First time poster here, so please be gentle!
I ordered my Sager 8790-S from PCTorque last week. It came in a couple days ago, but I had to wait to set it up. I ordered a second 40 gig hard drive and had to get a USB floppy so I could set up the RAID myself. The extra 40 gig hard drive came in today, so I started work on it this morning.
Upon taking this thing out of the box, the first thing I noticed was the weight. I had a Compaq Evo N800 which is a compact laptop and weighs half of what this thing does. I expected this because it is a desktop replacement and I wanted power in my next laptop. This definetly has the specs!
The first thing I did was install the second hard drive, flip the dip switches on the controller, and set up the RAID array. After disabling the card reader in the bios (I followed the 8790 setup instructions on these forums), I installed Windows XP without a problem. The screen is simply awesome to look at. My Evo had a 15 inch screen and I thought that was impressive at the time. This just blows it out of the water!
Windows XP, the latest drivers, bios, and all my productivity software are now installed on this thing. Now I need to install the games and test out how those run. I don't have any here at work, so that will have to wait until I get home.
Installing everything with RAID 0 was as fast as lightning!
I couldn't believe the performance on this thing. I was done in less than an hour when I started the software installations even with all the reboots!
Other things on the list of things to do to this laptop is to apply Artic Silver to the heatsink on the processor. Going to hopefully get to that by the end of the week. I am going to test this laptop out and show it off this weekend. I hope things work well with it!
Benchmarks and a full gaming report are coming in the next week!
I ordered my Sager 8790-S from PCTorque last week. It came in a couple days ago, but I had to wait to set it up. I ordered a second 40 gig hard drive and had to get a USB floppy so I could set up the RAID myself. The extra 40 gig hard drive came in today, so I started work on it this morning.
Upon taking this thing out of the box, the first thing I noticed was the weight. I had a Compaq Evo N800 which is a compact laptop and weighs half of what this thing does. I expected this because it is a desktop replacement and I wanted power in my next laptop. This definetly has the specs!
The first thing I did was install the second hard drive, flip the dip switches on the controller, and set up the RAID array. After disabling the card reader in the bios (I followed the 8790 setup instructions on these forums), I installed Windows XP without a problem. The screen is simply awesome to look at. My Evo had a 15 inch screen and I thought that was impressive at the time. This just blows it out of the water!
Windows XP, the latest drivers, bios, and all my productivity software are now installed on this thing. Now I need to install the games and test out how those run. I don't have any here at work, so that will have to wait until I get home.
Installing everything with RAID 0 was as fast as lightning!
I couldn't believe the performance on this thing. I was done in less than an hour when I started the software installations even with all the reboots!
Other things on the list of things to do to this laptop is to apply Artic Silver to the heatsink on the processor. Going to hopefully get to that by the end of the week. I am going to test this laptop out and show it off this weekend. I hope things work well with it!
Benchmarks and a full gaming report are coming in the next week!
