I ordered around 5 laptops over the span of 10 years. I tried powernotebook, gentechpc, and hidevolution. Powernotebook is out and I think its now part of hidevolution, gentechpc had some good discounts + freebies, shirts + their upgrades like free thermal paste of your choice and such (my experience with that is I don't really know if they did things correctly because its free cause the aero 15 i7-8750 1060 gigabyte that I purchased tends to be slightly warmer compared to results that I found in the web on the 1070 variant. So I'm not sure if they really did what they say they'll do for free. The alienware 17 R4 that I had with hidevolution was a very solid laptop which really performs. The only thing that I hate about it is the backlight bleed, if you're not buying their additional 100 usd charge to choose a panel with less backlight bleed, then you'll be sorry. I felt like I'm treated to sh*t whenever I look at the edges of my laptop monitor like its not fair to buy a highend laptop then just because you didn't shell out an extra 100 bucks, they'll give you a really bad panel, like, really bad, i felt like sh*t and won't do business with them anymore.
Now to XoticPC, I just wire transferred money to buy the Area 51m 2080, I'm based in mid-east too and although it took around 3 days to clear here and 7 days to clear in their bank. They have now confirmed that they're just waiting for the arrival of those badass laptops from dell. I'll maybe update this post once I get the item.
The MXM Module that MSI GT80 Titan used to provide replacable video cards was somewhat killed by Nvidia, its a gray area industry standard module (mxm) but in the end nobody really standardized that module. Now, with dell they hope to accomplish the upgradable GFX dream by making their own module, well that same module is from their enterprise section so I hope that it really works and will really be a future proof (module) form factor.
