OMG: A Tale of MAFs New Laptop Shipping

[MrAngryFace]

OMGG!!!!!!!!!



http://www.sagernotebook.com/index.php?page=product_info&model_name=NP8170

Display 17.3" Full HD LED-Backlit Display with Super Glossy Surface (1920 x 1080)
Video & Graphics Card AMD Radeon HD 6990M GPU with 2GB GDDR5 Video Memory
CPU Processor 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-2860QM Processor ( 8MB L3 Cache, 2.50GHz)
Thermal Compound Stock Standard Thermal Compound
Operating System Genuine MS Windows® 7 Home Premium 32/64-Bit Edition ( 64-Bit Preloaded )
Memory 12GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 3 X 4GB
RAID Storage Options  Non-RAID Storage
Primary Hard Disk Drive 80GB Intel 320 Series SATA2 Solid State Disk Drive
2nd Hard Disk Drive 500GB 7200rpm SATA 300 Secondary Hard Disk Drive
Optical Drive Bay — Optical Drive or Hard Disk Drive in Optical Drive Bay with Caddy case 8X DVD±R/RW/4X +DL Super-Multi Drive & Software
Wireless Network Card Internal 802.11 B+G+N Wireless LAN + Bluetooth Combo Module
Primary Battery Smart Li-ION Battery Pack
Integrated Security Device Fingerprint Reader

[Great Rumbler]

 

[MrAngryFace]

I bought my last one from them, one of the first i7s, great stuff- great service

[Bebpo]

Best story since the renaissance

[Great Rumbler]

What's the price on a beast like that? Can't imagine you could get it for less than $1,500.

[Dickie Dee]

jismz

keep us updated

[MrAngryFace]

What's the price on a beast like that? Can't imagine you could get it for less than $1,500.

My version ended up around 2,400 after moving the options around. The RoGs are still fantastic values, but there's something about having a 17 inch monster that shits out games at high velocity thats fun to own.

[Great Rumbler]

What's the price on a beast like that? Can't imagine you could get it for less than $1,500.

My version ended up around 2,400 after moving the options around.

Nice.

[Dickie Dee]

I had a sager/something a few laptops ago. I kind of appreciated it's lack of build quality, as in "yeah we could but you don't care, let's toss some more memory in there chap"

[BlackMage]

2,400 for a laptop? damn MAF you rich. Let's get married! 

[MrAngryFace]

YOU WOULD JUST WANT ME TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT FEELINGS AND IF YOURE FAT

[BlackMage]

YOU WOULD JUST WANT ME TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT FEELINGS AND IF YOU'RE FAT

No I wouldn't  :'(  .. wait, DO you think I'm fat? 

[archie4208]

You should have waited for the Razer Blade, the only true gaming laptop. 

[MCD]

That's no Windows 8.

[Positive Touch]

yeah that's what i do with mine.  looks fucking awesome hooked up to the t.v., plus i still have quality gaming in my lap when the missus comes home & wants to watch aweful romcoms.

main downside is that i always have to sit next to an outlet in class because this only gets about an hour on the battery even on "power saver" settings

[MrAngryFace]

There's an 18.4 inch, that was too much

[MrAngryFace]

YOU WOULD JUST WANT ME TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT FEELINGS AND IF YOU'RE FAT

No I wouldn't  :'(  .. wait, DO you think I'm fat? 

It's not you! It's me!

[Van Cruncheon]

[Smooth Groove]

Any reason why you didn't go with a loaded desktop instead? 

[MrAngryFace]

Figured a budget laptop was safer in this economy.

[Beezy]

2,400

budget laptop

[MrAngryFace]

oh, he said desktop- thought he was being CLEVER.

I already have a loaded desktop- but I wanted a loaded laptop for when im at a friends house or visiting parents or just to look at to remind myself how lucky I am

[Great Rumbler]

Any reason why you didn't go with a loaded desktop instead? 

Because he's not poor?

[MrAngryFace]

I'll be poor again someday probably- I want to sit in my cardboard box knowing that for one brief moment, I LIVED

[T234]

Congratz

[MrAngryFace]

Its here! Power Supply is the biggest ive ever seen holy shit.

[Mupepe]

take a picture of it near your face so we get an idea of how big it is

[Cerveza mas fina]

Thats a sexy config MAF. Congratz.

[MrAngryFace]

I've been working so I havent had time to do much aside from install a few odds n ends- its pretty awesome tho. I'll try n get pics later.

[MrAngryFace]

Not bad, .2 under my desktop score - wait, probably even- main rig has same SSD and it drops to lowest score, so its 7.6 too.

[cool breeze]

my primary hard disk is stuck at 5.9 and brings the entire score down  :'( (two 7.4s and two 7.8s otherwise)

[CajoleJuice]

My laptop has a 4.6

[MrAngryFace]

yeah the hard disk scores are kinda harsh imo- even a 10,000 rpm drive gets a 5.8 I think, and you need to do RAID to get higher than 7.6 I think

[Smooth Groove]

My processor is outdated. 

[MrAngryFace]

my desktop graphics card is outdated

[Smooth Groove]

AMD?  You and Van Cruncheon have been on the AMD bandwagon the last few years. 

[MrAngryFace]

I have an nvidia card in my desktop!

[Smooth Groove]

470?

[MrAngryFace]

close, 480

[Smooth Groove]

480 was a good card but it was hot as hell.  You seriously could fry an egg on it.  I upgraded to 580s just because I couldn't stand the 480s heat. 

[MrAngryFace]

I've never really noticed- then again im in WA so I dunno

[cool breeze]

I just upgrayedded to a 560 ti. nvidia 4 lyfe.

I was going to go AMD/ATI but that batman deal sold me

[Smooth Groove]

I think the 480 went up to 105c or more in my room, even worse because I had two of them.  

[MrAngryFace]

I only had one- I dont generally splurge for sli since im a filthy casual pc gamer that doesnt even have benchmark apps installed

[Great Rumbler]

Since most of PC Bore is already in this thread, I'll ask my question here rather than start a new thread:

I need a new processor and motherboard for my PC and I'm looking for an Intel i5. Any good combo deals out there are specific products I should check out? By the way, I'm trying to spend around $300-$350.

[CajoleJuice]

Since most of PC Bore is already in this thread, I'll ask my question here rather than start a new thread:

I need a new processor and motherboard for my PC and I'm looking for an Intel i5. Any good combo deals out there are specific products I should check out? By the way, I'm trying to spend around $300-$350.

GAF (and Newegg) seems to love the 2500K. That's all I got. Everything I know (which isn't much) I know from their PC building thread and these builds: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en_US&key=0AvaYhPmP5kwadHZsOW9QVFRkZEpzcUplak5zZFUyYnc&hl=en_US&gid=0

I'm pretty set on building a PC this fall/winter. I'll start buying components on Black Friday, I guess.

[MrAngryFace]

I havent been looking at desktop stuff in a while so I dunno - someone fire up the Prole signal

[Pringo]

Since most of PC Bore is already in this thread, I'll ask my question here rather than start a new thread:

I need a new processor and motherboard for my PC and I'm looking for an Intel i5. Any good combo deals out there are specific products I should check out? By the way, I'm trying to spend around $300-$350.

Well Sandy Bridge-EX comes out in Q4 2011 but according to Wikipedia the cheapest one is $294 so that'll probably be out of your price range. It's possible that they'll drop the price of the 2600K when EX comes out though so maybe wait and see if that happens. Other than that I'd say either get the 2500K or wait till Ivy Bridge which is supposed to hit around March 2012 depending on how long you're willing to hold off upgrading.

For bundle deals you could try something like this: http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=63352&vpn=i52500K%26Z68XP-UD3&manufacture=Bundle%20Deals&promoid=1365

NCIX and Newegg should both have some decent bundle offers. I know that NCIX gets new ones each week, not sure how often Newegg updates.

[Great Rumbler]

I'm not in a really big hurry to upgrade, my Core 2 Duo is still working pretty well. I figure either the end of this year or sometime early next year, most likely.