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hey guys you're watching Jays two cents and today I'm gonna bring you a review of the Sager 9150 gaming laptop this bad boy weighed in at about three grand so today we're gonna find out just what kind of performance can you expect after shelling out that kind of cash alright guys so let's get right in it this Sager comes fully loaded from the factory with almost every option available the processor is an Intel i7 38:20 QM graphics are powered by NVIDIA GTX 680 m 4 gigabyte model the display isn't gorgeous 15.6 inch LED 1080p with a 95% color gambit for memory we've got 16 gigabytes of ddr3 1600 megahertz hard drive we have a huge crucial m4 512 gigabyte solid state drive how much is a model like this gonna cost you twenty nine hundred and seventy four dollars that kind of money you could buy a small car even some politicians these days so get ready to melt some plastic buying this bad boy I'm pretty impressed with the build quality of this computer the case is real sturdy for being plastic it's very strong it doesn't creak or crack when you hold it the hinges on the monitor are firm they hold their position the screen doesn't wobble it's got an overall very solid feel size-wise this case is 14 point 8 inches wide and 10 inches deep the front of the case is 1.4 inches high and the back of the case is 1.7 inches high and weighs six point eight three pounds including the 8 cell battery the outside of the case is rubberized which gives it a nice grip in a nice feel does it feel like you're gonna drop the thing or carrying it to them from a land party or to your car but the problem with that is it collects dust really bad as you can see here in this video dust is flying by I live in the desert too it's dusty it's windy and it's just collecting all over the finish of this computer it's gorgeous but if you live in a dusty area like I do it's really gonna get on your nerves and it doesn't even want to wash off very easily or wipe off because of the rubberized material really makes the dust stick to it for security this model came with a fingerprint reader it was pretty easy to set up the software is intuitive it was very easy to use and testing the fingerprint reader seemed pretty accurate the sound in this unit is provided by Onkyo it sounds wonderful but we'll get more to that a little bit later during the demonstration for connectivity on the left side of the computer we have an I Triple E 1394 a firewire port we have a 10 100 1000 Mbps LAN port we have 2 USB 3.0 s one of which is a powered USB we have an eSATA 3.0 USB combo port followed by a standard SD card reader on the right side we have our blu-ray DVD combo drive standard analog as well as optical audio connections a USB 2.0 and a Kensington lock on the back of the case we have a display port 1 point 1 we have an HDMI 1.4 a with HDCP and a DVI connection the keyboard here feels pretty good even for gaming it's easy to type on even though the keys lack that reverse dome effect where you can easily Center your finger on the key it wasn't so bad I did fat-finger a couple of times I did bump the wrong key every now and then wasn't too bad some people might be a little thrown off by it the keyboard is LED backlit and the colors can be changed through software that's included with the laptop has some pretty nifty effects some waves and blink some lights you can change the color in this video here I just had the wave effect on and I had set the three different quadrants of the three quad quad 3 I need to go back to math anyway the colors were very customizable and it's definitely going to get you noticed if that's your thing now take a listen of the keyboard clicks and the fans in this computer now there is one issue I do have with this keyboard if you look closely on the right side of the keypad you'll see that Enter key plus key and the minus key are all slightly raised compared to the rest of the keyboard now not only are they slightly raised but the right side of each of those three keys appears to be higher than the left I'm inclined to think this is some sort of a assembly beef echt I don't think it's a factory defect it feels like it's not securely attached when you push down on those keys there's a lot more flex than any other keys on the keyboard some people might say this is a little bit of a nitpick but if somebody were to pay $3,000 for a laptop they have the right to nitpick in my opinion the microphone in this PC is placed in a very strange location it's located between the keypad and the spacebar so if you're typing or you're clicking on the mouse or you're moving your finger around the trackpad it's gonna pick up all of those noises unfortunately my brain completely crapped out and I did not get a recording with that I should have I didn't I know I hear you all saying you are horrible reviews because I didn't take a recording with the mic and unfortunately I also did not take a video with the webcam at very limited time with this unit so I wanted to get as much as the printed details out of the way as I could but when it comes to the microphone and you're planning on using Skype or any other voice chat system without using a headset or an external mic expect to have some very unhappy people on the other end they're gonna hear every movement you make they're gonna hear every touch you do on the keyboard it's just really obnoxious solid-state driving this thing is really fast and the moment I push start to the moment windows is up I don't have time to get a glass of water buuut time is right around 25 seconds so I don't know about you but it's probably not good to time a potty break around starting up your computer okay so the moment we've all been waiting for how does it actually perform I went ahead and loaded up the free edition of 3d mark 11 it's in performance mode go ahead and watch this video I've sped it up four times to make it not take quite as long so no claiming of shenanigans saying I sped up the video because I'm telling you right now I sped up the video all right that's not too bad at 61 63 all factory of settings nothing touched straight out of the box and I want to see just how much we could actually do with this so I went ahead and installed afterburner and after burner if you're not aware is a overclock utility for graphics cards most people use them on the desktop most laptops don't even have access to any of the controls for the GPU and I got a plus 135 megahertz for a total frequency of just under 900 megahertz and a plus 200 on the memory and this is what I got broke 7000 with the laptop that's incredible so let's see how this actually performs in real life because synthetic benchmarks are only good for a number but how does that actually equate to the gaming experience so let's take a look at the preset video options we've got everything is set to hi aunt isotropic filter is set to 4x motion blur is on anti aliasing post is on high that's fxaa for anyone not familiar with Kepler we are running 60 frames per second or 60 Hertz 1080p on this laptop the sound is very crisp very clear they set to headphones and switch that I fine and yet stereo mode is on we're just gonna leave like this see how we do let's turn on me we're going to turn on the on screen they're you so as you can see we run off the bet camera here a little bit we are sitting pretty damn close to 60 frames per second on high settings on a laptop people there we go I am seeing 60 frames per second on high settings I don't know about you guys close-quarter 64-player map nobody could pick up the the fan sounds they're not my first impressions here is this is extremely smooth I would actually be very hard-pressed right now just to tell you any differences I see between my desktop running a 680 GTX overclocked or 1.3 vs. this laptop I'm running a 680 m very smooth there's no pausing stuttering whatsoever aiming aiming needs an improvement alright guys what we've done is we went ahead and changed all the settings from high to ultra vsync is on so let's see how it does still very fluid very smooth sticking right 60 frames per second here say we did with explosion now we drop down into the mid 40s on that explosion wasn't extremely noticeable though I definitely have to give this computer the respect that it deserves this thing is a beast it's fast it's cool its efficient it's quiet it can play any game you can throw at it from today's standards and probably last you for a couple of years to come alright guys that's all I've got for today if you've liked today's video do me a favor hit that subscribe button follow me on Twitter and I'll see you in my next video