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Wow, I sent in my battery this past weekend and I now have a new battery in my laptop (the old battery arrived at ASUS yesterday and I got the new battery today!). Quite the quick turnaround - it's charging right now, but at least the...
You'll get 10% more performance in some CPU-intensive apps and probably lose some battery life. For $500? Definitely not worth it.
Well, I contacted them through the normal support email system and they've sent me an RMA number for the exchange. I don't know if it's significant, but I'm in Canada and I'm sending my battery to a depot in Markham, Ontario. I presume...
I'm waiting for Santa Rosa before picking up a MacBook. Based on a May launch for Santa Rosa (and Apple's close partnership with Intel these days) new models should come midyear. I imagine the Pros will be updated first though, as not to...
Single core laptop for $1500's steep even considering it's a W2. I'd definitely invest in a dual core laptop.
Well, it seems like ASUS is acknowledging the problem somewhat. I've had this replacement battery for a little more than a year now and it's been heading wayyyyy south for the past several months. Wear level's around the 65% mark. I...
Maybe passing a W7 off as a W3?
Yeah, I'd say good choice. Especially if you want to game, the Go 7700 will make a pretty decent difference over the Go 7600. You gotta remember it's 12 pixel pipes versus 8. For shader-heavy games, that'll definitely help.
Quote: Originally Posted by mselley 17% battery wear now Oh goody, more ASUS battery problems. That's definitely not normal and as the rep from MilestonePC said, contact your reseller/ASUS.
I think this has something to do with OS load-based management. If you don't enable OS load-based management, the program will run the CPU up at full speed if any 'application' is using CPU cycles. The idle process is being read by the...
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