Posts by wrafter

Quote: Originally Posted by epp_b Have you tried looking at the sound theme settings in the control panel? Yes, it was the first thing I checked. But I think we've established this is hardware related, alas....

VitaminJosh, you have impressed me with your depth of knowledge here, and I thank you for such a considered and detailed reply. I hadn't tried this without the AC plugged in before. But as it happens, as soon as I plugged the AC out,...

This has become a little more bothersome since I last posted. Previously it was a curiosity. Now, not so. Rather than using headphones, I'm now using high quality Altec Lansing quadrophonic speakers, with volume quite high, to...

I plug a pair of headphones (Shure E2c's) into the laptop (Acer Ferrari 3200) and I listen. I can hear it, there's this resonance, much like you'd hear late at night, under the sheets, when a kid, listening to the long wave radio...

Nice one Tommi, so I have a two week old Acer Ferrari, and now you tell me. I think you and I should speak in about five years time when it's time to change this mofo again, what do you say? :-)

Understood. But conversely, which is what I was getting at... But does the fact that the speakers are crap mean that the sound quality the system can produce is crap also? I think not, but am just checking. And is it normal...

Folks, Just because the speakers on my Ferrari 3200 aren't quite what Mr Altec and Ms Lansing would give their thumbs up to... does that mean if I were to plug in a pair of high-spec headphones into the headphone jack on the Ferrari...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tommi External keyboard. Works wonders. If I come over there to Finland I know what I'll do with your external keyboard!

Quote: Originally Posted by snorre Yes, but I think this heat-pipe based laptop cooler from Nexus is even better: http://www.nexustek.nl/tdd3000.htm No cables or noisy fans! But snorre, look at this graph,...

@Sanna - glad to hear you have it on 24/7, I'd like to use my machine about 16/17 hours a day, so don't want to have to turn it off cos it can't handle the heat. It's just a bit uncomfortable to the touch, and this is December... in...