NP9170 Unboxing+Review

I recently ordered a Sager NP9170 and I fully plan on doing an unboxing and review for you guys. That is just to say thanks a ton because I would probably have ended up with an older Asus G-series or something like that.

I hope to get the laptop Friday or Saturday (I ordered at 6:00 AM last Friday morning) and I will post all this stuff then.

I also did a full (Very long) review of my reseller of choice, LPC-Digital
Link to review

 

with 7970m or 680m?

 

675M, it says so in his review

 

ah ok looking forward to this, i am looking to order 675m instead of 7970m because AMD refuse to fix the enduro problem

 

Don't worry, I will cover that too

Unfortunately, most of my games are 2+ years old. I don't plan on getting any new ones soon unless someone knows a legal way of getting them for free.

 

They did? Please link where they have posted this?

 

its been around for many month and they refuse to even acknowledge. they even asked sager to take down their post on notebookreview because its probably going to affect their sales (speculation)

 

So your just inventing the answer? No need to reply, you have just proved what I thought, you actually have zero clue of what your talking about, other then you read a few posts.

Good to know your so well informed. You can bet I will be looking forward to your next revelation posted here.

But for light reading, do a little research on optimus release history. It might do you well to know what is involved in solving such issues.

 

haha must be an AMD fanboi, fyi, i dont support either company, i want a product that works. Also no company is stupid enough to come out right and say they arent going to fix the problem, they simply pretend they don't know about it

p.s. sorry for replying

 

AMD has already stated they are looking into Enduro, don't know where you found your information.

 

Don't know where you found your information, but AMD has never stated anything.

We assume they.. and yet nothing has been clarified, not even by Sager who tried to help

 

A member of the Catalyst team has said they are investigating the problem. No word about any potential fixes though.

 

Hehe I've heard that before.. Investigating ... ok

 

The bathroom floor, along with his education certificate is my bet.

 

OT guys. the OP is trying to submit a review of his product with this thread. Not start another hate mongering thread

 

Lets assume is as serious an issue as Optimus was on release, it will not be quick but it will get fixed.

One must remember, technology that takes years to develop, can take month of regression engineering to find route cause and solution for issues. I was once part of an engineering discovery test team, see our notebook launched and out of the gate had issues, serious issues, but they never appeared in testing for the product alphas. Yet right day one in customers hands, they began. 4 months it took to drill down to find out one ASIC company made a change to their chip, no documentation, no warning not even a revision change, they made a small change to the firmware, yet that had catastrophic results for us.

Who knows where the issue lies, could be an AMD screw up, could be Intel, could be a ASIC partner, also can be the OEMs making poor choices like coil whine on the 7970 cards from cheap brands. End of day AMD is responsible for finding, and solving the issue, that does matter.

They only just made us aware they are testing, and looking into the issue, I am 100% it is not an easy fix, and will take some serious engineering work to solve it.

I hope it is quicker then Nvidia solved optimus, but it may, could be longer.

But to come out and just say they wont fix it? with no real knowledge? I am an admitted ATI/AMD fanboi, but I currently own an Intel CPU, because reality is SBi7 offered me better deal for the money.

I am confident Enduro will be fixed, but it may not be a short road.

 

You right, OP I apologize.

 

It is fine. I will just make a new thread for the actual review... still a bit annoying though.

Anyways, I could make an unboxing video if you guys want, but I will not go through the trouble unless a lot of people want it.

 

Instead of an unboxing video how about something different. Possibly use it for a week then do a video review of the pros and cons you feel about the computer.

 

I could.... depends on the interest level though. I will be busy for the next 8-9 months (For those who can't figure this out, school) so I don't want to do anything that people don't want to see.

Thinking.... maybe....

I really don't know why people want unboxing videos anyways... (I just offered to do it because I see requests for one quite often.

 

i want to see bf 3 on the laptop, i always want to see more reviews so...love to see one!

 

Ty for the review

 

I like unboxing videos I think it has something to do with sharing the enjoyment of getting a new toy
I like Hutsady@XoticPC's suggestion, I vote for that.

 

You will definitely see the review... but I don't own bf3 and don't plan on buying it any time soon :/ sorry

I have the battlefield games from BF2 and back, battlefront 2, the first decade of command and conquer, and World of Tanks. Anything else... you buying?

 

Yes it is annoying and i am sorry. would be interested in any review, I am living through you new owners until I get mine, so keep it up I need my fix!!!

I read below from Xotic, not a bad idea.

 

I should be able to get up a decent review over the weekend (and maybe even touch on the things I am getting along with it (a mouse, laptop bag))

 

i used to play world of tank, but that doesnt require too much graphics power. do you have any of the newer total war games by any chance?

 

GTX675M is still very good and Optimus is all fixed up, it's a worry free choice . Actually not sure why I went with the GTX680M, probably just wanted to get a taste of the new technology and run games in ultra mode. If next year you need a more power GPU you can always upgrade it yourself.

 

Nope

I really don't have that many games, and I just play games that you can get up and leave for awhile...