I have recently purchased an N54L. So far I have sent off the rebate form for the money back on the server and the 3 year warranty, Im going to have to pay the credit card bill soon!
This is how far I have got -
RAM upgraded to 16GB
Flashed the BIOS
Installed an SSD drive on the ODD port
Installed ESX 5.5 onto the SSD drive
Created a VM using BetaQuasis base VMDK & using the internal usb port for the license (Which I still need to buy ...)
So far so good. My next steps are to upgrade the base vm to 5.04, get the RDMs working (I only have a 3TB and a 250GB disk at the minute - another two 3TB drives are on my shopping list), install the vm tools and then do some testing / playing.
Thank-you to everyone who has posted their experiences to date,
N.