MY FIRST TIME BUYING A GAMING LAPTOP

My business partner and I decided to buy a laptop for work and it was Hive account@myfirsttime buying a Gaming Laptop. You might be thinking we play games but I don't - maybe my business partner does but I certainly believe in using my time more efficiently and playing games is not (unless it's done occasionally in a group of friends).

So the laptop we decided to buy was a Metabox - maybe some of you haven't heard of them before but they build a custom laptops based on your specs.

Our specs were:

 Metabox Prime-S P950HP 

RAM: 16GB DDR4 2400MHz (1x16GB)

M.2 SSD 1: Intel 600p 512GB M.2 PCIe SSD

Hard Drive 1: Not Installed

WiFi: Intel 8265 AC Dual Band Wireless/BT 4.2 (up to 867 Mbps) 

It costed around $2k and it's money worth spent.

The laptop has it's pros and cons. There's too many pros to list but I decided to list a few cons:

Fan is loud - when I boot up the laptop the fan start spinning. I believe it shouldn't be spinning until it reaches a certain temperature so I've emailed them to see if this is a bug

Big - the laptop is thin but big (15") and just nicely fits in my backpack. It's pretty light but found that it can be a bit heavy when also carrying the power supply

No docking station - the unit doesn't have any docking stations. So when I transport the laptop between the office and home, I have to connect and disconnect 6 cables (power, 2 video cables, 3 usb) - this can be a pain if done everyday

Spare power supply - the cost of a spare power supply comes to $149. I'm looking at buying a spare one so I don't have to carry it between home and the office but it's pretty expensive and finding an after market unit on ebay is almost impossible. The specs of the power supply is 150W, 19V, 7.89A AC Barrel 5.5/2.5mm

Here's a picture of the Metabox:

Do you use a gaming laptop for work?