as the Dell's, however, I am curious to see how it does compare to your XPS.

 

[Nil]

But getting kick a$$ parts together and showing it to Mobile Guru is arguably much more effective than posting an add at the back of a PC magazine.

Agreed, I can pretty much guarantee that they pay as much for the ad as it would cost them to send in a laptop to review. Especially since you know it doesn't cost the builder $4k to make the computer.

 

[TTrojan]

That is the thing, they do not aim for the mainstream market, they want to stay niche, as a customer I would like for them to stay that way. I mean the excitement of owning one of these machines is the uniqueness of the experience and the machine. I can get the same config from a lot of other places just not the same experience of feeling.

lawrocks, that looks like a pretty sweet lappie, check out the new XPS and the other ones from Dell, they have a better GPU. My personal Lappie right now has the follow:

Pentium M 780
2 GB RAM
Ge Force Go 7800 GTX 256MB

And I can tell you this mosheen, runs extremely well, havent had any problems with games so far, just in FEAR, it is very CPU limited, but for that you need to get a FX-60 or something equivalent.

Just my 2c.

 

[killernotebooks]

I'm your huckleberry... fightin's just my game.

Where do I send my ELIMINATOR x1600 256MB?

It's half the cost and isn't going to be 32 bit obsolete junk come December '06!

Why don't you run your current tests on my KillerNotebook vs. the DELL, then run your same tests on Windows x64 or Vista 64 beta?
Oh yea... the DELL won't even run it AT ALL on a 64 bit O.S. that's something I want to spend $3,600 on!