Recommendation for a new notebook

[[AK]Sonic Boom]

Not only that, but I'm virtually certain that Sager manufactured Alienware's laptops as recently as three years ago.

I wouldn't stake my life on it, but I wouldn't be surprised if Alienware's stuff is still made by Sager.

When I looked into it a couple years ago, the only difference between what Sager offered directly and what you could get from Alienware was the neat-o pearlescent paint schemes.

[[AK]Abaddon]

That's what I thought. Glad someone else remembered it too.

[[AK]Hylander]

Yes... Sager makes/made many models of Dell and Alienware.

[[AK]Clay]

Thank you gentlemen for your advice. I went with a Sager, P4 3.0 GHz, Widescreen monitor, 1GB of ram and ATI Radion X800, w/ 256MB of Ram. This thing is nothing short of amazing. It completly blows away my desktop in capabilities. We maxed out the WoW resolution to 1900X1000 (I think it was that - the highest) with everything turned on. Smooth and silk in WoW. I ended up droping down to 1200X, just because everything was so small, it was tough to see.

The screen resolution is also 1900X1000. It looks really sharp, and now my desktop monitor on that PC looks pretty humble. But again, things are so small to see, I may need to adjust this somehow!

And yes, this notebook is Big, Heavy, and very very hot. I've never seen a notebook with 4 casefans built into it before. This thing runs WARM - which should be rather handy in the wintertime.

Biggest dissappointment - this is the wife's computer - not mine! Ack!!

[Slaughter]

Its ok Clay, ask for one from Nuts for christmas.

[[AK]Clay]

Oh crap.

The notebook was 100% reliable.

however, last night, after playing for several hours without a hitch - something goes very wrong. Not sure what changed, but now the notebook locks-up in WoW very badly. Even in the sign-in screen, you can tell something's not right. There's random noise/flicker in the sign-in screen, and it's much worse in-game. In-game play-time is 20 seconds or less before serious system lock-up.

Why would something like this just, -BING-, happen? Nothing was installed or changed.

Virus?

Component burnout?

Other suggestions?

And yes, it's an ATI video card in the notebook.

-Clay

[Slaughter]

Try defragging. If that doesn't help you may try calling Tech Support.