Posts by pinkaardvark

I run the acer 3400 as my main desktop dev machine, and usually have SQL 2k IIS and VS.NET in use. I find it a good compromise in features, power and portability. However I upgraded the ram to 1Gb pc3200 and stuck a 7k60 in from day 1 as...

Quote: Originally Posted by zanger How about the memory? I read that it is under the keyboard and you have to send it in to Acer to upgrade? How hard would it be to do myself? Changing the memory under they...

Just check your psu is an auto detecting 110-230V type, then get an adapter or more brutally cut the spam plug off and put a proper one on. Well that's what I did when I purchased a Vaio from DC just over a year ago.

Quote: Originally Posted by Rustican Question: What is nits? I am unfamiliar with the term. Thanks! I am NOOB. It's a unit of measurement that specifies how bright the backlight is.

Just place a hard a4 sized book on the bed first to ensure the lappy isn't getting smothered.

I think your best bet is to wait for one of the up and coming 6800 based laptops and then perform a softmod on the card to turn it into a quaddro.

Had this bad boy for a few days now and have a few further questions Where's snorre ? 1: Does the docking station have a power button on it? I never thought about this before but my old vaio had power on the front so the laptop...

2*512 3200 Crucial Works fine in mine if it's of any help. p.s. My 3400 came with Micron instead of Nanya chips.

Quote: Originally Posted by thegr8anand some1 told me this: It means the system memory will be still the same, as most of the laptop's VGA are sharing the memory with system. let says, if your system memory...

To confuse further you can still have a dedicated graphics chip that uses system Ram instead of VGA ram and is hence shared, in fact I'm unsure if there are any notebooks that don't have some form of dedicated vga chip, usually it's on...