hmm, nice.. I really wish Sager would announce a higher res 17" lcd for the 8790 since HP just released their's. The new 5690 might be nice with a higher res.
Yeah I discovered that last night after doing a bit of research. Guess it's a swap between better memory speeds or better h/d speeds (SiS, ATI chipset vs. Intel)
Thanks G, that is what I wanted to see. There you go people, if you want to see the h/d difference between RAID and Non-RAID it's very easy to see which one has more throughput. Kinda sux Clevo went with a ATA100 controller on this...
using the stock XP driver? Interesting, my old ZX got like 41mb/s. I wonder what the raid people are getting.
I disconnected the 4200 Toshiba drive and it made no difference.
Anybody know if we can update the controllers to Ultra 133 instead of Ultra 100? The Hitachi 7200 drive supports Ultra DMA 6 but is running in 5 due to the controller. I bet this is why it's lacking in performance vs my old HP ZX.
Please run the file system benchmark with Sandra2004. I noticed after running it that my 7200 RPM hitachi drive is NO WHERE near the performance it was on my old ZX5000 HP laptop. I wonder if this is due to using the non-raid ultra...
mine makes a slight buzz when using headphones but regular speakers are fine. They seem a little underpowered compared to the HP's i've owned in the past but they use HK speakers which sound much better then the one's in the 8790.
Any drivers other then the one's provided by sager will make it show up as a mobile 9600. Mine does it as well and my brother's X1000 laptop makes his 9200 say 9000.
