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    Panel lock/latch - can it be changed to a normal clip?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by antic, Apr 5, 2008.

  1. antic

    antic Notebook Consultant

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    Just bought an M57RU, and the panel lock/latch on the left side is bugging me. I have to remember to "lock" it when closing the lid, which is not easy to remember, not having had to do that with any laptop in the past.

    Once already I've picked it up after closing the lid and almost ripped the other clip off because the left side wasn't clipped in, since it's a *manual* clip, not a sprung one. Who came up with that bright idea?

    The best thing would be a separate lock, which locks both latches, if that's what you want to do. Not make one side sprung and the other not. It's a case of an added "feature" not being through through properly, potentially causing more problems than it solves. Not that I've ever known a laptop that required a lock to keep the lid down.

    Gripe over.. question is, would a Clevo reseller be able to change it to a normal sprung clip?
     
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  2. Heathkidd

    Heathkidd M860TU

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    i do not think so.. 2 much tampering

    how was P4laptops btw...

    happy with the laptop build beside that..?
     
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    antic Notebook Consultant

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    Yep, it's a high performance machine, that's for sure, no disappointments there. UT3 and Crysis and smooth as silk in high (I'm using XP).

    Major drawbacks are:
    1. Fan noise. Fn+3 for office work is acceptable, but during a game it's pretty loud and you have to remember to use Fn+1 or you're in trouble. I don't know why they can't have more intelligent fan management (and have fitted quieter fans - they're speed-for-speed louder than anything else I've heard). Having said that, I'm using revision .07Sg of the fan firmware, yet to install 'h', they say that's a big improvement.

    2. This is the killer... resolution scaling and screen clarity. It's terrible! Native res is fine, of course. But I need lower res's for work; just part of what I do. I've seen laptops handle non-native res's beautifully, but the M57RU is more blurry than others out there, and there's the colour bleed issue which is unfortunately unacceptable for me. My reseller is looking into it, hopefully it's either the LCD or a driver. Personally I think it's a fault in the 8x00 GPUs, as it also happened on an HP 8710 (8700M-GT).

    Apart from those things, it rocks! :)
     
    antic, Apr 5, 2008
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