Comments on: First Impressions: Sager NP2092 Laptop Running Ubuntu

By: mark

mark — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:26:46 +0000

sager has better customer service

By: humble

humble — Sun, 11 May 2008 17:00:31 +0000

The noise level on this machine is minimal. I forgot to mention that that is another of the items I’m particularly happy with. The left side fo the keyboard sometimes gets a little warm and you _can_ hear the fan toggling on and off if you’re in a quiet room but even with the fan running at max (I assume it’s at max) the sound is barely audible.

I discovered that my no-sound after suspend problem is ‘fixed’ by toggling the mute button (above the keyboard) so everything is good!

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 03 May 2008 22:20:44 +0000

Im concerned about the noise level of the Sager

How often does the fan run? Can you hear it running? Can you feel it vibrate in the keyboard?

Have you ever tried using PHC for undervolting this laptop? That would be the first thing on my to do list.

Thanks

By: qhartman

qhartman — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:13:30 +0000

I don’t know about the Sims specifically, but I have played ET Quake Wars and Savage 2 for fairly extended periods on this machine and not had any problems. Assuming that The Sims is not more demanding than either of those two, you ought to be fine, it will likely be fine. As far as Blu-ray goes, I don’t know what the status of Blu-ray playback on Ubuntu. Assuming there is software available for it, I’d wager that this machine would have plenty of horsepower for it.

By: Christina

Christina — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:12:29 +0000

I was thinking about getting this laptop to play The Sims 2 on, do you think it will hold up well with long periods of non-stop running of the game on the highest graphics setting? None of the desktops in my house can run the game and getting a laptop is my only option considering the desktops are taking up all the room in the house, and I can choose to get a blu-ray player(when I got my PS3 I sold all of my DVD’s and getting a laptop without the blu-ray player wouldn’t be very good because I wouldn’t have any movies to watch. So far while I’ve been looking this is actually one of the cheapest laptops(after the blu-ray option is added). Other than The Sims I would only really use it for surfing the internet, occasionally watching a movie, and adding songs and whatnot to my iPod. Would you recommend this laptop to me?

By: qhartman

qhartman — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:32:13 +0000

I’m glad you’re happy with your purchase! I put some minimal effort into getting that behaving, but I don’t have it sussed quite yet. As I alluded to above, I intended to pair this machine with a Cloudbook, which arrived last week. Needless to say I’ve been putting most of my energy into really digging into that guy. I think once the “new toy” syndrome wears off, I’ll revisit the sound after suspend issue with more vigor.

The core of the fix seems to be adding the appropriate modules to /etc/default/acpi-support in the “modules” variable. If with that pointer you’re able to achieve success I’d love to hear about it!

By: humble

humble — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:23:45 +0000

Well I received mine and it’s everything you said – the power is amazing, the screen is beautiful and I’m really happy with the feel of the keyboard.

Running AMD64 Ubuntu and the install of needed 32 bit apps became a snap once I found getlibs.

My remaining issue is the sound after suspend. Did you ever get this sorted out and if so, how?

many thanks,

humble

By: humble

humble — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:22:15 +0000

Thanks so much. I placed my order with Sager and let them know of your review. Looking forward to it!

By: qhartman

qhartman — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:24:56 +0000

Humble: I describe it as “moderately clicky”. I like the keyboard feel. It really feels pretty close to the T23 I’m replacing, though it’s a little bigger which is nice for my ham-sized hands. I’m very happy with it, also coming from a Thinkpad. I do miss the trackpoint though.

As far as the dual-head setup, over the last couple of days I’ve tried it both on a monitor and a TV, and it worked very, very well. Between the nvidia-settings tool and the Xrandr utility in Hardy, everything has basically just worked. Even the display hot-key works.

By: humble

humble — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:02:10 +0000

Great review! I’m shopping for an new Ubuntu laptop and I’m wondering if you could describe the “feel” of the keyboard? I’ve been using an Acer 4650 for the past couple of years but I really detest the mushy keyboard. Given your IBM background I expect the keys but be similarly “clicky” or you would have mentioned it.

Also, have you tried a dual monitor setup on it?

thanks,

humble