carnifexor

I am an owner of an m14x albeit an older one. The chasis are made well and there some niceties, but one major pain point is the amount of work and management required from a driver perspective. Dell has to much proprietary for my comfort. There are other Clevo builds that that are comparable with Alienware. A close friend of mine purchased (a few years back) a Clevo W230ST (CLEVO - Products) and for a 12 inch IPS display laptop the amount of customizing you can do is quite amazing. I had a chance to work within the chassis, and it was far easier and more customizable than my M14x by a long shot.

I have been waiting on replacing my aging M14x r1, which I've replaced the Samsung 830 with an 840 Pro, until NVMe controller PCIx based storage becomes available in the retail world for pc's and laptops. It's currently available in the commercial world and Samsung does have a model available for it X1715 I know the architecture and speed potential for the storage controller type and architecture will double or quadruple (or more) current SSD speeds. I'm curious what other's thoughts are as to when we may see this in high end laptops? Samsung has an XS1715 to illustrate as an example - link goes to a press-release: Samsung Unveils New Solid State Drives at its Annual SSD Global Summit | Samsung Semiconductor Globa. My guess is EOY 2015. Would it be worth the wait or move to a generation in between? Not sure how fast this might reach consumer level.