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Originally posted by superart
The notebooks themselves are made by Clevo. They are an OEM from tywan (sorry, no spell check). They then sell the noteboks to Alienware, sager, asus, amung others. AlienWare just ads a $400 paintjob.
If you do decide to go for one of these models, definitely go with a sager. And definitely buy from powernotebooks.com. They have THE BEST customerr servicce and the warenty is pretty good too. They also give you lots of custimization options. Including choice of OS, or no OS at all.
The ONLY reason I would go for a dell over a sager is that dell offers a a removable graphics "card" that can be changed or upgraded. But on the other hand, the sager lets you have up to 3 internal hard drives and an upgradeable CPU, and they use DDR RAM. Plus the graphics are pretty good (ATI mobolity9000).
Plus the sagers are much more linux-friendly than the dells. If you care.
I was gunna get the sager NP8887, but i got a desktop instead.
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definitely some good info, they sound like a fairly decent machine.
i dunno.. i'm still tempted to get an ibm or dell. i can get what i want from dell for basically $2k, and spend $200 on a 1gb memory upgrade afterwards (ddr). same with the ibm's, and they both have UXGA screens, which are pretty much going to be a necessity.
alienware lists its model as a 15" uxga, where the sager is a 16" xga, at only 1280x1024. and, although pretty nice, i probably truly don't *need* 128mb of vram, not really looking to play any games. just work, 64mb should be sufficient.
i dunno.. i'll keep it on the list. although i think at this rate i'll never decide, it's taken me a while to try and convince myself to buy a dell or ibm...