Sager 9860 announced - Page 50

thanks!

Uh oh....well I bought my 9860 on Friday at midnight, and since then a few things have changed with the pricing!! Most notably, the DVD burner. I chose the 4x +/- burner when I config'ed but since then, the price on the 8x burner with dual layer writing has dropped!! The config I built was $3041. With the price drop, getting the dual layer 8x piece would only cost 3049!!! Eight bucks extra for a dual layer burner than is twice as fast?? I emailed them over the weekend, but I'm afraid it might be too late.....if they're expected to ship on Monday, I wonder what the chances are that they'll be able to make the switch? Also, couldn't I just send it back within 30 days for a full refund? Then I could just reorder with the new burner for the extra $8.....a little extra shipping time NOW would definitely pay off when I'm able to write dual layer DVD's in the future!!

I did the same thing. I sent an email into PCTorque asking to change the drive and provide a refund of the difference. I don't see how it would be to late considering orders haven't even been sent into Sager yet. Also, PCTorque's policy states refunds are provided due to changes in price if the unit has not yet been shipped. We should be OK (keeping my fingers crossed). However, like you said you can return the unit in 30 days. I'm hoping PCTorque corrects this and provides the 8X drive.

If you sent an email... i have it. We are working throught them now... just remember.... there is alot of you

Working on a Sunday night!?!? Now that is service. That deserves an atta-boy.

Man, you guys are unreal! Can't wait to give you my money (for a new machine, of course!)

Ahhh..that's how it works.. I was wondering about that. But for it to out perform the 7200 you have to have two 5400's correct? One alone won't do it?

From what I was told two 5400 SATA are faster than two 7200 PATA in raid 0. (Maybe it's just in this new notebook and not "in general" I'm not sure).

Don't know why I'd be told an untruth by the people building this computer for me unless it's their job to ruin their reputation and displease customers

According to a local PC magazine (Hong Kong), the spec for Geforce Go 6800 is as follows :-

Code Name : NV41M
No. of Transisitor : 190M
Pipeline : 12
Vertex Engine : 5
Benchmark : 3DMark03 -- 7697, 3DMark05 -- 2724

For Doom 3, the FPS is 63.1 vs 36.8 for Radeon 9800/X800.

Lugui

two 80gb hdds raid 0 = 1 160gb hdd, syn
hope this helps...

Blue tooth

How come Extreme notbooks offer Blue tooth with the prostar version. they are the same computer.

If this is true then WOOHOO!

That's quite an increase over the ati 9800

Raid

I've been really impressed with PCT, which is why I'm trying to figure out how the 5400 SATAs are faster in a Raid-0 than the 7200 ATAs in Raid-0. For all I know, there may be other issues impacting performance, like energy usage, etc.

Syn - Raid 0 basically takes 2 hard drives and clumps them as a single hard drive with part of each file on each HD. That way the comp is using both HDs at the same time to grab the data. I think it's called "striping" by the techies. Raid 1 essentially copies the same data to both hard drives, providing a duplicate in case one crashes, which is known as "mirroring."

I would think that in a Raid-0 setup, the amount of info transferred at one time from each HD is lower, which would cause the limiting factor to be the speed at which it's spinning. The only thing I can think of is that maybe in Raid-0, there are either increased data demands tying up the available DMA (i.e. CPU/MBO is sending info trying to coordinate between the two) or that Raid somehow allows better control and lets the HDs send more info, thus taking advantage of SATA.

I've been dying to order since Friday, so I'm really hoping that some of the benchmarks that PCT releases Monday will give me the info I need to order.

Sounds like a miscommunication Clevo has announced that it won't be available till mid December.

Luke, you wouldn't like to clear up the whole thing about which is faster, 5400 SATA's in RAID-0 or the 7200's in RAID-0? Would You?

he may have to wait until midnight

I was just on their website. I did not understand it myself. But they operate like you do. They don't usually post anything unless they know for sure. I purchased my first clevo from them. I have been very impressed with this forum and the up to date info. I'm seriously planning on ordering from you in the near future. Just want to find out about the WUXGA and when or if it will be offered prior to placing my order.

That about sums it up, you will be able to read all this info when our reveiw is released... patience my children.

DAD ARE WE THERE YET????

When I read the review in the morning will I be able to change my order if I want too?