The man in brown short-shorts just handed me my 4880

Greeetings all! The man in the skanky brown shorts just gave me my new 4880 that I ordered from pctorque. I unpacked it, and I must say that pc torque does a great job of packaging these computers. I pulled it out, installed windows xp pro corperate, which amazingly took less than ten minuites. I wish I had timed it, this thing is FAST. My inital impressions are... the compents about the screen having teh suck, are either complete crap, or I have never seen a GOOD screen. This screen is just fine, not amazing, but definatly suitable and not lacking. The shape, look, and build quality is phenominal. My only issue is the ugly sager bump on the lid, I think I may take advantage of my resources and mold a new plastic lid which is completely flat. The keyboard is great, the start button is in a nice spot, the function key is in the right spot, most everything is better in person than in the pictures. My first gripe is that the mouse pad feels downright starnge. The texture of it is goofy and unlike any other pad I have ever felt. The mouse buttons ar ea bit small, but I will get used to them. So far I have not been able to find a single dead pixel, and I cant wait to get all of the drivers isntalled and check out what this thing can do in Half Life 2. Frankly, I was expecting FAR less than what I have recived so far, and it seems to just keep getting better, which is amazing because normally I am a hard critic who is difficult to please. If anyone has any questions about the 4880, feel free to ask me, I was searching this forum for information before my purchase and I really couldnt find what I was looking for here. I will post a full review in the reviews section later. Have a great day... I know i will

This is my first post from my my new computer :-).

I am downloading 3d mark 2003 right now, and I will get you 2005 after I get the 03 scores. I have not yet seen any dark or light spots so far, but now that you meantion them I will keep and eye out.

Well, with running ms anti spyware, norton anti virus, a bluetooth manager, a windows firewall, and no services disabled, plugged in, it scored 6052 in 3dmark03. Now to start tweaking >=)

:edit:Just now with a few tweaks its running at 6301 in 3dmark03.

I would definatly say that the computer is portable. It is of averadge length and width, and is for its capabilities, very thin. Maybe ill take a picture of it next to a ps2 controler or something to give a reference. The sager badge is well in my opinion, very ugly. It is raised up and fairly large on the back of the lcd lid. If sager were would have much perfered one of the small squarish jewels on the back of the 3790 if sager NEEDED to put on o
f their ugly logos on the compuer. It would have been best though with a flat logo like asus or msi does on their computers, I feel that the logo they used cheapens up the look of an otherwise very attrative laptop. I have pictures on my treo, but I need to get them off somehow. I need to find a driver for my USB controller so I can hotsync it. Anyone have one?

The comptuer I bought ahs a 12 cell battery, I did not know that an 8 cell was even an option. I have not tested the battery life yet, I charged it up yesterday afternoon and discharged it overnight. Old habits die hard ;-)

Sager Faboy? There are a few issues with that, I have no brand loyalty to sager, clevo, or pc torque. I simply chose which laptop fit my needs, and so far have had a good experience. If I find anything unsatisfactory with this laptop, I will be the first one to criticize any of the forementioned companies.

Here are the requested pictures. If you want close ups of any certain part, let me know.

The box.

The awesome box within a box packagaing

ENGRISH!!!!!

More packing.

What the case that comes with the comptuer looks like.

Computer condom.

The anti moisture package... to lock in your sager fresh taste.

Covers over the screen and mouse

Finally unwrapped

From an angle with a picture of the power brick.

Thats actually a good idea, ill look into doing some sort of covering.


I am an industiral design student myself and I recently created my own mouse which I am quite fond of, so I will stick with that . I do like logitech's stuff though. They are a cool company too, they let a car club that I belonged to back in the day throw a huge tuner car meet in their fremont headquarters parking lot.

Odd that this thread has become a critique on on boots as much as it is on the 4880. Why would I want to have an inluminated keyboard? It seems sort of silly and a waste of battereies since I never look at the keyboard anyway . I am trying to use omega drivers right now, but it seesm that theyd ont like the ati x700 at all. I cant control the core or ram clock speeds, and most of the features dont seem to be there. Can anyone recomend a better set of drivers or perhaps a program which allows me to control the stock ones better?