Posts by Submarinester

Hmmm......my hard drive has started making a horrible loud noise since yesterday. It's not a grinding noise but the sound of something rotating constantly very loudly. I might think about chucking a new drive in.

I think DWStrickland put a 250Gb in his laptop and that worked fine. I'm just sticking with the stock 120Gb for the moment as it's plenty of space for me. The computer has been extremely responsive to use and there's been no hard...

Quote: Originally Posted by MAWS13 Oh yeah. I remembered another question. How good and how fast is the internal wireless on this laptop? Just seen this question as I replied to the last one The...

Quote: Originally Posted by MAWS13 Cool. Thanks a lot crappy_baka and Submarinester for the help. If I get an Acer it will be the 1714. Now I have some more questions. Do the current 1714s shipping ship with the...

After a week with this 1714SMi I can say I've had no problems - probably tempting fate here! - and find it to be a superb computer

I got a 1714SMi this week (absolutely delighted with it ) and it has 1Gig of DDR333 in it. Is it worth swapping the memory to DDR400 or is the difference only noticeable in benchmarks?