What's the brand of the hard disk (500GB 7200RPM SATAII) that comes with the unit?

All Sager laptops come with Seagate harddisk. But, if you follow what TS does, he bought the barebone only without harddisk and memory.

I am thinking to get a Western Digital Black like TS. Hmm,

So Jimmy, did you bought the 1 labour warranty and the 30 days no dead pixel?

I bought mine from Xoticpc and I chose the 2 years Sager warranty and I didn't purchase the 30 days no deal pixel warranty, I believe no one purchase that lol.
Hardly you can see any dead pixels with naked eyes.

Depends on how comfortable you are with the number of years of warranty. I normally stick with 2 years, because I had a bad experience with Dell Inspiron 1420 (comes with the defective Geforce 8400M GS), I changed my laptop twice within 2 years. So, for me, I think 2 years should be good enough for me to get myself familiarize with the laptop and take good care of it after those 2 years warranty period :]

I recommend you to buy from RJTech like TS if you want to buy your own harddisk and memory.

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Added on May 20, 2011, 12:41 amIf you are getting Sager NP8150 (Clevo P150HM), I highly suggest you to upgrade your GPU to AMD HD6970m. If you have the budget, of course GTX 485m would be the best :]

But if you want to stick with GTX 460m, then I suggest you getting Sager NP8130 (Clevo P151HM). NP8130's AC Adapter is only 120 Watt while NP8150's AC Adapter is 180 Watt (enough to power up HD6970m and GTX485m)

This post has been edited by jimmykvt: May 20 2011, 12:41 AM

Do you know what's the shipping charges for RJTech?

How about warranty claim? Are they reliable?

LOL, TS already mentioned the shipping cost in his main post.

Before I go with the warranty claim, let me give you an idea. The following resellers are from US:
1) Xoticpc (high shipping charges but reliable and they have good reputation and their website is very informative, I guess their good reputation makes them charge higher in shipping cost)
2) Powernotebook (I never ordered from them but I believe they are as good as xoticpc, shipping cost unknown)
3) RJTech (Low shipping charge but allow you to exclude harddisk, CPU and memory for your purchase)
4) LPC-Digital (Low shipping charge and if you purchase the whole unit including harddisk, CPU and memory, I believe LPC-Digital is cheaper than RJTech)

You can also purchase from Mucro Asia. Mucro is a Singaporean company but they also have their service partner in Imbi Plaza.

Let's talk about warranty now. If you buy from US reseller, anything happens to your laptop, you need to ship it back to U.S. to claim for warranty and you bear the shipping cost. Of course if you are lucky, let's say memory spoil or harddisk spoil or anything which is small, then your shipping cost is lower. If it is a motherboard, then you need to ship the whole laptop...

If you buy from Mucro, anything happens to your laptop, it will go to Mucro first, you either send it to KL or Singapore. If it is just small issue, they can fix it for you, so you don't have to ship it back to U.S. If it is a very big issue (like motherboard fault), then they will ship it back to U.S. and you bear the shipping cost.

For those resellers, you can refer to my signature, there are links to their websites :]

Thanks for your detailed explanation.

I saw the shipping from Mucro Asia is around RM200+ right?

I think Mucro provides a few options, you can email them your preferred shipping courier. I took this from here:
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1755925/+160#


You can ask kahjye too. He bought 2 units of NP8130 from Mucro, I think he bought it quite cheap also. Around RM 4k+ for each including shipping.

If you buy from U.S. reseller, they will use USPS (United States Postal Service) to ship from U.S. to Malaysia, then in Malaysia, they use poslaju to send to you.

This post has been edited by jimmykvt: May 20 2011, 01:19 AM

Oh ya, did you buy the IC Diamond Thermal?

My NP8170-S1 comes with free IC Diamond Thermal

They only offer free IC Diamond Thermal for NP8150-S1 and NP8170-S1.

I think TS didn't buy IC Diamond Thermal, he chose the normal one, and same thing goes to many of them who purchased NP8130, they chose the normal one.

@soundsyst64

hows the battery life, normal use (light gaming)?

NP8150's battery life for gaming is about 1 to 1.25 hours, 2hours and 15 min to 2 hours and 30 minutes in idle.

Prince J answered for you. Take note that play game in battery mode will reduce framerate due to not provide full power on both processor and graphics card, compared in direct power mode.