Wow, really good looking this beast

Thanks for the update, pricelist updated

Wah, grats grats
Good to see you back in business Doc!

Here?
http://store.illegear.com/store/19-illegear-re-15.html

I want 13" model

God also want one, sure cannot go wrong one

Wow, looks good

Wah, many new and tempting stuffs from Illegear

Anyways, pricelist updated with the new RE-15 and RE-17! Seemed pretty worth it considering the new and powerful specs~

I've a feeling that with the current refreshed AW design and also Illegear's onsite support, AW is going to lose a lot of potential customers to Illegear liao
Anyways, when are you buying?
Waiting for Haswell?

This post has been edited by [PF] T.J.: Jun 11 2013, 11:30 PM

Hmm, I'm not really digging the design Have to see the real thing to decide.

Ahh, still a long time to go, no rush
By that time there will be a lot more options already~

Ahhh, different people different perspectives
Design is very important to me haha, and I'm glad that my current one looks great
But time's have changed haha, now more into conserved notebooks like Illegear already... I just hope one day there will be a smaller and slimmer version (sick of carrying heavy notebooks around considering the fact that I already have a DSLR that weighs as much as my M14x)

Illegear is a great choice I would say, especially now that they have listen to what we want and provide pickup and on-site support

U say like that I will sad one yo

Its a bit too early to tell. We have to see what the cooling system of the AW 14 is like and how easy it is to clean the fans and reapply thermal paste (the M14x was very very difficult for self-maintenance). Of course, we have to see whether there are any more upgrade options for the RE-15 as well

But for the time being, the RE-15 has the upper hand in terms of price-performance ratio. And based on what I've seen over the year, a 14" gaming notebook will never be able to compete with a 15" gaming notebook one, especially if you are talking about performance

Well, at least you guys are listening to the customers, its very very important yo, and good job man
Keep it up~

I'm looking forward to more photos on the new coloured covers

BSOD issues are not easy to solve. Had the same problem with an old Toshiba Satellite M500 (which is know to have this issue universally).. but the thing is its not easy to "reproduce" the BSOD, making customers hard to show to the technicians the problem; and also hard for the technicians to spend an entire day "waiting" for a BSOD to happen

Raymond is right, sometimes we do get lemon units, it just depends on luck But at least unlike Teledynamics (Toshiba), Illegear is doing something to help

5400 rpm is pretty slow to start with, especially for a performance notebook like Illegear
And it will only get slower as it ages and gets filled up.
I would suggest going for a hybrid HDD with mSATA at least for faster performance, and perhaps upgrade to an SSD when budget permits later on, I'm sure Prince J wouldn't mind helping to upgrade

My personal experience with big @ss HDD is that we tend not to think so much when we save stuffs, in the end we get ALOT of files that can be hard to manage (not mentioning slowing down the computer as well since there's more files to read and find). With a smaller sized (and of course way faster) SSD, you will learn how to organize your files wisely, keeping the notebook top-notch, always
Just my 2 cents

A Razer Blade will rape my wallet yo

Aiya, not everyone (i.e. me) has good internet assess yo, especially in Malaysia
Are you sure its not 1080p of prawns?

256GB SSD is still the optimum I would say, but even so, with my large phD and photography projects, I still have around 40GB left also No games
Still, I have 3 1TB externals for backup and storage

For the HDD, as long as its 7200rpm it should be fine, regardless of the size. 5400rpm might be a bit too slow already, especially after some time~

Razer is bigger raper since it doesn't have good warranty support as back up

That's why Illegear will fit nicely here
You can easily get a much better performing gaming machine for the same mount of price

I'm still deciding whether to get a laptop or desktop for my next machine, which is still a long way to go I guess haha

Bold confession
Words of advice, try to get 2x 1TB HDD or 4x 500GB HDD if possible to reduce the chances of losing data when the HDD gets damaged or stolen. And of course, never keep all HDD in one place. My friend lost almost all her 3 years of hard work when she got robbed of her notebook and HDDs. Luckily she listened to me and store one more at home

Well, if you get an illegear, you still have a secondary slot for larger HDDs, a big plus