Help With Buying A New Laptop

[Leroy Peterson]

Thanks. So metabox are basically clevo laptops with some customising. Found a few things where people recommend clevo over MSI and vice versa. Some say MSI have better build quality but worse battery life (havent found specifics on batteries but specs say 3-cell for metabox and 6 or 8 cell for MSI)

Looking at the MSI options on scorptec there are a lot of options that seem same-same with minor differences (usually with GPU or memory). Price wise its pretty similar, i'd just need to cough up for an external DVD drive with MSI, but they include a 1TB hdd ontop of a 128 SSD (which might actually make life more challenging managing things).

[niZmO_Man]

Well I had an older GE62 with GTX 765M and a DVD drive. They must've replaced the optical drive with a HDD. MSi seems to have a few different variants, GT is fat, GS is slim with small battery, GE is an in-between. What I did find is that MSi spec vs price was very good. Heat management was sometimes worrying as my one had a left side firing exhaust port, so playing on the couch sometimes got uncomfortable.

[Anfanee]

Hand on heart Metabox. Nothing else. 

 

[Anfanee]

oh and experience with metabox: used about 3 and built about 10 through work. They are bloody fantastic. 

[JAS-25T]

was recently about to pull the trigger on the metabox after some research. It was between MSi and Metabox for value for money.

ended up needing neither when push come to shove but metabox was the clear winner.