I purchased a new Sager last week, and I am awaiting its arrival. It is the NP4750. I wish I had found this forum before my purchase. This is a great place to learn more about computers. Anyway I wanted to get some feedback on this laptop, and how I did ordering it. I have in the past bought off the shelf laptops from local stores, such as my current toshiba A35-s1593. I am very lucky that I purchased the TAP 3 year warranty, because my motherboard has been replaced 2 times, and is acting up again. I have got so sick of this Laptop breaking down, that I took a friends advice to get a custom, upper end laptop. I use these for my stair manufacturing business. I take it home and do invoicing, quotes, CAD drawings, ect. I am on my laptop all day and night. And I needed a good quality laptop. In the past my best laptop was a older IBM thinkpad, that id about 12 years old, running windows 98, and has never needed a repair. I gave it to my Mom & Dad to go online with and to play solitaire. I plan to get my toshiba fixed and shelf it in the event my Sager ever needs repairs or to be sent out for other reasons. So basically I wanted to know if this upgrade to Sager was/is a good choice? And if anyone has any recoomendations on what I may need to improve with it. I see alot of members changing drivers, and running tests? Is there anything I may need to do to get better performance out of it? Thanks a lot guys , I appreciate any help, and glad to have joined this board. Here's the specs on my Sager:
Products
1x 64-Bit XOTIC / SAGER NP4750 [17" WSXGA+ATI 9700 128MB Video+More]
- Office Software: No Office Software
- Warranty: 3 Year Warranty w/ Accidental LC
- Shipping: UPS Ground Shipping (US)
- Software Bundle: No Software Bundle
- Bluetooth: Internal Bluetooth
- Memory Card Reader: Internal 4-in-1 Card Reader
- Camera: Integrated Digital Video Camera
- Wireless Network: Internal 802.11G WIFI
- Port Replicator: ADD Port Replicator
- Floppy Drive: No Floppy Drive
- Extra AC Adaptor: ADD Extra AC Adapter
- Case: Basic Black Business Case
- Car Adaptor: ADD Car Adapter
- Operating System: Windows XP Pro w/ CD
- Battery: Smart Li-ON Battery Pack
- TV Tuner: Internal TV Tuner
- Network Card: 10/100/1000 NIC
- Modem: 56K RJ11 Phone Modem
- Bay 1 Media Drive: 8X DVD +/- R/RW /CDRW Dual Layer
- Primary Hard Drive: 120GB 5400 RPM Hard Drive
- Exterior Finish: Custom Laptop Skins (Will delay
- Ram: 2048MB Dual Channel PC3200 (2x1G
- Display: 17" *Glossy* WSXGA Screen 1680x
- Processor: AMD Athlon 64Bit 3400+ w/ 1MB &
- Video Card: ATI 9700 128MB Video

Well it hasn't even been a year, and I must say I have been a bit disappointed. A few months ago I had to send it in for service as it was shutting down on me. Sager repaired it and said it was the hard drive which they replaced. Since then I have renomly got the blue screen a few times, and also I have seen the screen scrabmle a couple times too. Always while it was just sitting there without me using it. I had to power it down and boot it up to get the screen scrambling to stop. Now as of a couple days ago it will not power up. I ran out and purchased a 2.5" hard drive enclosure, and removed the hard drive so I can back it up completely. When I removed the hard rive I noticed that the hardware directly under it looks quite warped , like melted? I dont know what this part is but it reads billionton systems, model# MDCBTSC, P/N 88-m301A-390, OCT. -05, SYS-BJJDKJD. Does anyone know what this unit is? Should this thing be warped looking? Obviously it is getting quite hot. I dread sending this to Sager for repair, then having to set it all up again. Finding software liscences, keys, and all my softwares again. This really sucks. This is why I purchased a upper end notebook. I have been all through this with my old toshiba, which is what I am using for now. Thank God I saved this as a back up notebook! Any advise on my Sager for improvement to keep it in operating condition when I get it back. I have read about changing the cpu to the turion, which I will do. Thanks for any help!

I have tons of problems with the apacer ram...so i gave up on it and threw two sticks of the corsair stuff in.

Sorry to hear you are having problems too. I am not sure what apacer ram, and corsair stuff are??? Anyway no one knows what this melted unit is under my hard drive? Also I backed up my drive, and got my RMA # from Sager, so When I installed the old hard drive back in it for service, now it is starting up? I dont know what to do now, Should I wait and see if it happends again or send it back now. Sager will not experience the startup issue, and may say it is fine. Or can they run tests on my system to lok for the issue? Any recommendations would greatly be appreciated, Thanks!!!

i reccomend that you look at this thread...

http://www.notebookforums.com/thread177158.html