New Quanta MW1 - SXGA, 6600 - Page 2

Ooh cool silverbyte, thanks for keeping tabs on that. I'm waiting for a credit line increase to go through on my card (it's still at the standard $700 for a student card as I haven't had to spend more than that in one shot before).

Donald, thank you for the post, to me reseller participation is always appreciated because it provides some great information and you've been most helpful in providing details on this model. I believe I actually noted in several of my posts that one of the things to consider with your company is that you provide a 3-year warranty standard, as opposed to one year with everyone else. Your dead-pixel policy sounds great too, and your ResellerRatings are really superb; I hadn't noticed before how many reviews you have, it's terrific. Unfortunately, being a poor college student, paying $300-400 more is just not something I can afford, no matter how terrific the service. I really have no choice, as I've set myself a $1500 budget, and I'm somewhat willing to forgo extended service coverage in exchange for superior specs because I know my way around computers quite well and, short of defective parts, I'll be dealing with everything myself anyway and will take a close look to make sure I've gotten everything that I paid for. So, it's too bad, but this time the buck wins. Thank you again for your help, though.

Unleaded, we were discussing the pros and cons of the different resellers, including warranties and dead pixel policies, so I think his post is quite informative and in line. We were also discussing the sale of Quantas as "Sabio Digital" and speculating on them being the only U.S. distributor, and so Donald was indeed helpful in answering this question. Every reseller is going to push his own company in some way - that's why they post here, who would do it if they couldn't advertise themselves? - but if they are being helpful at the same time, as opposed to just promoting themself, then what's the problem? Who's more qualified to talk about PowerNotebook's policies than Donald? I would be happy if the other vendors also clarified their policies, it would be a great comparison.

It used to be that resellers could not even mention their names here...ah those were the good ol days.

I just find it interesting that certain resellers only crop up when there are sales at stake and others are always here helping people on these forums though they'd never even know it...

Xmeld comes very specifically to mind.

Did you look here?

Or here?

Or here?

Or...

Thanks mrtorrent.

That is all I was trying to do.

Donald,

I reiterate my point above...with your 67 posts, how many of them have been simply helping out the guy with a problem? I'd wager if I did a search on your posts, I'd find they were all somehow related to PowerNotebooks specifically.

So, I stand by my point, I would love to see resellers participate ALL the time.

Edit: Correct post count to 67

I would invite you to do that search, and stand on your point only if you find that my posts were not responsive to questions asking for clarification regarding technical issues, industry practices, or specific questions about PowerNotebooks.com policies.

The fact that I don't have time to hang out here ALL the time simply suggests that we put serviing our customers first.

I accept your wager!

Look, who cares, he's answering questions silverbyte and I had. You've made one single on-topic post in this entire thread compared to four complaining about him answering some questions we had and bringing up his company in the process. I really don't know how he could have avoided that last either, considering they were questions about his company. Can we please stop this ridiculous discussion here, especially seeing as you've shown virtually no interest in the actual topic while those that have shown a great deal of interest don't have a problem (sorry, don't mean to speak for you silverbyte, correct me if I'm wrong).

Touche, way to spin that one...you must have a background in PR!

Yes, let's all get back on the topic and respect the person who opened the thread.

If it continues I will close this thread.

--SPK

no offensive but when i read the reivew of the sager 9800 vs the m60 you are comparing two different laptops. One is over 2 inches thick and the other is a little more than an inch. You should have compared the m70 which is very comparable or the XPS ,which i think is far superior as it has way better preformance on battery life. Just leaving two pros about the m60 was biast too. What about the battery life?...fan noise?...heat? it is considerably low as it uses centrino instead of the pentium 4..weight?...prefromance?....I also felt that hyperthreading should not be under the con as many application are not taking advantage of the feature and asshown in benchmarks it actually slows it down. Its like comparing night and day, you know as well as i do that no one in their right mind will be that besides a gamer. But if they had knowledge they would stay away from that kind of laptop as the XPS 2 has better gaming prefromance.

Wow, that was a long thread to read.

Okay, here are my opinion. So far the thread is heading in an okay direction. More and more resellers are getting involved in this forum in recent months. We do encourage them to participate in this forum to provide advices, inputs, and answer any possible questions relating to the topic.

For me, as long as they do not cross the boundry as to doing pro and con of themselves against one of their competitor(s) and bashing, the thread is okay to continue.

Doing a PRO and CON against an item is okay. PRO and CON from users against a reseller in order to assist them to make a sound decision is okay. Resellers should not get involved in the PRO and CON of discussion regarding another reseller. They may make a polite comment to defend themselves if needed.

One thing to keep in mind is to respect the owner of this forum and let not soliciate a product in which the owner of this forum also sell.

Now let's get back to the main topic around the Quanta. I am interested to see the 3DMark05 benches on this baby since it too uses the nvidia 6600.

The other thing of note with the KN1-C PM and the new MW1 is that they are both Modular MXM PCI-e certified, and therefore user upgradeable. The MXM module simply plugs into a slot on the motherboard and is covered by the thermal module.

Quanta intends to qualify the ATI MXM module later this year. You will then be able to choose which video solution you want as easily as choosing your Optical drive, and upgrade them as new generation modules become available.

Oh that's interesting, I didn't realize we'd be seeing any MXM cards with ATI chips since there was talk of their own standard, "Axiom." On the other hand though, I don't think I've heard anything about Axiom since it was first announced a year ago. I really don't hold out particularly high hopes for the availability of MXM cards in the future, but if it does take off... Well, I'll be able to take advantage of it just in case!

Hi all, this is my first post. I'm also interested in this new Quanta, as well as the older KN1-PM. I need a notebook pretty soon for college(engineering). I use Linux so the graphics card has to be Nvidia, and unfortunately most notebooks have ATI. I'm also considering the Asus Z71, Chembook 2030 and some of the Toshiba Tecras. Does anyone have any recommendations on which I should get? It seems to me that the Z71 and the Quantas have the best bang for the buck. I've heard that some of the Z71's may have sparkles and a bad battery. Also, the 6-cell battery on the MW1 may not give me enough battery life. So far I am leaning towards the KN1-PM.

Earlier it was mentioned that MGEPC/AVADirect have great prices. I configured a KN1-PM at MGEPC and it was $150 cheaper than at ISTNC. But after looking at ResellerRatings.com and the Better Business Bureau, I'm very suspicious. The BBB report for MG Electronics is satisfactory but says "These addresses are shared by several other computer companies and resellers, including Alvio, AVADirect.com, PCProDirect, and LeadComp." The BBB has bad reports for AVADIRECT , AVAPC Inc. (in this one it says an additional business name is MgePC.com, and "According to information in Bureau files, this firm shares an address with the following computer companies: Compusoft, ACTonlineStore, StorePC, Americomp, and ExtremeComputech.com."), another one for Ava PC Inc. and bad reports for many of the other aliases. Finally, the websites of avadirect.com, mgepconline.com, pcprodirect.com, and leadcomp.com all sell the SD-KN1 and SD-MW1 and have similar prices, configuration options, and contact info.

Has anyone had any experience with these vendors?

Ugh, that doesn't sound good at all.. I don't know, I may have to pony up the extra money for a different vendor after all. Sigh...

hologram, what features are you most interested in, i.e. weight vs. battery life vs. graphics, etc.? That would help narrow the choice. I'm replacing my desktop, so I'll basically just be bringing my laptop from point to point as I go to school or home or whatever and then letting it sit for a while, but I still don't want to be lugging anything unwieldy around airports, and I'm setting my fuzzy limit at $1500, so those are the specs that I worked with. Beyond that, I also use Linux and, while the Z70va sounds good, I just don't feel comfortable enough with trusting to ATI (plus who knows when that model will finally ship). To me, the Quanta MW1 is the best balance of price ($1400-1500 depending where I buy it), performance (2ghz P-M, 1gb ram, go 6600), and weight (5.95lbs) out of everything I've looked through, so that's why I'm going for it, because I need a good all-around notebook.

Bah, I tried googling for "Sabio Digital" and checking out their Where to Buy page, but pretty much none of the sites let you buy online, avadirect is the only one listed that has a real online store. I checked out the BBB files too, and I was almost going to say "But they don't have any complaints in the past 12 months!" but then I saw that the file for AVADIRECT has two complaints in the past 12 months. Sigh, I don't know...

to Donald or anyone who is in contact with Quanta.. do you know if they plan to release a 14 inch laptop anytime soon?

I have not seen a 14" model on the Quanta roadmap.

I'm interested in a mix of good battery life, weight, and price. I would really like the laptop to last a long time, preferably 4 years. The higher resolution of the MW1 is good but I don't know if things on the screen would be too small. I don't need too much graphics power, just enough to run engineering programs, CAD, and some light games. But it needs to do this for 4 years. Do you think the Geforce 6200 would be enough for this or should I go with a 6600?

I went to Sabio Digital's website and it said the KN1 with an 8-cell battery lasts about 4.5 hours. But they didn't say how long the MW1 with the 6-cell battery lasts. And both batteries are 4400mAh, this doesn't mean they have the same capacity does it?