The Sager NP8852N (based on the Clevo PD50PNN) was the fourth gaming laptop I owned. Purchased from XoticPC in April 2022, the Sager NP8852N was a 15.6″ laptop running an Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake i7-12700H 14 core / 20 thread processor (6 performance-cores and 8 efficient-cores) which ran at 4.70GHz in turbo boost at spec. The graphics card was a solid NVidia GeForce RTX 3070Ti laptop GPU, and the laptop memory was 32GB Kingston Fury Impact DDR4 (2x16GB) @ 3200MHz CL20, running with a 1TB Samsung 980 Pro m.2 NVMe drive. This machine was built for performance gaming and even used liquid metal thermal compound on both the CPU and GPU for improved cooling. The laptop weighed about 5.3lbs including the 80WH battery pack, which was quite good for a laptop with these specs. Dimensions were 14.10” (w) x 9.45” (d) x 0.98” (h), which is quite slim for such a powerful machine.

The laptop featured a sweet QHD (2560×1440) screen with 100% DCI-P3 color gamut. This was a WVA panel which meant deeper blacks for a more color-accurate picture, and a speedy 165Hz refresh rate which made it great for gaming. The laptop ran Windows 11 Pro o/s (drivers only – no bloatware), the keyboard featured single zone illuminated (backlit) keys, and a standard 2MP cam at the top center of the panel.

The Sager NP8852N had a micro SD card reader, and the following i/o ports:
1x Thunderbolt 4 Port
1x HDMI output Port (with HDCP)
1x Mini DisplayPort 1.4
1x DisplayPort 1.4 over USB 3.2 Gen2 port (Type C)
2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Ports (Type A, 1 x powered USB port, AC/DC)
1x 2-in-1 Audio Jack (Headphone / Microphone)
1x 2-in-1 Audio Jack (Microphone / S/PDIF Optical output)
1x RJ-45 LAN (10/100/1000Mbps)
That’s a lot of connectivity. The laptop used an m.2 Intel dual band Wi-Fi 6E AX211 with bluetooth combo, and I mentioned the battery was an 80WH embedded (internal) polymer battery, which unfortunately would not last very long when gaming with max/ultra settings – the machine came with a 230W AC adapter, which indicates this machine used a fair bit of power.

Overall a really good gaming machine with excellent specs. I sold it about a year later to upgrade to a 4080 GPU since there was such a big performance jump, and I also wanted to try full 17″ size for the first time. Here’s a few pictures sourced from Amazon.