Guys, I'm back!... In case you were wondering... ;)

I was away to take a very important exam, took it recently, and am waiting for results.

I came to the forums for like 3 minutes a day to check PM's, but I wasn't moderating anything so I sincerely apologize if there were any troubles..


BTW, did I miss anything? Everyone alive? Enjoying their summer?

 

Sager forums are sorta "quiet" atm, think everyone is waiting for their comps to come in lol. Welcome back, which exam did you take?

 

Well, welcome back Ryan! ^^ Nothing too major was missed. Slight delays on the 7970M, 680M was announced. The usual.

 

Welcome back!

Yes I agree that the big thing going on is getting the 7970Ms in the hands of forum members after a longer than expected delay...

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And a petition to get Clevo and Sager to look into the feasibility of a gpu upgrade in HM models line.
Link in my signature, we're going strong
Oh and welcome back mate, best wishes for your exam!

 

@Exposed
I applied to the military, for computer sciences It wasn't hard, but I made some mistakes so I have to wait for the results...

@Heihachi
Darn, I thought the 7970m's were supposed to be out a long time ago? Are the benchmarks still consistent though? Is it a revision or... another fault found?

@Larry
Thanks bud, I noticed you got your Larry@LPC back, so I'll update the sticky.

@Kingpin
Hmm, this petition thing is new. I'll look into this one, looks very interesting.

 

Who are you?

 

He's Ryan who else should he be

 

You might the press release of the nVIDIA 680M GTX.
- Things are heating up and several new Clevo models are uprising.

welcome back !

 

Hah. I had thought of making such a thread when I returned to NBR, but since it was since 2008, I doubted anyone I knew would be around In any case, welcome back!

 

@Ryan

It was just delayed due to issues with the second batch of cards. Some production issues that were found in the second batch.

First batch that was shipped out was fine, passed Sager/Clevo approval but the second batch had a high rate of failure so they were pushing to get it corrected. It was quite the delay, they should be shipping out as of yesterday.

Everything should be consistent with them now.

 

Not sure exactly when you left, but there have been some cool pictures of the P370EM going around. If you missed the 7970m delay then that's definitely the biggest thing.

 

While you were gone, I won the lottery and bought TechTarget so you are now my slave.

 

Ha, you guys are so funny as usual.

The 7970m delays are indeed devastating... It's still the fastest mobile GPU on the market, right?

@HT
That's cool... so what should I call you master... How's your firefly? Like it so far?

 

I really like my Firefly. It's pretty damn impressive. Although seeing how the MBP 17 can offer GDDR5 650m in 0.7 inch chassis, I want GDDR5, lol.

 

me too... saddens me this isn't a freakin' option maybe Myth can do something about it......... even though it isn't worth the work

 

I doubt Myth can do it since the GPU and RAM is soldered on the mainboard.

 

But the clevo, as an 11", has much less surface area to play with than the 15" MBP. The new MBP has two fans to use that extra space, while the clevo really doesn't have room for a second fan.

Also, welcome back, good sir. I am new and have no idea who you are (besides the mod. and one should always be nice to the mod ), but I hope your exam went wonderfully!

 

Chance of the 650M being severely downclocked on the MBP is likely high IMO.

 

Not to derail this thread, but Apple hasn't been known to downclock the gpu before.
Actually, they did with the 330m a while back, but that is the only case I can remember.