Is this a good laptop?

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MSI is likley the only laptop vendor that you ever heard of that actually *makes* a lapatop. For others, if you have heard of it, it wa \s made by an OEM you never heard of. I think you will find the small SSD problematic but other than that, well the CPU is last generation, that's a good price

We have all our lappies custom built by Clevo distributors:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/clevo-guide-v2-0-faq-and-reseller-info.91510/

CLEVO is a large Taiwanese computer company specializing in laptops. While the Clevo brand name is perhaps not widely known, their products are re-branded and sold by known boutique brand OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers)… notably Sager, VoodooPC, Falcon Northwest, Eurocom, etc. They are...
MSI is likley the only laptop vendor that you ever heard of that actually *makes* a lapatop. For others, if you have heard of it, it wa \s made by an OEM you never heard of. I think you will find the small SSD problematic but other than that, well the CPU is last generation, that's a good price

We have all our lappies custom built by Clevo distributors:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/clevo-guide-v2-0-faq-and-reseller-info.91510/

CLEVO is a large Taiwanese computer company specializing in laptops. While the Clevo brand name is perhaps not widely known, their products are re-branded and sold by known boutique brand OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers)… notably Sager, VoodooPC, Falcon Northwest, Eurocom, etc. They are also considered (by whoever knows about notebooks) to design and manufacturer the best of the best notebooks in terms of superior build quality and innovative designs.

Here's a guide to buying Clevo in Canada if you wanna go that route ... i don't expect it will be cheaper tho
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/guide-to-buying-a-sager-in-canada.548445/

It looks like they are clearing stock on the last generation models as 7700 series are significantly higher.... and no, the new generation is not significantly faster. You can always swap the SSD id managing the space proves too laborius

 
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