Ratmyr's Review of the Hypersonic-GX7 - Excellent - Page 2

rypter.

Glad to hear you got your system and I hope all is going well with it. I just came back from taking my wife and kids to Euro Disney for the week and guess what.... the GX7 came with me. I wanted to use it there, but never got around to it. But just in case, it was there. So I take it every where.

Looking forward to hearing about your experience.

Thanks.

I do a lot of local gaming as well as net gaming, and I have noticed there is a definite difference between the wireless and wired gaming when I am gaming locally. This is one of the reasons I have never gone wireless (I make the family use wireless, but I hog the speed).

However, with the 108mbps, I have not noticed too much of a difference. I have been using it religiously for the last four days without a glitch (knock on wood). I am almost ready to role up the CAT-5 and stay wireless, but I have another gaming session coming up this weekend to test it out.

RPM. Sorry to hear about your problems. I had a delay as well, but not like you are having. If you don't seem to be getting a good answer from the sales folks, contact the customer service folks. I have found they are a good source of information as well, and I still keep in touch with Hypersonic about ideas and the sort. I wish you luck and hope since its been a couple days, that you have heard something positive.

Even though I am pro-Hypersonic and still loving the system, Friedtoast is correct, if HS does not deliver, PCT definitely will. If the custom paint jobs were available when I was ready to order, I may be posting in a different forum. It was a hard decision as both companies were neck and neck during my choice.

Siva. Are you talking the standard color that it comes from Clevo as? If so, just look at an 8790 from PCT. This is the standard color. HS defaults to a piercing blue, but the standard color is the same as the 8790's default color (if I am wrong, someone correct me).

And for those who appreciate my review and comments, thanks. I really want to give a users perspective on this system and help answer questions as I can. I have gotten a lot of assistance from others in the forums, and thus the reason why I don't want to be a "got my laptop now - cya" user. I want to help others as I was helped. Plus it is great talking about my toys.

Thanks.

I believe the color "standard navy" is the same default color of the 8790. It does look black, but I believe it is a darker navy color. 8790 owners can correct me.

I have attached photos of the system in the Hypersonic gallery in the photo's area. They are a bit blurry, but I am not a pro photographer.

Enjoy!

Update on wireless usage. For two straight weeks I have been using nothing but the 108mbps wireless. I have a DWL-2100AP from DLink and both a wired and wireless connection configured for my laptop. I disabled the wired adaptor two weeks ago and decided that I would use nothing but the wireless to give it a good test.

The only issue that I see (and this could be normal) is that during the boot up of the laptop, logging in is very slow. I attribute this to the wireless for this reason. I believe it is at that moment it is establishing all the network connections and setting up DHCP and the sort. But for some reason, the wireless does not kick in right away like the wired connection does. Also, once it has booted up, I normally disable and then reenable the connection for a faster IP pull. When I am using a wired connection, the boot up is fast from the moment the password is put in.

Other than this, everything is flying. I have been doing online gaming (link is only as slow as the Internet connection) and LAN gaming. In both cases, I have not noticed a difference between the wired and wireless connection. The connection is awesome.

One note. I did change the wire on the wireless card as discussed in other reviews of the 8790. When I opened my system up, my wire was connected to the inside terminal and not the outside. When I moved it, my signal went from very good to excellent. That was good as I was getting pissed since the AP sits about three feet from the laptop and during testing, I had it sitting right on top of the laptop and still only a "very good" connection.

So I think this weekend I will be rolling up the CAT-5 and putting it into the backpack for travelling.

ArborBarber.

There are a lot of brands out there that began as Clevos and yes, Hypersonic is one of them (just as Sager). Someone in another forum stated they thought Hypersonic was a reseller of Sager, but I don't think this is the case. If it is, then they are hiding it pretty well. Plus, the handle all of their technical support there. If they were a reseller, I would expect them to pass you on to the Sager support.

It is good that there are many companies using the Clevo model because in some cases, there is good competition. For me, it was a close race between the 8790 and GX7, and if the custom paint was available when I was ready to order, I may be posting this review under the Sager topics. However, I am not upset with the choice I made. I still have an awesome system and one that I am thoroughly enjoying. And within three more days, it will be two months old.

4Speed. Glad to see your problem is fixed!