Sager NP8268 / Clevo P150SM-A: Is this a good customisation for Multimedia/Gaming

Hi all,

After all the excellent reviews and receptions I've seen on here I've decided to buy a Sager NP8268, I live in Australia so I have been looking at all options very carefully, because if it breaks down it's gonna be very costly to fix.

I am in my last year of school and I'm doing a film as my multimedia major work, for the film I require Adobe After Effects with a few quite large plugins (Element 3D and some products from Red Giant) and also Photoshop. My current computer is unable to handle this and will heat up after about 10-20 minutes of usage and shut down shortly thereafter, I have gotten all the parts exchanged on warranty recently but no change. I also enjoy some computer games, occasionally but if I do start I'll play for a good while, mainly WoW and some single player fps/rpg (Borderlands, Witcher)

So my question is this; since I really don't know much about computer hardware composition any feedback is appreciated, would this customization of the Sager NP8268 be strong enough to handle demanding video editing and be able to to play games at better than average setting at a decent framerate:

- Sager - 4th Generation Intel® Haswell Core™ i7-4810MQ (2.8GHz - 3.8GHz, 6MB Intel® Smart Cache)
- NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 860M (4.0GB) [User Upgradeable]
- 12GB DDR3 1600MHz [3x4GB] Dual Channel Memory
- RAID-0 Storage - (Stripe)
- 2x 120GB Crucial M5 mSATA SSD ( Storage Drive ) - one preconfigured as an OS storage drive
- 8X Super Multi DVDRW/CDRW Combo Drive
- ~Windows 8.1 - 64-Bit
- Sager 2 Year Parts


Ok so yeah if you could just give me your opinion on this please it would be appreciated? Also I can't go any higher than this =$1550.

Much Love!

Also if anyone has had experiences with Sager/Xotopic regarding how they deal with international shipping for the laptop at first and any replacement parts if needed, I'd be interested to hear that as well (I have friends in the US otherwise if they don't do international shipping).

Sorry about the terrible grammar English is my second language 🇩🇪😄

 

I would go with the Sager 8268-S and add on what you need. Also I would stick with either 8gb or upgrade to 16gb of ram.

 

Also is there a reason why you're going for 2x 120gb opposed to one 250gb? It would be cheaper

 

Might want to check and see if adobe after effects will be better suited to a quadro card. If so, it might save you a lot of time. But if nvidia card is fine, yeah, you might want to get 8268-s default config and just upgrade the other stuff yourself. Oh, I just noticed $1550 budget. If you don't benefit from quadro just see if windows 7 or 8 will do you good and maybe upgrade ram to 16. All the other stuff you can upgrade yourself on sales as budget allows.

Sent from my SM-N9005

 

dont buy direct from sager. buy from xoticpc as they are great and they also have reps on here.

is there a reason you are not buying from an australian reseller as buying in your own country would be covered by courier but buying from america you will have to pay courier charges if it ever had to go back for repair.

 

Thanks MrDJ :thumbsup:
For international orders we will provide service for any International Order at our US Service Center. Shipping is paid by the customer both ways for any DOA or warranty repair. We will repair/replace the machine at our US Service Center anytime during the warranty period. If for example: the HDD fails, you could ship back just the HDD instead of the entire notebook. This will help save on shipping expense. If some easy to replace parts fail like RAM you can replace those yourself if shipping costs ends up being to much, doing so wont void the warranty on other parts.

 

Hi Boracicmouse,

You've got a great config there which will suit your uses fine.

For peace of mind I would purchase from an Aussie reseller. It may seem like a cheaper option to purchase overseas but remember you will need to tack on overseas shipping costs and also import tax fees for goods valued at over AUD1000, which will negate any savings. On top of that, it will be much more expensive if you ever have to use warranty due to the high shipping costs both ways which the buyer usually has to cover (when dealing with international warranty). Metabox in Australia for example cover shipping both ways if you ever need to send your laptop in.

 

This is EXACTLY the route I took with my Clevo purchase in Australia. I bought a Metabox P170EM through one of their resellers, P4Laptops.

 

240GB might be limited if you want to work on many projects or a particularly large one. Go with a single larger drive rather than 2 smaller ones.

You may want a 1-2TB HDD as a backup.

Also remember that if either drive fails you will loose all your data, an external backup is a must. That goes for a single drive too of course.

 

Have a look at Logical Blue One as well. They've been great for me and I live in NZ

 

Thanks all for the replies. So I've decided to get my laptop from an Australian reseller (Affordable Laptops) in the Metabox range, which is more or less the same as Sager. Also they are having an end of year financial and offering a free 256 gb SATAIII SSD upgrade to the drive slots, the other one I left free and I'll purchase a HDD separately, purely for storage reasons, I heard that for storage the 5400 rpm are better than 7200 ones? I've also just gone with 8GB's of 3DDR ram of ram because like people said I can always buy more if I need.

All up I had two more questions about the hardware. Firstly was the processor which I kept at i7-4700MQ, would there be a big increase in computer speed and ability to handle tasks, I'd prefer not to upgrade this unless it's a big issue as this is one of the most costly items to upgrade. The other item I have no about is the internet card, I tried to google some differences but nothing made sense. Could someone please explain whatever difference there is between the Wi-Fi 802.11 card and the Intel Wireless-N 7206.

 

For storage the 5400rpm drives are cheaper, 7200rpm will still be made to a higher standard and be faster. Of course they do use more power in use but that's the only benefit the 5400rpm has.

The CPU is fine for 95% of people.

The difference on wireless depends exactly what type of module the stock one is.