FS: Sager 5660 P4 laptop.. Gamers.. :)

I'm about to not need this, or this much, laptop anymore. It's been a good one, I love it, and I'll buy another Sager in a heartbeat.

Specs:
P4 2.4ghz desktop CPU, upgradable to a 3.06(533mhz buss)
1gig DDR ram(upgraded)
Mobility Radeon 9000 64meg
8x DVD reader, 16x10x24 CD-R/W
15" SXGA+ 1400x1050, perfect, NO dead pixels or anything like that.
40 gig 5400rpm 16meg cache Toshiba MK4019GAX(upgraded)
USB2, Firewire, PCMCIA, 56K/10-100LAN, etc, etc, all the standard nice lappy stuff.
Standard black case, power adaptor.

(this is a copy/paste from my other sale/trade forum's, most of you know all this stuff here.. )


http://www.sagernotebook.com/pages/tech_spec.html#1
Model NP5660


For $700 or so you can have it upgraded to a Radeon 9600 128meg vid card and a motherboard supporting the 800mhz buss and HT
http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=7638

www.PCtorque.com, a major Sager reseller, wants $1700 shipped for a 5680 right now with the same screen, a 2.8, and a 4200rpm run of the mill 40gig drive, but it has the 9600 128meg and the newer motherboard with 800mhz buss support.

I've never had a problem with it. It runs every game I've played on it well, UT2K3 is fine, Call Of Duty, MOH, Elite Force2 and on down the line. The original UT at 1400x1050 with every single setting wide open is a blast, I love it.

Battery life, in a word, sucks. I can screw around on the internet for 30-45 minutes without cutting it too close. You dont buy this kind of laptop for battery life. sagerforums.com members report that overall a battery lasts about a year of normal use. This one is slightly over a year old. There is an option for dual batts, but I never saw the point. The real beauty of this rig is it's litteraly a desktop replacement. All the speed and power of a desktop, and I can pack this, my trackball, my external 200gig firewire drive, my headphones, etc, up and be out the door inside ten minutes. You can't beat it. And yes it's heavy, I have a targus backpack, in which I keep the lappy, a full size external enclosure for my 200gig drive, a couple dozen cd's, a notebook(paper), other odds and ends, the weight is nothing compared to haveing all this handy. And I'm not a large guy.

I've run XP, win2K and several Linux brands with no problems, red hat seemed to like it a lot. First time I've seen accelerated gameing in Linux, it was nifty.

I want $900 plus actual (safe!) shipping. I'd *really* like $600 or so in cash and a decent little P2/3 lappy as partial trade. Don't need a desktop, don't need much of anything with any high monitary value other than a short list I'll put below. Heatware under Ramses, PM's prefered, but e-mail works. Thanks..


Trade list:
The afore mentioned lower end lappy.
Supermicro 440GX dual slot 1 board.
Dual slot 1 CPU's, P3/500mhz+
TNT2/Gforce1 AGP
Gforce2+-something(AGP2x compatable)
Mid grade CDRW x2
DVD Reader(combo with above maybe)
15-30gig IDE drive x2

I mention the above on the off chance someone who wants the lappy has any of it laying around basicaly.


I'd also trade for a mercedes w123 240D with a manual trans and non-auto climate control. I might also trade my 300D for that..

If you search in the reviews section of this site you can find one on the 5660, it has better photos than I can take. It's cosmeticaly perfect with two very small exceptions, and I'm a nit-picker.

right side plastic ring around the lcd, and the corosponding poing to the right of the keyboard, have what looks like a light darkening of the plastic, like a shadow unless you get really close to it. It lightens up a lot when cleaned iwth computer wipes, but it's there. I have no idea what from. On one of the corners, ther's a 1/8 inch scratch about three hairs wide. I can't find it right now, but it's here, I remember it.

Sold to CeruleanFall!

Thanks everyone..