Posts by TuxToaster

Well, I'm going into yet another week of waiting for my RMA'ed laptop. I'm curious to hear anyone's thoughts on my situation, and their experiences with MSI's RMA services (specifically on the notebooks). Basically, the deal is... I...

Quote: Originally Posted by aintz amd has nothing to defend themselves against core 2 go search anywhere. Remember the point of the thread is if an X2 17" notebook is available, not how much you can...

Whoops... I thought I *was* on the second page. lol. Sorry that was meant for a much earlier post. Anyways, the Sager above is looking pretty good IMO.

Mobile procs are designed to perform at a lower thermal envelope. Their performance is comparable to a desktop processor, they are just engineered to work at a lower TDP.

No doubt, their pricing is competitive... I'm not saying it isn't. I'm just saying that experience shows if you run into problems, they are not as supportive and easy to work with as other resellers.... though if you do go with other...

With ABS you're going to pay an unnecessary premium, which wouldn't be bad for the "name brand" factor in a way, but read some reviews... their customer service responses are so/so.. and their RMA system almost always receives...

Quote: no an exact link duh. go to thier website and find the item you are talking about and copy and past the address here. i looked on thier site and could not find what you were talking about. I really shouldn't...

The G3 Eclipse XT is an MSI 1039 notebook, the refresh of the G3 Eclipse (an MSI 1029). I would highly reccomend looking elsewhere than ABS, however. Their sytems do look nice, and they try to make it look all great but their RMA...

Here's the "solution", if you can call it that... MSI support confirmed that the boot blocks were erased based on the way the machine is acting, and that the only action left is to RMA the machine. Some info I've...

Yeah, they are. I didn't want to expect them to support it though, that's why I figured I could post on here and see if either of them had any ideas ;-) I figure someone at MSI somewhere must know how to force it into recovery mode,...