Posts by omnikron

Sager 8886 for sale 2.4 Gigahertz P4 1 Gig of Ram 40gb HD 15.7" screen Windows XP home DVD/CD-RW drive 1.44" floppy drive 4 USB 2.0 6pin Firewire Car Adapter PCMCIA 802.11b wireless card carrying case 15 months...

Oh and of course I will throw in a case with it. Also it includes a PCMCIA wireless card 802.11b Anyone for $1500?

2.4 Gigahertz P4 1 Gig of Ram 40gb HD 15.7" screen Windows XP home DVD/CD-RW drive 1.44" floppy drive 4 USB 2.0 6pin Firewire Car Adapter 15 months old no mp3 player It's got the typical wear of a laptop, some...

Hey guys, I'm having a problem.... I just purchased an external harddrive and I want to format it, so I went to administrator tools and computer management. The funny thing is, it seems like all of the stuff inside it disappeared. I...

Ahh... I love it when they don't give us options. Sure, Firewire can supply MUCH more juice than USB but thats only the maximum rating, if you plug in a 2.5" hd or an ipod, it will not suck up that kind of power! In the end, it...

Anybody have any idea why I can't power tiny external hardrives or an ipod from my Sager 8886 6 pin firewire port?

Yes, everything is slower. Its not especially bad. Its strange, I can capture a DV stream w/o dropping frames from my camera on the battery but the video Playback drops frames. I do believe I've changed the bios setting where it didn't...

I have a confusing question. My laptop runs much slower when on battery power which I understand from the CPU being throttled back to 1.2ghz but it should still play video smoothly but ANY video no matter mpeg4, divx, dv, dvd, vcd etc......

the system idle process is using around 80% of the CPU and I can't figure out why.. it seems fine when I plug it into power.

Okay, I know the 8886 cuts the CPU power in half when I have the proper bios settings and it is. I go to my computer and it says my CPU is at 1.2 gigs which is half of the speed of my computer. BUT IT ACTS LIKE ITS A 386. This this is...