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    Sager promotions and mobile quad core available

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by jadehawk07, Nov 19, 2008.

  1. jadehawk07

    jadehawk07 Newbie

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    Been browsing for a new laptop for quite some time now and have been very interested in a Sager system. Now that sager has launched their NP5797 that supports mobile quad core and very nice promotions are being offered.

    I have decided to pull the trigger but cannot decide if I should go with a standard HDD or the 80GB SSD, 80GB seems somewhat small but I only plan to game with the system.

    Can anyone recommend if I should get the 80GB SSD? Or a 320GB 7200RPM drive?

    Spec of interest:
    Sager NP5797 WUXGA
    Intel QX9300
    4GB Memory
    9800M GTX
    80GB SSD or 320GB 7200RPM HDD
     
    jadehawk07, Nov 19, 2008
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  2. Aryantes

    Aryantes Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    I would not recommend SSD unless you are like, a video encoding, or a 3d graphic renderer type person.

    Games don't need a fast HDD, at all. the single 7200rpm drive is perfectly fine.
     
    Aryantes, Nov 19, 2008
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  3. Quadzilla

    Quadzilla The eye is watching you

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    id say go for the 320 as vista will take up a huge chunk of that SSD drive and you need to leave a decent amount of space for defrag which in the end is only going to give you space enough for a few games . Id wait till the SSD prices come down and space gos up as the 320 7200s are plenty fast.
     
    Quadzilla, Nov 19, 2008
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  4. Xirurg

    Xirurg ORLY???

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    can you give a link please?
     
    Xirurg, Nov 19, 2008
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  5. theriko

    theriko Ronin

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    DO NOT DEFRAGMENT SSD's!

    The only reason for defragmentation is for linear access methods which don't apply to SSD's. Defragging an ssd uses up write cycles needlessly (and often writes sectors quite a few times per pass)
     
    theriko, Nov 20, 2008
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