**Hands-On Review: Meta Box PA 7700G Laptop**

In this review, we'll take an in-depth look at the Meta Box PA 7700G laptop, a powerful machine that's designed to handle demanding tasks and games. As I mentioned earlier, this laptop seems to meet a lot of CPU power even with the 7700HQ processor, which is impressive considering its specifications. However, my experience was mixed - while it was quite playable at very high or lower ultra settings, I found it getting a little too slow for my liking at maximum settings.

The PA 7700G laptop comes equipped with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GPU, which is a beast of a card that's capable of handling demanding games and applications. While it may seem like overkill for 1080p gaming, the results from Heaven Benchmark and Valley Benchmark demonstrate its prowess - setting tessellation to extreme and anti-aliasing to 8x, we saw scores of 13,146 and 5,131 respectively in 3DMark. These results are certainly impressive, and it's clear that this laptop is capable of running many games at maximum settings above 60 FPS.

However, as I mentioned earlier, the presence of a 60Hz panel may be a limitation for some users - even with maximum settings, we're producing frames that will never be displayed. Additionally, while the PA 7700G laptop is certainly powerful, it's worth considering whether the GTX 1070 is the right choice for 1080p gaming. I personally find the GTX 1062 to be a better sweet spot for 1080p gaming, and the GTX 1070 may be overkill for this resolution.

**Benchmarking Results**

To give you a better idea of the PA 7700G laptop's capabilities, let's take a look at some benchmarking results. In Heaven Benchmark, with tessellation set to extreme and anti-aliasing set to 8x, we saw a score of 13,146. This is certainly impressive, but it's worth noting that these results may not be entirely practical in the real world - after all, frames per second don't always translate directly to smooth, playable performance.

In Valley Benchmark, with anti-aliasing set to 8x, we saw a score of 5,131. Again, this is certainly impressive, but it's worth considering that our test was conducted at maximum settings and with a relatively high refresh rate - the results may vary in real-world usage.

**Storage and Display**

The PA 7700G laptop also features a range of storage options - we're looking at a single 512GB SSD, which performed around 554 megabytes per second for sequential reads and 268 megabytes per second for sequential writes. This is to be expected from a modern SATA III-based SSD, but it's worth noting that our test results were slightly lower than average.

In terms of display options, the PA 7700G laptop features a range of choices - including a 60Hz panel with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GPU. While this may seem like overkill for most users, the results from our benchmarking tests demonstrate its capabilities. If you're looking to upgrade the display to a higher refresh rate, such as a 120Hz or 144Hz panel, we can expect to see some compromises on frame rates - but it's worth noting that an external display with a faster refresh rate could help better utilize this powerful GPU.

**Conclusion**

Overall, I'm pretty impressed with the PA 7700G laptop from Meta Box. While the 17-inch form factor may not be for everyone, the laptop's thin and powerful design makes it easy to take on the go. The addition of a range of storage options and display choices further enhances its appeal - and while our benchmarking results demonstrate its capabilities, we should also consider whether the GTX 1070 is the right choice for 1080p gaming.

**Specs and Pricing**

The PA 7700G laptop starts at $2,389 Australian dollars with a kit of 16GB of RAM, a 1TB hard drive, and no operating system. This brings the price down to around $1870 US dollars, after applying a 10% GST discount.

As you can see from our custom configurator tool, there are many options available for upgrading this laptop - including adding more storage, increasing the amount of RAM, or even swapping out the hard drive for an SSD. While we didn't get to test any of these upgrades ourselves, it's clear that users will have plenty of flexibility when building their own PA 7700G laptop.

**Conclusion**

Overall, I found myself reconsidering my initial reservations about the 17-inch form factor - this laptop is surprisingly thin and powerful, making it easy to take on the go. While our benchmarking results demonstrate its capabilities, we should also consider whether the GTX 1070 is the right choice for 1080p gaming.

Ultimately, I think the PA 7700G laptop from Meta Box is a great option for anyone looking for a powerful machine that can handle demanding tasks and games. With a range of storage options and display choices available, users will have plenty of flexibility to customize their own laptop - and with its thin and portable design, it's easy to take on the go.

**Rating: 4.5/5**

Overall, I'd give the PA 7700G laptop from Meta Box a solid 4.5 out of 5 stars. While our benchmarking results demonstrate its capabilities, there are some compromises on display options that may be worth considering - but overall, this is a powerful and flexible machine that's sure to appeal to users with demanding needs.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys Jarrod here and today we're going to check out the PA 7 th s - G laptop from meta box's Primus series and find out what it's got to offer as well as how it performs in a range of gaming benchmarks meta box are an Australian company who specialize in high-end custom laptops basically you pick the model you're after and then you can customize it to get it how you want inside the box we've got a slim power brick and cable instruction manual warranty information driver CD and of course the laptop itself first we'll cover the basic specs of the laptop but keep in mind you can customize these quite a bit when ordering online to meet your requirements so you might end up with something a little different in this configuration there's an Intel 7700 HQ CPU which is a quad-core KB Lake chip running at 2.8 gigahertz that can tumble up to 3.8 gigahertz there's sixteen gigabytes of ddr4 ram running at 2400 megahertz and for storage there's a 256 gigabyte SK Hynix SATA 3 m2 SSD which is running Windows 10 Berger and a one terabyte 5400 rpm Seagate Drive for additional storage for the graphics as an nvidia geforce gtx 1070 with eight gigabytes of memory and we'll see how that goes with the 17.3 inch IPS WV a 60 Hertz 1080p panel more on that in the benchmarks for the network connectivity there's a built-in Gigabit Ethernet port and Intel three one six eight AC dual band Wi-Fi and it also supports Bluetooth 4.0 all of this hardware is sitting inside a clever body which has the usual black metallic look to it the aluminium alloy body of the laptop booth looks and feels great the build of these laptops has definitely improved from the ones I started reviewing over 18 months ago the physical dimensions of the laptop of 41.8 5 centimeters in width twenty eight point seven centimeters in depth and just two point four nine centimeters in height so the laptop is fairly thin considering the 1070 graphics inside the total weight of the base model with battery is advertised at three kilos however this can vary based on your hardware selection my particular configuration with the additional hard drive weighs three point zero five kilos and with the power brick and cable the total increases to just under four kilos so it's not too bad for a 17 inch laptop compared to others that i've looked at as i've come to expect from metabolics laptops the screen looks quite nice as mentioned it's a 1080p 60 Hertz IPS panel you can optionally upgrade to 1440p or 4k that in my experience 4k doesn't look that great with windows due to scaling issues even at 17 inches as we'll see in the benchmarks at this resolution the 1070 rips through most games so you could probably upgrade to the 120 Hertz 1440p panel which may be a better match for the 1070 regardless of the panel type you choose g-sync should be available I've performed my usual backlight bleed test on the display which involves having the laptop show a completely black screen in a dark room to help emphasize any bleeding around the edges I then take a long exposure photo with my camera to help display any bleed so basically this is a worst-case scenario test that's just a tiny bit of believed but it's fairly minor and I couldn't notice it while using the laptop normally though your results may vary the brightness of the screen can be adjusted quite a bit and the viewing angles are pretty good no matter what angle I view the screen from I can clearly see all colors and details without any issues thanks to the IPS panel the surface of the screen has a matte finish to it which I personally prefers you can more easily see what you're doing despite your lighting situation as reflections will be harder to see while moving the lid I only found a tiny bit of flex I found it quite sturdy above the display is an inbuilt 2 megapixel camera which is capable of full HD 1080p video as expected the quality isn't anything too special but it's not too bad with some good lighting I think in the microphone sounds pretty good but I'll let you judge for yourself the cable it's been great I like the smooth texture of the keys and overall enjoyed typing on it the case don't make too much noise and feel nice to press it's a full sized keyboard with numpad and all of the keys are RGB backlit allowing you to customize the overall look although you can only customise groups of keys together rather than the lighting of individual keys I only found a small amount of keyboard flex when pushing down quite hard so it's not a problem and it's fine under normal use the touchpad was great to use too it worked perfectly right to all edges there's two physical left and right buttons at the bottom which are clicky but not too loud and the fingerprint scanner is found towards the top left corner of the touchpad there's a couple of built-in front-facing speakers just under the display and toe small subwoofers underneath the laptop although they look a little small they actually sound pretty decent as far as laptop sound goes now let's check out the available iron on the left there's the DC power input HDMI 2.0 port 2 mini DisplayPort 1 point three outputs USB 3.1 gen2 type-c port with Thunderbolt three support and two USB 3.1 gen2 on type-a ports over on the right there's 3.5 millimeter headphone mic and spdif Jack's SD card reader 2 more USB 3.1 gen2 on type-a ports one of which is powered a Gigabit Ethernet port and Kensington lock as the body of the laptop is fairly thin the Ethernet port needs to be pulled down to access it the front only features some basic status LEDs while the back has nothing except some air exhaust vents the lid has some slight grooves on it as well as the meta box branding and can easily be opened with one finger underneath there's some air intakes to keep everything cool as well as some rubber feet which both stop the laptop from moving around on flat surfaces when in use and also raise it up slightly to help let cool air in and as mentioned before we've also got the two subwoofers here there's a four sell 66 watt hour battery and with a full charge in doing basic tasks such as browsing the internet and watching YouTube with the screen on around half brightness keyboard lighting off and background apps disabled I was able to use it for two hours and 45 minutes while playing The Witcher 3 with medium settings within videos battery boost enabled the battery lost at 1 hour in 12 minutes so it did pretty well remember this always going to be a trade-off between battery size and laptop size and although this laptop is on the thinner side the 17 inch form factor gives it more battery space over its 15-inch counterparts I didn't have any major issues with the temperatures which I was a little concerned about considering the specs in such a thin laptop with limited cooling space during normal use with an ambient room temperature of 20 degrees Celsius the CPU idled at 42 degrees Celsius while the GPU old at 38 during benchmarking with the same room temperature the CPU reached a maximum of 88 degrees Celsius while the GPU peaked at 78 however it's worth noting that the max CPU temp dropped around 15 degrees Celsius while the GPU was idle I left the tests going for around an hour and the temps it stabilized by that time the laptop was quite warm to the touch up behind the keyboard which should be fine as you don't normally put your hands there anyway it also got quite warm underneath towards the back I also found the laptop to be fairly quiet at idle they're quite loud under full load which is to be expected based on the high-end specs inside such a thin foam factor at idle thats at around the 35.8 decibel mark and I could barely hear it while running my bench so it went up to fifty two point nine decibels and when I manually maxed out the fans had peaked at around fifty six decibels I'll also note here that there was no noticeable coil whine finally let's take a look at some benchmarks well first cover some real-world gaming benchmarks followed by tests with various benchmarking tools all tests will run the 1080p resolution with all windows and Nvidia updates to date installed in player unknowns battlegrounds like a great performance even at Ultra settings which still managed to stay above 60 FPS though of course the framerate can dip down quite a bit depending on what's going on the more people in the area fighting the local guard in battlefield one with DirectX 11 we're again getting really good frame rates even at maximum settings even the minimums are still quite high the game was always nice and smooth and played great in the witcher 3 with facing and how works disabled we're getting a really great experience even at Ultra settings with average frame rates well above 60fps even the minimum frame rates are in that area watchdogs to also did quite well in general I found this one to require decent resources to get a good experience and even at Ultra settings the game was very playable as usual shadow of Mordor is easily able to get really high frame rates even at Ultra settings on average we're pushing over a hundred frames per second with minimum still above 60 at the worst case doom also did well here even at maximum settings we averaged over 100 FPS and the minimums weren't too far behind it was a smooth experience all round ashes of the singularity is another one that seems to like CPU in this case I've tested both DirectX 11 and 12 and we can see that we get pretty good frame rates with extreme settings in blur with DirectX 12 giving us a little boost over eleven rise of the Tomb Raider managed to maintain high average frame rates however I found some of the minimums to be quite low during the benchmarking process as with ashes of the singularity I also found that DirectX 12 gave a nice little performance boost when compared with DirectX 11 grace story cone is another one of those games that seems to meet a lot of CPU power even with the 7700 HQ I found it quite playable at very high or lower ultra was alright that stopped getting a little too slow for my liking there now on to the benchmarking tools while a useful indicator not that these results are less practical compared to the real world gaming results previously shown here are the results from heaven benchmark with the tessellation set to extreme and anti-aliasing set to ight and here are the results from valley benchmark with the anti-aliasing also set to 8 and birth did fairly I Ren Bertha five strike and times by benchmarks from 3dmark and got scores of thirteen thousand one hundred and forty six and five thousand one hundred thirty one respectively pretty nice for a laptop so we've seen that the laptop is capable of running many games at maximum settings above 60 fps which is great however it's worth considering that we've only got a 60 Hertz panel here so in most cases even a maximum settings we're producing frames that will never be displayed I've mentioned in the past that I found invidious 1062 be in my sweet spot for 1080p gaming and personally I find the 1070 a little overkill for 1080p sure you can run most games at max settings and maintain above 60 fps but I think getting a panel with a faster refresh rate could be worthwhile to take advantage of those extra frames as mentioned earlier you can upgrade the display to a 120 Hertz 1440p panel however the increased resolution will in turn lower the frame rate and does I don't have that panel here to test I can't say if the frame rate will still be high enough to make use of the 120 Hertz panel otherwise I could see the laptop being paired with an external display with higher refresh rate as a possible option - which could help better utilize that 1070 in crystal this month the SSD performed around 554 megabytes per second and sequential reads and 268 megabytes per second in sequential writes this is to be expected from a modern SATA 3 based SSD although the writes are a little lower with this specific Linux model you can optionally upgrade to a faster pcie-based SSD which will further improve speed significantly or at a second MDOT - Drive there's also a 2.5 inch drive bay which as mentioned contains a one terabyte hard drive it only gets around 127 megabytes per second in sequential reads and 120 megabytes per second in sequential writes which is about all you're going to get from a 5400 rpm drive the laptop comes with a two-year warranty with the option of extending to 3 years and in the past I found dealing with meta box support to be a great experience overall they're based in Perth Australia and have been helpful over the phone when troubleshooting a problem overall I'm pretty impressed with this laptop and while I'm generally not a fan of 17 inch laptops due to the larger size and weight this one wasn't really a problem owing to the fairly thin form factor and I wouldn't mind taking it with me while travelling if I really wanted to do some gaming it certainly got the horsepower and pretty good battery life considering the specs personally I find it hard to justify the 1070 with a 1080p 60 Hertz panel if you're going to use it with an external monitor with higher refresh rate you should be set otherwise you could save some money and look at the model below it the PA 70 HP - G which is essentially the same but with a 1060 instead though of course the 1070 could be more future-proof as games over the coming years need more graphics power to run so it's your call the PA 7 EHS - G laptop with base configuration starts at two thousand three hundred and eighty nine Australian dollars with a kikah bytes of RAM the one terabyte disk removed and no operating system at the time of recording so about 1870 US Dollars my international viewers and then take off ten percent of that for GST many of the components can be further upgraded to suit your needs so the final price will depend on your custom selection you can check out their website at Mehta box.com today you customize your own laptop based on what you're after and I've left a link in the video description for this specific model so what did you guys think about the PA 7 th s - gee laptop from meta box I found myself reconsidering the 17 inch form factor when it's this thin and powerful but I want to hear what you guys think down in the comments or simply leave a like or dislike on the video to let me know what you thought thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe for future tech videos like this onehey guys Jarrod here and today we're going to check out the PA 7 th s - G laptop from meta box's Primus series and find out what it's got to offer as well as how it performs in a range of gaming benchmarks meta box are an Australian company who specialize in high-end custom laptops basically you pick the model you're after and then you can customize it to get it how you want inside the box we've got a slim power brick and cable instruction manual warranty information driver CD and of course the laptop itself first we'll cover the basic specs of the laptop but keep in mind you can customize these quite a bit when ordering online to meet your requirements so you might end up with something a little different in this configuration there's an Intel 7700 HQ CPU which is a quad-core KB Lake chip running at 2.8 gigahertz that can tumble up to 3.8 gigahertz there's sixteen gigabytes of ddr4 ram running at 2400 megahertz and for storage there's a 256 gigabyte SK Hynix SATA 3 m2 SSD which is running Windows 10 Berger and a one terabyte 5400 rpm Seagate Drive for additional storage for the graphics as an nvidia geforce gtx 1070 with eight gigabytes of memory and we'll see how that goes with the 17.3 inch IPS WV a 60 Hertz 1080p panel more on that in the benchmarks for the network connectivity there's a built-in Gigabit Ethernet port and Intel three one six eight AC dual band Wi-Fi and it also supports Bluetooth 4.0 all of this hardware is sitting inside a clever body which has the usual black metallic look to it the aluminium alloy body of the laptop booth looks and feels great the build of these laptops has definitely improved from the ones I started reviewing over 18 months ago the physical dimensions of the laptop of 41.8 5 centimeters in width twenty eight point seven centimeters in depth and just two point four nine centimeters in height so the laptop is fairly thin considering the 1070 graphics inside the total weight of the base model with battery is advertised at three kilos however this can vary based on your hardware selection my particular configuration with the additional hard drive weighs three point zero five kilos and with the power brick and cable the total increases to just under four kilos so it's not too bad for a 17 inch laptop compared to others that i've looked at as i've come to expect from metabolics laptops the screen looks quite nice as mentioned it's a 1080p 60 Hertz IPS panel you can optionally upgrade to 1440p or 4k that in my experience 4k doesn't look that great with windows due to scaling issues even at 17 inches as we'll see in the benchmarks at this resolution the 1070 rips through most games so you could probably upgrade to the 120 Hertz 1440p panel which may be a better match for the 1070 regardless of the panel type you choose g-sync should be available I've performed my usual backlight bleed test on the display which involves having the laptop show a completely black screen in a dark room to help emphasize any bleeding around the edges I then take a long exposure photo with my camera to help display any bleed so basically this is a worst-case scenario test that's just a tiny bit of believed but it's fairly minor and I couldn't notice it while using the laptop normally though your results may vary the brightness of the screen can be adjusted quite a bit and the viewing angles are pretty good no matter what angle I view the screen from I can clearly see all colors and details without any issues thanks to the IPS panel the surface of the screen has a matte finish to it which I personally prefers you can more easily see what you're doing despite your lighting situation as reflections will be harder to see while moving the lid I only found a tiny bit of flex I found it quite sturdy above the display is an inbuilt 2 megapixel camera which is capable of full HD 1080p video as expected the quality isn't anything too special but it's not too bad with some good lighting I think in the microphone sounds pretty good but I'll let you judge for yourself the cable it's been great I like the smooth texture of the keys and overall enjoyed typing on it the case don't make too much noise and feel nice to press it's a full sized keyboard with numpad and all of the keys are RGB backlit allowing you to customize the overall look although you can only customise groups of keys together rather than the lighting of individual keys I only found a small amount of keyboard flex when pushing down quite hard so it's not a problem and it's fine under normal use the touchpad was great to use too it worked perfectly right to all edges there's two physical left and right buttons at the bottom which are clicky but not too loud and the fingerprint scanner is found towards the top left corner of the touchpad there's a couple of built-in front-facing speakers just under the display and toe small subwoofers underneath the laptop although they look a little small they actually sound pretty decent as far as laptop sound goes now let's check out the available iron on the left there's the DC power input HDMI 2.0 port 2 mini DisplayPort 1 point three outputs USB 3.1 gen2 type-c port with Thunderbolt three support and two USB 3.1 gen2 on type-a ports over on the right there's 3.5 millimeter headphone mic and spdif Jack's SD card reader 2 more USB 3.1 gen2 on type-a ports one of which is powered a Gigabit Ethernet port and Kensington lock as the body of the laptop is fairly thin the Ethernet port needs to be pulled down to access it the front only features some basic status LEDs while the back has nothing except some air exhaust vents the lid has some slight grooves on it as well as the meta box branding and can easily be opened with one finger underneath there's some air intakes to keep everything cool as well as some rubber feet which both stop the laptop from moving around on flat surfaces when in use and also raise it up slightly to help let cool air in and as mentioned before we've also got the two subwoofers here there's a four sell 66 watt hour battery and with a full charge in doing basic tasks such as browsing the internet and watching YouTube with the screen on around half brightness keyboard lighting off and background apps disabled I was able to use it for two hours and 45 minutes while playing The Witcher 3 with medium settings within videos battery boost enabled the battery lost at 1 hour in 12 minutes so it did pretty well remember this always going to be a trade-off between battery size and laptop size and although this laptop is on the thinner side the 17 inch form factor gives it more battery space over its 15-inch counterparts I didn't have any major issues with the temperatures which I was a little concerned about considering the specs in such a thin laptop with limited cooling space during normal use with an ambient room temperature of 20 degrees Celsius the CPU idled at 42 degrees Celsius while the GPU old at 38 during benchmarking with the same room temperature the CPU reached a maximum of 88 degrees Celsius while the GPU peaked at 78 however it's worth noting that the max CPU temp dropped around 15 degrees Celsius while the GPU was idle I left the tests going for around an hour and the temps it stabilized by that time the laptop was quite warm to the touch up behind the keyboard which should be fine as you don't normally put your hands there anyway it also got quite warm underneath towards the back I also found the laptop to be fairly quiet at idle they're quite loud under full load which is to be expected based on the high-end specs inside such a thin foam factor at idle thats at around the 35.8 decibel mark and I could barely hear it while running my bench so it went up to fifty two point nine decibels and when I manually maxed out the fans had peaked at around fifty six decibels I'll also note here that there was no noticeable coil whine finally let's take a look at some benchmarks well first cover some real-world gaming benchmarks followed by tests with various benchmarking tools all tests will run the 1080p resolution with all windows and Nvidia updates to date installed in player unknowns battlegrounds like a great performance even at Ultra settings which still managed to stay above 60 FPS though of course the framerate can dip down quite a bit depending on what's going on the more people in the area fighting the local guard in battlefield one with DirectX 11 we're again getting really good frame rates even at maximum settings even the minimums are still quite high the game was always nice and smooth and played great in the witcher 3 with facing and how works disabled we're getting a really great experience even at Ultra settings with average frame rates well above 60fps even the minimum frame rates are in that area watchdogs to also did quite well in general I found this one to require decent resources to get a good experience and even at Ultra settings the game was very playable as usual shadow of Mordor is easily able to get really high frame rates even at Ultra settings on average we're pushing over a hundred frames per second with minimum still above 60 at the worst case doom also did well here even at maximum settings we averaged over 100 FPS and the minimums weren't too far behind it was a smooth experience all round ashes of the singularity is another one that seems to like CPU in this case I've tested both DirectX 11 and 12 and we can see that we get pretty good frame rates with extreme settings in blur with DirectX 12 giving us a little boost over eleven rise of the Tomb Raider managed to maintain high average frame rates however I found some of the minimums to be quite low during the benchmarking process as with ashes of the singularity I also found that DirectX 12 gave a nice little performance boost when compared with DirectX 11 grace story cone is another one of those games that seems to meet a lot of CPU power even with the 7700 HQ I found it quite playable at very high or lower ultra was alright that stopped getting a little too slow for my liking there now on to the benchmarking tools while a useful indicator not that these results are less practical compared to the real world gaming results previously shown here are the results from heaven benchmark with the tessellation set to extreme and anti-aliasing set to ight and here are the results from valley benchmark with the anti-aliasing also set to 8 and birth did fairly I Ren Bertha five strike and times by benchmarks from 3dmark and got scores of thirteen thousand one hundred and forty six and five thousand one hundred thirty one respectively pretty nice for a laptop so we've seen that the laptop is capable of running many games at maximum settings above 60 fps which is great however it's worth considering that we've only got a 60 Hertz panel here so in most cases even a maximum settings we're producing frames that will never be displayed I've mentioned in the past that I found invidious 1062 be in my sweet spot for 1080p gaming and personally I find the 1070 a little overkill for 1080p sure you can run most games at max settings and maintain above 60 fps but I think getting a panel with a faster refresh rate could be worthwhile to take advantage of those extra frames as mentioned earlier you can upgrade the display to a 120 Hertz 1440p panel however the increased resolution will in turn lower the frame rate and does I don't have that panel here to test I can't say if the frame rate will still be high enough to make use of the 120 Hertz panel otherwise I could see the laptop being paired with an external display with higher refresh rate as a possible option - which could help better utilize that 1070 in crystal this month the SSD performed around 554 megabytes per second and sequential reads and 268 megabytes per second in sequential writes this is to be expected from a modern SATA 3 based SSD although the writes are a little lower with this specific Linux model you can optionally upgrade to a faster pcie-based SSD which will further improve speed significantly or at a second MDOT - Drive there's also a 2.5 inch drive bay which as mentioned contains a one terabyte hard drive it only gets around 127 megabytes per second in sequential reads and 120 megabytes per second in sequential writes which is about all you're going to get from a 5400 rpm drive the laptop comes with a two-year warranty with the option of extending to 3 years and in the past I found dealing with meta box support to be a great experience overall they're based in Perth Australia and have been helpful over the phone when troubleshooting a problem overall I'm pretty impressed with this laptop and while I'm generally not a fan of 17 inch laptops due to the larger size and weight this one wasn't really a problem owing to the fairly thin form factor and I wouldn't mind taking it with me while travelling if I really wanted to do some gaming it certainly got the horsepower and pretty good battery life considering the specs personally I find it hard to justify the 1070 with a 1080p 60 Hertz panel if you're going to use it with an external monitor with higher refresh rate you should be set otherwise you could save some money and look at the model below it the PA 70 HP - G which is essentially the same but with a 1060 instead though of course the 1070 could be more future-proof as games over the coming years need more graphics power to run so it's your call the PA 7 EHS - G laptop with base configuration starts at two thousand three hundred and eighty nine Australian dollars with a kikah bytes of RAM the one terabyte disk removed and no operating system at the time of recording so about 1870 US Dollars my international viewers and then take off ten percent of that for GST many of the components can be further upgraded to suit your needs so the final price will depend on your custom selection you can check out their website at Mehta box.com today you customize your own laptop based on what you're after and I've left a link in the video description for this specific model so what did you guys think about the PA 7 th s - gee laptop from meta box I found myself reconsidering the 17 inch form factor when it's this thin and powerful but I want to hear what you guys think down in the comments or simply leave a like or dislike on the video to let me know what you thought thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe for future tech videos like this one\n"