i have a sager 9860 which is the heaviest notebook i know of weighing in at around 13 pounds, and i carry it around with me all day every day along with textbooks that weigh more than it does @ college, and i barely notice it so i dont...
i take my 9860 to school with me everyday along with a bunch of textbooks that weigh more than it, its not too much to handle trust me. The battery life could be an issue but seriosuly most colleges/universities these days have a million...
yes, roughly 50% of lcd screens have dead pixels(which is a great improvement really as when lcds were first introduced almost all lcds had at least one), many of which are just stuck black or grey which makes them much less...
well, after trying i have come to the conclusion that it is virtually impossible to capture 1 dead pixel in a picture, but to get an example open paint, drag it out to the size of your desktop, fill it black and than click one red dot...
nope, i got mine from pctorque, i got a windows xp prof quickstart manual, the cds, a dvi-agp adapter and the s-video/sound cords and the usb thats it =(. the only paper i got other than the cd slips was the quickstart xp thing
i;d just keep it if i were you, you have about a 50/50 chance of getting another one with 1 or more dead pixels which could be in worse places after paying to ship your original back, modern lcd technology is flawed @ best and sagers...
