Technology Review: AVADirect Clevo P157SM-A assessment

This Clevo P157SM is to be had clothed in customized configurations from AVADirect and other vendors. It is the fastest 15.6″ notebook to be had in our day featuring an Intel foundation i7 quad-core workstation, Nvidia GTX 880M 8GB graphics tag and up to three luggage compartment drives.

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Build and Design

Front 1The P157SM breaks Clevo’s reputation in favor of offering generic ashen box notebooks; it has a backlit grand piano clothed in multiple ensign, illuminated logo clothed in the touchpad and a rubberized palm take a break and lid. It won’t win several design awards but is a step clothed in the due direction.

The armature is gigantic and blocky; it measures a generous 1.8 inches thick and tests the scales by the side of 7.3 pounds. The build quality is in relation to be more or less; near is particular warm up evident clothed in the armature and the plastics used concoct a hollow sound as soon as tapped. The lid’s hinges are compelling but may well assistance additional protection; I was able to follow ripples to appear clothed in the demonstrate by vital clothed in on the back. Fit and come to an end on the other hired hand is able; the gaps sandwiched between parts appear even and edges are finished smoothly.

BottomAccessing the P157SM’s internals is a trouble-free situation: The two panels under the armature provide access to the luggage compartment drives, two SO-DIMM slots in favor of remembrance, the wireless tag and workstation and graphics tag heatsinks. This might be present additional of a “desktop replacement” than a “laptop” but by the side of smallest amount you maintain absolute access in favor of upgrades and DIY service.



Input and Output Ports

The P157SM has an exceptional selection of ports together with USB 3.0, eSATA, HDMI, regular DisplayPort and mini DisplayPort. All picture descriptions are gone to due.

Gone: IEEE-1394 mini Firewire, Ethernet, 2x USB 3.0, USB 2.0/eSATA combo, media tag bookworm


Due: Optical drive, earphone, microphone, S/PDIF, line clothed in, USB 2.0, Kensington lock slot

Back: Cooling exhaust vent, DisplayPort, HDMI, mini DisplayPort, AC power jack, cooling exhaust vent



The single demonstrate to be had on the P157SM is a 1080p (1920×1080 pixels) shape with an anti-glare facade. It’s upbeat and masses colorful with ample contrast. There’s masses of tenacity to exert yourself with two windows side-by-side and the anti-glare facade reduces unwelcome reflections. The lone downside of this panel is with the aim of it uses TN (Twisted Nematic) machinery; the viewing angles to the same degree a answer are narrow. Look by the side of this demonstrate straight on in favor of the top viewing experience.


Two built-in speakers are located beneath the demonstrate; there’s in addition a lesser subwoofer on the floor of the armature. The setup produces fuller sound than likely from a notebook, sufficient to fill a lesser space.

Grand piano and Touchpad

KeyboardThe P157SM’s full-size grand piano has traditionally-styled keys and includes a separate numeric keypad. It is backlit with three separate lighting zones; the gone, base and central of the grand piano can be present misused to several single of eight ensign. The backlighting can in addition be present ready to die on and inedible amongst several other patterns.

The grand piano has an overall up feel; it’s somewhat rubbery but ease and there’s sufficient input travel to provide sufficient tactile response. There’s next to rebuff warm up. Although Clevo is getting better by the side of grand piano landscape (this single has out-and-out PgUp and PgDn keys), it’s still a slight inedible. The land of your birth and last part keys are integrated to the same degree secondary functions into the out-and-out PgUp and PgDn keys, but the Fn input which ought to be present short of clothed in conjunction is located on the due periphery of the grand piano; it doesn’t concoct intuit. The grand piano alignment is in addition inedible; I found myself missing necessary shortcuts such to the same degree [Alt] + [Tab] to switch applications, hitting the spacebar as a substitute of [Alt]. It took a while to follow used to.

TouchpadThe oversized touchpad is located exactly gone of base and includes two out-and-out buttons. Its anti-glare facade provides stutter-free tracking and has a cool embedded backlit logo. The two out-and-out touchpad buttons maintain the same rubberized coating like the palm take a break and lid; their tactile response is sufficient, but circumvent vital them if you’re wearisome to preserve a low profile clothed in a ease natural world since they concoct a loud click as soon as short of. An integrated fingerprint bookworm resides sandwiched between the buttons.