Still waiting for my unit, hopefully can arrive today or tomorrow as my editing work has been on hiatus for nearly a week

In the meantime while trawling the web for information, I found a video review, but in Chinese language tho.

Dropping the link here in case anyone is interested

Mechrevo Z2 review

This post has been edited by gunzerdude: May 7 2018, 11:59 AM

Just took delivery of the laptop, getting used to the whole thing, but I discovered something which I really hope is a mistake on my side.

The SD card reader, I thought I was mistaken when I saw the driver install read 'USB 2.0', but turns it it really is running at USB 2.0 speed.

Can someone please verify that this is actually the case and there's no usb 3.0 version driver for it?

Christ, I must have missed that overview or something.

Like, come on man, it's 2018, there's simply no excuse for a laptop to include a 2.0 reader, much less a gaming class one with a feature set that's marketed towards content creators as well.

Yep, I actually have one of those Kingston readers too, sigh, guess I'll have to deal with this for the time being.


My observations so far, a few quirks I feel i should point out, the USB 3.0 ports are only on the right side, so for those working portable storage most of the time would definitely be annoyed. That USB C port on the back..... not sure what sort of audience it's geared for, because having storage/hdds attached at the back where all the heat is blowing out is definitely a bad idea.

Also the keyboard has a weird learning curve to it, specifically, the key's actuation point is actually before the 'click' itself, with just a light press you'd be able to trigger the keys already, and it's causing me to type additional characters sometimes because I rest my fingers on the keys while I'm typing, I'm still able to overcome this by adjusting my typing style.

Finally I'm having intermittent issues where the laptop will slowly lock up, browser refuses to load pages, then the whole windows interface slowly stops responding until the mouse is the only thing you can move around (clicking on any buttons doesn't give a response). At this point CTRL-SHIFT-DEL and CTRL-ALT-DEL combinations all don't work anymore, and I'm pretty much left with waiting until the laptop finally BSODs with a CRITICAL_PROCESS _DIED message or force resetting the system.

Eiraku did you or maybe anyone else encounter such issues on your onyx?

Nope, haven't gone into UV or any of the sort yet, is just regular usage where I'm multitasking with chrome open, couple tabs, downloading stuff, configuring my programs etc. Besides the characteristics that I mentioned, I can't reproduce this scenario at will, plus it plays games just fine (an hour of Witcher 3 maxed out, although boy does the metal part beside the fan/power buttons get hot).

I'm wondering if the issue comes down to errant drivers for the GPU, from what I've been searching online so far that describes the dGPU switching on and off unnecessarily and causing the computer to eventually lockup. (Google 'Optimus stutter critical process died')

Sure I'll run a memtest, in the meantime here's my configuration:

i7-8750H
1050ti
8gb Ram
480gb nvme ssd
Kryonaut thermal paste

Morning to a new age!

Obvious celebration aside, did 4 passes of memtest without issues, the laptop doesnt seem to have trouble under load, rather just with normal usage situations.

Although, as I'm testing, I've turned off PCIE link state power management for the power profiles and I haven't experienced any crashes in one whole night of using the laptop actively. (Fingers crossed)


I seriously hope the battery capacity cancellation is just on XMG's side tho, would be a waste to just leave that 2.5 gap underutilized.

This post has been edited by gunzerdude: May 10 2018, 09:02 AM

I sense some bias against chrome here

Great that Prince is verifying the upgrade option, but how come only for selected configs, when they share the same internal layout?

Oh and i just remembered, during my conversation, I asked Azim about the 144hz screen, he said the color reproduction is the same as the current panel, so no reason for me to upgrade it seems.

Hey guys, back with some observations, seems like turning off the link state power management in the power profiles did the trick, laptop has been stable since may 9th without any crashes (fingers crossed).


On the other hand,due to the sub-optimal port placements, I've purchased a few additional accessories to make my life easier when editing on the go.

Right angle USB converters so that the cable doesn't stick directly out to my mouse hand



USB C hub and right angle converter for situations where i need to read SD cards and have multiple drives working.

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All can be found in lazada in case any of you are interested


Awesome news for the battery configuration, but I'm abit curious as to why the 1060 is not supported, power draw requirements?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the availability of the 2.5 drive bay not related to whether the laptop has a 1060 or 1050 in it?