Posts by eatsmice

Did you buy and did you upgrade?

Load in the Omega drivers from here http://www.omegadrivers.net/ati.php Its not much when you consider the newer gpu's, but without overclocking I jumped from 2843 to 3048 on 3dMark03.

Just installed Omega drivers and 3dMark03 jumped to 3048, just over a 200 point increase from the Acer supplied drivers. :-) 10 months on and no snags so far, still happy with it. Prefer using it to my desktop machine now.

cheers for the info dude. Only thing I'm not so sure about is the flexibility of the wi-fi software. Grabbing a Netgear WG511T card to run with it. So far battery life has been excellent, watching a long dvd has not been a problem.

Interested in what graphics driver you install. I swapped to XP Pro, took the hit on losing the Arcade quick start function. Installed Ati driver from the supplied system disc which is 6.14.10.6476, which is newer than the one offered...

Libertine . Take care when paying the balance, cos a late payment at the end hits you with all that interest. If you can, clear a month early and avoid this. Some companies have scammed this payment method in the past by "losing a...

I'm thinking of swapping to XP Pro. Anyone done this ? ...and what was the effect on the Arcade functions ? Its quite a nice function, but wonder if reformating the drive will screw up Arcade.

Acer 2023WLMi was showing 591Mhz. This thread cured my worries. Now zipping along at 1.6GHz cheers dude for a simple explanation.

FIR enabled in BIOS ...doh! wish I could have afforded the bluetooth option. Have yet to find anything I don't like about this laptop.

Got mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Arrived this afternoon, one hour before due at work Then I was sent home early All looks good so far, altho the FIR driver didn't seem too happy.....want to use it to connect to SonyEricsson K700i Its...