G-Omaha's *** 8790 Review - 2nd Machine *** - Page 11

I think most of us are feeling a little abandoned/betrayed by PCTorque. They've been a great company and I was getting ready to buy my third laptop from them. I was looking at the 5950 this time, but... Well...

It was a real blow to find a company you had come to trust had switched business completely. Good luck with whatever your doing now, G-omaha, and thanks for all your help over the last couple of years. Hope to see you around sometime.

Dang G-Omaha, sorry to see ya leave, but as you said there's not much left here. So why not pick another brand and tell us all about it? It seems a lot of us 8790 owners have moved on to other models and brands.

Dell
Hypersonic, its still sager
Alienware (I hear they've got some decent machines)
Acer?
IBM

Are there any brands that interest you to buy from but not necesssarily support forum wise?

I wish I could get the same life out of mine. I actually bought my 8790 about the same time G bought his first one and it was a great machine for about the first 20 months...then problems began to set in. I've cleaned out the cooling system religiously every 2 months and I'm still having horrible heat issues. I can't really effectively game anymore because of the good ole triangle artifact problem now with just about every game I try. Even just surfing the web the heat becomes too much to bear and often the system shuts down on its own. The case has developed some very nasty and unsightly stress cracks..one of which is threatening to become a stress fissure...heh. And finally the DvD drive now works when it wants to..not when I need it too. So for this reason I have decided to retire my 8790. I loved it while it was in it's prime, but I'm very dismayed at how quickly it went downhill over a 20 month period give or take a couple of months.

I think there is a subtle issue of quality here that I'm not at all pleased with. Sagers it seems are built a little like rock stars...they are designed to play hard, kick ass, and then burn out rather quickly soonafter. I'm in the soonafter phase now. I feel like my old buddy here should be sitting at some home for geriatric laptops at the tender young age of just over 2...which just doesn't seem right at all. This is why I'm a little leery of ordering another Sager at this point, and why I decided to go Alienware m9700 for my next one....yeah I know its practically a Sager...but it's not put together like a Sager...and that's what I think is the heart of this...Sager/Clevo and the off brand manufacturers/distributors seem to be doing a rather substandard job of assembly and design. I've seen it lurking here reading many complaints for Sager owners, not just about the now geriatric 8790's but also in people getting a littled pissed about the newer lines not being "up to par" in design as well.

Oh well...I will probably keep using this old thing until it finally catches fire (which seems more and more likely every hour I use it) and at that point I will take it out to the backyard...put it on my son's inflatable Spongebob raft and push it into the pool...the whole time playing bagpipes in the background.

It's been fun and rewarding being a Sager fan/user..but time has come to move on for me to, and I'm not ready to recommit to the product line given what I see out my current Lappy.

2 month update?

sorry for the odd bump. i hope your 8790 enjoys it's semi-retirement. iirc, this review thread was the first thread i ever read on nbf.

Glad to see the ol' beast is still running, G! Mine was history long, long ago. But the 5760 replacement is still going strong. In fact, I had to pull it out of mothballs the day before yesterday as my desktop died. So I'm back on Sager

I'm thinking I might order me up another Sager machine - always a pain to do over here in Japan, but... they make good stuff