Sager 9860 announced - Page 27

And.... that's a really nice screen....

I hope I am not breaking any rules by posting this here, but I read through most of this thread and didn't see it mentioned. I found this on another forum about this lappie.
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And this is what Sager will be advertising in Computer Shopper (to give some idea of the price, although the PowerNotebooks.com price will be lower):

Sager NP9860C

- 17.0” Wide Viewing Angles WSXGA+ Active Matrix Display with Super Clear Glare Type Screen
- Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 530 with HT
Technology
(3.0GHz, 1MB L2 cache, 800MHz FSB)
- 256MB DDR2 NVIDIA® PCI-Express™ Graphics
- 512MB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM
- 60.0GB 5400RPM SATA150 Hard Drive
- 8X DVD² / 24x10x24³ CD-RW Combo Drive
- Full sized Keyboard with Numeric Keypad
- Bluetooth and 802.11g/Wi-Fi Wireless (optional)
- Hardware Raid 0,1 Function
- Built-in TV Tuner with Remote Control
- Front Panel Audio DJ with Separate Power Switch
- Built-in Digital Video Camera
- Built-in 7-in-1 Card Reader
- 4 Built-in Speakers with a Subwoofer
- 8 Channel External Speaker Output
- External USB 1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive
- On-Board 56K V.90 Modem4 & 10/100/1000 Ethernet
- 3 Hot-Keys for E-Mail, Browser and Applications
- Built-In Touchpad Pointing Device with Scrolling Slider
- 1 Type II PCMCIA Slot
- Infrared, Wireless Fast IR Interface
- HDTV Output supported
- 2 IEEE 1394 Port (Mini), 1 DVI, 1 TV-Out Port and 1 S-Video-in Port
- Other Ports: 4 USB 2.0 Ports, 1S, 1P, Ext. Keyboard
- High-Performance Smart Lithium-Ion Battery
- Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
- Weight: 12.5 Lbs with Battery
- 15.5”w x 11.75”d x 1.95”h
- Sager’s Umbrella Protection Policy

$2695

K, this is late, but I just read it and checked 'cause I could really go for a 4750 or 8790 with a 9800 card...

I couldn't find compamerica but reseller ratings for Compu-america are uber crap.

http://www.resellerratings.com/seller1517.html

Plus their company description stinks of scam:

http://www.compamerica.com/contact.html

Here're a few snips from it:

"Where the heck did Computer Sales & Service get the idea for THAT?" commonly heard in the halls at IBM Corporation, CSS is a company that even Microsoft will listen to.

And as if that isn't enough, one of CSS's chief research scientists discovered a semiconductor technology in the mid 90's that even has Intel worried, the Million Gigahertz Transistor technology, as it is called in lay terms, known as the N-Alkane Silver Thiozole Transfer Capacitor, a device using (and its a very long word) "metal insulator dielectric junction electron trap oscillators" to operate as memory and logic for computation at speeds of up to 100 Million Gigahertz, over 50 million times faster than today's Pentium 4!

Today, after over 30 years in existence, Computer Sales & Service is pioneering product hybridization, producing 2.4 GHz computers it sells for no more than $399, a broad spectrum of computer parts and computer hardware, and several lines of Pentium 4 laptop.

Our manufacturing facilities for Laptop Computers are partly based in Taiwan, and partly based in California and in NJ, the ports easiest to bring them here, our PCs are built in NJ and NY State, and our Servers are built in NJ and Ohio.

And remember: CSS is the VERY BEST there is, with the very best products, computer parts and the very best people. We do not try to look good "on paper" like so many system integrators out there do, including the top 5, we try to DO GOOD BY YOU!

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Least they could do is try to look good on their website...Btw, has anyone order a 9860 / Phantom yet? Can we expect a review in a couple of months?

Eurcomm has reserved one for me but ship date is still probably not until Nov.

Ron

Looks like my new laptop is going to cost about $3200 because this is the exact configuration I will probably end up buying!

The mr9800, although a excellent video card, has been passed by Sager. Sager deceided to jump into pcie instead of designing a laptop around old and dying technology. The mr9800 is not pin compatible to the mr9700 nor are the power and heat requirements simular. The Dell 9100 and XPS were built with this upgrade in mind. The 9860 based on pcie offers so much more than any agp mr9800 laptop can offer. Even if the performance is not up to par on the first pcie video cards the ability to upgrade makes it all worth it.

Cool! Be sure to post a review when you get it! After your first couple of days of giddy excitement of course..

Does it? The GPU will probably be crap in 4 years anyway. I'm still a bit skeptical about all the hooplah...When it all goes PCI-E and everything is upgradeable then yeah, maybe. But really, I think a laptop will get changed every 4-5 years tops no matter what. If PCI-E is really all that, I think I might want the 2nd gen uber laptop.

'Course, those first reviews 'could' prove me wrong with amazing benchmarks and whatnot...

In my opinion yes, Most have to sell or replace thier whole laptop in a year or two. With the user upgradeable graphics you simply replace the video card. The way this looks it was designed with excellent cooling and should be able to take future upgrades when pcie takes off. If in 4 years I can't replace the graphics card and Sager is using the same chasis I'll send it in for a motherboard upgrade. If it does last 4 years that is still longer than the current lifespan of the laptops today. Either way a person should get thier money worth, because Sager hasn't disappointed anyone yet on thier laptops. I remember an article in CGW saying how you could not run Doom 3 on a laptop smoothly on any setting because of the mr9700, yet many on this forum run Doom 3 on a 5690, 8790, 4750 at relatively high settings quite smoothly.

I noticed in the new Computer shopper that Sager is advertising the NP9860. The NP9860V is listed as 4395 NP9860S is 3195 and the NP9860C is 2695. The 8790 and the 4750 areen't in the advertisement but the NP4790 is.

So where are the new models? They are being advertised by Sager in the lastest copy of Maximum PC magazine.

If you read through earlier pages of posts, you will see that the best leaks we have received point to Nov 8 or 18 for the WSXGA, and one month after that for WUXGA.

Combing through even further, you'll find lots of other leaks regarding the video card, TV tuner, RAM config, etc.

... And that Synergi is as hot as her avatar picture.

Which helps distract those of us who can't wait for this notebook to be released.

It's all good.

Awww....Shucks

My leaks and speculations.. or a few of them..not sure how many..got deleted because of the NDA by Nvidia.. Luke smacked my hands so I have to be good

It is really, really a pity, that WUXGA will be released in December ..... if it will..... I never want to miss my 1600x1200 on 15" Resolution anymore. I can not accept anything worse now. I´m just looking forward to 2048x1536 on 15" ----- but okay, WUXGA on 17" will be fine. It means, I will have to wait one more month. Until Christmas maybe ???? Would be fantastic, if it would be under Christmas tree.....

why wait? you can get 2048 on a laptop now.

http://nbinside.com/nec/versapro-va22s-ae.htm

QXGA is so old school

A 64 MB Radeon 7500 with a screen like that? O_O

It does make you wonder what they've been drinking doesn't it?

Interesting news, Eurocom's website now says that the Phantom will "launch" on November 4th and now confirms that the graphics module is being made by nVidia.

What was the date they had up before?

Does this mean the NDA is lift? Luke? Adam? heh

Not sure the NDA was lifted because it does not say specifically what the model name of the GPU is, it just says that the module will have a GPU made by nVidia.

Here it is, straight from the horse's mouth:

"upgradable video with 256MB DDR2 NVIDIA 16x PCI-Express card with HDTV output"

where is the 3.6gb processor on Eurocom's website?
Kevin