Sunday, January 25, 2015

A brief overview of the laptop iBuyPower Chimera CX-9

Tongue of flame. It was he who lights up in the eyes of any techno-enthusiast with a Chimera CX-9. The distinctive orange body and fast hardware configuration, what else is needed in order to play high quality?

Design and workmanship

CX-9 looks wonderfully, photographs perfectly capture it. Durable design, orange on the outside and silver-black inside, made of metal and thick, dense plastic. Hindrances to the quality of performance we have not found, although mount the screen could be more rigid (with shaking laptop opening angle changes slightly).

Massive, aggressive and attractive style causes some association with expensive bikes. Despite the considerable thickness (up to 4 inches when closed), CX-9 can hardly be called unwieldy. That is, a backpack to carry it pulls quite noticeable, but visually looks much more compact than it actually is. Bright color and beveled faces in many places it is responsible for a large extent.

Most covering the bottom cover quite easily dismantled, after which the user gets access to the battery, motherboard, fan, hard drive and RAM.

Ports and Communications

There is nothing unusual in this section. Four-port USB - the norm for self-respecting gaming notebook. Two video output (analog VGA and digital HDMI) is more or less will bring the image to the external monitor, TV or projector. Wired Ethernet network functions as it should be.

The wireless module is our version of the CX-9 released by Realtek. It's pretty simple, only supports 2.4 GHz band (802.11b / g / n), and Bluetooth 4.0 (class 2). The second configuration option - this adapter with Intel WiFi a / b / g / n / ac.

input Devices

Laptop keyboard not only looks decent, but also able to provide a pleasant sensation from work. Good depth and sufficient return stroke keys allow you to type a lot of text without fatigue finger. The length of the keyboard to the width - 34.5 cm, height - 10.5 cm.

A little less than we liked the relatively small (10 x 5 cm) touch panel to control the cursor. Default multitouch gestures somehow disabled, which raises the need to open yourself to deal with the driver and settings. However, the touchpad has a pleasant surface, and two 'mouse' buttons emit a pleasant noticeable click when pressed. It is in moments will need to do without the mouse.

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