HTWingNut's Sager NP6110 / Clevo W110ER First Look & Review

[landsome]

The glossy screen is absolutely horrible.

In a low-lit room (just a single low wattage bedside lamp on) I get bad reflections when watching a movie and any dark scenes come on. In a normally lit room during the day the reflections are also bad unless you are viewing something with bright/light colors in the background... put anything dark and it's like looking at a dark tinted mirror!

In addition, the viewing angle is very limited, so not great if me & the Mrs. both want to watch a movie in bed.

To me, this is a bit of an overstatement. I have the IVO screen (same specs as AUO) and for a 11.6 I find it quite acceptable. Sure, blacks are poor, reflection is unavoiable in sunlight (not more than with over glossy screens), horizontal viewing angle is nothing to write home about but acceptable.

I used a matte business-class Dell E6220 before and nothing except reflectiveness was any better. And colors, blacks and contrast were poorer.

[Baenwort]

hi, haven't been on the thread in a while, i'm using this computer right now, i love it quick question, any solutions for the battery problem? on a full charge I'm getting something like 3 hours, that's it. It's a little pitiful. The upside is that it's ridiculously powerful, but I need more battery life. Any solutions? Or maybe even anyone know where I can buy a second battery, perhaps one with more capacity?

There is this one: Super High-Capacity Rechargeable External Battery Pack - BP170

There is a guy who took some pictures of it with his w110er: **Official Clevo W110ER / Sager NP6110 Owner's Lounge**

He reports it gives him a significant increase in battery life while not impacting his portability. I'm thinking about it myself as it would fit in my satchel along with the laptop and wouldn't bulk up what I'm carrying.

[Studie]

Anyone else find updated chipset drivers from the intel website?

[bp101]

There is this one: Super High-Capacity Rechargeable External Battery Pack - BP170

There is a guy who took some pictures of it with his w110er: **Official Clevo W110ER / Sager NP6110 Owner's Lounge**

He reports it gives him a significant increase in battery life while not impacting his portability. I'm thinking about it myself as it would fit in my satchel along with the laptop and wouldn't bulk up what I'm carrying.

lol that's like a second laptop.... i dunno about that... i was thinking more along the lines of another battery that i'd plug into my laptop directly, but one with more capacity, cuz i literally get 3 hours of battery life, i've checked with batterybar

[HTWingNut]

lol that's like a second laptop.... i dunno about that... i was thinking more along the lines of another battery that i'd plug into my laptop directly, but one with more capacity, cuz i literally get 3 hours of battery life, i've checked with batterybar

Your best measure is to do an actual real world run how you'd use it to figure out actual battery life. BatteryBar isn't that accurate until you've done a couple discharges. Also remember to run in balanced or power saver mode for best battery life. There are much smaller, albeit less capacity, external batteries. But if you do that, a second system battery might be a better option.

[Nosferatum]

No matter how well I paste the IC Diamond thermal compound the native idle temp is around 60.
Sometimes it drops to 52, but that's when the computer has fully cooled down to no activity.

Is this normal? At full load we are looking at temps even close to 90. Isn't that a bit hot and stretching the life of the processor?

I think those temps are normal. I have those same exact temps after copper mod and IC7 repaste. I am hoping someone can release a bios that can actually control when the fan kicks in.

[bp101]

Your best measure is to do an actual real world run how you'd use it to figure out actual battery life. BatteryBar isn't that accurate until you've done a couple discharges. Also remember to run in balanced or power saver mode for best battery life. There are much smaller, albeit less capacity, external batteries. But if you do that, a second system battery might be a better option.

i've actually had batterybar installed for about a month, and i've just been using it as a guideline. any suggestions on how I can do my own real world run kind of thing? How did you run yours? i'd like to do something similar, to figure out a better number, 3 hours is depressingly low. i'm always in balanced, i'm figuring that the computer and the people who made it will know better than me how to mess with thsoe settings to get me better battery life, especally with that nvidia optimus, i'm never quite sure how that works.

[Hagroth]

Hey, I was wondering how and if you can control which GPU to use, or at least monitor which one is being used? I'm trying to run The Witcher 2 but it seems like it sticks to Intel HD. Can't even run the game at "Low", despite notebookcheck.net claiming the 650M is supposed to be able to handle it easily even at "High"! I have the 3610QM and pretty much the highest configuration with 1600 MHz RAM and Intel SSD, so I'm pretty sure Optimus isn't doing what it's supposed to here.

Thanks in advance!

[Black5Lion]

Hey, I was wondering how and if you can control which GPU to use, or at least monitor which one is being used? I'm trying to run The Witcher 2 but it seems like it sticks to Intel HD. Can't even run the game at "Low", despite notebookcheck.net claiming the 650M is supposed to be able to handle it easily even at "High"! I have the 3610QM and pretty much the highest configuration with 1600 MHz RAM and Intel SSD, so I'm pretty sure Optimus isn't doing what it's supposed to here.

Thanks in advance!

i think it was something related to the GPU control panel you have to set "the witcher.exe" file or whatever it is called to use the gt 650m dunno how exactly but someone else should be able to help.......

[Hagroth]

i think it was something related to the GPU control panel you have to set "the witcher.exe" file or whatever it is called to use the gt 650m dunno how exactly but someone else should be able to help.......

There's an option to run it with the 650M when right-clicking on the shortcut but I don't think it works since it's still running as slow. It's not reasonable that this computer can't run the game on "Low", is it? :S Currently it's playable but with lagging, constantly. Just standing still and rotating the camera isn't smooth at all. I did play the first "The Witcher" on the highest setting flawlessly however - sure, it's an older game but it never lagged despite huge groups of characters on screen simultaneously.