4750 Pictures and initial impressions

Other than a goof where I was shipped a 3000+ rather than a 3200+, everything else is running perfect. As a side note, many kudos to Luke and all the guys at PCTorque for the great assistance they were, it was Sager's fault, not theirs, that the wrong CPU was shipped, but their service was never lacking. They did everything to help resolve my situation the easiest. I'm still thinking it over, but at this point, I think I'll just go for a refund for the 3200, and keep the 3000, the performance is still amazing.

I ran Far Cry at max settings as this laptop's native resolution with nary a lock up or a problem. I am using the catalyst 4.5 (not 4.6 or 4.7 due to the DVD playback issues) omega drivers, and I received a 3dMark score of 3480 I believe.

I have had no issues with external heat, it's warm to the touch, but it's certainly not uncomfortable. I don't think I have any dead pixels (I can't see any!). I currently can not find a CPU heat monitoring program to check it with that is compatible with this mobo/CPU, if anyone knows of one, let me know. Also, if anyone knows something that I can underclock the CPU with, please let me know that too.

The screen is absolutely beautiful, the 17 " holds me in awe everytime I fire it up. I'm glad I went with this over the 5690...very glad.

I get around 2 hours battery life non-gaming and about 1 hour, 15 minutes battery life gaming.

Usb placement is funky, but not that bad. Firewire in the center front? Not sure what they were thinking there. Speakers are nice for a laptop, although I just use headphones/my home stereo (I hook it in with a special cord).

Here are the pics you have all been waiting for, if you want a close up, detail, or have a special request for a picture, just let me know :-):

All my images are huge and because I don't want to kill 56kers and I don't know how to thumbnail on this site, I'll just post a link to the list: http://www.onealdevzone.com/karak/ (Thanks for the hosting, guys! :-) )

If you have any questions, let me know.

1680x1050 - sorry I know my pics are fuzzy, it's a 3.2 megapixel camera and I am no professional by any sense of the word.

Noise - It CAN get loud, but if you were word processing and had battery saves on and it was downclocked a bit - it's fairly quiet.

Ogre - I'm using power now :-).

Spooky - I have 1 GB of ram... and it was unpatched. I just patched it to 1.2, let's see how it runs.

There is little to no difference between performance on a 3000+ and a 3400+, the GPU is the bottleneck.

I am also running the catalyst 4.5 omegas.

Oh and Ogre - The keyboard is actually really nice and sturdy. I really like it. I was thinking that I might go external keyboard... but there really is no reason to. I still might get the MX700 duo and try it out, though.