I ordered this 15.6″ Samsung Galaxy Book2 Pro laptop for my wife in December 2023 to replace her previous Samsung Galaxy Book Pro laptop (link). Unfortunately, a full cup of tea was spilled directly on her old laptop which resulted in the somewhat acrid smell of shorting electronics, followed by a rapid transformation into an […]
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ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 16
The ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 16 gaming laptop (2023 model G634JZ-XS96) is my current laptop as at the time of this writing. I purchased it from XoticPC in early June 2023, basically the day it became available there. Although ASUS generally have very good products at the high-end level, I was a little dubious buying […]
Sager NP9371V
The Sager NP9371V (based on the Clevo X370SNV-G) was technically the fifth gaming laptop I owned, although I only had it for a week or two. Purchased from XoticPC in April 2023, the Sager NP9371V was the first full sized 17.3″ laptop I had owned for personal use (although I had purchased a 17.3″ laptop […]
Sager NP8852N
The Sager NP8852N (based on the Clevo PD50PNN) was the fourth gaming laptop I owned. Purchased from XoticPC in April 2022, the Sager NP8852N was a 15.6″ laptop running an Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake i7-12700H 14 core / 20 thread processor (6 performance-cores and 8 efficient-cores) which ran at 4.70GHz in turbo boost at […]
Sager NP7879PQ-S
I ordered the Sager NP7879PQ-S (which is based on the Clevo NH77HPQ) from XoticPC in March 2022 as a replacement for my daughter’s Acer Nitro 5, which had basically died way sooner than it should have. The Sager NP7879PQ-S is a 17.3″ laptop running an Intel 11th Gen Tiger Lake Core i7-11800H 8-core/16-thread processor at […]
Samsung Galaxy Book Pro
I ordered the 15.6″ Samsung Galaxy Book Pro in ‘mystic blue’ for my wife in January 2022 as a replacement for her dying Lenovo LaVie which she had been using for over 6 years. Again, the intended use was general internet and media; this was not going to be used as a gaming machine, at […]
Acer Nitro 5
I ordered the Acer Nitro 5 (model AN517-51-76V6) for my daughter in 2020 when schools moved to fully remote classes due to the pandemic. I figured if I was getting her a laptop, might as well make it a fairly decent gaming laptop. The Acer Nitro 5 had good specs and the price tag was […]
Gigabyte Aero 14Wv7
The Gigabyte Aero 14Wv7 was the third gaming laptop I owned, and the first that wasn’t a Sager. Purchased from XoticPC in January 2017, the Gigabyte Aero 14Wv7 was a beautiful looking 14″ laptop running an Intel 7th Gen Kaby Lake i7-7700HQ quad core processor with Intel HM175 chipset, NVidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Pascal […]
Lenovo LaVie Z
I ordered the 13″ Lenovo LaVie Z for my wife back in 2015, the intended primary use being internet and media – this was not a gaming machine, at least not for any games that demanded high graphic specs. My Mrs’ primary requirement was that it had to be as lightweight as possible. Writing this […]
Sager NP7338
The Sager NP7338 (based on the Clevo W230SS) was the second gaming laptop I owned, and it was solid machine. Purchased from XoticPC some time in 2014, the Sager NP7338 was a 13.3″ laptop running an Intel 4th Gen i7-4810MQ quad core processor with Intel 8 series HM87 chipset, a NVidia GeForce GTX 860M 2GB […]