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Sager NP7280 Custom Laptop (Built on the Clevo X7200)
- 17.3" FHD 16:9 "Glare Type" Super Clear Ultra Bright LED Glossy Screen (1920x1080)-
- Standard Dead Pixel Policy
- Intel® Core™ i7-980X Exreme Edition (3.33-3.6GHz) 12MB L3 Cache, 6.4GT/sec QPI, LGA 1366 6 Cores/12 Threads
- - IC Diamond Thermal Compound - CPU + GPU
- SLi ENABLED DUAL (2) 2048MB PCI-Express nVIDIA GTX 480M's (4096MB Total) w/GDDR5 DX11 Video Cards (User Upgradeable)
- Matrox TripleHead2Go External Monitor Video Controller (3 External Monitors)
- ~ 12,288MB DDR3 1333MHz Memory (3 SODIMMS) (w/ i7 980 CPU Only)
- Custom Fitted Laptop Back LCD & Inside Skin (A+C Surfaces) [Choose from our designs or your own Graphic or Logo (Details of design made after order)]
* Will add 7-13 business days on order
- ~ 6X Blue-Ray Burner/Reader / 8X DVDRW Super Multi Combo Drive
- ~ 160GB Intel X25-M Solid State Drive (SSD2 Serial-ATA II)
- ~ 160GB Intel X25-M Solid State Drive (SSD2 Serial-ATA II)~
- ~ 160GB Intel X25-M Solid State Drive (SSD2 Serial-ATA II)~
- HDD Raid Settings - OFF
- No Back Up Hard Drive
- No Back Up Software
- No Floppy Drive
- Internal 3-in-1 Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS)
- Internal Bluetooth + EDR
- Intel® Ultimate-N 6300 - 802.11A/B/G/N Wireless LAN Module
- No Network Accessory
- Integrated Digital Video Camera
- No TV Tuner
- Sound Blaster Compatible 3D Audio - Included
- Basic Black Business Case - Included
- Primary Smart Li-ION Battery Pack - Included
- None Standard*
- No Dock/Hub/Adapter
- Integrated Fingerprint Reader
- No External Keyboard or Mouse
- No Notebook Cooler
- No Operating System Standard - Drivers & Utility Software Only
- No Office Software
- No Software Bundle
- 3 Year Labor* 1 Year Parts Warranty Lifetime -24/7 DOMESTIC Based- Toll Free Telephone Tech Support (Labor Warranty through Xotic PC)
Includes FREE Shipping Both Ways for Warranty Repairs

$6,232.00

Compac Presario CQ62. AMD Athlon 64. 2.6 ghz single core. Two gigs DDR3 memory upgradable to three gigs @ 1600mhz. According to HP it is a low end machine. With a 17.2 in. HD widescreen on a 64 bit system I don't see anything low end about it. Then I went window shopping. There are machines out there that'll smoke mine in a heartbeat. Not very expensive either. One Acer Aspire I saw with 6 gigs DDR3 RAM, quad core cpu (AMD) and a 21 in. HD widescreen went for less than twice what mine costs.

Macbook i would say. It can run mac os and other pc stuff as well like windows etc.

I have the same machine but mine has different specs. Mine has a dual core AMD CPU and 3 GB DDR3 memory. Strange.

To open up an old thread:   I'm kind of looking for my next laptop now, and I've been holding out for a good SSD drive.  Any new advice on this?   I hate to buy a laptop and then fit it with an SSD, knowing I just paid for a brand new hard drive I'm not using.  Unfortunately that's what it's looking like for all but the very high-end laptops, $1500 and up.  Some of the high-end 17" laptops have two bays, so I can swap out one with an SSD. 

Am I wrong for holding out for a laptop with two bays?   I am concerned if I have only an SSD, that's my swap space, browser cookies, temporary internet files, etc. thrashing the SSD.   But those boys with 2 bays easily run $1500, and I might have to put down another $500 to get a 256GB SSD.  Is it probably cheaper just to get a SSD-only, and by the time the flash goes bad the laptop and drive both will go obsolete anyway?

SSDs may have a finite write time but their 'expected' life will be plenty long enough for your purchase to be 'conveniently' obsolete.

At the same time, by then SSDs will be cheap enough to just swap out the existing small one with something bigger, brighter and better...

that's my take too.  I've heard several folks QUITE adamant about SSD being problematic for hyper scientific reasons.  But if the question is "Will my HD be good in 5 years?" - then the answer most likely YES.  If the question is, "Will my HD be good in 10 years?" - then the answer is... maybe - depends on what you do.  And then you have to ask, are you currently using the same HD from 10 years ago. Stop.  Think.  Is ANYONE out here using the same drive as 10 years ago?  If you say yes, then I say you are a poop head.  yes.  A poop head.

Anyway, what I really want to know is = BRAD - did you get a new laptop?  And if so, what?

I think I have a hard drive from ten years ago....I'm using it to hold my floor down somewhere.

damnit - you found my loophole... i, too, have a HD from 10 years ago too... in my basement somewhere.

It does its job admirably, but I must admit there are many other things (most much more useful) doing that too.

Not really. Sometimes you can find the same machine with different specs. Its like buying a car. Some have a standard transmisson with no A/C (been there done that) and see the exact same car with an automatic, A/C, P/W and all the other bells and whistles. Very much depends on how much you're willing to spend. 

I guess I'm just looking for a little more reassurance that other people configured their laptops with their swap space, cookies, etc. on their SSD drive (and they've been doing okay for awhile) before I go out and get a laptop with nothing but a 128GB SSD.

If you're talking Win7, it won't use an SSD for a pagefile last I read about it.

I'm not 100% positive on that, but pretty sure.

I don't think you need a pagefile if you have more than enough RAM to run all of your apps and Windows.

Yeah, I was thinking that.  I don't think I even want to thrash VM.  I would rather have the crash.   But there's still the temporary internet files from your browser.