Posts by Warsteiner

The laptop you found is going to be tough to beat. I don't like 1366x768 resolution for productivity though, but you could always use an external monitor when needed. The 660m is in fact a very capable GPU especially when overclocked.

Quote:Originally Posted by MrGrievous But I want to know the level of protection it offers, as I saw from a review somewhere that it had poor laptop protection. Awesome thank you for chiming in and sharing your thoughts, I also saw...

I have the Everki Beacon and I love it. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834995958. Its a very durable backpack with lots of space. The Titan was a bit too big for what I was looking for. The Beacon fits my Sager...

Quote:Originally Posted by Crazy9000 I disagree, there's almost zero chance windows 8 has anything to do with it. It's just an easy scapegoat. As far as drivers and games are concerned, win8 runs the same as windows 7. Well said....

This sounds to me like you have an application set to startup at login that is causing the issues. Have you tried running MSConfig to see what startup programs you have loading? I would start there and disable them all. Then enable them...

I would not listen to all the people pointing to Windows 8 as the issue. That is just an easy target since it is the cool thing to hate Windows 8 right now. I run Windows 8 on my Sager NP9170 and everything works including the...

You should be able to run Windows 7 on the laptop. I would just try to find the drivers you need from the Lenovo website. Also as far as running Linux goes you may be able to use the Windows boot loader to boot into Linux. I know I have...

The best bang for your buck at this price range is : http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np9130-gaming-laptop-clevo-p151em1-p-4340.html

In the price rang you are looking you should definitely look at the Sager NP9130 or NP9150 both are 15.6" screens with 1080P. Both have Core i7 mobile processors. Both have the 670mx graphics card which is currently the best bang for the...

Quote:Originally Posted by thegreatsquare nvm, didn't read it as "alienware only" the first time. ....BTW: Raid 0 is mirrored drives, so two drives have the same storage space as one of them. RAID 0 is a stripe without parity....