MiNDGAM3's Savrow Katana

[mindgam3]

Finally ordered my Savrow Katana after much decision making and looking at other laptops. It's taking about 2 weeks to build but they should be sending photos of its build progress which i'll post when I get them plus my own photos when it arrives at my house. Here's my final spec:

Bespoke SavRow System SavRow Katana WX

Advanced Processor : P4 3.4GHz with Hyperthreading, 800MHz FSB with 512KB Cache

Memory Solutions : 1024MB DDR (2 x 512MB) DDR Memory

Operating System : Microsoft® Windows® XP Home

Hard Drive : Hitachi 60 GB 7200RPM Hard Disk Drive

Optical Storage : DVD-ReWriter Combo

Sound Card : 4 Speaker Sound

Screen : 17" Wide Screen TFT WXGA - widescreen 1400 x 900 16:9 aspect ratio

Graphics Processing Unit : ATI Radeon 9700 Pro with 256MB of RAM

Internal Wireless LAN Internal Wi-Fi 802.11G

Internal Camera Built-in CCD web camera

SubWoofer Module Subwoofer Module

Card Reader Module 6-in-1 Smart Card Reader

Custom Paint : Ferrari Grigio Alloy

First 3 are my dads, second 3 are savrows:

http://img55.exs.cx/img55/7960/KA6T0137copy.th.jpg (http://img55.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img55&image=KA6T0137copy.jpg)
http://img55.exs.cx/img55/3884/KA6T0136copy.th.jpg (http://img55.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img55&image=KA6T0136copy.jpg)
http://img55.exs.cx/img55/1391/KA6T0134copy.th.jpg (http://img55.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img55&image=KA6T0134copy.jpg)
http://img75.exs.cx/img75/6889/DSCF0272.th.jpg (http://img75.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img75&image=DSCF0272.jpg)
http://img75.exs.cx/img75/4319/DSCF0271.th.jpg (http://img75.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img75&image=DSCF0271.jpg)
http://img75.exs.cx/img75/9098/DSCF0270.th.jpg (http://img75.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img75&image=DSCF0270.jpg)

[Jabba]

The only question I have is did you mention my savrow plutonium or JW ?

Actually....another question....did you see my build photos on here ?

[mindgam3]

hehe yes i did, i mentioned both, he says you have an awesome system and you're a great guy ;)

Haven't seen your build photos though, would be very interesting in seeing them to give me a rough idea of what im gonna see.... got a link?

[sameerrao]

Desktop?

[FordGTGuy]

I thought you had a sword heh :oops: :lol:

[mindgam3]

Desktop?

Laptop, for uni ;)

[Jabba]

hehe yes i did, i mentioned both, he says you have an awesome system and you're a great guy ;)

Haven't seen your build photos though, would be very interesting in seeing them to give me a rough idea of what im gonna see.... got a link?

Thanks mindgam...that means a lot to me...nice that you decided to put your business their way...I am sure they wont let you down.

I feel your pain in waiting for it now...I got mine just before Xmas eve...and it was very tight towards the end indeed.

Hope you will get some pleasure from seeing me having to sweat it out here :

http://www.motorworld.net/forum/showthread.php?p=43503#43503

[sameerrao]

That's heavy stuff for a laptop. Guess they can disable the uni server and use your comp instead...

[mindgam3]

That's heavy stuff for a laptop. Guess they can disable the uni server and use your comp instead...

lol, well i need power and useability over portability, but i need to go places with it every so often so thats why I chose a "desktop" spec laptop. Downsides are its fairly heavy and a bit bulky, but the katana seems fairly slim competitor considering the power and features it has. Plus with a 17" screen it never was going to be that small anyway ;)



Thanks mindgam...that means a lot to me...nice that you decided to put your business their way...I am sure they wont let you down.

I feel your pain in waiting for it now...I got mine just before Xmas eve...and it was very tight towards the end indeed.

Hope you will get some pleasure from seeing me having to sweat it out here :

http://www.motorworld.net/forum/showthread.php?p=43503#43503



No worries, you were the one who told advised me to take a look at them so its the least i can do ;)

Yes the waiting is a pain, a very big one. They said its in the building queue at the moment so my first build progess photo won't be arriving til sometime mid next week :(

Great to see your photos, hope im as pleased with my system as you arw with yours ;)

[DMbaseball1604]

congrats! Thats sweet computer you have there...I wish I could have gotten a comp from Savrow, but the exchange rate right now is pretty bad making them extremely expensive if you live in the U.S. - they are expensive anyway..but the exchange rate makes it worse..

[mindgam3]

congrats! Thats sweet computer you have there...I wish I could have gotten a comp from Savrow, but the exchange rate right now is pretty bad making them extremely expensive if you live in the U.S. - they are expensive anyway..but the exchange rate makes it worse..

Yeah, my rents said the exchange rate was great when they went over to the states ;) Guess we can't have it both ways

They are fairly expensive though, but you get what you pay for and no other computer company offers the level of service as savrow. Alienware are probably the only make that comes close in terms of perfromance but i've heard their service and build quality are complete shite

[Jabba]

Savrow offer a very personal service....they enjoy what they do...every PC is special to them and in someway unique....Alienware are a bit to much of a "production" PC to me....

BTW I have Plutonium 007...and as far as I know....its the only quad monitor Plutonium so far in piano black.

[mindgam3]

Savrow offer a very personal service....they enjoy what they do...every PC is special to them and in someway unique....Alienware are a bit to much of a "production" PC to me....

BTW I have Plutonium 007...and as far as I know....its the only quad monitor Plutonium so far in piano black.

got any recent pics of you're actual tower??

[Jabba]

Not very recent...but some pictures of the tower here :

http://www.supercarshowdown.co.uk/move1/1.JPG
http://www.supercarshowdown.co.uk/move1/7.JPG

[mindgam3]

very nice indeed ;) The black paintjob looks stunning, got your turtlewax out on it yet? ;)

[mindgam3]

Savrow photo update:

Its just undergoing stress testing over the weekend so should be with me by tuesday next week. Theres been a few delays because of paint staff being on holiday but its finally coming ;)

Apparently the photos dont do the paint job justice but i'll hopefully take some that do when i get my hands on it ;) Still looks stunnign in my opinion though :D

http://img75.exs.cx/img75/6889/DSCF0272.th.jpg (http://img75.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img75&image=DSCF0272.jpg)
http://img75.exs.cx/img75/4319/DSCF0271.th.jpg (http://img75.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img75&image=DSCF0271.jpg)
http://img75.exs.cx/img75/9098/DSCF0270.th.jpg (http://img75.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img75&image=DSCF0270.jpg)

[No.1]

Hmmm... i am sure it looks better with the naked eye :D It seems a bit too blueish in those pics :|

Shame about the delay, but it will be worth it 8)

[Toronto]

NICE :D

just on a side note the mac G5 laptops are coming out around new years, so then would be the time to buy the G4 power books.

[mindgam3]

Hmmm... i am sure it looks better with the naked eye :D It seems a bit too blueish in those pics :|

Shame about the delay, but it will be worth it 8)

Bit too blueish, what do ya mean?

Its supposed to look like this, and considering the photos were taken at night with artificial lighting it looks like a pretty good match.... we'll see when it actually comes, cant wait ;)

http://www.ferrari.co.uk/collection/360_spider/images/design_4.jpg

[No.1]

I meant that we couldn't see too many high-lights on it, but i guss that is because the car has so many complex curves for relections etc... :wink:


I think you are right about the artificial light too :D

[mindgam3]

photo update. My dads taken some pics at home (at the top of the page) i think it looks gorgeous!

Cant wait for him to bring it down on sunday :D

[mindgam3]

Some 3D Mark benchmarks (with Norton Antivirus running in the background)

Not bad for a laptop, especially considering the benchmarks are mainly based on graphics cards

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