Hello,
I've had my aopen 1557 for a couple weeks now.
1) heat and fan noise. The fan doesn't turn on too often, except during startup and hard gaming and benchmarks. Usually the fan will either be off or run at a very low/quiet...
I don't know any difference between series 1 and 2. But I don't think you'll save any money with the wifi card, because, at least for me, it was free. However, if you want to buy an intel card, you can check them out on bizrate or...
Congrats on the new purchase. It's pretty easy to install a wifi card. The miniPCI slot is like dead center when you pop open the keyboard. On my intel card, there wre two wires I had to connect, a grey one and a black one. The grey...
Update Wireless Button...
On Friday night, I installled my new Intel 2200 wireless card. Now the wireless button works!!! Also, instead of showing the Pentium M logo before Windows startup, it shows the Centrino logo.