One of the best here in Malaysia (as recommended by many) is a company called Illegear. For those who aren't familiar, Illegear is a computer company specializing in custom-built notebooks, very much like XoticPC in America or Aftershock in Singapore. Majority of their laptops consist of Clevo models and a few Aorus, but the Z5 is their very own custom laptop.
PROMO DEAL
They were offering pre-order promotion of their Z5, one of their most popular models, with a Skylake CPU and GTX 970m with 6GB GDDR5 RAM, comes with free 128GB SSD and color calibration. Which seems like a pretty good deal and not to mention cheaper than most branded laptops with similar specs, so I took it.
ASSEMBLY & DELIVERY
Since it is a pre-order item, Illegear told me that it would take about a few weeks to arrive. I placed my order on the 24 November, so the notebook should be arriving in mid-December. Two weeks later there was an issue with the Skylake processor and the shipping date was pushed back to the end of the month. I was bummed.
However, they asked me that if I needed it urgently, they can offer me an alternative: a Haswell model instead with similar specs and Illegear was kind enough to maintain the free SSD offered earlier. I have read about Haswell processors, and since there is not much difference in performance between Haswell and Skylake, not to mention being RM600 (about USD$140) cheaper than the latter, I accepted. Shipping would take about a week. And so, after more than 3 weeks in total of anxious waiting, the Z5 finally arrived on my doorstep. Final price comes to almost RM5600, including Windows 10. You can check the configuration at the end of this post.
UNBOXING
In the box you get:
- The laptop itself in velvet sleeve
- Humongous power brick
- Recovery & driver disks (Windows too)
- Some spare screws (in case you lose them)
- Illegear backpack
ONTO THE BEAST
The Z5 has a bulky, rugged exterior, typical for a gaming laptop. The majority of the material is plastic, but has quite a solid build to it. The two red streaks on the lid can be lit up when turned on, but can be turned off.
Here are the pictures of the Z5 (pardon the messy desk in the background)
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| On the left: 1xUSB 3.0, 1xUSB 2.0, SD Card slot, indicators for battery, hdd, and wifi. |
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| On the front: two stereo speakers |
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| On the right: 1x microphone jack, 1x headphone jack, 2x USB 3.0, Kensington lock |
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| On the back: power jack, ethernet, VGA, HDMI, cooling vents |
CONFIGURATION
15" matte IPS display
Core i7 4700HQ
8GB DDR3 RAM
128GB MSATA SSD
1TB 7200rpm HDD
GTX 970M 6GB DDR5 RAM
2.1 sound system
I will post the review of this laptop soon, so stay tuned!
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