**Official Clevo P150EM / Sager NP9150 Owner's Lounge**

[Macon663]

I just bought a 9150 myself...

675M, i7 3610, 750gb 7200RPM HD, 8GB 1600mghz RAM, no optical drive, matte screen.

Have a 256GB OCZ vertex 4 SSD, and 8 more gigs of RAM waiting to be installed when it gets here. Planning to do the hard drive location swap. Also ordered a external BluRay drive.

Is the better wireless card really worth it? Whats the difference? I think I bought the cheap one.

[awakeN]

Does anyone have a picture of the Sager next to another laptop? Im planning on buying one because the specs are amazing but I really need something portable and I'm nervous that its going to be a pain in the butt because of how thick/heavy it is.

Clevo P150EM versus Clevo P170EM Size Comparison

At around page 2 or 3 there'll be pictures

[MrLibya]

I just bought a 9150 myself...

675M, i7 3610, 750gb 7200RPM HD, 8GB 1600mghz RAM, no optical drive, matte screen.

Have a 256GB OCZ vertex 4 SSD, and 8 more gigs of RAM waiting to be installed when it gets here. Planning to do the hard drive location swap. Also ordered a external BluRay drive.

Is the better wireless card really worth it? Whats the difference? I think I bought the cheap one.

Regarding the wireless card I got the bigfoot one because of the three antenna array and the low latency. If you have a very good router or modem it will cover it but I looked up on the reviews and everyone says its worth it and it makes a difference. If you want to get a good one that is cheap get the intel 6300 card.

Anyone can link me to some 7970m benchmarks. Some that are very credible. Also concerning 7970m is there switchable graphics for good battery life.

[contradude]

Anyone can link me to some 7970m benchmarks. Some that are very credible. Also concerning 7970m is there switchable graphics for good battery life.

unfortunately, this GPU has not been officially released to consumers yet. there are some benchmarks floating around from the QS models that are sent to manufacturers to help them design their laptops but official benchmarks are only available from AMD right now and they aren't really giving numbers, just percentages. The 7970m will destroy the 675m completely, if you are preordering just get the 7970m. there will be no competition.

Also, is anyone else running the beta nvidia drivers (301 series)? I seem to have an issue with it not completely powering off, it just sits there with the keyboard lit until I force power it. not terribly worried about it, but just curious.

[Holyhunter]

Would this be a good laptop for a soon-to-be college student?

6.83 lbs seems a bit heavy, but compared to my old laptop that was more than 9 pounds it's pretty light.

Outside the weight it is completely perfect for what I need, but would it be too much of a hassle to move around?

Thanks in advance to any replies

[GTMonster]

I'm looking at fitting an SATA 3.0 OCZ Vertex 4 512GB SSD and Samsung PM830 SATA 3.0 256GB mSATA into a P150EM.

I was wandering if the Samsung PM830 SATA 3.0 256GB mSATA SSD in the SATA 2.0 port will this slow the performance of the OCZ Vertex drive in the SATA 3.0 port given that the OCZ drive excededs the speed of the Samsung drive which is limited by the SATA 2.0 data transfer rate. I am assuming that the mSATA will only operate as an Intel Smart response drive combined with a secondry SATA drive or can it be used seperatly?

Specs OCZ Vertex 4 SATA 3.0 512GB read@550MB/s and write@475MB/s (not limited by the P150EM SATA 3.0)
Samsung PM830 Sata 2.0 mSATA read@500MB/s and write@260MB/s (limited by P150EM Sata II to read@300MB/sec and write@260MB/s)

Any insite /advice would be appreciated. Sorry if this has been previously discussed. Thanks.

[bzh2]

Would this be a good laptop for a soon-to-be college student?

6.83 lbs seems a bit heavy, but compared to my old laptop that was more than 9 pounds it's pretty light.

Outside the weight it is completely perfect for what I need, but would it be too much of a hassle to move around?

Thanks in advance to any replies

I think this is something that you get used to or is at least pretty subjective. I briefly owned a G53SW that was like 8+ pounds and even bulkier than the P150em but I never felt that it was too big to haul around.

The P150em is pretty awesome when you compare it to other laptops that tout 100w GPUs

[wild05kid05]

I was wandering if the Samsung PM830 SATA 3.0 256GB mSATA SSD in the SATA 2.0 port will this slow the performance of the OCZ Vertex drive in the SATA 3.0 port given that the OCZ drive excededs the speed of the Samsung drive which is limited by the SATA 2.0 data transfer rate. I am assuming that the mSATA will only operate as an Intel Smart response drive combined with a secondry SATA drive or can it be used seperatly?

You can use it as separate drive along with the normal SSD. The performance will only be affected if you use both of them in raid not SRT cache.


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[GTMonster]

You can use it as separate drive along with the normal SSD. The performance will only be affected if you use both of them in raid not SRT cache.


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Thanks for getting back... so if I use the SRT Cache will it improve performance in a non raid setup with this drive configuration or would I not see any benefit?

I'm wandering if I keep the drives seperate and install 32GB ram and then use that to Cache the OCZ it may improve performance better that SRT Caching.

[urmystlkal]

Finally sent in my money today for my laptop from Xotic. Can't wait to get a working laptop and the new 7970. I still need to order a SSD though, deciding btwn Crucial M4 and the Samsung 830 as those are usually the ones I see recommended everywhere.