Widescreen 4760 worth it?? - Page 2

first of all there is no such thing as the 4780.
2nd of all, its better to get a 5680 for gaming than a 4760. DOn't argue with this as you will be wrong.

Now, for surfing web, impressing chicks e.t.c. the 4760 is much better

Here is my 2 cents:

My machine is loaded with Windows XP Professiona.

I have loaded and ran the following games on my 4760

a. Unreal 2 The awakening
b. Return to Castle Wolfenstein
c. Enter The Matrix
d. Max Payne
e. Postal
f. Postal 2
g. Half Life
h. Mortyr (not the game it was billed to be)
i. Red Faction
j. Beachhead 2000
i. Soldier of Fortune II
k. Final Doom for Windows 95 (yes it runs on XP!)

I have noticed no difference in game play between this machine and my desktop. All these games fill the screen and I have not noticed any "squishing" of the characters. I am running my 4760 in the default 1440x900 resolution.

The 64meg of direct video memory is what makes the difference in performance. My desktop uses the Intel Extreme Graphics chipset, which uses "shared" system RAM for video memory.

You can share your milk and cookies. You can share your money, but DON'T share your sytem RAM!

Well this is my 2 cents after 3 weeks of proud ownership of my 4760.

This is just my opinion, I could be wrong...........

Damn.... just when I thought I had decided on the 5680...... I guess the 5680 is still a lot more portable though... and has dual battery.... damn... hard decision.

Hey all, new poster here. Going to be getting a new laptop, and have decided Sager 4760 is for me BUT...

Is there anyone with any sort of FACT on the 4780 rumors? I'd be able to wait a month or two if I needed too but not much longer...

What about upgrading a 4760 to 4780, does anyone know specs. that will be changing that will be able to be upgraded?

Thanks, and sorry if this is a little bit of a thread hijack!

-Todd

There are no hard facts on the 4980 release date. However, Adam from PCtorque (the laptop reseller most of this board's sager owners have purchased from) said in another thread that, according to the last news he got in, the release date would be somewhere in october.

IMO, if you can wait that one month or two, do it. Big performance improvement, specially if you like video-games



Cheers.

Anyone who says that the 4760 is not a gamer's machine, has not used the 4760 to play games.

Get with the 16:10 program, guys!!!

For anyone that has used a computer for any length of time with this screen format will quickly wonder why it has taken so long for this format to take hold. 4:3 sucks! New games support these resolutions just fine and those that don't support it look fine at 1152x864 or even 1024x768. If you don't like the stretching, you can turn off the stretching and let the game run in a 4:3 window on your screen.

If you don't need a new computer today, then by all means wait for the 4780 to come out in a month or so. The increased video memory size will be the biggest benefit for overall performance. The difference between 533Mhz FSB and 800Mhz FSB is not even a factor of 2, so don't expect a night-and-day difference. The 9600 PRO chipset itself will be nice too since it supports DirectX 9 natively, but that will only be a substantial improvement for games which utilize new DirectX 9 features.

What i like

You know, im really liking this talk and love for the 4xxx series. Seriously. Sager is truly growing. Youve got your 8xxx nuts, 5xxx, nuts, now 4xxx nuts. Grow sager, grow. Then, i hope people start debating best lappy....

How about some screen shots of.........

To all 4760 owners....
How about some screen shots of some games (old and new)so we can all see just how beautiful that 17"er really is. Also, to judge just how much the screen (if at all) get "squished". That would be sweet!!

Thanks!

Future 4780 owner!!!!!!!!!

steve

I personally hate that screen because its resolution is lower than WSXGA. That leaves you with very little desktop space - because of my preference for a lot of desktop space, I won't buy a machine with less than SXGA+.

But your preferences may be dfferent.

-phubar

i too am interested in a widescreen notebook and the 4760 looks very enticing. also, i noticed that there is now the tv-tuner option available! which is excellent. my desktop has ati allinwonder radeon and watching tv windowed or fullscreen while surfing or whatever is truly convergence at its best. ati's seemingly deserved reputation for driver issues has much improved since i first got the card 3 years ago and digital vcr recording is very useful. (set simpsons to record while at work! it is on 3 times a day here in chicago).

with respect to the 4780 rumors, here is what i have seen checking out some other resellers of sagers and clevo notebooks:

the eurocom.com site under 'future products' has october 9 launch date of the fsb800/ddr400/128MB-9600 version and october 9 as the launch date of the centrino 64MB-9000 version. of course, who can say whether pctorque will offer these, but it may be some indication.

hopefully not to complicate matters, but now i am also looking at this upcoming product at sagernotebooks.com the 3750 which is centrino/15" widescreen but paired with 5h|tty intel extreme shared 64MB graphics and no tv tuner option. i'm thinking the sacrifice on gaming & tv (since they're not my primary or secondary priorities) is worth it for the longer battery, lower weight, quieter running (presumably) and less heat.

what i am really waiting for is the potential 3750 successor: 15" WUXGA with M10-128MB, tv-tuner and 2x dvd burner. but, sigh, i do grow weary waiting for the future and i'm not getting any younger. i am enthusiastically intending to buy from pctorque though because this forum is very compelling to me as far as the committment to customer satisfaction that it seems to represent. i suppose all these enthusiastic pctorque/sager customers could be faked somehow and everyone is on the payroll, but it doesn't seem likely.

Yes

I too am a gamer and am not totally bought on 4:3 for games. Maybe that is what current games are limited to. I am interested in perhaps getting the 4X80 (Anyone know what X is?) when it comes out in a couple of months.

Does anyone have any info reguarding 4:3 or 16:10 with respect to the following:

Half-Life 2
Doom 3
future versions of Unreal
new games from Blizzard, Id, or Epic
new games from Westwood (Generals, C&C storyline)

i heard

See, i heard that it does not fill the screen...the games dont. Theres stil the black bars. Im not sure if thats true though. Can anyone confirm? deny?

did u see this review thread. it has pics showing dvd playback and a game filling the screen without distortion or black bars.

some movies will not match the proportions of the screen becuase there are different motion picture aspect ratios 1.85:1, 2.35:1 what have you.

Thats an expensive dvd player you own there.
I could get one for alot cheaper.

Ive got a 4760 and I haven't met a game yet that doesn't fill the screen the whole way. As for movies I just tell Power DVD to change movie resolution to 1440 * 900.
No prob.

Ditto for me. I've tried quite a few games on my 4760 (Caste Wolfenstein, No one lives forever, quake 3, counterstrike, combat mission, commanche 4, etc etc). The only game that didn't work widescreen was my old copy of starcraft. All new 3D games, and definately future games should all support wide screen.

Theres a concern right there.
especially If you're like me and like to play the older games once and a while.

I play Starcraft on BattleNet all the time, it takes up the whole screen.

OK..........

Ok.....let see the pics!!