Plagiarism. It was time for a new laptop. I’m a gamer as well as an end user of many softwares including CAD and CGI. My Toshiba’s been great but the NVIDIA was getting too old for the newer games and softwares. And, Toshiba’s relationship with NVIDIA is on and off. By this time it was off. Time to shop a different brand. And, to practice what I preach, an American brand was the way to go. I found one. Digital Storm (DS). I ordered the “HARKER” model. What a masculine name with seemingly great components. Their Website allowed me to customize it the way I wanted as well. This is my config: “Chassis Model: Digital Storm Harker 17.3 Inch Laptop (Model: S: 9172) Display: NVIDIA G-Sync - 17.3 Inch (1920 x 1080) IPS LED-Backlit Display (Anti-glare) Screen Calibration: Custom Color Calibration Monitor Profile by Professional Sensor ToolProcessor: Intel Core i7-7700K 4.2 GHz (Codename Kaby Lake) (Unlocked CPU) (Quad Core)Memory: 32GB DDR4 2400MHz; Storage Drive 1: SSD - 2TB Samsung 850 PROStorage Drive 2: Hard Disk - 1TB 7200RPM (SATA 3 GB/s)Wireless Card: Killer Dual Band Wireless-AC 1535 + Bluetooth (M.2 Socket)Graphics Card(s): GeForce GTX 1080 8GB (Desktop Class) (VR Ready) (NVIDIA G-Sync)Windows OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Professional (64-Bit Edition)”The cost: $5,077.29.Additionally, they’re located close enough to my work environment so I picked it up when it was ready. This was great. I get to see behind the wizard’s curtain where all the magic happened. Normally consumers don’t get this opportunity but I was looking forward to this. I was also looking forward to the heavy-duty, HD quality gaming experience. I could finally use all the max graphic and memory settings with no frame rate concerns. Wow it even looked fast before the first startup. So confident was I about DS, that I already gifted away my 2013, $2,373.79, Toshiba Qosmio X970 with its puny NVIDA GTX 670M 3GB. And, the Harker didn’t disappoint either. It was fast. I went from a Geo Metro, to a Bugatti Veyron. That is, till it crashed within the first few days. Then, the tech support. By the way, the best tech support is the one you never have to use. Hence the purpose of configuring and paying what I did. This time my strategy didn’t work. While dealing with DS to get this machine right, I found out this isn’t even their Laptop. It’s a Sager, NP9172. DS takes this and re-sells it as their own. That is, after they incompetently configure it. How did I find out about DS plagiarizing someone else’s work? When I needed a part DS had to admit it and gave me Sager’s tech support number.
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