Question about buying a sager...?

Sager, like every other laptop brand in the world I know of, reserves the right to install components at their discretion. This often means testing multiple brands for stability and performance during R&D. If more than one are approved they go with who can produce the supply they need for the best price. As weeks and months go by supply and pricing can change leaving them to go with another approved brand.

Now, considering the speed and timing of RAM is expected to be LOCKED in all laptops, having different RAM clocked faster will do nothing at all for the system. I've not really seen RAM stability issues in Sagers and the RAM I've often seen used is named APACER which if you research you'll find it's made at the same plant with the same standards as a few others with different names. As far as hard drives, some have no choice but to be a particular brand considering one brand only makes them. If you compare two 60GB 5400rpm mobile hard drives currently on the market of any brand you will find no significant performance, stability, or noise level differences in whole. While months of testing may show one brand of hard drive on average with the same rating has a fractional increase, the difference is not going to be any higher than the tolerance of the same brand compared to itself likely. It's like you driving two identical cars on a 20 mile trip, one with cruise set at 50MPH, the other set at 50.01MPH. If you drove them back to back are you going to have any idea which one was that faster trip considering speedometers can easily vary by 10 times the difference of those two speeds? The real question is do you want to be told brand “X” is the fastest and only what we carry or do you want to be told the truth? The truth is there have been differences in mobile drives in the past and they've been talked about, but currently the RAM and hard drives available and used have been tested to be as fast and dependable as they can be.

If a company really is only using brand "X" RAM and brand "Y" hard drives it's probably not because they truly feel that it's the best brand, it's probably because they're either locked into a contract or for marketing using a bigger name. If you look at RAM, HD, LCD, and media drives, you almsot always find variations in models and brands used in the same system from any company.

Places have been known to put faster RAM in a laptop to be a selling point. In reality the faster marked RAM runs no faster than the laptop is locked at running and provides no advantage other than collecting uneducated buyers and a few more $.