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what's the ranking of notebook video cards these days? the top 4-5? also any upcoming mobile video offerings from ATI/NVIDIA in the future?

Anyone having issues with the PC Card slot? I am trying to read a Compact Flash card in a CF PC Card Reader. It comes up and XP SP2 is busy trying to load drivers for it and then errors saying that this driver is incorrect for the...

Quote: Originally Posted by NightHawk7 Okay, got my Ferrari today!!! Converted my HD to NTFS and installed some drivers and software. Here are a few benches. 3DMark03 - 3544 3DMark05- 1559 I also had a...

I was looking for the same type of notebook too. I tried the following 2 models: Dell Dimension XPS Alienware area51m and I settled on the Acer Ferrari 3200 with a 2Gb RAM upgrade and 60Gb 7200rpm upgrade *both done...

nm, i dug around a bit and found this on another post: 1. remove 4 small screws. there are 2 of each on the back of the hinges 2. on the underside there are 2 screws each marked eith a 'K' undo these 3. lay ferrari flat and fully...

Quote: Originally Posted by rincewind take off faceplate first that strip I can't seem to take off the keyboard, i removed the 3 screws holding it in place but there's something else in the middle of the...

Quote: Originally Posted by Ferrari3200 You can delete the ACERDATA partition and make whatever partitions you want. It's not needed. What I did was use another copy of Windows to make the partitions then restored...

About FAT32 vs NTFS http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.html?i=63 http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_vs_fat.htm XP is NTFS5

ahh got it, thanks, hehe, going to bump it to 2Gb now instead, the 60Gb 7200rpm is otw already. Overall, I really like this notebook - I've had the Dell Inspiron XPS and absolutely hate it, it's a gargantuan monstrosity. The...

Quote: Originally Posted by rincewind under the keyboard u have to take out the faceplate, remove the keyboard, remove the heatshield sealing the ram area, then take out the old 256mb piece and stick in a new 512mb...