AVADirect Clevo P180HM

AVADirect should include a bumper sticker with its Clevo P180HM notebook that says, "My desktop replacement beat up your Ultrabook and defiled your MacBook Air." Don't get transfixed on the notion that someone would be silly enough to own both of those...

Great aesthetics will turn heads ; Solid build quality ; High-end (and customizable) components ; Awesome gaming performance ; Ginormous 18.4-inch LCD screen ; Tons of USB ports

Expensive ; Better not stray far from a wall socket ; Can't customize the dual-GPU selection

AVADirect's Clevo P180HM opened a can of whoop-ass in Futuremark's PCMark Vantage benchmark and never lost momentum until the battery test portion of this article. Even then it wasn't as disastrous as you might expect for a system spec'd like this one....