Placed my order of Z5 on last Saturday, can't wait to get my hand on it, first gaming laptop, was a desktop user then went to console now back to pc gaming but with laptop!

Just been there for 2 hours+, saw few orders of s series too, looks like illegear is growing rapidly, congrats and keep up the good work, maintain the good service and get even better which benefit all of us, LOL!

There will be a 7% surcharge.
Example: machine pricex 1.07 / 24 = your monthly pay

Can we get those offer since we just order it like few days ago, order yet to be complete

I thought z5 only support msata? Can it use m.2 also?

Guys, usually how long it takes for your order to complete? Placed my order last week, hoping i can get it before weekend though...

PM you already, thanks for checking.

Finally got my Z5 on Friday! Had to wait until finish work, got home and open box at midnight so sorry for the lousy photo quality, it was taken by mobile without proper lighting but I just don't care since I care more on the laptop itself than the photo quality

Been busy with setting up the laptop, transfer the files, install some games to test the performance, even open up to add another extra piece of memory (4gb) but forgot to take photo of the internal parts.

Spec:
Display: 15.6" Full HD Anti-glare IPS/AHVA Wide Color Gamut & Viewing Angle (1920 x 1080)
Tune Your Screen: Professional Color Calibration
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-4720HQ (6MB L3 Cache, 2.60GHz)
Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M 3GB GDDR5 with Optimus (Maxwell)
Thermal Compound: IC Diamond Thermal Compound - CPU & GPU (RECOMMENDED)
RAM: 8GB DDR3L RAM 1600MHz - 1 X 8GB [Added 4GB = 12GB]
Primary Drive: 500GB Seagate Solid State Hybrid Drive
mSATA SSD RAID Options: Non-RAID
Primary mSATA Solid State Drive: 128GB Crucial M550 mSATA Solid State Drive
Secondary mSATA Solid State Drive: None
Wireless Network Card: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 - WLAN & Bluetooth 4.0 Combo
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64bit Edition
Warranty: ILLEGEAR 2 Year Carry-In Warranty
Accessories: ILLEGEAR Backpack & Velvet Sleeve

Here are the open box photos.



This post has been edited by jason_tee: Sep 20 2015, 04:17 PM

what line? the black line or the leak lighting?

oh my ...lcd quality so fast spoil

That's very impress
After sale service is one of the reason I chosen illegear in the first place.

I used to be Dell supported, heck I was even an employee few years back. Despite their service is good the quality seem to be dropped compared to before,.
After compared the spec of alienware 15 with z5, I decided to give illegear a try this time after saw so many good review

My 2cent.

Fast way and not so efficient: Turned off the laptop and use a vacuum to suck it back out from the bottom of the vent
Slow way but efficient: Open the bottom and do cleaning for everything

No doubt the build is solid but the plastic really feel cheap. My X51 the first day I got it got some squick sound when I press the casing but it does serve me well. Never use alienware laptop before but played with me several times, yes it is solid.

However my alienware x51 motherboard was screwed up by Dell's recommended BIOS update, when call up their technical support, that person told me it is not advisable to upgrade the BIOS as it happened to many other users as well, I was like WTF, why you put up as recommended update then? And due to out of warranty changing it will cost me 1k for a old motherboard and no guarantee will fix.

Simple reason, I like the design of the casing. As a matter of fact, I just built my PC like 2 months then I bought the X51 and gave the better desktop to my brother just for the sake of the look of it to be a better match beside my xbox in the living room at that time.

Definitely not worth to get any of the pre-made desktop IMHO, you can always get a better parts and cheaper price if you build it yourself. Well, people buy it for a reason, just like people around me don't understand why want to spend so much for a gaming laptop when you can get a way more power desktop.

Build quality laptop will still fail, after sale service is more important. My bro in law MacBook spoiled twice though and the fees to repair ain't cheap.

Like I said, people buy gaming laptop for a reason which is mobility. However with compact gaming desktop like x51 it is possible to bring around as long as the place you stay provide a hdmi tv, if not then it is ridiculous to carry a lcd monitor with you around. Although possible I ain't going to do that though... LOL

Anyone play the latest metal gear solid? Any idea how to unlock the 60fps locked?

Thanks bro, just want to test out how well the 970m can handle the game without fps locked.

Interesting... But without a very good network speed it won't steam well right?

I never had such issue with chrome before, your case seem weird, are you sure not caused by malware/adware? Anyway, I don't use chrome on Z5, only use Edge and IE11 for different needs, so far works fine for me though.

I wouldn't want a software to spam ads all over the place