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    M570U Vista drivers - from Sager or Clevo?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Xevious, Apr 9, 2007.

  1. Xevious

    Xevious Notebook Enthusiast

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    My new M570U should be here very soon. In preparation, I'm trying to collect all of the Windows Vista 64-bit drivers I'll need.

    I've been to the Sager USA and Clevo (Taiwan) web sites and have found the driver download page on each. Problem is, there appears to be little agreement between the two sites - that is, different installer packages containing different driver versions are offered by each.

    What's the conventional wisdom regarding driver sources? Is Sager more rigorous in testing/conservative in releasing drivers? Are the ones at www.clevo.com.tw stable? (Generally, the Clevo-supplied drivers seem to be more recent.)

    Thanks in advance.
     
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    daflyinpig Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm not too fond about clevo's website. But their computers speak for themselves.
    If their the same driver but different version, common sense says go for the more recent version.
    But if it were a battle of who's site to trust, I'd go with sager.. even though I own a Hypersonic. LOL.
     
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    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    I would look at the dates and the newest date means a newer driver. The newer the driver usually means the better the driver. Newer drivers are released to fix problems with the older drivers.
     
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    Xevious Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for the feedback. Guess I'll just have to experiment.

    Here's a good example of why I'm scratching my head - for audio drivers, the latest posted by site:

    Clevo: 6.0.1.5350
    Eurocom: 1.63 as listed. (Actually 6.0.1.5386)
    Sager: No version listed for any drivers! Grr! (Actually 6.0.1.5350)
    Pro-star: No Vista drivers available

    Eurocom is a little confused about the version notation for this driver. I had to download the drivers from both Eurocom and Sager in order to determine the actual version posted. All three sites had different "release" (more likely web posting) dates for this driver.

    As long as Clevo (or Sager) performs good QA on this software, then the "grab the latest and (greatest?)" tactic should work. Trouble is, newer drivers do not always fix old problems and frequently introduce new bugs or even older regressions. I suppose I should have asked if one of these sources tends to be more reliable than the others.
     
    Xevious, Apr 10, 2007
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