Avon Laptop Ordered

Finally pulled the trigger today after much thought and consideration for my 2nd Digital Storm purchase. I ordered a Avon laptop today to replace a 2011 laptop that is quickly going on me.

I checked out 4 reviews (3 written , 1 video)...the major CONs they all agreed on were the speakers are terrible, two of the reviews said they are honestly the worst speakers they've ever heard of any laptop, gaming or otherwise. Another con was the power draw -- with battery life in real life tests only proving to be about 2 hours from a full charge. Then there was a third CON the position of the touch pad is said to be awkward and its often touched while typing.

But I ordered it anyway because...1) I bought a desktop PC from Digital Storm 3 years ago, its beautiful and to this day still works very well for me. In fact I'm going to do small upgrades with it (upgrading RAM and Storage -- likely in Oct). The build quality of the desktop is excellent and the service I got with that purchase was very good...so that's why I came back to DS for the laptop.

2)The speakers issue does bum me out a bit and I'll be honest I am thinking "Really DS you got all this bad feedback on the speakers for the old model Avon and its still not fixed on the 2020 model? Seriously guys?" BUT...80% of the time I use my headset anyway while gaming on my current laptop...so The speakers aren't a deal breaker.

3) The touch pad. Almost a non issue - I hate track pads , with a passion...on ANY laptop. I will disable it and stick to my gaming mouse.

4) The battery life .... Non issue. I agree with most of the reviews I read for the Avon anyway ... what serious gamer actually believes a decent powered gaming laptop will have great battery life. My laptops are almost always plugged in while gaming.

5) Besides the three CONS all the reviews liked the build quality, said the screen was very nice, the power was very good and I'm getting 32 gb RAM with a 2080 Super . So yeah I'm looking forward to it.

My current laptop (the one that's slowly dying I think) is a Sony Vaio . Its built well and served me very well for 9 years. But it will shutdown automatically when playing games for longer than 2 hours, I use it for sound effects in my Dungeons and Dragons games and the screen will randomly blank out, etc. Anyway 6 GB RAM, so I'm increasing that 6 fold! and its a 4 core processor 1.74 ghz, ...new laptop is 8 cores and can power up to 5 ghz. Finally the sony has a 330m nvidia (if you know about that its a fairly ancient mobile solution -- it doesn't really support anything well in the last couple years, I mean less graphic intense games will run on it, but you ain't running high or ultra settings...even WoW will challenge my Sony on more recent expansions)...

Any way just sharing my excitement and my reasoning on the purchase (not that you care, or anyone needs to justify their purcahse LOL) .

I should see a massive performance difference with the new laptop.



Edited by Tomsal74 - 29 Aug 2020 at 3:30pm