I was referred to PNb.com by a friend whom had purchased one of his laptops from them. I was looking for a new laptop at the time as well, and i was happy to look through their site. I found the Sager NP5793! It was on sale, and i was going to be getting my reimbursement from school soon. i first asked the sales team, and the owner himself, Donald Stratton, replied to my questions. Donald helped me through out the whole process and we have shared many great emails since! ^__^
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As for the Sager NP 5793! An amazing laptop! i had upgraded the processor, the hard drive, the wireless internal card and added Turbo memory! As well as 64-bit Vista Ultimate. Everything has been working wonderfully, Vista runs smoothly on the 4GB of RAM, and although I've only thrown two games at it (COD4 and Mirror's Edge) it preforms wonderfully under stress and heat is minimal thanks to the cooling system! For bang to buck ratio, this machine cost under 1800 for the machien itself, and i added a 2 year warranty/30 day pixel warranty.
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I put the order in for the laptop on a Friday, i set up the wire transfer on Saturday, the money and the order were both processes on the following Monday. The laptop was finished on Friday of the same week, a 5 day built time, and the shipping started on that Friday (well the process started and i had my tracking number) i could afford 3 Day Air through the cash discount from the wire transfer. (despite the weekend) the laptop arrived on time on the third business day.
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Although i had the chance due to my working for UPS to intercept the package early on the second business day, however it went to a different HUB than the one i work at, almost had 2 day shipping at the price for 3 day ;)
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Laptop preforms wonderfully and has not had a single issue yet!
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As for PNb's, They are an amazing company and i have been referring everyone i tell about my laptop to about them and their wonderful service. ---
The laptop got to me packaged correctly, with the correct dimensional weight on the package. I am a revenue recovery auditor for UPS and thousand of packages go by me without the proper shipping costs. however i am thankful to see that PNb covered not only the correct physical weight but the dim weight as well, this is a large factor in shipping, and a hundreds of companies have packages audited (cough dell hp gateway cough ahem) The laptop was in two different sized boxes, this allowed for packing popcorn to be placed in the larger box, making sure the laptop the smaller box, holding the laptop does not move inside, and thus break. The second smaller box had the laptop and carrying case within it, and the laptop was between foam spacers holding it away from the side of the box. Overall a great shipped package shows an even greater company that shipped it!
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My full specifications: Sager NP5793 - Gaming Laptop - $1,759.00
17" WUXGA (1920 x 1200) "MATTE" LCD
Orange Trim
nVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS w/1GB GDDR3
Intel® Core™2 Duo T9300 2.5GHz Processor w/6MB L2 On-die cache - 800MHz FSB
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound
4GB (2 SODIMMS) DDR2/667 Dual Channel Memory
4GB Intel® Turbo Memory 2.0 - (Vista Only)
320GB SATA II 3Gb/s 7,200 RPM Hard Drive (16MB Cache Buffer)
Blu-Ray Read - DVD-CD R-RW
7-in-1 Memory Card Reader (All versions of MS + SD/MMC)
Built-in Intel® PRO/Wireless 5300 802.11a/g/n
Built-in Bluetooth Wireless
8-cell Smart Li-ion Battery
Windows Vista Ultimate - (64-Bit installed - 64 and 32-bit CD included)
Full Range Auto Switching AC Adapter
Standard Carrying Case
1 Sager 2 Year + 30 Day Pixel Warranty - NP5793
This review was modified by its author, toofuairi, on
4/24/09 3:46 PM.