Bought my first Sager tonight, 8886

I figured I would just say that after looking at Dell, Sony, Sager, vpr Matrix, and Toshiba that I made my decision. As you can tell from the subject I bought my 8886 tonight. I wanted a little of everything, and a budget of $2k I had just enough for a LITTLE of everything.

I went with http://www.pctorque.com/ . They seem to know what they were talking about. I sent them an email over there webpage a week or so ago, and recived a fast reply. That made me happy. I am also a sucker for cheaper prices since its the same Sager notebook.

hmmm.. wounder if my laptop shipped today? anyone know

Yea, it was great, i sent this messae to the forums, and before I knew it I had an email telling me when it would be here, thats GREAT service in my book...make that my notebook!
har..har..har..

Yea, the low batteries time worries me a little bit, for airplane trips, but I will only be playing movies on the plane, and with the 20gb slower RPM drive and the 2.4ghz chip I think I, or I HOPE, I can pull all the way though a video without needing a charge. Time will tell! As for the silent laptop, I have two deltas cooling my CPU right now, so a silent PC would only be a dream of mine, but I can’t get to sleep over all this noise.

As the numbers of the days fall until it gets here, my desire for it to get here grows.

I have looked on the Southwest flights I have taken, and there is nothing (well that $1.50/min phone) for you to plug your laptop into at all. It is just you and what battrie power you have. More 'expensive' flights, lets say, in a larger airplane, may have more options avil. to you.

Sager 8886 shipped yesterday with 2-Day UPS. That gives PcTorque.com a one business day build time, very impressive! Can't wait to get it.

Not here yet, it will be tommarow, and luckly I have tommarow off, so as soon as it gets here, I am going to open it up and find out what it can do. :-)

I decided to have them install XP on it at the 'factory' so I didn't have to mess with getting a copy of it for myself.

The activation software is a horriable idea, makes me almost not want to pay for it. I disaprove how I have to get 'permission' from a company to reinstall something I own. If i had to call GM every time i wanted to get my oil changed, id be pretty mad. :-)

Are you referring to the End-User License agreement? That thing is a joke, there are parts of it that say if you don’t agree, you can return the unused (read unopened) software for a full refund. I have read many horror stories on Dell forums and other laptop forums, of people buying Dells and trying to return the software unopened in any way, and they were refused the refund that the end user was guaranteed by the software agreement (these users installed Linux on there computers).

I agree piracy of software has not been muted at all; it has been inflamed if anything. Microsoft has drug it into the spotlight were as before it was little known, and little done. Now (almost) everyone knows you can buy a CD-R and copy all your favorite programs. Much as Napster did for the music industry. I can not tell you how many people I know found out about mp3 trading over the news because of Napster.

Enterprise computer corporations are taking notice of the slow economy just like the rest of us, sometimes on a much larger scale. Imagination would leave one to believe if they were to spend the same amount of money or even a close amount as they did 5 years ago, they will need to increase profits. Forcing the end users out there that are not paying for software they are using and forcing them to start paying for it, would increase profits.

The payment of the software should be enforced at the time of acquisition of the disc. Updates for the software that fix problems that existed at the time of release should be quickly released and easy to obtain. Or wait, Maybe there should not be as many, or any, problems in the software when it is received, thus creating a happy customer who is willing to pay for return business (we all paid for our first Microsoft OS with our Compaq’s, Dell’s and other pre-made machines) and not forced to continuing to do business with a company that has been known for stealing software for themselves, squashing out enemies, and at times releasing sub-par products to be patched later.