hey, this review will incorporate 2 sager 5680s. My friend from high school and I ordered our laptops from pctorque.com on August 20th. We were going to buy the 5670 because we were going to college but decided to wait. We received our laptops almost a month later, Sept 17th. My friend (now my college roommate) received both our laptops and here is a quick review.
Ordering: I tried to order the day before (sept 19) but couldnt because my parents credit card kept getting declined. I called up the next day and they verified the identity etc. and immediately the transaction went through. At first i ordered the uxga screen. two weeks later i switched to sxga+ and then a few days after that i changed back to uxga. thanks to pctorque for being patient ;] here are the specs i ordered (as well as my roommate)
15" UXGA
2.6ghz p4
512mb ddr ram
60 gb 5400 rpm hard drive
wireless lan
No operating system
i guess i'll start off with the bad:
1. The laptop cases are not too great but they were freebies so its no big deal
2. My roommates laptop has one dead pixel in the upper left quadrant
3. My processor fan seems to need some oil. It sounds like an old car with a little chirping noise. I'm gonna turn it off tonite and try tomorrow morning to see if it goes away.
4. It gets quite hot.
Everything else is pretty much perfect. I havent tested out all the bells and whistles but everything seems all good. The only odd thing is that windows update doesnt show that i need to download SP2. I have SP1 currently installed. I'm not a big benchmark buff, just real life qualtiy on gameplay. If anyone requests me to run some benchmarks, i dont mind doing it however.
The video card drivers i used were the WHQL drivers off the driver cd. Does anyone reccomend any other drivers?
I am very happy with this laptop so far....i'll post anymore updates if need be.
also if you want pics i can take some but i do need someone to host them. How does 2 5680s side by side sound? :]
Ordering: I tried to order the day before (sept 19) but couldnt because my parents credit card kept getting declined. I called up the next day and they verified the identity etc. and immediately the transaction went through. At first i ordered the uxga screen. two weeks later i switched to sxga+ and then a few days after that i changed back to uxga. thanks to pctorque for being patient ;] here are the specs i ordered (as well as my roommate)
15" UXGA
2.6ghz p4
512mb ddr ram
60 gb 5400 rpm hard drive
wireless lan
No operating system
i guess i'll start off with the bad:
1. The laptop cases are not too great but they were freebies so its no big deal
2. My roommates laptop has one dead pixel in the upper left quadrant
3. My processor fan seems to need some oil. It sounds like an old car with a little chirping noise. I'm gonna turn it off tonite and try tomorrow morning to see if it goes away.
4. It gets quite hot.
Everything else is pretty much perfect. I havent tested out all the bells and whistles but everything seems all good. The only odd thing is that windows update doesnt show that i need to download SP2. I have SP1 currently installed. I'm not a big benchmark buff, just real life qualtiy on gameplay. If anyone requests me to run some benchmarks, i dont mind doing it however.
The video card drivers i used were the WHQL drivers off the driver cd. Does anyone reccomend any other drivers?
I am very happy with this laptop so far....i'll post anymore updates if need be.
also if you want pics i can take some but i do need someone to host them. How does 2 5680s side by side sound? :]
. We're not in the same class or even faculty now, but are both in the all-mighty-in-math-and-engineering University of Waterloo ( 
).
