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    Clevo product cycles...

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by wetllama, Sep 10, 2007.

  1. wetllama

    wetllama Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello all,
    New to this forum, and quite the wealth of knowledge it is. Kudos! On to my question:

    What's the usual time between redesigns for Clevo products? I've had my eye on the D90xC series but hate some of the design decisions they've made, namely the USB ports and the audio ports (and VGA on the side/DVI on the back?!) I love the rest of the system (epecially the SLI 7950s and 3 hard drives in RAID 5...), but those nitpicks are enough to make me second guess it.

    Since I don't know a whole lot about Clevo, should we be expecting a new chassis design sometime in the near future?

    Thanks for any help, and again great forum.
     
    wetllama, Sep 10, 2007
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    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    Well technology is always progressing.

    Although for Clevo, they normally do not design a replacement unit for a older model for at least an average of 18-24 months.

    The D900C/D901C replaces the old Pentium 4-based D900T that was released over 2.5 years ago.

    The new revision for the D900C/D901C is some thing small to help it safely support quad-cores (w/ G0 stepping)... and still keeping everything pretty much the same.

    Personally, I have built my D900K about 1.5 years ago, its still considered one of the fastest notebooks in the world. I expect it to not get replaced until the new AMD Phenom X4 CPU's are going to become mainstream (at least another 4-6 months).
     
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  3. wetllama

    wetllama Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yeah, that's the problem with technology -- it never stops. :)

    So you're saying the current D90xC is a fairly recent release?
     
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    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    Extremely recent.... nothing else on the market like it. :)

    C'mon... quad-core notebook with SLI and 3 HDDs....

    I doubt even most desktops can match that. :)
     
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  5. wetllama

    wetllama Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well it could be up to a year old, which is why I asked... :p

    I need to learn system design so I can rework the PCBs in the D90xC, then build a chassis to my liking... sigh.

    I'll let you know when I win the lottery. :rolleyes:
     
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    no, the D900C is barely a quarter old.

    Although its news dates back about half a year though.
     
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    wetllama Notebook Enthusiast

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    Fair enough... thanks for the info! :)
     
    wetllama, Sep 11, 2007
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