Posts by Sinner6

I know its preinstalled on the HD, but do they give you a backup disk? I would do a pretty much immediate HD upgrade if I bought this computer.

Looks like a good unit as long as you are OK with the inherent limitations of the screens viewing angle and slightly uneven backlighting. These issues are not severe and many people are fine with them, in fact, I know I would be....

here is the spect to the screen used in the 680x series: http://www.samsung.com/Products/Semi...1/LTN154X1.htm good luminescence, good contrast, OK response time

The asus units are probably the sexiest PC based laptops. here is a place where you can see the chassis all at once.

What about noise considerations for classroom work?

Aamsel, To respond to your points: 1. I think you are correct that the stock screen will only use 64Mb of video RAM, but I do intend to utilize my laptop with an additional monitor hooked up from time to time and in those cases...

Glad this helped you. IMO, this feature works even better in the aforementioned Firefox. For example, the text in the reply box gets resized too. I'll leave it at that, so your thread can remain "on topic". I have...

Thanks! I understand about the "more trouble than its worth" factor. Too bad, because I still suspect there is no heatsink compund on the GPU. Pity, because a dab of the stuff can't be THAT expensive to add during...

aamsel, Just curious if you are aware of this trick: While viewing a webpage in IE, hold down the control key and give your Mousewheel a spin. Yes, you can dynamically change font sizes in IE on the fly. Firefox also supports...

How easy is it to get to the GPU heatsink? I would bet 10 to 1 that there is no compund there either and thats ehy folks are unable to get a big over clock on thes units. Could someone please post pics of the internals, particularily...