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It's finally here! My Laguna Seca Blue 5680!

post #1 of 15
12/11/03 at 3:18pm
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I'm overjoyed that my 5680 is finally here, but... The paintjob is great, except... There's _a lot_ of light scratches on the lid in a large circular pattern. Enough to be very noticeable under light and a few small spots where it looks like dust or some other foreign matter got stuck in the clearcoat...

After waiting two months the finish is both really nice (well, it would be if there wasn't the scratches on the lid) and a let down (the aforementioned scratches on the lid...).

Well I guess I better get to installing Windows and all...
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post #2 of 15
12/11/03 at 3:26pm
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Originally Posted by Kerberos
I'm overjoyed that my 5680 is finally here, but... The paintjob is great, except... There's _a lot_ of light scratches on the lid in a large circular pattern. Enough to be very noticeable under light and a few small spots where it looks like dust or some other foreign matter got stuck in the clearcoat...

After waiting two months the finish is both really nice (well, it would be if there wasn't the scratches on the lid) and a let down (the aforementioned scratches on the lid...).

Well I guess I better get to installing Windows and all...
Rubbing compound should take out the circular scratches, same thing happens to cars BTW. Take a look at a black car in the sun, and see if you can see swirl marks. I'll bet you will. Polishing it out, is simple, and shouldn't take too long on a laptop. And is actually a part of PROPER care for any painted item that features a clear coat (whether it be car, laptop, etc)

Any pictures?
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post #3 of 15
12/11/03 at 3:33pm
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Pictures will be forthcoming as soon as I get access to a friend's digital camera. I guess I'll take the rubbing compound to it while I'm at my parent's place during the holidays.
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post #4 of 15
12/12/03 at 2:47pm
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Pictures have been taken, but now I need to get them from my friend. Doh!

So far, so good. No dead pixels, everything's installed and working great! I had some trouble trying to get the latest omegadrivers to work; so I gave up on them and went with the most recent Sager drivers off their website.

Its not quite as big as I had imagined. That said, pack with all the rest of my kit it fills the Crumpler "Very Busy Man" messenger bag I have.
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post #5 of 15
12/15/03 at 2:49pm
where are the pics dammit
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post #6 of 15
12/15/03 at 4:47pm
Now you're going to have to faithfully wash it once a month, get out all the sand and grit, buff and wax it, and...oh wait, you have a laptop, not a car... have fun with your awesome looking lappy
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post #7 of 15
12/15/03 at 6:40pm
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Yeah, actually it would be great if Adam or someone would post something about how to keep the finish looking its best (I know not to wash it with hose in the yard, but I was thinking more along the lines of "don't use X, it will eat the finish" XD ).

As for pictures, some have been taken already - but I have to wait till my friend finishes his lawschool exams before he'll send them to me. XD
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post #8 of 15
12/15/03 at 7:15pm
Well, you used an auto paint on your laptop, so I guess that means that you have a clearcoat as well? If that is the case, don't use any dishwashing/hand soap...plain water would probably be safest, or maybe even a pinch of auto soap. If it has a clearcoat, waxing would give you a protective coating, but I would avoid getting it on the screen of led's. This is just a suggestion on my part, Adam would know better.
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post #9 of 15
12/15/03 at 7:36pm
be careful with the rubbing compound. if the scratches are light, i would use a cleaner/wax first. rubbing compounds have a more abrasive material in them than a cleaner and may do more damage. if buffing with the cleaner/wax does not do it, then try the rubbing compound.
i use a little simple green (very diluted) to clean fingerprints and other smudges and then use a light application of auto wax (wax only) on my 8890. dust, lint, pet hair, etc. do not stick to the surface.
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post #10 of 15
12/15/03 at 10:46pm
I Offcially give this review a 0 out of 10 because you posted no pics of your laptop, hence for we know it could be rainbow colored .
Anyway you need to post pics so we can see the laptop and judge it.
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post #11 of 15
12/15/03 at 10:50pm
Oh b.t.w. if Gsferrari and crio are here, lets see how this paint job goes, as you know I wasn't too thrilled with the Yellow porsche one, and this will be the 2nd person (OUTSIDE PCTORQUE) to get one.

Lets see if the price justifies the paintjob....
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post #12 of 15
12/16/03 at 12:30am
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Originally Posted by AlkalineX
Oh b.t.w. if Gsferrari and crio are here, lets see how this paint job goes, as you know I wasn't too thrilled with the Yellow porsche one, and this will be the 2nd person (OUTSIDE PCTORQUE) to get one.

Lets see if the price justifies the paintjob....
2nd? I dunno where you get your info, but you need to fire them. There's been many, only 5-6 have posted on the forums. Here's 2 other posts I found in seconds that put up pics:
http://sagerforums.com/showthread.php?t=10169
http://sagerforums.com/showthread.php?t=10288

Yes, we will delete any potential flame starting on our forums.
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post #13 of 15
12/17/03 at 5:46pm
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I have a few pictures coming soon as I get them onto a host (I have webspace, it just seems I can't get into it at the moment XD ).
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post #14 of 15
12/17/03 at 7:11pm
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Here's the pictures. The blurry one is the most accurate depiction of the color. I don't know what's going on with the other two... That's what I get for having my friend take the pictures. I might try to get a few more that are illustrative of the flaws (the scratches are trivial as has been pointed out by Ciro, however there's a couple of spots that are kinda scuffed on the lid which assume came from Sager's handling and some spots were if you look closely there seems to be dust or something suspended in the clearcoat) in an otherwise very nice finish, but at this point I don't know if I care enough to bother posting.

http://steel.lcc.gatech.edu/~drachels/DSCN2654.JPG
http://steel.lcc.gatech.edu/~drachels/DSCN2655.JPG
http://steel.lcc.gatech.edu/~drachels/DSCN2658.JPG

Other than that the laptop looks and performs great. I was so relieved to have not had any issues with dead pixels and whatnot. To echo's CCslyph's sentiment I think I would be nice to have a bit better system in place to find out the status of the painting than emailing Tom, especially since it took so long. Though if turnaround times have actually gotten to the originally implied 3-4 weeks then maybe not.

My final thought on the subject is if I had it to do over again I don't know if I would get it painted. This has nothing to do with the quality of the paintjob and more to do with that it would have been nice to have the laptop for most of this last semester rather than getting it after its done. On the other hand I possibly should have ordered something more in terms of a paint scheme than just BMW Laguna Seca Blue (thanks a bunch for getting the color right ). The wait also possibly produced somewhat unfair expectations. Oh well.

All in all I'm pleased with the system. Maybe whenever I'm in the market for a new laptop PCTorque will still be offering and the paintjobs will be even better.
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post #15 of 15
12/18/03 at 10:54am
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Originally Posted by Kerberos
Here's the pictures. The blurry one is the most accurate depiction of the color. I don't know what's going on with the other two... That's what I get for having my friend take the pictures. I might try to get a few more that are illustrative of the flaws (the scratches are trivial as has been pointed out by Ciro, however there's a couple of spots that are kinda scuffed on the lid which assume came from Sager's handling and some spots were if you look closely there seems to be dust or something suspended in the clearcoat) in an otherwise very nice finish, but at this point I don't know if I care enough to bother posting.

http://steel.lcc.gatech.edu/~drachels/DSCN2654.JPG
http://steel.lcc.gatech.edu/~drachels/DSCN2655.JPG
http://steel.lcc.gatech.edu/~drachels/DSCN2658.JPG

Other than that the laptop looks and performs great. I was so relieved to have not had any issues with dead pixels and whatnot. To echo's CCslyph's sentiment I think I would be nice to have a bit better system in place to find out the status of the painting than emailing Tom, especially since it took so long. Though if turnaround times have actually gotten to the originally implied 3-4 weeks then maybe not.

My final thought on the subject is if I had it to do over again I don't know if I would get it painted. This has nothing to do with the quality of the paintjob and more to do with that it would have been nice to have the laptop for most of this last semester rather than getting it after its done. On the other hand I possibly should have ordered something more in terms of a paint scheme than just BMW Laguna Seca Blue (thanks a bunch for getting the color right ). The wait also possibly produced somewhat unfair expectations. Oh well.

All in all I'm pleased with the system. Maybe whenever I'm in the market for a new laptop PCTorque will still be offering and the paintjobs will be even better.
I agree with you on wishing that the laptop would have arrived sooner. We both waited more than half a semester. The need for extra computing power (my other computer is a P3 550 MHz) was almost critical. Hey, it might have been a good thing for yours to arrive after the semester was over. I got it right when all the huge end-of-semester projects were hitting. Talk about a distraction.
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