Posts by Phantom

Right so you're calling me a kid ? This kids runs an IT company since 11years. The last 4 Ferrari's I've sold were to business men, 1 actually bought it to match the colour of his car I guess you better think twice before...

Still funny that they ship sata drives of 5400rpm instead of a 7K60 7200rpm for such a notebook

I tried 500/220 on my Raddy 9700 and I got a score of 1450, 3th A64/Mob 9700 in the orb

Have a look at this one, it would fit all your needs: http://global.acer.com/products/notebook/as1800.htm

The idea would be great but USB2 doesn't have enough bandwith for Video, at least not the way a docking station would need to do it. I've been looking for the same thing for a while now as my lappy doesn't have a docking connector on...

I had this issue a few days ago while ordering one like that for a customer. The one I received had a Widescreen instead of a normal one, the CPU was the later version (Dothan 2Mb Cache) and the case was using already the folio...

Anyone heard of Speedstep ? 'cmon every laptop slows down while on battery, this is one the basic concepts of laptops. Example: Mine on bat=800Mhz Full power=1800Mhz, my centrino bat=800Mhz Full Power=1500Mhz, BOTH ACER, 1 travelmate...

I'm downloading Mandrake 10.1 AMD64 right now, gonna give that a try and hopefully see some real 64bit power

Agentsim: I'd love to try out debian but that's the only Distro that really scares me Gentoo is already one the harder ones to install, compared to Redhat, Suse or Mandrake. I have been messing around with Linux since Slackware...

abf: I'm trying the same thing here I just installed Mandrake 10, but no way to get power management, the touchpad or the MR9700 working. From what I've heard Gentoo seems to be the best, so I'm off to give that a try, there is a...