so my order #188859 at the website is also under this... Wah... I don't mind to wait but... still a long way to go?

me too...

YAY. Gonna sleep now. Set alarm to Monday morning.

can't wait for my slightly less badass... when gonna start delivering????????

This post has been edited by randytsx: Apr 2 2015, 06:07 PM

I have an Asus N series laptop and have been using it for a long time. It's overheating now because of the worn out thermal compound and it's a PITA to open the whole laptop just to reapply it because unlike my other Dell one, being a typical Asus laptop, you simply can't access the CPU/GPU and heatsink easily.

Point is, you're gonna have to service your laptop anyway. It's only a matter of time. Either you do it yourself, or you bring it to some shop and let someone else do it.

EDIT: In addition to that, I heard that we can easily access the CPU/GPU on Illegear Z5 laptops just by removing the entire bottom pane, which is another plus for me. I run my machines 24/7, and without good cooling and easy means to access the heatsinks, a machine is completely worthless to me no matter the specs.

I feel sorry for you, how was your Z5 delivered? I chose Illegear because a) I desperately need a laptop with a good cooling system that is not Alienware, b) I know where their studio is located and it is not that far from my place so I can visit them anytime for any kind of Illegear laptop service provided I have time.

This post has been edited by randytsx: Apr 4 2015, 02:00 AM

I don't know about other people, but I like to shop at Lazada and element14, and they've been using GDEx for as long as I can remember.

I can't be sure that the same happened to others but in my experience, whenever I have GDEx delivering my stuff, 9 out of 10 they'd f|u|c|k up or delay up to 3 weeks and I would be calling their hotline and even their branch office but no one would pick up. I once called their numbers every few minutes from 11AM to 4PM, about 3-5 retries each time, to no avail.

During my previous delivery by GDEx, I managed to get the contact of some guy probably from their HQ after lodging a complaint to element14 when a GDEx delivery guy came over to my place, and already being at my doorstep, only to tap lightly for multiple times on my thick wooden fireproof door like a baby innocently thinking that would attract any attention at all.

In your case, I cannot say for sure that it was GDEx who screwed up your laptop because it could be Illegear's fault, but personally if GDEx is the only delivery option, I wouldn't have bought anything that costly from Illegear.

For the layman, if you don't have a 802.11ac router, there is no need for a wifi-ac card (802.11 is another name for Wi-Fi). More details about the differences here.

Most people around here have only up to 802.11n routers anyway.

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Just got the two new Z5s we ordered last night. I bought mine mainly for development instead of for playing games, but here's my Z5 running Divinity: Original Sin at Ultra settings.



I'm pretty much loving this. The cooling system is pretty much what I need in a laptop like this. I left my laptop turned on doing all kinds of stuff since I received it. I haven't turned it off yet, not even once. But I don't feel much heat coming from any side of it at all, only very slight warmth at the bottom.

The bottom pane feels a bit flimsy at times, but I really like how easy it is to open it up.

Definitely will recommend it to others. Will buy again in the far future once this laptop has worn out. All the best, Illegear!

This post has been edited by randytsx: Apr 5 2015, 10:02 PM

It's only been about more than a day and I've been busy setting up my gf's laptop and my own laptop myself.

But so far it's all been great!! Even removing the bottom pane to put in the RAM modules has been quite a pleasant experience for a laptop: 1) remove all screws at the bottom 2) pull out the pane.

I like that.

And our laptops look pretty fancy!

This post has been edited by randytsx: Apr 5 2015, 10:57 PM

The 2 Z5 v2 laptops at my place have no screen bleeding or dead pixels either.

Looks like my backlight is bleeding too. I managed to snap some photos at 5AM with all the lights turned off completely and got them auto-awesomed.

At my normal viewing distance from the screens:



and then, really up close:



This post has been edited by randytsx: Apr 10 2015, 04:48 PM

No wonder no matter how hard I tried to find the bleed on the screens I couldn't, until when it got really dark then only I saw these. And only through my camera that I could see them. Haha. Great! Good to know those are not bleeds!

Haha. Btw, you guys with backlight bleeding got GDex to deliver your laptops?

I first heard of Illegear when browsing through the Garage Sales section and seeing a thread titled something like "Illegear cusotom laptops", got curious then Googled it and found your video, then only I found this thread. The specs and cooling system got me interested.

YAY!

This post has been edited by randytsx: Apr 10 2015, 05:10 PM

Can't agree more. I've been hoping Illegear to be great and do well, so that if I ever need a laptop I can just go to them, since they even have decent post-sales services. And all their laptops have specs that meet my needs.

Me.

I'm no audiophile and I don't use speakers that much (on my audio-technica headphones most of the time), how do I know if my subwoofer is working? Feel the hardware for vibration?

I like those patterns very much.

Obviously, everybody knows this. I meant to say, since I don't use speakers and sub-woofers all that much hence the lack of familiarity with those, and assuming there are no headphones plugged in, how do I know if the sub-woofer is working?

Hmm, good to know. Maybe I couldn't hear that loudness because my hearing has deteriorated due to regular use of circumaural headphones.

Heh, the "back cover" felt kind of flimsy when I took it out. A spare "back cover" would be useful too in case if I ever break it.

Speaking of "User Defined Key", Fn + 8 doesn't seem to do anything, so why is it that M2 is set to Fn + 8 by default?

It's flimsy but any pane that can be removed easily is a good pane!

Btw, there's an option to "Enable USB charging" in the BIOS setup. What does that mean and how do I make use of that?

Fn + 0 to toggle the screen on and off. Or, if you have the "User Defined Key" installed, by its default configuration, it's set to M4 which is just a shortcut for Fn + 0.

Fn + F4 to dim screen. Fn + 0 to toggle on/off.

I wonder what does Fn + 8 do?

I see what you mean.

So, only the backlight portion of the LCD display is turned off but the LCD display on the whole is still working.

There is no backlight and you can't see anything unless you shine some light on it, and only when there's enough light reflected off the screen can you barely see anything, if at all.

But shouldn't we just consider the screen to be turned off since is it even possible for any laptop with such an LCD display to have the display turned off completely, instead of just the backlight, while the laptop on the whole is still turned on?

More accurately, it's not dimming or turning off the screen, but turning off just the LCD backlight.

Mine runs at 55 degrees C on idle.