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So... I finally have my clevo laptop working again.
Could this laptop be any more of a pain in the ass?
It's a good laptop, just designed weirdly.
Here's a review of it when it first came out.
http://www.engadget.com/2004/09/29/gear-eye-the-sager-3790-laptop/
Yes it is called a Sager. The company Clevo makes and designs many of the laptops out there and then re-brands them for their clients. But this laptop is an actual clevo, not re-branded at all. Sadly this has caused some extra pain in the ass problems not being a sager as they will not sell parts to me and I have to call clevo directly. But for what I saved in getting this brand new in 2004? was amazing. Not to mention that a comparable dell laptop would have run me $3600, which I thought was ridiculous. I think I bought this for close to $2000.
The LCD was smashed on this laptop awhile ago. After some research figured out that a dell laptop used the same LCD panel. Ordered one on ebay, replaced it after dealing with some extra issues that popped up.
But the screen resolution is exactly why I love this laptop. 1920x1200! It's just the best quality of screen I have seen in a laptop in a long time. It has an ATI mobility radeon 9700 (128mb) video card. Not the best anymore but still pretty nice.
It's pre-dual core and pre-HT but it's still a nice machine. I dunno if I'd be able to get Vista on here being that they probably never did drivers for it.
Had to hard wire the switch that tells the computer if the LCD is closed or not to always on. The switch was getting stuck so that the LCD back light was staying off all the time.
I'm back to hating laptop manufactures for making every keyboard different. It's always messing with me.
I don't know whether I want to continue to run XP on here, or if I want to turn this into a 'mac book' using kalyway. Maybe I can dual boot. I'll have to look into that.
Specs for this one are:
2ghz Dothan Pentium M
1gb RAM
ATI mobility radeon 9700 128mb
15.4” WUXGA
DVD-RW
80gb
4 built in speakers
Could this laptop be any more of a pain in the ass?
It's a good laptop, just designed weirdly.
Here's a review of it when it first came out.
http://www.engadget.com/2004/09/29/gear-eye-the-sager-3790-laptop/
Yes it is called a Sager. The company Clevo makes and designs many of the laptops out there and then re-brands them for their clients. But this laptop is an actual clevo, not re-branded at all. Sadly this has caused some extra pain in the ass problems not being a sager as they will not sell parts to me and I have to call clevo directly. But for what I saved in getting this brand new in 2004? was amazing. Not to mention that a comparable dell laptop would have run me $3600, which I thought was ridiculous. I think I bought this for close to $2000.
The LCD was smashed on this laptop awhile ago. After some research figured out that a dell laptop used the same LCD panel. Ordered one on ebay, replaced it after dealing with some extra issues that popped up.
But the screen resolution is exactly why I love this laptop. 1920x1200! It's just the best quality of screen I have seen in a laptop in a long time. It has an ATI mobility radeon 9700 (128mb) video card. Not the best anymore but still pretty nice.
It's pre-dual core and pre-HT but it's still a nice machine. I dunno if I'd be able to get Vista on here being that they probably never did drivers for it.
Had to hard wire the switch that tells the computer if the LCD is closed or not to always on. The switch was getting stuck so that the LCD back light was staying off all the time.
I'm back to hating laptop manufactures for making every keyboard different. It's always messing with me.
I don't know whether I want to continue to run XP on here, or if I want to turn this into a 'mac book' using kalyway. Maybe I can dual boot. I'll have to look into that.
Specs for this one are:
2ghz Dothan Pentium M
1gb RAM
ATI mobility radeon 9700 128mb
15.4” WUXGA
DVD-RW
80gb
4 built in speakers