Posts by oao

1. not decided yet. 2. price, performance, reliability, as long as the brand is solid.

some of what you say is correct, some is not. it would take too much to respond and correct, given that I no longer own the Acer I'll pass.

Yes, I learned that by now. The problem is that an Acer which I purchased and returned had Vista and ATI drivers installed, yet it showed the controller and disk drive in ATA mode. Some in the know informed me that Acer has decided...

Acer Extensa notebooks usually come with SATA drives. However, my impression is that models with Intel Core 2 Duo CPU's have built-in SATA/AHCI support in Vista, while AMD Athlon 64 X2 models do not: - Device Manager shows the drive...