 RungelRun A Mile Live AwhilePremium
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| Looking for a gaming laptop Well i had a Alien Ware Dell ordered on 1/26 but they keep pushing the date to build later and later.. now up to 3/18.. so i canceled that for now. And was looking at Sager's and these »www.malibal.com/index.html Has anyone had experience with these two computers? Seems the Malibal you can get a lot for your money.. But i also noticed all these manufactures are back ordered on something. Screens and i heard there was a intel re-call. I don't want the 17 inch screen.. there to heavy i think.. 3000$ is my limit with the extended warranty added.. so if anyone has sometime to kill maybe give me some suggestions..
Do you think RAID0 is the way to go or just get the SSD drive? I don't think RAID drives can be had in 15 inch laptops.. but i'm not sure
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| There was a recall tied with the sandy bridge release so yes, they will all show this for a sandy bridge setup. If you decided on alien ware you might as well stick with that.
"Do you think RAID0 is the way to go or just get the SSD drive?"
get the ssd if this is a concern.
I don't have personal experience with either sager or malibal but they have reasonable reputations. If you want malibal then we can talk about the 460m vs 485m option depending on the games you are playing but you aren't likely to get any of these sandy bridge laptops sooner than a dell. |
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 C0deZer0Oc'D To Rhythm And PolicePremium
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Davenport, FL | reply to Rungel
SSD RAID is what I would do, if the chipsets out there would support TRIM with RAID.
RAID 0 is still something I would suggest over getting a single drive in any case, simply because you get the performance benefit, and at least in my practice I find that RAID allows hard disks to last a heck of a lot longer than a single drive by itself for the OS and stuff. Personal experience has so far pegged me at about ~1 year with a system that only has one hard drive by itself for everything, vs. at least four years with even just a basic two-disc RAID 0. And that's even ignoring the overall improved I/O speeds that you benefit with  multi-tasking is better, boot and load times are better... it's a "bang for the buck" upgrade when storage is cheap, that's for sure. 
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RungelRun A Mile Live AwhilePremium
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I ended up getting a 15.6 inch Sager. 460 video card. One 160 gig SSD drive. I just have to figure out how to use the Turbo mode. Haven't read about that yet. I looked in the bios but saw nothing referring to it. So wondering now if my i7-2820QM Processor ( 8MB L3 Cache, 2.30GHz) supports it. |
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