Posts by mwecksell

My 5680 will be three years old in two months and I still love it. At two years, the hinges started to crack - the one on screen right is totally cracked, the one on the left has a hairline crack. But I use the machine as a luggable...

I've got an aging 5680. Does anyone (PC Torque?) know what my options are for putting in a faster processor and new video card? How much will it cost? ---matt

My USB hub is powered - it has it's own A/C wall plug. Here's the deal: Any USB 1 device plugged into a USB 2 hub will cause ALL of the devices on the hub to drop to USB 1 speeds. ---matt

Here's how I use my 5680: I got a usb 1.1 hub (back when a usb 2 model was expensive) that has seven ports. These are filled with my keyboard, mouse, palm pilot cradle, printer, digital camera cord, and gamepad. That's six of my...

Just a quick story - this board was a resource when I made my decision to buy a 5680 last october. About a three weeks ago, it just died. Wouldn't boot, nothing. So I called Sager and discovered that you can't call them, you just...

The 5680 has built in surround sound - use the optical out to plug into your 5.1 speaker stereo system. For positional pseudo-surround with headphones, I'm not sure if the 5680 can do that with it's internal sound card, but DOOM 3...

Has anyone tried using the bluetooth drivers that microsoft included in the new Service Pack 2 for windows XP with a sager? Are they better or worse than the drivers sager ships? ---matt

Simple questions: has anyone benchmarked Doom 3 on a 5680? ---matt

In reply to the original poster: If your son is going to use his computer for college stuff (word processing, spreadsheets/presentations/web email) than any machine is "good enough". But you mention that he'll be doing a...

Same machine, same wireless problems. Just logging in so that everyone doesn't think it's just three people with problems. ---matt