Posts by Mr T

Welcome to the notebook forums... Your question varies on usage... Under heavy usage a battery will last 2 to 3 hours at a maximum and even that is dependent on the laptop and laptop battery.. For low usage they generally go up to 4 to...

Ubutnu 9.10,10.04,10.10 and 11.04 should be fine on that.. Ubutu 10.10 and 11.04 may take some time to load though.. The later Aspire One Netbooks won't take XP due to ACPI issues (mother board, BIOS to windows interface)...

Try it without the hard drive and battery installed... Usually this is the sign of a dead motherboard...

120Hz are aimed at 3D.. They look pants until you stick your glasses (3D) on and it is really, really good... You can switch it off and use it normally, through the GPU...New technology, worth waiting to see how mainstream it becomes and...

Ubuntu 11.04, with Gorilla Icons, and FF4.0.1 using Ecology 3.4 Theme...

Finally feeling better, here is screenshot:

I used a samsung 500Gb 7200rpm drive to update an old 80Gb Toshibs 5400 , no real difference in windows in the long run.. I perceived there was, but now it still takes as long to get to desktop... Moral of this story - a hdd is a hdd,...

Nice laptop, will beat the pants off a macbook for the value... Not a pc gamer no more, xbox is more convenient, but I am not a fan of gaming on a laptop, I have a monster desktop for that, but it is ( too me) beaten by the convenience...

Mac = firewire (mainly) - pc = USB mainly... You can get a usb to firewire adaptor which are flakey, but can work.. Better, are firewire xpress cards, which your new laptop should have an express card slot... As for your adobe product,...

I think you can do it disk management... You can also use a free utility lik gParted or PartedMagic (both run as live cd's)... Do read the instructions, though as you can easily render partitions unbootable....