Well, it actually arrived Monday but i've been spending so much time with it that I have not made the formal announcement.
I installed XP Pro myself ($84 at newegg.com) and it went smoothly and fast. I laughed at the 40min remaining bar as the 4750 blew through it.
I promised to do some premiere and photoshop testing. Photoshop runs very fast but i have no means on getting video on my lappy to test premiere. (waiting for guy down the hall to get his new camera in) and hopefully i will do some light editing for my schools tv station on the lappy.
Impressions:
Size:For having a 17" widescreen display I think the laptop is relatively small. Its thinner than I expected and their is not "wasted" real estate on the keyboard area like some of the toshibas at bestbuy. The simple case design diffinatly looks very professional.
The screen: F*ckin awsome. While normally I would say "enough said" this does not do the screen justice. A friend on my hall has a sony vio and I would put this screen against his. This screen is comperable if not better. NO DEAD PIXELS!!!! There is no light leakage. And there is so much real estate on the desktop!
Speakers:While at first I was dissapointed and had to say "what did you expect, they are laptop speakers" after seeing advice on the thread I changed the speaker settings to 6 channel and now I'm blown away by their quality. Some people assumed it was a stereo, but then saw the laptop and I explained hey, its got six speakers.
Speed:I have not benched but plan to. It beats my 2 ghz dell with 256mb ram and integrated EXTREME graphics
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Heat:With the new AMD drivers I idle around 37 C with HD at 36 C. I'm waiting to see during a "stress test." The heat is not as bad as I expected. Sure the left palmrest gets warm, but this happens on other laptops too. When idleing the fans are quiet exept for an occasional whirr about every 7 minuts. (I'm assuming I have the new bios and fan firmware but do not know how to tell.) I do not currently plan on AS5 but may later on. Oh and I have the 7200Rpm drive for referance if people are having heat trouble.
Everyone on my hall is jealus and impressed by this laptop from a company they have never heard of before and at least two people have begun to research sager for their next lappy.
If anyone on the Furman campus wants to take a look at Sagers handiwork PM me.
Thank you all for walking me through this process. I have no regrets on not waiting for PCI-E as the new pci-e lappy is too big for my taste and it will be too long before a compact one comes out. (I need a comp now)
I already bought a wireless mouse and a new targus XL backpack from bestbuy as a housewarming present.
Bring on Windows 64-Bit!
I installed XP Pro myself ($84 at newegg.com) and it went smoothly and fast. I laughed at the 40min remaining bar as the 4750 blew through it.
I promised to do some premiere and photoshop testing. Photoshop runs very fast but i have no means on getting video on my lappy to test premiere. (waiting for guy down the hall to get his new camera in) and hopefully i will do some light editing for my schools tv station on the lappy.
Impressions:
Size:For having a 17" widescreen display I think the laptop is relatively small. Its thinner than I expected and their is not "wasted" real estate on the keyboard area like some of the toshibas at bestbuy. The simple case design diffinatly looks very professional.
The screen: F*ckin awsome. While normally I would say "enough said" this does not do the screen justice. A friend on my hall has a sony vio and I would put this screen against his. This screen is comperable if not better. NO DEAD PIXELS!!!! There is no light leakage. And there is so much real estate on the desktop!
Speakers:While at first I was dissapointed and had to say "what did you expect, they are laptop speakers" after seeing advice on the thread I changed the speaker settings to 6 channel and now I'm blown away by their quality. Some people assumed it was a stereo, but then saw the laptop and I explained hey, its got six speakers.
Speed:I have not benched but plan to. It beats my 2 ghz dell with 256mb ram and integrated EXTREME graphics
.Heat:With the new AMD drivers I idle around 37 C with HD at 36 C. I'm waiting to see during a "stress test." The heat is not as bad as I expected. Sure the left palmrest gets warm, but this happens on other laptops too. When idleing the fans are quiet exept for an occasional whirr about every 7 minuts. (I'm assuming I have the new bios and fan firmware but do not know how to tell.) I do not currently plan on AS5 but may later on. Oh and I have the 7200Rpm drive for referance if people are having heat trouble.
Everyone on my hall is jealus and impressed by this laptop from a company they have never heard of before and at least two people have begun to research sager for their next lappy.
If anyone on the Furman campus wants to take a look at Sagers handiwork PM me.
Thank you all for walking me through this process. I have no regrets on not waiting for PCI-E as the new pci-e lappy is too big for my taste and it will be too long before a compact one comes out. (I need a comp now)
I already bought a wireless mouse and a new targus XL backpack from bestbuy as a housewarming present.
Bring on Windows 64-Bit!
