Damn. Why the three extra months!? Did they underestimate the time needed? Is there any special recompense for the surprise they threw your way?
Shit tons more money? Enough hours to fill my bank? I generally explain my life like this: I have a job that provides me with an upper middle class lifestyle that also allows me to take eight months off a year. This year, it allows me six months off a year... and I'm not doing the extra work for free. Make of that what you will. It's stupid enough, though, that I'm going to need to buy a fucking laptop to do Pro Tools on while I'm down here just to keep up on the beta shit... and I've got a feature that needs to be done by the end of the year that I should probably jump on. The PT guys recommend Sagers because apparently they're the shit. Might just go ahead and get one, and an NVidia shield, because I'm thinking of replacing my Mac Mini Plex rig with one. Opinions welcome. I know fuckall about PC laptops but apparently you can still spend three grand on one.
I have a six year old Sager laptop that is still running. They do run hot but not the hottest desktop replacement I've owned. Build quality was great but that was six years ago when they were building off those massive Clevo chassis. The only thing that ever went seriously wrong with it was the hinges breaking three years in and past warranty. I know they redesigned their hinge since then. Those Clevo chassis were great, you could upgrade and repair your own laptop quickly with ease. The new Sagers are all thin and lite which makes me worry about heat but people say it's all right. They are also ugly as a top price Nike running shoe but not near the ugliest desktop replacments around (six years ago they offered plain brushed aluminium, understated and classy by comparison). Support was great the few times I used it. If they are as good as they used to be than they are very nice desktop replacments. The only company I can think of that will unambiguously offer better quality is Falcon NW, but omfg are they expensive. Falcon is in a class by itself, true laptop pornography. You have to clean the dust out often to manage the heat on my older model. Opening it up for cleaning is a breeze but it is a small hassle.
Sager makes good stuff and all of their laptops have i7-6700's in them, which is the one chip pretty much all workstation laptops need. I would check the reviews for heat throttling / fan noise though, because the heat in LA might turn those Sager laptops into miniature LAX'es.
just so I'm clear... you're working on a feature film? or you're providing feedback to pro-tools on a beta feature in the software? Either is kickass cool... just in different ways.I've got a feature that needs to be done by the end of the year that I should probably jump on.