Sager NP2885

hi,

I was radying computer shopper and i saw an ad for a tablet PC from a
company i had never heard of before, called sager. i went to look at
it and it lookes almost as good as the acer c300 (which i'm thinking
of buying), but 300-600 dollars cheaper. Does anybody know anything
about this company? How is their support?

i have a link for the note book here:
http://www.sagernotebook.com/pages/n...oductType=2885

True Tablet PCs run Windows XP Pro as the operating system and have digital
screens. The one you're looking at uses XP Home and has a touchscreen only.
It is "close," but doesn't run the Tablet Edition software, and therefore
doesn't have regular Tablet PC features.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - www.sandpoint.net/creations
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

"Dan Irwin" <> wrote in message
news: om...
> hi,
>
> I was radying computer shopper and i saw an ad for a tablet PC from a
> company i had never heard of before, called sager. i went to look at
> it and it lookes almost as good as the acer c300 (which i'm thinking
> of buying), but 300-600 dollars cheaper. Does anybody know anything
> about this company? How is their support?
>
> i have a link for the note book here:
> http://www.sagernotebook.com/pages/n...oductType=2885

I have only know one person that bought a Sager notebook and he had good
things to say, except that Tech Support was a little slow in getting back to
him (you have to leave a message) Also you might want to check out the
following Newsgroup, it has alot of user comments on Sager.
http://notebookforums.com/

--
Tedd Riggs
PDA Square Content Developer
www.pdasquare.com
Redmond, WA



"Dan Irwin" <> wrote in message
news: om...
> hi,
>
> I was radying computer shopper and i saw an ad for a tablet PC from a
> company i had never heard of before, called sager. i went to look at
> it and it lookes almost as good as the acer c300 (which i'm thinking
> of buying), but 300-600 dollars cheaper. Does anybody know anything
> about this company? How is their support?
>
> i have a link for the note book here:
> http://www.sagernotebook.com/pages/n...oductType=2885

k, thx

I have one other question: what is the acer support like?

"Tedd Riggs" <öm> wrote in message news:<>...
> I have only know one person that bought a Sager notebook and he had good
> things to say, except that Tech Support was a little slow in getting back to
> him (you have to leave a message) Also you might want to check out the
> following Newsgroup, it has alot of user comments on Sager.
> http://notebookforums.com/
>
> --
> Tedd Riggs
> PDA Square Content Developer
> www.pdasquare.com
> Redmond, WA
>
>
>
> "Dan Irwin" <> wrote in message
> news: om...
> > hi,
> >
> > I was radying computer shopper and i saw an ad for a tablet PC from a
> > company i had never heard of before, called sager. i went to look at
> > it and it lookes almost as good as the acer c300 (which i'm thinking
> > of buying), but 300-600 dollars cheaper. Does anybody know anything
> > about this company? How is their support?
> >
> > i have a link for the note book here:
> > http://www.sagernotebook.com/pages/n...oductType=2885

I have never owned a Acer, so I do not know about the support they give. I
would do a google (or other) search for "Acer Forums" or "Acer Support" and
I would guess you would find alot. Or..just try calling them like you
already have one and maybe you can get a feel for what they are like.

--
Tedd Riggs
PDA Square Content Developer
www.pdasquare.com
Redmond, WA



"Dan Irwin" <> wrote in message
news: om...
> k, thx
>
> I have one other question: what is the acer support like?
>
> "Tedd Riggs" <öm> wrote in message
> news:<>...
>> I have only know one person that bought a Sager notebook and he had good
>> things to say, except that Tech Support was a little slow in getting back
>> to
>> him (you have to leave a message) Also you might want to check out the
>> following Newsgroup, it has alot of user comments on Sager.
>> http://notebookforums.com/
>>
>> --
>> Tedd Riggs
>> PDA Square Content Developer
>> www.pdasquare.com
>> Redmond, WA
>>
>>
>>
>> "Dan Irwin" <> wrote in message
>> news: om...
>> > hi,
>> >
>> > I was radying computer shopper and i saw an ad for a tablet PC from a
>> > company i had never heard of before, called sager. i went to look at
>> > it and it lookes almost as good as the acer c300 (which i'm thinking
>> > of buying), but 300-600 dollars cheaper. Does anybody know anything
>> > about this company? How is their support?
>> >
>> > i have a link for the note book here:
>> > http://www.sagernotebook.com/pages/n...oductType=2885

The software on the Sager NP2885 is the ritePen, from www.pen&internet.com.
It is generally acknowledged even by TabletOS experts to be superior in HW
recognition to T OS. The pen, iPen (www.zyonshop.com) , has 800+ dpi, which
seems incredibly superior to pens for the Tablet, if I am not mistaken.
And the allied software that zyonshop sells allows for annotation on
webpages and anywhere on the windows apps ( I believe), for great
diagrams -- most from p&i -- it would seem that what the Tablet offers pales
in comparison.
What SW on the Tablet is unique to it? And cannot be found on an XP as long
as one uses iPen, say to handwrite in short entries more quickly than reach
for the keyboard?


"Dan Irwin" <> wrote in message
news: om...
> hi,
>
> I was radying computer shopper and i saw an ad for a tablet PC from a
> company i had never heard of before, called sager. i went to look at
> it and it lookes almost as good as the acer c300 (which i'm thinking
> of buying), but 300-600 dollars cheaper. Does anybody know anything
> about this company? How is their support?
>
> i have a link for the note book here:
> http://www.sagernotebook.com/pages/n...oductType=2885

when you respoded to this post i took a second look at the sager. I
saw three major problems with it. The first one, a its a 1.4 pM not a
1.5 or 1.6 i could live with. The second, a lack of internal optical
drive i might still think about the think about the laptop. The
third, no accident proof warranty, i cant live with. When i do get a
tablet thoug, which it might be, i am going to look at the iPen and
the ritePen stuff though. Will the i pen work well better then the
regular pen on the acer c300 and the gatway m275 tablets?

thanks for the help,

dan

"Joseph di Piazza" <> wrote in message news:<>...
> The software on the Sager NP2885 is the ritePen, from www.pen&internet.com.
> It is generally acknowledged even by TabletOS experts to be superior in HW
> recognition to T OS. The pen, iPen (www.zyonshop.com) , has 800+ dpi, which
> seems incredibly superior to pens for the Tablet, if I am not mistaken.
> And the allied software that zyonshop sells allows for annotation on
> webpages and anywhere on the windows apps ( I believe), for great
> diagrams -- most from p&i -- it would seem that what the Tablet offers pales
> in comparison.
> What SW on the Tablet is unique to it? And cannot be found on an XP as long
> as one uses iPen, say to handwrite in short entries more quickly than reach
> for the keyboard?
>
>
> "Dan Irwin" <> wrote in message
> news: om...
> > hi,
> >
> > I was radying computer shopper and i saw an ad for a tablet PC from a
> > company i had never heard of before, called sager. i went to look at
> > it and it lookes almost as good as the acer c300 (which i'm thinking
> > of buying), but 300-600 dollars cheaper. Does anybody know anything
> > about this company? How is their support?
> >
> > i have a link for the note book here:
> > http://www.sagernotebook.com/pages/n...oductType=2885

Sager has been making OEM laptops for years. I don't know much about their
tablet pc offering but their laptops have generally been well made. Biggest
drawback with buying direct from Sager is that they do not offer the Tablet
PC OS though it should run on it without any problems according to one of
the OEM manufacturers I've spoken to who use the Sager Tablet PC for their
system.

All of the parts are pretty basic generic parts, the touch screen is
Viewsonic which does have the correct drivers for the Tablet PC OS
available.

--
Cheryl D. Wise
MS-MVP-FrontPage



"Joseph di Piazza" <> wrote in message
news:...
> The software on the Sager NP2885 is the ritePen, from
www.pen&internet.com.
> It is generally acknowledged even by TabletOS experts to be superior in HW
> recognition to T OS. The pen, iPen (www.zyonshop.com) , has 800+ dpi,
which
> seems incredibly superior to pens for the Tablet, if I am not mistaken.
> And the allied software that zyonshop sells allows for annotation on
> webpages and anywhere on the windows apps ( I believe), for great
> diagrams -- most from p&i -- it would seem that what the Tablet offers
pales
> in comparison.
> What SW on the Tablet is unique to it? And cannot be found on an XP as
long
> as one uses iPen, say to handwrite in short entries more quickly than
reach
> for the keyboard?

And of course the problem is that the Tablet PC OS is not available for
production use without having it preinstalled on a Tablet PC.
--
Terri Stratton
Microsoft Windows MVP / Tablet PC
http://thetabletpc.net
Expert Zone - http://microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/default.asp


"Cheryl Wise" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Sager has been making OEM laptops for years. I don't know much about their
> tablet pc offering but their laptops have generally been well made.
Biggest
> drawback with buying direct from Sager is that they do not offer the
Tablet
> PC OS though it should run on it without any problems according to one of
> the OEM manufacturers I've spoken to who use the Sager Tablet PC for their
> system.
>
> All of the parts are pretty basic generic parts, the touch screen is
> Viewsonic which does have the correct drivers for the Tablet PC OS
> available.
>
> --
> Cheryl D. Wise
> MS-MVP-FrontPage
>
>
>
> "Joseph di Piazza" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> > The software on the Sager NP2885 is the ritePen, from
> www.pen&internet.com.
> > It is generally acknowledged even by TabletOS experts to be superior in
HW
> > recognition to T OS. The pen, iPen (www.zyonshop.com) , has 800+ dpi,
> which
> > seems incredibly superior to pens for the Tablet, if I am not mistaken.
> > And the allied software that zyonshop sells allows for annotation on
> > webpages and anywhere on the windows apps ( I believe), for great
> > diagrams -- most from p&i -- it would seem that what the Tablet offers
> pales
> > in comparison.
> > What SW on the Tablet is unique to it? And cannot be found on an XP as
> long
> > as one uses iPen, say to handwrite in short entries more quickly than
> reach
> > for the keyboard?
>
>

Really? I didn't know that. I just assumed it was possible to buy it at
retail.

--
Cheryl D. Wise
MS-MVP-FrontPage
http://mvp.wiserways.com

"terri" <> wrote in message
news:...
> And of course the problem is that the Tablet PC OS is not available for
> production use without having it preinstalled on a Tablet PC.
> --
> Terri Stratton
> Microsoft Windows MVP / Tablet PC
> http://thetabletpc.net
> Expert Zone - http://microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/default.asp