I lol'd.

Since when is backlit keyboard a must for gamers? If you're that unfamiliar with the keys, and spends time looking at which key is positioned where, how would you concentrate on the friggin' screen, where enemies come to kill you?

Multimedia keys? What? Hardcore gamers have Windows Media Player at the background for them to enjoy to hardcore trance music while they're having their killing sprees? Having them is a great convenience, but what does it have to do with gaming?

Touchpad, I actually used it to play Team Fortress 2 before I got my mouse. The size of the touchpad on my Dell Vostro looks pretty much the same as the Sager's, but I managed to play quite okay as medic and pyro, tell someone you're using touchpad and they'll go like WTF?!

But I do agree with you, the price set aside, Alienware wins my heart (way too much cool factor) But for 6.1k, hell I'd go for the Sager.

WOW! You'd get that specs JUST FOR spreadsheet and all those you mentioned? I'm impressed Talk about under-utilization

This post has been edited by Crazy.SoT.Gila: Oct 26 2008, 06:41 PM

Helped you finish your line

It was a sarcasm, in case you failed to detect it

You are beyond unbelievable

I'm glad you do. I wish to see your rig with the specs matching to this Sager of which you use it solely for word processing, spreadsheet purposes. Considering this fact, anything lower than these specs will be rendered useless in your league, I suppose.

Hence you're contradicting yourself.

So you're all for the looks, I see? Hmm.. Sounds so much like ricers

Your analogy is flawed, terribly. If a Ferrari engine works in a Mini, it would bring up the performance to Ferrari standard, no? (forget about other things such as how the design of Ferrari reduces friction and all since it's not applicable to notebooks). If you can only afford to get the engine, and not the whole package of a Ferrari, would you rather do that, or go for, a more average of performance and bling car, and stand a higher chance to lose out in a race (performance)? Not to mention in notebooks, there's other factors such as portability too. You keep mentioning XPS 1730, you do know that a 17" and a 15.4" have quite a difference in portability, right? Oh no wait, you just want the blings and other factors are out of your mind.

A gamer requires a rig that runs his/her games smoothly (performance). The blings comes after the performance is satisfied. If Alienware has a typical performance, let's say, 2.0ghz and a 8600M GT, you think Stringfellow would have gone for it? Now you are judging how good a gaming notebook is based on the blings, that's terrible. The Sager with those specs are great as a gaming notebook, regardless of what you said. You first said it would only suit to be used for the basic usage (word processing and bla), but now you're saying it can be used for almost anything. Big contradiction there.

And I would like to ask you,

How in the effin' world is it not suitable for gaming purposes? Oh no wait...

Now it can..

A gaming notebook is first judged on how good it can perform, not how many LEDs and curves it have. Although a combination of both is definitely ideal, you don't get the best of both world every time as the price factor always comes in unless you're some rich brat who gets 10k for his birthday without needing to work anything for it.

Missing something? Gaming passion and soul? What? Backlit keyboards, curves and LED? All I can do is lol

Free of charge? And the specs of Stringfellow's or even better? No doubt I'd go for the Alienware, I thought I've made that clear already? You do know Stringfellow's m15x specs are better than corad's NP8660, right? If it was a 8600M GT with a 2.0GHz processor, I'd no doubt go for the Sager. Then again, if I were to buy one, compared to me current notebook that is way out of these two leagues, which cost me 4k, I'd go for the Sager for 6.1k. 15k? Way out of my reach, and I have other priorities even if I have that amount of cash right now. But if I have specifically saved up 15k for it, well, duh

Dude, Sager does not officially sell at Malaysia. Why would I see a widespread of Sager brand here? I'm sure you, as a 2nd year ultimately knowledgeable student of the utmost respectable MMU, knows marketing better than me, I'll rest my case there. But again, for those who spend this amount of money to buy notebooks, they're bound to at least know the basics of the hardware, then again, unless of course you're a spoilt rich brat

Go to laptopvideo2go, you'll see a lot of Dell Inspiron and Vostro users gaming with their notebooks. Bling factor? 0.

Oh and, you noticed Lenovo's Thinkpads? They're ugly as hell (IMO), but they sell well. Why? I'm sure you have your uber marketing knowledge on this

Oh and btw, I've never EVER said you should choose the NP8660. Just that your view enlightens me to a whole new perception of human being

I'm done replying to you