so this is my sister's laptop and um as
you can see it's seen better days the
actual problem with it is uh something to do with the the the power delivery
inside it's causing the the AC 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 NC just brought in a whole
bunch of these ocz DIY notebooks so uh
this one is the Avenger ag2 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'd 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 going to see how it goes and I'm going to just unbox the Avenger ag2
for you today if I could get the tape to break here we go so I actually got the
pink model um 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 notebook computer enjoy with
me this is very this is a very odd package for an
ocz like barebones computer but um 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 M70 r-p it has a modem okay it um has a
four cell battery it has a DVD writer
okay it has oh these are optional so
optional 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
uh okay so it has a 12 .1 in screen and
it has uh let's see it need okay it requires CPU hard drive and RAM so
that's what I'm going to pull out of the old laptop cameraman's phone's going off
he's turning it off that's very polite of him usually it's my phone that goes
off in the middle of our uh filming sessions but no no cameraman pulled a
Linus today all right so let's have a look at the wow hey this is pretty nice
so the package here this is an ocz 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've 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 hard drive 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 there you go so it takes standard
2 and 1 half inch hard drives modem cable I'm sure you've seen one of those before or like a foam cable okay then in
here we've got some more stuff we've got a the cheesiest looking driver CD I've
seen in quite a while so four Windows Vista I'm hoping this thing's going to
run Windows 7 for her but if not I can always throw Vista on it all right uh
sometimes Vista drivers will work with seven oh well whatever I've given away
this CD key now power DVD is included
Nero seven Essentials are also included
and then yeah there's the driver CD concise oh man concise users guide look
at this thing concise wow so uh I'm
guessing there's a lot more in here than you would typically find in a user's
guide like I my 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 uh so they 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
handle that then we've got the um this is a four cell battery all right 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 to be 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 realized this is a bit of a downgrade for my sister
versus the one that she was using before it's a 15in whoa there go all the screws good
thing I'm not trying to put this back together
whoops okay I'll just put that there it had like an 8600 uh GT mobile GPU in
it now I have no use for that whatsoever okay let's pull up 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 pinkest
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 a knife for my keychain 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 color let's take off remove the protective color slowly
and carefully do not forcibly tear off the protective covers 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
oo this is actually kind of nice looking so uh 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 tapy things in order to actually get at the notebook
itself and I'm obviously not going to be able to turn it on cuz I still have to
build this thing but we'll still be able to have a look at the um 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 cuz 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 okay there we go we finally got it sort of un un glossy package fin this
thing is pink okay so let's have a look
at what we've got in terms of IO on this side we've got a Kensington lock a modem
One USB port uh 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 um 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 um 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
uh like an abominably short shift key or anything like that you've got a proper
two space uh 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 uh 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 widescreen 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 ag2
barebones DIY notebook