3450

Hasn't had too much review wise to go by but have heard one comment that the sound isn't the greatest (and not loud enough).

I do have one on order if it ever comes I will chime in with personal experience too

I don't think it's got the graphics to do highend games (Arch & others will no doubt chime in on that with more detail) to be honest I don't know enough about graphics stuff and don't play pc games much but Cpt did say he was able to play some newer games on it decently without complaints.

I got mine for the everyday stuff and some music editing soundforge, create mp3s, edit digital photo work mainly with photoshop, webdesign, excel, word, emails, surf web, edit and burn up some dvds and vcds, listen to music that sorta thing and I am hoping it will fit the need in those respects for me.

sound wise, the speakers suck, but when i hooked it up at home to my suround sound, it sounded decent. as for graphics it will run most games decently, im gonna avoid this topic, seeing as it leads to argujements, look at some other tpice to see the info about the graphics

what games u pla on running, ive used bf2 css halo, hl2 and they run good, the built in speakers suck

Ok I don't have mine here in hand to mess with till next week but all the talk of low volume sucky speakers is buggin me enough to ask, can anyone there see how hard it is to access the speakers on this model? Any exploded take-a-part type diagrams online of how to get into this and possibly see if there is anyway to replace the stock speakers with something a bit better quality?

Sorta like that first car you bought and swapped out the junker stock speakers for a set of Infinity's and the difference was night and day?

I know Sager has the same base model Uniwill/Clevo isn't it? Anyone out there know where we can find out exactly how to access and possibly swap out these speakers?

I have a few laptops here (parts/junkers) I will easily rip one apart to see if I can find a way to adapt a few new speakers into the AW case or something, is it because these are built into the front thin lcd area (limited depth and size area) vs in the base where most speakers are larger?

Not having it here yet I am just guessing but there has to be something to modify it (once warranty expires of course), heck I figure once warranty expires and unit starts to show wear and tear I will send it to smooth creations for a cool new paintjob

Bill

I ran the FFXI benchmark and it ran pretty well. I ran the 3DMark benchmark and yea.. lets not talk about that. ><

Beings the graphics card is onboard and not the best in the word, it scored a 240 lol.

I'd go with the 5550 if your buying a laptop to game on.

How are the 3450's production of sound if being used by headphones? I have a set of Sennheiser HD595 and PX100 (latter being more portable), which I will definetly be using.

Headset sound is great. I have no issues with it.

The speakers are loud after adjustments to settings of a few programs as I said before, but they work pretty good as well.