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It is fact the consumers who have forced sager to adopt such a policy where they are not responsible for the cosmetic damages which may occur since no one can prove with certainty that the damage did not occur due to shipping.

Poor packaging is not always the culpret. I've recieved packages before where they looked like they were dropped off a truck doing 70 mph run over a few times tapped back up and then delivered.

 

I would like to know whether its just the cosmetic damages they are not responsible for, or any damage to the system at all?

Wow I'm a consultant now. Hurray for me.

 

it can be proven at least it wasnt that way before it left anyone can take numerous pics of all areas of the system.. i know i would i understand they cant be held for shipping but i know id box the crap out of it prob even triple boxing it.. there is now way unless it got drove over that any cosmetic damage would occer with the way i would box mine

 

I don't think anyone should buy the lappy on the pretense that it will be able to except sli. u can see we have not been able to do any upgrades even tho we are told that "it should be able too" or "I cant see them doing that again, it wouldn't be good for the company to do that" . Only to fine that they are selling them and then saying that they never said "it would work". "We are working on a discount for all u (suckers) i mean customers that bought on the rumors that everything will be fine.

Now for the damage waiver if u are worried about damage during shipping, then u insure it so if the case is chipped or broken UPS buys new paint or case. that's one problem resolved. If it comes up with damage its only the the re installer or the customer if they (the customer) didn't take pic of it prior to shipping they have no claim

that's my twos cents
i am expecting change back too

 

With all due respect, I know that you're well and truly p**sed off about not being able to easily upgrade to the 8800M, but you're really being a little too hard on Clevo/Sager - it's one thing when you're playing in the comfortable confines of conservative design, like HP/Sony/Dell etc, there the ability to upgrade or not should be pretty self-evident, and a company in that area should only say "upgradeable" when they know that for a fact - it's another thing entirely when you're playing out past the boundaries of established, orthodox system design - on the so-called bleeding edge (i.e., beyond the cutting edge). The whole point to the so-called bleeding edge is that it's so new that no-one really knows exactly what the technology can and cannot do - the best that you can get out there is better, or worse, guesses about whether or not you'll be able to upgrade the half-finished hardware with as-yet completely unfinished hardware.

I know it sounds cold, and I'm not trying to rub (more) salt in your wounds, but the fact remains - if you're going to play in front of the cutting edge, you will inevitably have to spill some blood (that's precisely what makes it the "bleeding edge").

Instead of attacking Clevo for cynical marketing ploys designed to fleece otherwise gullible buyers of even more of their money, it seems to me that you should be attacking Clevo for not really being at the top of its game and for not proactively designing the motherboard for the D901C from the get-go so that it complied with the most severe version of the MXM specifications, including finding an LCD manufacturer would would supply EDID-compliant display units (or else doing what I think they're doing now, which is putting an EDID transceiver chip onto the motherboard that will turn the otherwise EDID-less display into an ersatz EDID-compliant display) - to make up a tennis analogy, Clevo is trying to play the US open wearing converse all-stars - they're great shoes, and you might just be able to win if you're wearing them, but because they're not professional tennis-court shoes, you substantially increase the risk that you'll lose simply because your shoes cannot handle the stress you put on them.

Unfortunately, it seems that of all the different players in the computer industry, the motherboard and BIOS developers are the most hide-bound and the most reliant on out-dated technology.

 

Any word on a relz of the SLI 8800m GTX?

-Coors916

 

It is highly unlikely that anyone will be shipping the D901C with Dual 8800M GTX in Sli until mid or more likely late January.

Sager will be the first to ship them with other private labelers shipping a few days later.

I am sorry if this is bad news for you, but it is the truth and you should make your plans according to that schedule so as to not be disappointed.

 

does anyone know if the 9262s with a single 8800 will ship sooner than the sli?

 

at this time a single GPU will be shipping before SLi

 

Great. There goes another $600 in airline tickets, if I'm lucky. Unless they ship me the machine with 1 gpu, before the 7th, then everything is chipper.

 

When I ordered my 9262 on 6 Dec 2007 I asked and was told 10 Jan 2008 was a realistic date to expect delivery of a single 8800 box. You may want to contact your reseller and asked them when to expect your box; and possibly switch to a different shipping method.

 

I have been in constant contact, but they can only tell me ETA, which went from mid-late Dec. Then late Dec. Now the 1st week of Jan. BTW, all PCMW XR5's are being sent out, overnight mail. So I will get it the next day.

 

Well I have to admit I have called powernotebooks a couple of times and nothing has changed about 10 Jan being a realistic time to expect delivery. I have also had way too much experience with overnight shipping to know that if it is sent out on a Friday it may not arrive till the next Tuesday.

I wish you luck with your box getting there in time for your flight to Mexico.