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ASUS Announces Rugged B51 Notebook

Like to play rough with your notebooks? The new ASUS B51 features rubber bumpers, protective coating, floating hard drive, and a drainage port for the keyboard. Quote: A Ruggedized Co ...

Posted By:
Buck on 07-03-2008/ 1 responses


Nvidia takes a hit

Quote: f you're the type to watch the late stock tickers, you might have noticed that NVIDIA's stock just took a pretty big hit, down 24 percent to $13.56 -- that's because the company j ...

Posted By:
pdonket on 07-03-2008/ 6 responses


OCZ to Crash SSD Party With $259 64GB, $479 128GB Models

OCZ is introducing a new line of Core SSD drives - cheaper and faster than the recently introduced Super Talent MasterDrive MX series. The OCZ Core drives feature a 2 year warranty and read speeds o ...

Posted By:
Buck on 07-02-2008/ 4 responses


Gateway Refreshes Notebook Line

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Sager NP9262 Laptop Review

Intro

Sometimes size and weight is not an issue when notebook / laptop enthusiasts are in the market for a powerful all purpose machine. If this is a case, than a “Desktop Replacement” like the Sager NP9262 is the type of notebook that may interest you. “Desktop Replacement” is a cute way to say, ‘this notebook is a lot smaller than your desktop, but a lot thicker and heavier than your typical normal sized notebook.’ You will sacrifice the size for performance and later in this review you will find out exactly how much performance you are getting.

The Sager NP9262 is in the same chassis as the NP9260 Review that I reviewed back in October of 2007. Al though it is the same chassis, there are tons of component upgrades that make the NP9262 a much more superior machine. The first noticeable difference is the CPU, going from a Core 2 Duo to a Core 2 Quad while doubling up on the CPU’s cache makes a huge difference in number crunching as we will see later in the benchmark section. The second noticeable difference is going from the GeForce 7 series SLI cards to the GeForce 8 series SLI, equaling a total of 1,024MB dedicated video memory. These two components will clearly make a huge impact in performance whether your are using this notebook for gaming, video rendering or other high demanding processes.

Full Specs:
NP-9262

Sager 9262 Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Desktop Replacement Gaming Notebook
17" WUXGA Super Clear Glossy w/ Wide Viewing Angle (1920x1200)
Intel® Core 2Quad™ Q6700 | 8MB Cache | 2.66GHz | 1.066MHz FSB
Arctic Silver 5 High Performance Thermal Compound
4GB 8`00MHz DDR2 Memory (2 Modules) 64bit Vista Req.
2X Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX in SLI mode w/1,024MB
RAID 0 (Data Stripping - Requires 2 Identical Hard Drives)
160GB | 7200 RPM | SATA-300 HDD
Add 2nd 160GB | 7200 RPM | SATA-300 HDD
...


Posted By:
Steve@NBF on 04-10-2008 / 7 responses




Desktop News

AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2 Ready by August

The gaming community had a real eye-opener earlier this month with the release of AMD's new series of graphics cards - the HD 4850 and HD 4870. The new cards have proved themselves as not only the best value for a new gaming card, but have come REAL close to taking the top dog performance crown from NVIDIA's GTX 280...a beast of a card in itself. The HD 4870X2 is the next highly anticiapted card from this series. Strangely, AMD stated earlier this year they were abandoning the high-end, ent ...

Posted By:
Buck on 07-03-2008/ 8 responses


Firefox 3 Officially Gets Guinness World Record for First-Day Downloads

Over 8 million downloads on the day of release - Quote: Mozilla's record-breaking initiative that was coupled with the release of Firefox 3 has officially paid off as the new browser now holds the Guinness World Record for the most downloads in the course of 24 hours. 8,002,530 downloads have been recorded in the first day of Firefox 3's life with the number now reaching 28.6 million. According to Net Applications Firefox's worldwide browser market share stands at 19.03% and Fi ...

Posted By:
Buck on 07-03-2008/ 1 responses


Featured Laptop Discussions

m15x - Skull cap now available!
Skully is back! Now available on the m15x. Also, AW has made quite a few changes on their site. Check it out.

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How to Extend Battery Life in Your Laptop
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Crysis SP Demo CPU Benchmark
1:  Sager NP9262
2:  Sager NP5793
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1:  Sager NP9262
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1:  Dell XPS M1730
2:  Gateway P-6831FX
3:  Sager NP5793
4:  Alienware Area-51 m15x
5:  Sager NP9260
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1:  Sager NP9260
2:  Dell XPS M1730
3:  Sager NP5793
4:  Gateway P-171XL FX
5:  Sager NP9262
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3DMark06
1:  Dell XPS M1730
2:  Sager NP9262
3:  Clevo D901c
4:  Alienware Area-51 m15x
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Crysis SP Demo CPU Benchmark
1:  Sager NP9262
51.24 fps
by Steve@NBF
2:  Sager NP5793
32.65 fps
by Steve@NBF
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Crysis SP Demo GPU Benchmark
1:  Sager NP9262
43.56 fps
by Steve@NBF
2:  Sager NP5793
28.43 fps
by Steve@NBF
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Super PI 2M
1:  Dell XPS M1730
0m, 37s m
by dajohu
2:  Gateway P-6831FX
0m, 39.237s m
by HendricksonNZ
3:  Sager NP5793
0m, 40s m
by Steve@NBF
4:  Alienware Area-51 m15x
0m, 46s m
by Steve@NBF
5:  Sager NP9260
0m, 47s m
by Steve@NBF
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3DMark2001 SE
1:  Sager NP9260
41168 3DMarks
by Steve@NBF
2:  Dell XPS M1730
40363 3DMarks
by dajohu
3:  Sager NP5793
37372 3DMarks
by Steve@NBF
4:  Gateway P-171XL FX
33567 3DMarks
by Steve@NBF
5:  Sager NP9262
33160 3DMarks
by Steve@NBF
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3DMark06
1:  Dell XPS M1730
14841 3DMarks
by Silversaver
2:  Dell XPS M1730
14789 3DMarks
by Abadee
3:  Dell XPS M1730
14631 3DMarks
by CStradling24
4:  Dell XPS M1730
14512 3DMarks
by dajohu
5:  Dell XPS M1730
14467 3DMarks
by zolutar
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1:  Sager NP5793
Crysis SP Demo CPU Max Average
32.65 fps

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2:  Sager NP5793
Run 0 Average FPS
28.43 fps

by Steve@NBF
3:  Sager NP9262
Crysis SP Demo CPU Max Average
51.24 fps

by Steve@NBF
4:  Sager NP9262
Run 0 Average FPS
43.56 fps

by Steve@NBF
7:  Sager NP9262
Super PI (2M)
0m, 48s m

by Steve@NBF

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