New Rumor

Just got a new rumor i must ask lol
does anyone know if they are releasing the 9262 this month? with new chassis. :
considering its going into the 2nd week of november
i have 2 ppl that are saying this
can someone shed some light on me
my thoughts are if its true, they are changing ths case to fit the 8800's and i will be stuck with the 8700.s FOREVER :cry: 128 bit :cry:

i dont like to SPEAD rumors but I do want to know if its Rumor or FACT.
my system is not built yet but it is ordered. i would rather have one of the newest 9262's then the last 9261 made

 

if it's going to have a new chasis it better have the usb ports on the left side or back with the dvd slot on the right along with the pc express slot like the older D900 series. if it does it will drive up my interest in the system again.

i do not know how you right handers operate the mouse on the right side of the laptop without constantly hitting the usb ports and potentially mess them up.

 

Rumor sounds doubtful... the D900C/D901C will retain its chassis until its successor comes out years from now.

The only thing that would make it new is the blue chassis, from the well-known black chassis.



Or.... they are just tagging it with a new name for the same chassis, but with 8800M's... which makes no difference for the people that already have the system (9260/9261).

You find that this phenomenon of new model numbers (to reflect minor changes) used with mainly Sager and Pro-Star.... while Eurocom just updates their hardware when available and keeps their Clevo based model number.. to prevent confusion.

 

that would def be messed up for all the people who didnt even get there 9261 yet

 

LOL, yes . ummmmm ME!!!! thats what im repeating this rumor.
i just posted on xtopic's forum to c if anyone has heard it, as well.
let's hope its not true for my sake

 

lol sorry for starting rumours, but i thought this was already widespread. there will be some minor adjustments.

 

Hi, guys is this really true how they might make the new Sager NP9262 this month that would really sucks but. I have my Sager NP9261 and I love it a lot and I hope it is still possible to upgrade it to the NVIDIA 8800M GTX. Cause I don't want to be stuck with 128BIT video card. I have just email Justin from XOTIC PC and ask him to email me back when the 8800M GTX video card is in stock so that I can order it for the Sager NP9261 when its out. I hope its soon.

 

Gmau, as I've replied on the XoticPc forum, understand that sometime rumors are just...rumors The 9260/1/2 will still be the most powerful laptop in the world, whatever the last digit will be.
The 9262 may hold some improvements, but from the blue case to a total mobo change is a long way, which I highly doubt that Sager wishes to do while the 9261 is so popular.

 

Skills.

 

The USB ports on the right kind of bother me also, but I got used to it . And I pretty much always use a USB laser mouse and leep away from the laptop, I also use a wireless keyboard. My laptop looks brand new all the time because of that, although Sager might wanna change some slots around,the USBs in the back annoy me, but I like the dvdwriter on the left, confortable.

 

what i want to hear is im buying the best/fastest lappy and ALL technolgy is going to stop the day i recieve it. i will always have the best lol
so no need to sink anymore money into it.

 

That's cute .

 

yes but if they are changing it this month i might want the new version rather the the old one i would hate to recieve my lappy only to find that they came out with a newer/better one the very next day without any news of it

 

I ordered my 9260 right when they went out of stock and ended up waiting an extra 30 days for the 9261's to arrive.

If the rumor is true then I feel for those who have orders in the system. It was a very difficult wait when I especially needed the laptop for work.

All-in-all I'm very satisfied with my 9261 and in retrospect the long wait was probably acceptable.

 

It doesn't get any better than the 9260/1/2 . Same powerful proicessors, same powerful GPUs,same ddr2 800 mhz memory and same 3 hdds. What more could you expect from a notebook ? it will kick ass in all games imaginable.

 

Don't sweat your 128-bit bus so much. Memory bandwidth is determined by many factors including bus width and clock frequency. A 128-bit bus running at 2x the memory clock of a 256-bus card has equivalent bandwidth (other factors aside).

I'll definitely wait a while though. My 8700M's are running great and do everything I need with current games. Why upgrade to 8800M's when you can probably get a 9-series in a year and upgrade then .

 

That is wishful thinking just as saying "Ati will release the most powerful GPU in the world, a DX10.1 mobile GPU called Mobile HD3860 with 512mb/512bit an 320 processing shaders and so on."
BS . Companies aim to sell, not to please gamers with nombers.Look at the Ati 2900XT, 512 bit and still slower than the 384 bit bus of the 8800GTX.

 

thats what i wanna hear!

 

Well,

I had a d900c (the one in BLUE) and there was no difference at all to the d900c (Gray & Black). I honestly think that the NP9262 is the same as the NP9261 just in blue. As far as I understand the d900c was never comercialized in the US, I don't know why ... it looks awsome.

Improved NP9261 already when they are just started being shipped? I doupt it, that would be really bad for business in the long run. People looking for this lappies are looking for QUALITY. And quality is about doing what you say you do. In this respect, if Clevo says it is upgradable it it must mean that it is upgradable within a reasonable spectrum of possibilities including future tech that comply with the standards (cost effectiveness), otherwise every lappy is upgradable in my book (well changing everything inside it is always possible but for sure not cost effective), in other words it would be a lie to say that.

Trance

 

well im counting on it just being a Bad rumor lol
ill be pissed if they come out with 9262 with a differant motherboard ( u know) or some BIG change that does set it apart from the 9261
as im sure LOTS of other peeps would be too.

chow4now

 

when i told you about these changes, i wasn't sure of the d900c being subject to changes also.
what i do know is that another revision will come for the m570ru, or np 5790/5791 = 5792.

 

it will not be the first time this happens in the history of the D900 series

 

now see that also sucks since a lot of people here JUST bought the 5791. i know ill be one of the ones that is pissed if they change it a lot. i kinda figured that 330$ was an offer to get them moving out..

 

ok.... Here is how it goes...

if there is a model refresh... with a new support for CPU usually... then its not making your notebook any worse.

technology always progresses, we just cannot have everything at one time... thats reality.

The new updates (like Sager 5792) will more than likely reflect CPU support... at most.... thats about it. (which is not even confirmed).

 

its not the point that the changes are not significant. what is my point is at least companies could have stated that there will be a upcoming model for those that choose to wait. for others that need their system now then by the current on. now im not saying they should do this months in advance but if it was due out in 4 or 5 weeks or less than yes i think they should state that. again this is mo though. an dmost companies are just to greedy to do that anyway.

but for those like myself that would have preferred to have the most current model number for a while than this would make that company stand out in my eyes. even a lot of bigger companies like dell have anounced the launch of replacements a while ahead of time.

 

Dell and other brand name companies can announce that, because they do not make the models themselves, they just ask an ODM to design and manufacture it ahead of time... and then they get some info when they can be shipped.

Sager and other boutique brands do not get that luxury.. they get what is being made and have no real say on what Clevo should design.

So as technology progresses, Clevo will choose to adapt the new technology or not... but they usually always design monster notebooks before everyone else... then give the info to the vendors/resellers.

 

see thats imo what sucks about dealing with smaller companies. not at all saying sager or its resellers are bad in anay way just it would be nice after spending all that to not have a new model dumped out after only being on the market for a mere few months..

 

I have been dealing with boutique/custom brands for a while now.

New models are NOT truly a new model... only the resellers/vendors might decide to give it a new "model number"... while the ODM can care less about such trivial things.... they just keep the same model name/number... in essence, a refreshed model.

A true new model does not come along for a few years... with an entirely new chassis and design... to reflect an entirely new generation of technology.

So lets make you feel better....
- if your current system were to unfortunately malfunction and a "refreshed" model is currently available... you will more than likely get the updated model for warranty replacement.

... which is how it normally works anyways.

 

exactly, the only thing that i think will change is the support for the extreme processors.
there might be a complete heat flow redesign or a motherboard revision, but i don't know how likely that is. if thát is true, then it will be for the montevina platform probably.
In any way, you could still plug in an 8800 into your 5791 or 5790, and this doesn't make the pre-revision models slower or faulty. though i can understand a little anxiety.

 

Look at it this way, the 926x just went through a revision and it took 3 months or so to get it through testing and into production. If they were going to release something drastic next month they probably would have held off a few more weeks to get this out. My guess is it will be a new bios a maybe a feature that most don't really use but a few have asked for.

 

hmm.. this with the recent price reduction and news of the 8800 is making me wonder if I should send my new 5791 back (as I am still within the 20 day period to return my notebook), and wait for the next revision to come out, and perhaps the 8800 too. I can live perhaps tops a month without a computer, but I've been waiting for the 8800 since before the summer time, and just bought my laptop before news of the 8800 was released, as I got fed up with waiting.

If you guys had the choice of sending back your laptops to wait a couple weeks for the new model, or even a few months for the new card, would you do it? I need to decide pretty quickly if I want to get it back in time. Im very pleased with it so far, but I would be fine with waiting if it would mean I'd be happier in the long run.

 

then you are are going to keep sending your stuff back if there is always something else thats coming out... thats a little better.

 

well... perhaps your right. Its just that Ive waited almost half a year for the supposed 8800, and finally got a laptop just a few days before its release was announced. I am happy with my 5791 though, but if this model upgrade and the new graphics card are worth it, I'd much rather wait just one more month for a more powerful computer (especially if the 8800 is all they say it will be... guess only time will tell).

 

you can contact your vendor when the any new stuff actually comes out.

but they will not comment on rumors... only until its confirmed.

 

i did mention your 8800 would be fittable in the 5790-5791 AND the new revision...
it isn't suddenly going to use a new mxm module or anything...

 

I haven't seen any announcement... just speculation. If you are satisfied with the performance of you current computer then keep it.

 

okie dokie, I am happy with my laptops performance--the only thing ive noticed so far is that the screen is a bit dim, but besides that, it's just about perfect!

 

I did contact my vendor and they did NOT respond th the rumor that a 9262 is comming out in nov. (so just rumor) but i think i read from justin that "if" the 8800's are released on nov.19th lappies with them in it will not be shipping till jan or feb soonest
if this info helps at all.