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

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

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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).
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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. :)
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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.
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Post by XMEN Ashaman DTM »

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. :(
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