Reviews - Gigabyte P2742G

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Powerful 17.3in gaming laptop reviewed and rated.

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[ashyjay]

really? £300 for a gigabyte sticker. no thanks.

[fail_quail]

Looks quite good

one part stood out as glaringly stupid though:

Gigabyte provides a 64-bit install on the 128GB SSD, and reserves a 10GB chunk of said drive to act as a recovery partition. The 1TB hard disk remains untouched

*facepalm*

Why on earth would you put the most rarely-used large chunk of data you're ever likely going to get on this laptop on the high-performance and low-capacity drive? Makes no sense at all...

[Noli]

Mention of whether the screen is IPS or TN or something else would be v useful.
Sorry if I missed it.

As for storage, I'd get the base config and install my own 256GB SSD and use the HDD as secondary. 128GB SSD is too small for a gaming machine where you really want space for games on the actual SSD is possible. Just IMHO.