Posts by starless

Still worried about the hard drive pauses, and why they had to turn off S.M.A.R.T. to get it to stop pausing. Was SMART (monitoring pgm for hard drives) finding something wrong? I'd buy one today if I knew someone had successfully done...

Acer Aspire 1712SMI processor specs: I noticed Acer site says 512kb L2 cache but other sites list 1MB L2 cache. I was wondering which is right or if there are different models of the 1712 that would account for this. Acer site specs...

Has anyone used Acer Aspire 1712 for video editing? I was wondering about the video card creating problems since somewhere I saw a spec with "shared video memory". From this great forum, I already know I'd need the hard...

Quote: Originally Posted by shboyles I just returned my 1712 after playing around with it over the weekend....Now that i have sent back that beast, i am now awaiting my Sager 8790 to test out...