I apologise in advance if this seems a daft question to ask, but I'm interested to know since about the development of the Optimus laptop over several years.
Basically, my one and only time buying on PCS, was an Optimus IV 17.3 laptop in 2012. Sadly, it was the worst laptop I've ever owned. It overheated constantly, caused me no end of headaches, from multiple software glitches, sound that stopped working after about 9 months and full hardware failure after about 15 months. After that disappointment, I was never minded to return in a hurry, but my twin brother swears by PCS and has bought every PC he's bought since 2010 from this site.
I'm now looking for a new laptop for work, with mild gaming capabilites, a 17.3 inch screen and the frustration with almost everything on the market that meets that criteria is there's little out there that has 16gb ram and a good size hard drive, without costing a fortune on things I don't really need. Being able to spec something cheap, and add on the things I want is one option open, the other is to buy something which 8gb and small SSD, and buy/add components before I use it. That second thing is a hassle, so I'm minded to spec my own.
The obvious budget option on this website is the Optimus again, but despite it being 9 years ago, I'm incredibly wary. Now Optimus is at XI version, I'm wondering if people here have any idea how the platform has evolved over the generations. Has it been an evolution, or is the platform similar to what is was before.
Also, how does the thermal solution for the current iteration compare with the Elimina.
I'm mindful that exactly what I'm looking for isn't really available on the mass market, but at the same time the benefits I can gain by choosing exactly what I want are weighed down by an extremely negative previous experience. Thus I'm a little stuck right now!
Basically, my one and only time buying on PCS, was an Optimus IV 17.3 laptop in 2012. Sadly, it was the worst laptop I've ever owned. It overheated constantly, caused me no end of headaches, from multiple software glitches, sound that stopped working after about 9 months and full hardware failure after about 15 months. After that disappointment, I was never minded to return in a hurry, but my twin brother swears by PCS and has bought every PC he's bought since 2010 from this site.
I'm now looking for a new laptop for work, with mild gaming capabilites, a 17.3 inch screen and the frustration with almost everything on the market that meets that criteria is there's little out there that has 16gb ram and a good size hard drive, without costing a fortune on things I don't really need. Being able to spec something cheap, and add on the things I want is one option open, the other is to buy something which 8gb and small SSD, and buy/add components before I use it. That second thing is a hassle, so I'm minded to spec my own.
The obvious budget option on this website is the Optimus again, but despite it being 9 years ago, I'm incredibly wary. Now Optimus is at XI version, I'm wondering if people here have any idea how the platform has evolved over the generations. Has it been an evolution, or is the platform similar to what is was before.
Also, how does the thermal solution for the current iteration compare with the Elimina.
I'm mindful that exactly what I'm looking for isn't really available on the mass market, but at the same time the benefits I can gain by choosing exactly what I want are weighed down by an extremely negative previous experience. Thus I'm a little stuck right now!
