Sager Laptops (was Re: [ale] OT: 64 MB DDR 4XAGP ATI 9000 Video Card)

[John Wells]

Good point.

Well, ordered the Dell Inspiron 8200 with P4 2.0 and Geforce 4 32mb.  The
Sager laptop for same price would've had the P4 Northwood 2.53 ghz and ATI
9000.  They can also ship it out faster, which would be great for me.

So, still considering cancelling my Dell order.  The big decider here is
that the Sager come with a desktop CPU (Northwood) while the Dell comes
with a Pentium4-mobile.  I'm worried that the Sager will get horrid
battery life because of the desktop CPU.  Wonder how drastic a difference
this would make?

Thoughts, opinions welcome!

Thanks,

John

Jonathan Rickman said:
> On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, John Wells wrote:
>
>> Well, right before I clicked buy, I ran across this BBB post:
>>
>> http://www.labbb.org/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=wsbroker1/C%3A/Inetpub/wwwroot/SouthlandReport/default.htm?hCompID=13055884&hAKAID=1&hAddrID=1
>
>
> I'm taking it with a grain of salt. I've dealt with Clevo products for a
> while now, and the lesson I've learned is simple. Buy through a
> reseller. Sager doesn't offer a great support and that's pretty clear up
> front. It's up to the individual reseller to take care of that. If you
> buy direct from Sager, you can purchase an extended warrany through
> Phillips-Magnavox. Powernotebooks.com offers their own. Sager isn't the
> only shop selling that particular model. Clevo, a company in Taiwan
> makes these and sells them to Sager, Alienware, M-Tech, Pro Star, and
> others. Nobody, and I mean nobody can compete with Dell when it comes to
> service. The question you have to ask yourself is, is it worth paying
> twice the price? For me, the answer is no, I'll take my
> chances...because I've dealt with Clevo products and know what to
> expect. For a good idea of how the laptop business really works, check
> this out:
>
> http://www.powernotebooks.com/Name_Brand.php3
>
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