I just got my V3-571G with the i7-3630QM, 730m with 4GB and FHD 1080 IPS panel. I must say, I'm pretty happy with the performance of the laptop!! I went laptop browsing again, and one PC shop in Kuching actually showed a V3-571G with a 740M gpu!! Are they going to swap all the cards now to 740?

Wow, with the latest Nvidia drivers, 320.14, I'm able to run Bioshock Infinite on Very High settings @ 1920x1080 with very good framerates!! Even Ultra is still playable!!

Hey!!! I would say I'm happy with the performance so far!! It meets my basic gaming needs and so far I'm able to run most games to my satisfaction. If I didn't require this for work, I would definitely have waited for the Haswell chips, but I heard only the higher-end Haswell's GPU's would truly make a difference.

The things I love about it are:

1) Gorgeous IPS FHD Panel
2) Good performing GPU for it's price and performance
3) Comes with 8gb of DDR3 ram (will be upgrading it to 16gb soon)
4) Great processor for price point
5) Good speakers for a laptop
6) Comes with a numpad (I do alot of excel spread sheets and calculations! Lol!)

Things I don't like (or wished it had)

1) Laptop itself is cool to warm during gaming but emits alot of heat from the side
2) Not a backlit keyboard
3) Chassis is prone to flex, not as rigid as my Lenovo T420 (although it's unfair to compare with a business laptop but the difference is obvious)
4) Small gaps in between screen frame and panel (might be prone to dust entering)
5) Battery life is just average (with power saver i get just under 3 hours)

Overall impressions are great, the negatives are just my nitpicking. I picked it over other laptops due to the IPS screen (just can't go back to TN after this), the 4gb of VRAM is great for my photo editing and spreadsheets (although redundant in gaming). Would I recommend it to moderate gamers? Yeap! Photographers? Yeap!

Future upgrades will be changing the optical drive slot into a hdd and adding in a SSD!!!

This post has been edited by Spoodo: Jun 13 2013, 08:24 AM

the 650m does have a higher clock speed and uses DDR5 Ram instead of DDR3 in the 730m