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    Downside to Sager NP5797

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by minhiub, Jul 23, 2009.

  1. minhiub

    minhiub Notebook Guru

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    Hello,

    Since we already had a thread on the downside to Sager NP8662, I thought it would be nice if we have one for NP5797. Could you please share your thoughts on this?
    Thanks
     
    minhiub, Jul 23, 2009
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  2. anothergeek

    anothergeek Equivocally Nerdy

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    MXM 2.1, side-firing speakers, and perhaps could use a 2nd HDD bay.
     
    anothergeek, Jul 23, 2009
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  3. Garandhero

    Garandhero Notebook Deity

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    speakers suck.
     
    Garandhero, Jul 23, 2009
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  4. lovetap

    lovetap Notebook Guru

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    If its MXM2.1, does that mean you cant upgrade to the 300 series GPU?
     
    lovetap, Jul 23, 2009
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  5. Kevin

    Kevin Egregious

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    What 300 series GPUs? The genuine mobile 200 series isn't even out yet.

    But yes, hypothetically speaking, it does mean that. The high-end of 2.1 is at the end of it's life cycle.
     
    Kevin, Jul 23, 2009
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  6. akaltenbach

    akaltenbach Notebook Consultant

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    How about the headphone jack fit/detection bug. Also second the lack of a second hdd bay.
     
    akaltenbach, Jul 24, 2009
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  7. Cookie

    Cookie Notebook Evangelist

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    Well for one, the speakers suck.

    Also, the audio jacks tend to break if you touch them.
     
    Cookie, Jul 24, 2009
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  8. S.SubZero

    S.SubZero Notebook Deity

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    If it's anything like my 5793 it's annoyingly loud. Oh, and yeah the speakers are pretty terrible. It also takes 19 screws to get the hard drive out.
     
    S.SubZero, Jul 24, 2009
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  9. theriko

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    True, but it only takes 15 to take either the CPU or GPU out, 13 for the wireless card, 11 for the RAM and none for the optical drive (well, 2 to remove its rail if youre swapping it out)

    Also it's not the number of screws, but the fact that you only remove 1 panel to have access to everything, unlike some laptops where you have to take the entire chassis apart to access anyhting (sony vaio anyone?)
     
    theriko, Jul 24, 2009
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  10. Soviet Sunrise

    Soviet Sunrise Notebook Prophet

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    So other than features that the M570TU doesn't have to begin with, is there anything else on the M570TU that actually sucks?

    Oh, second on the speakers.
     
    Soviet Sunrise, Jul 24, 2009
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  11. Purlpo

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    The lack of a matte screen option is what drove me away from the M570ETU... and also the lack of a second HDD bay, which is always sweet for a SSD-HDD hybrid config.
     
    Purlpo, Jul 24, 2009
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  12. emike09

    emike09 Overclocking Champion

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    Even more sad because there is tons of room for one more HDD, and there is even an unsoldered SATA port on the mobo.
     
    emike09, Jul 24, 2009
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  13. vdb86

    vdb86 Notebook Enthusiast

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    How do you mean unsoldered SATA port?
    It's there but it's not being used?
     
    vdb86, Jul 25, 2009
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  14. Gophn

    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    you guys can get that second HDD by using the optical drive bay.... many people of bought those HDD caddies that fit in the slim SATA optical drive bays. ;)
     
    Gophn, Jul 25, 2009
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  15. Blacky

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    For me the only downsize is the glossy screen.

    I don't use the built-in speakers, so I don't really care about them, although they are kinda weak.
     
    Blacky, Jul 25, 2009
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  16. Mr.M.A

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    The speakers are just terrible
     
    Mr.M.A, Jul 25, 2009
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