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    NP8662 M860ETU vs M860TU, what's the diff?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by resu, Jun 15, 2009.

  1. resu

    resu Notebook Enthusiast

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    Looked thru the Clevo guide I did not see a clear cut answer on what ETU means but my guess is that it supports quad core? That ETU is the latest platform iteration and some sites just have not updated their text? With the M860 owners thread being 194 pages in length I have no idea if the explanation is buried in there.

    Thinking of going ahead and buying one tonight just got paranoid when I saw Xotic showing M860TU and RJTech showing M860(E)TU.
     
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    The M860TU is made by Clevo and is sold by Sager as the NP8660. The Clevo M860ETU is basically the same as the M860TU, except it has a different motherboard that supports mobile quad-cores, it is also sold with the GTX 260M instead of the 9800M GT/GTS. The Clevo M860ETU is sold by Sager as the NP8662.
     
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    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    Welcome to the NBR forums. :)

    all of these notebooks are still categorized as M860TU (regardless of revision).

    the M860ETU is mainly the designation by various vendors/resellers to help customer know the difference in motherboard revisions.

    if you look at the motherboard revision sticker (near the RAM slots) or the revision number on the BIOS Diagnostics screen, you will know as well.

    .... but the easiest way is if you stick a quad-core CPU in there and it boots, you have the ETU revision. :)
     
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