Anyone thought of going the clevo/sager route for a laptop?

XMEN Ashaman DTM · Post by **XMEN Ashaman DTM** » Sat Sep 21, 2013 9:55 pm

Looking to get a new one. They're very upgradeable from what I can gather. My current one is just over 7 years old... and the video card has died twice, but I was able to reflow the solder both times.

I've looked at Dell/alienware, msi, asus, clevo (sager), and anything else that can be considered a 17 inch gaming laptop. I was going asus until I saw that sager laptops have the ability to customize heavily, and upgrade if necessary. Money is sort of an object... I'm going into this mentally amortizing the cost over 5 years, and trying to stay below $1500.

I'm kind of at the point where I'm going to pull the handle on the buy... just looking for second opinions to see if I've missed anything.

Spinning Hat · Post by **Spinning Hat** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 9:07 am

I haven't even heard of that brand of laptop... I am kind of starting to get into the market for a new Laptop, as I am going back to school in the spring. Definitely want something that I can game with but still be useful enough with a numpad for studies in MIS / Project Management.

XMEN Ashaman DTM · Post by **XMEN Ashaman DTM** » Mon Sep 23, 2013 10:32 pm

Well, here's one of the laptops:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7181/euro ... evo-p177sm

The version I'm looking at is on this page:

http://www.powernotebooks.com/Sager-Cus ... at-26.html

(The NP 8275. With more RAM and the AMD video card.)

Spinning Hat · Post by **Spinning Hat** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 2:46 pm

Damn.. For $1500 that is a damn fine Laptop. that'll play and do most anything you'd want to, that I'm sure.

XMEN Ashaman DTM · Post by **XMEN Ashaman DTM** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 9:31 pm

That's the plan... my current one has a GeForce 7600 Go... and it played tribes ascend at 12 fps. Was pretty fun getting an MA with that framerate.

But the next laptop is going to be sort of future proof for a while... as much as laptops can be anyways.

SH: would you pay 1500 for that? it's got the customization/upgradeability factor too. The ASUS and msi laptops I looked at were minimal in that respect (but fairly nice).

Post by **XMEN Gambit** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 7:06 pm

I’m talking about the kind of 17” behemoth notebook that weighs 10 pounds and has a power brick approximately the size and weight of a compact automobile.

Sounds like a monster truck of a laptop. I kind of like it.

Spinning Hat · Post by **Spinning Hat** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:57 am

I'd pay $1500 for something like that, for sure. It's got enough cutting edge stuff to be able to keep it around for a while, but it's not so bleeding edge that you're paying the early adopter premium.

XMEN Ashaman DTM · Post by **XMEN Ashaman DTM** » Wed Oct 02, 2013 12:27 am

That's pretty much what I was thinking.

Though, now I've got to wait till the shutdown ends and the debt ceiling thing is figured out.