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posted Aug-05-2011
I have owned my laptop for almost six months and have had very few problems with it. As always though nothing is perfect so I would like to point out things I liked, and the problems I have had.
My laptop costed around $4000 and was bought primarily for gaming. Some games it performs amazingly well such as Crysis 2 which even on maximum settings it just won't lag. Then there are others where it just seems to constantly stutter and have audio loops. Games where I have encountered this have included games like League of Legends, Rift, even Portal 2. I have spent hours researching and trying our various fixes but none have worked. From upgrading the drivers, to playing with graphics card settings, and trying various little things for each game. I'm going to assume that something is off in the laptop or the games aren't compatible with this kind of technology.
Another problem I have had is the sheer heat this thing produces. It can actually manage to heat the entire room up. Now I don't know what kind of temps this thing was hitting before, but even with a laptop cooler and the fans working as they should this thing can still hit 80 Celsius during peak performance and idles around 50-60 Celsius. If you are going to get get a high end laptop such as my model which is a Sager NP 7280 then a good laptop cooler seems required. I can't imagine how fast this thing can fry itself out.
The design I find to be fairly sleek. My laptop is black and covered in various blue lights. The fingerprint scanner makes things fairly easy and I can even program it to depending on what finger I scan it will open a specific program. I can also set it to auto fill in passwords when I scan a finger. My biggest complaint though with the laptops design is I have been using it for less than six months and it already is missing the paint from where my left hand sits on the laptop. I feel they need a better paint job for something as pricey as this.
My laptop came with several features that I also enjoy. Things like Bluetooth, being able to turn into a wireless access point or a mobile hotspot, the various usb ports (though if you are planning to hook up an astro blaster A40 headset to the thing it has to be plugged into a 3.0 usb port or else it simply doesn't work well)and a very large selection of audio ports which is good since I work as a DJ and will use this to host parties.
One last paragraph about what I do not like on this laptop that I purchased from this company. The fan....is amazingly loud. I took it to my biology class and it actually made the professor stop his lecture while this thing was booting up. Another problem is the AC adapter which is the size of.....I don't know, I guess a giant brick? It's seriously the biggest AC adapter I have ever seen. I'd guess it's weight around 10 pounds. My buddy had to have it on his desk cause there was no room on mine and the thing has to be plugged in or it runs out of power in 30 minutes or less from full. These are just small things though as I expect it to be big and bulky since it's for gaming.
Update: After writing this I was contacted by Donald Stratton and I'll acknowledge that this company does seem to really care about me enjoying the laptop that I bought from them. However, with that being said the laptop is still doing things it shouldn't be doing and having problems where I feel there shouldn't be any. On top of all the listed problems my speakers seem to go crazy and make a bunch of popping noises during intense areas in games. I don't know how long it's been doing this since I always have it hooked up to a tv or a headset but finding this out has greatly upset me. On top of this I can't extend my warranty even though it is currently still active. All other companies I have dealt with have allowed this as long as the warranty doesn't expire and will do this at an increased cost.
While the company is trying to make me happy, I shouldn't have these kinds of problems and it will still be inconvenient for me to send it in and replace all the parts that are now screwing up. With the speakers added onto the problem I will probably send it in and then further upgrade this review.
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