Gadgetory

so this is my sister's laptop and as you can see it's seen better days the actual problem with it is something to do with the the power delivery inside it's causing the via a C adapter to short out and long story short the shell is pretty much useless at this point so it was either throw it away or find a more creative solution now it just happens NCIX just brought in a whole bunch of these OCZ DIY notebooks so this one is the Avenger a g2 and it happens to be about the same age here I'll flip this upside down so you can actually read it it happens to be about the same age as the laptop that I'm trying to fix so what I figured I do is grab one of these at a good price and then just transplant all of the parts from the old laptop into the new shell so we're gonna see how it goes and I'm gonna just unbox the Avenger a g2 for you today if I could get the tape to break here we go so I actually got the pink model partly because I like pink and partly because it's for my sister how much of which of those reasons is uh how much each of them is actually contributing to the purchase you'll never know okay nope computer enjoying with me this is very this is a very odd package for an ocz like bare-bones computer but I guess I can't really complain here why don't we go over the basic specs so you can see on the side here this is model and 7tr - p it has a modem okay it has a four cell battery it has a DVD writer okay it has oh these are optional so optional a webcam bluetooth and antenna so I know that this one does have bluetooth but I don't think it comes with a wireless card so I guess that means it just comes with an antenna very strange okay so it has a 12.1 inch chip screen and it has let's see it knee okay it requires CPU harddrive and RAM so that's what I'm going to pull out of the old laptop camera man's phone's going off it's turning it off that's very polite of him usually it's my phone that goes off in the middle of our filming sessions but no no cameraman pull the Lynas today all right so let's have a look at the bow hey this is pretty nice so the package here this is an OCC DIY notebook so they include everything you need to do it yourself okay so you've got your your notebook power cord your AC power adapter you've got um what's in here so you got a little microfiber cloth for cleaning off the screen or what-have-you and then um looks like uh looks like an isolator for the bottom of the harddrive to make sure that it doesn't short out on anything I'm guessing okay you got some thermal compound very nice very nice and you got a couple screws Oh hard drive screws here you go so it takes standard two and a half inch our guys modem cable I'm sure you've seen one of those before alright you know like a phone cable okay then in here we've got some more stuff you've got a the cheesiest looking driver CD I've seen in quite a while so for Windows Vista I'm hoping this thing's gonna run Windows seven for her but if not I can always throw this on it alright sometimes Vista drivers will work with seven oh well whatever I've given away the CD key now power DVD is included Nero is seven essentials are also included and then yeah there's the driver CD concisely hello men concise users guide look at this thing concise Wow so I'm guessing there's a lot more in here than you would typically find in a user's guide like I my guess is that it's going to include instructions on how to actually put this thing together and so far I actually I don't see that happening here no no instructions on how to put it together they really take this DIY thing seriously so let's show you how to install a wireless card but other than that nothing about the CPU or the RAM or anything okay well that's fine I can render that then we've got the this is a four cell battery alright and then we find a little heat pipe cooler module so I'm going to assume that's for the CPU and that there's going some kind of a fan that blows over that so why don't we put this aside for now and then I'll get the actual notebook out here now I realize this is a bit of a downgrade for where my sister versus the one that she was using before us a 15 inch Bowl their goal this cruise good thing I'm not trying to put this back together whoops okay I'll just put that there it had like an 8600 GT mobile GPU in it now I have no use for that whatsoever okay let's call it the notebook moving on here it is that is like that is pink that is as pink as I've seen in a while for a pink notebook all right let's get the tape off here that's some pretty solid tape all right Wow even through the blue plastic that is like the biggest notebook I've ever seen oh wow this is really hard to open see I really should just have a knife on my keychain if anyone wants to get me like a Christmas present I need an a knife for my teaching all right Wow so let's take off the plastic oh actually why don't I leave it on because to prevent damage to the high gloss style finish top cover follow these guidelines okay remove the protective khlestakov remove the protective color slowly and carefully do not forcibly tear off the protective cover as this may damage the surface do not use pointed object oh okay I think I have to actually open up the notebook first to take off the tabs on the other side aha yes there they are mmm this is actually kind of nice looking so this is probably going to take me like a minute or two and I'm I apologize for that but I've got to take off all of these uh all these little TP things in order to actually get at the notebook itself and I'm obviously not going to be able to turn it on because I still have to build this thing but we'll still be able to have a look at the at the notebook and have a look at the keyboard and you know what what the overall fit and finish of it looks like which could be very helpful for anyone who wants to grab one of these because they're available in five different colors I think there's a yellow white blue black and the pink one that we have here all right still working on this oh I did it again I've had a couple people complain about my little habit of coming to myself while I unbox things but it is hard to resist I'll have you know all right there we go we finally got it sort of uh non-law CD package finish this thing is a pink okay so let's have a look at what we've got in terms of i/o on this side we've got a Kensington lock a modem one USB port we've got our DVD Drive then around the front we've got our headphones microphone and spit if wow that's kind of random then we have an SD card as well as our indicator lights for wireless battery and whatever else that is then we have two more USB ports on this side a firewire port VGA out this is a bit of an older model so no HD HDMI or DVI then we have gigabit as well as power in and around the back we find where the battery plugs in so I'm going to have to take this whole thing apart and install all the hardware inside it but yeah until then all we can really do is have a look at the keyboard keyboard layout is actually very nice this is a little bit high so it's some hitting the space bar isn't the easiest thing in the world but with my sort of smallish hands I can very comfortably reach all of the keys on this keyboard they haven't done anything stupid like like an abominably short shift key or anything like that you've bought a proper two space backspace key all of your function keys are things that sort of make sense brightness up brightness down volume up volume down all that kind of stuff the fit and finish of it actually overall seems very nice there's not a whole lot of flex to the shell itself I mean there's a little bit but once you put the battery in there it's going to be pretty darn good um that pretty much does it it's a wide screen LCD and there is the webcam that the cameraman is so kindly showing to us and thank you for checking out my unboxing of the OCZ Avenger a g-tube bones DIY notebook