Schenker XMG U505 (Clevo P751ZM) Notebook Review

[Redaktion]

Desktop competition. A desktop processor in a 15-inch notebook, can that work? This is the question for the Schenker XMG U505. We review the high-end device with a GeForce GTX 970M and a 65 Watts CPU.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Schenker-XMG-U505-Clevo-P751ZM-Notebook-Review.134638.0.html

[Andy Kim]

Hansung Computer co. sells Clevo laptops in South Korea, and actually users prefer non-Optimus than Optimus.
...and Korean version of it contains Xeon E3-1231 v3!

[Excellent Cooling System]

It really looks like an excellent cooling system in this notebook, which they've had to implement to deal with the large amount of heat from DESKTOP CPU; however, you can see from the review that there is barely any added performance from that particular desktop processor vs the baseline i7-4710HQ mobile CPU.  If only they would have kept the fantastic cooling system, and then decided to marry it with high end overclockable & unlocked mobile CPUs, then temperatures, overclockability, and performance would have been mighty impressive & useful.  Unless the use of a desktop CPU allows for upgradeability with future generations of CPU then there is no point to having a desktop CPU in this configuration.  Anyone know if this laptop will be upgradeable with future architectural generations of CPU further down the line?  (Actually, this is a good question for the author of this article if you're reading this.)

[RidingTheFlow]

Its good Clevo still gives a choice without Optimus. When laptop is mostly used with PSU (and disconnected just to transport), it does not matter much - but with direct GPU connectivity you get less frame lag, and more features like G-sync support.
Also I like that the cooling system on it is pretty beefy and solid.

[Florian Glaser]

@ Excellent Cooling System

The german schenker homepage says that the fifth intel core generation (broadwell) will probably be supported, but they are not quite sure yet.

[Excellent Cooling System]

Thanks for the answer Florian, for their sake I hope they support Broadwell, couldn't see a reason to get a laptop with desktop CPU otherwise as performance is not wildly different - the only reason would be future upgradeability to later generations, which is not possible with mobile CPUs IIRC.

[Art B]

Look not all people that buy this laptop use it for gaming 100% of the time, what most people don't say is how much better a desktop CPU is for rendering and running other demanding tasks that a mobile CPU just cannot do very well.
Bravo to CLEVO for actually having the balls to make this laptop happen, even more so with a excellent cooling solution.
Incredible!

[Fabio7914]

I just bought this pc and I am quite upset. I have bought the configuration with 32 GB RAM to discover that if you put windows 7 home premium it uses only 16! I need it for 3D simulations and I spent more than 2000 pounds. I have also realized that all the softwares included in the cd given with the package do not work because windows 7 is not supported! I cannot use fingerprint and I cannot control the sound nothing at all. They have assembled a pc without advicing that with windows 7 you don't have even the drivers????

[Fabio7914]

Update on my previous email. I wrote to support that answered me very fast and in a detailed manner. They will probably put an advice on the website to avoid people choosing windows 7 home with 32 GB ram. However is possible to upgrade to windows 8 or free to windows 10 and this will solve the issue. Regarding the drivers they just forgot the cd for windows 7. Drivers can be installed from a link on their website.

I am much more happy now and I am happy I found a so vauable support from Schenker.