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Just lost my cherry (got a laptop)

post #1 of 13
5/3/05 at 10:45pm
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Well, I just ordered a brand spankin new 9860 yesterday. First laptop I've ever gotten so I'm looking forward to playing with a new toy. Did quite a bit of reviewing on different laptops and price checks and this is what I decided on. Is there anything I should know about besides cranking up the jet engines for cooling? Now to hurry up and wait for it to arrive.

Ok, already getting impatient here...

Levoc
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post #2 of 13
5/3/05 at 11:09pm
Congrats on the new toy. What are the specs?
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post #3 of 13
5/3/05 at 11:11pm
I think you will like it. Especially since you know and already expect the jet engines fans you are talking about. =p
As for cranking them up, don't worry. Once the temp hits 60 degrees, the fans turn on automatically at full power and stay that way.
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post #4 of 13
5/4/05 at 9:46am
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Sager 9860-C
Display: 17" WSXGA+ LCD (WideScreen 1680 X 1050)
Processor: 3.2GHZ P4 w/2MB L2 cache & EM64T(640)
Graphics Card: ATi MOBILITY RADEON X800 w/GDDR3
RAM: 1024MB 533DDR2 (2 DIMMS)
Primary Hard Drive: 60GB 5400RPM SATA
Secondary Hard Drive: 60GB 5400 RPM SATA
Media Drive: 8x DVD+- combo drive with DVD+R DL
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post #5 of 13
5/4/05 at 5:07pm
u made a good choice picking the x800. it really makes a difference.

did u get the hdds raided to 0, 1 or not at all?
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post #6 of 13
5/5/05 at 8:12am
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I decided to not get the drives raided. I wanted the overall capacity versus speed. Mabye one of these days I'll get another 200gb for my desktop and raid that instead.
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post #7 of 13
5/5/05 at 9:20pm
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Originally Posted by Levoc
I decided to not get the drives raided. I wanted the overall capacity versus speed. Mabye one of these days I'll get another 200gb for my desktop and raid that instead.
Actually, with RAID 0, you get both the full capacity of both drives as well as a hefty increase in speed.
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post #8 of 13
5/6/05 at 7:35am
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Originally Posted by Turtle
Actually, with RAID 0, you get both the full capacity of both drives as well as a hefty increase in speed.
As a bonus, you duplicate your probability of a hard drive failure, taking
all your data with it :-)
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post #9 of 13
5/6/05 at 4:09pm
however it's already such a small chance that doubling it doesn't increase the risk a very large amount, however with two seperate drives; if one fails at least your other data on the second drive is safe. I think you'll be very happy with what you've chosen though, depending on what you'll use it for, you may want to increase your ram
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post #10 of 13
5/6/05 at 4:20pm
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Originally Posted by blackfirewolf
however it's already such a small chance that doubling it doesn't increase the risk a very large amount, however with two seperate drives; if one fails at least your other data on the second drive is safe. I think you'll be very happy with what you've chosen though, depending on what you'll use it for, you may want to increase your ram

Tell that to someone (like me) who has had 1.5 hard drive failures in the last
two years, due in great part to the heat produced by these laptops. Now
imagine it happening every 6 months!!!

I've seen other threads talking about hard disk temperatures at 50 C or above.
Have you ever checked that 99% of HDD specs say that 55 C is the max
temperature they support? Spending hours upon hours in those ranges
will shorten your HDD life *A LOT*
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post #11 of 13
5/6/05 at 5:59pm
barspi

I did the RAID 0 thing. I'm not afraid for 2 reasons:

1) I back up

2) Extended Warranty

Now, the question is: IS THERE A SPEED INCREASE?

Never compared it to a similar model with just 1 7200 or 2 7200 in R0 so I couldn't tell ya.


But I love tellin' people that my laptop has RAID 0.

Like a sports car, it makes up for my small wang
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post #12 of 13
5/8/05 at 11:52am
^^rofl^^
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post #13 of 13
5/8/05 at 12:28pm
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A couple seconds here and there isn't going to worry me that much. Just outta curosity though, how hard is it to setup drives to be raid 0? Not having an OS installed so the system is coming clean. Yea, still waiting for it.

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depending on what you'll use it for, you may want to increase your ram
A gig of DDR2 should do me fine for at least a couple months. As it is this laptop is going to be better then my desktop.
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