The first thing I noticed when I opened the packaging is that the laptop has heft. It’s not a thin and light and I didn’t expect it to be. I didn’t want an under powered MAX Q so I made sure I bought a 2070 RTX Super (some call Max P).

The case itself is built well surfaces you touch feel strong, You can open the screen without it tipping over. One thing you will notice is that besides the well spaced keyboard and single power button there are literally NO extra keys, No turbo keys, no speed keys and no shortcut keys. This is a very spartan design and I love it because of that. The keys seem well spaced and I have no trouble typing but for you RGB guys you will be disappointed to know that you can only have one color at a time.

The track pad is large and feels great but I doubt I will ever use it since I bought this for gaming.

It’s no a tiny laptop but it’s small enough to fit on my desk beside my three other work monitors.

In terms of performance and screen quality I hit over 200 FPS with max settings at 1080p on Call of Duty Warzone. Each match is perfect with no stuttering or screen tearing

I also loaded up Xcom: Chimera Squad and while i don’t have a framerate counter on I would presume in my experience that it’s running at 144hz or over. It’s not a very demanding game but it runs amazing

After playing a while it doesn’t get overly hot but the fans at full blast is kind of loud but no as loud as other laptops i have gamed on.

Overall I think for the price 1599 it’s a steal, everything you would want in a powerhouse gaming laptop without the RGB overload, in fact it looks almost too plain.

Here are my at a glance scores
Performance: 10/10 Everything I have thrown at it is over 144fps
Screen 10/10 The colors are bright, refresh is fast and no bleeding
Audio 6/10 not the greatest above average with other laptops
Noise 6/10 It’s loud as a gaming laptop normally is but you don’t need headphones
Keyboard 9/10 despite no single key led colors on the keys … the spacing is perfect and it feels rock solid
build and materials 8/10 solid overall though nothing stands out
Trackpad 7/10 as good as any i’ve used but i wont be using it, ever

if you want amazing performance in a not so thin and light laptop I don’t think you can do better.

It’s got room for expansion.

When it comes to gaming, FPS is very important to me and this laptop doles out performance in spades, I feel comfortable that it will run games at high FPS for some time.

I cannot recommend this laptop enough.

Absolutely love this laptop. I was looking for a performance oriented 15″ gaming laptop and sadly most brands for the past few years have been focusing on battery power and “thin & light” aspects.
Everytime I looked at a gaming laptop model, it either looked like an edgy teenager designed it and/or it made so many compromises just to keep the overall thinness and weight of the laptop to a minimum.I’m an thinkpad fan (older models, at least), I dont like any of this ‘more is less’ mentality and with this laptop I feel right at home.Pros;
1. The GPU is a 2070 Super. Most laptops GPUs in this price range not only are the non SUPER version but they’re also almost always the MAX-Q version which is a weaker, more constrained version
2. Keyboard feels excellent
3. Design is sleek and doesn’t look like a spaceship (except for maybe the back vents)
4. Software allows control of the fans which allows you to set an agressive fan curve for better thermals or quiet for office work
5. Software also allows GPU overclocking and CPU can be undervolted with Throttlestop
6. No Sager bloatware
7. Very good temps, no CPU or GPU throttling
8. Excellent upgradeability: 1x 2.5″ SATA port, 2x M.2 SSD ports, 2x RAM slots
9. Indicator lights for power, battery, caps/scroll/num lock and even HDD/SDD activity!
10. Matte 144hz display

Cons:
1. Noticeable coil whine noise under certain circumstances
2. No thunderbolt 3 and no displayport ports
3. Although fan speed control allows for very quiet fans, it only lets you set fans at 20{98880d97af0555a3a517c8aae666eeb64e7bd6d49cbbe05617dcb138f6e48200} minimum, you can’t turn them off completely
4. Fan speed control software doesnt remember last active profile for each of the performance profiles whenever you switch. So if you have a custom fan curve, if you go from performance to quiet, you have to select the custom fan curve again.
5. Bottom cover has a lot of plastic clips you need to remove without breaking in order to upgrade any parts
6. Keyboard has a numpad. This is subjective, but I’d prefer a non-numpad keyboard so that I dont have to place my hand off-centre whenever I type

The battery, is smaller in size due to the very welcomed 2.5″ SATA port, this, combined with the fact that the components on this laptops aren’t downclocked to consume less power gives you a very low battery time which is to be expected.
I got around 2h of battery time while writing and compiling some code and connected to the WiFi + mid-brightness setting for the screen.

Also, something that surprised me was that when I turned on a bluetooth mouse next to the laptop, it just prompted me if I wanted to connect to it instantly, didn’t even have to pair it. Is this NFC ? I dont know.

In conclusion, while most other manufacturers are obsessed with soldering components, making them non-upgradeable, constraining performance and thermals to make them more thin, light and have more battery life, Sager and Clevo focuses on what matters to users like me, performance, thermals, upgradeability, ports, did I mention this laptop even has an HDD/SSD indicator light!
If these things sound exciting to you, then I wholeheartedly recommend you take a look at this and other Sager models.

I only wish I could find out how I could purchase an extended warranty.

I will definitely be looking closely at what else Sager has to offer next time I want to buy another laptop.

I was replacing a high end desktop because I was downsizing. I knew I wouldn’t get the same power out of a laptop, but a whole desktop set up just wasn’t in the cards right now. Sager stood out immediately as the best bang for your buck. We’re talking a couple hundred dollars cheaper than the competition, same quality.

I’ve mostly used this with a tv and keyboard mouse, so I can’t go into too much detail on the screen, but this laptop is solid for 1080p gaming at 60fps. Fan does get loud though. Surprisingly so. That’s cooling for a laptop though. If you’re in the market for a gaming laptop, I highly recommend Sager, even if you opt for a different configuration. About 7 months ago I was also in the market for a gaming laptop and they came out on top during my research then too.

Extremely gaming capabilities! I bought this laptop after comparing hundreds of gaming laptops. This is the best 2070s gaming laptop you can ever had in 15k. It runs COD warzone all high in 120fps average. The fans are quite when not running games and acceptable when running games. The weight is also acceptable.