Posts by Jaia

**** yea. 5400rpm blows, a lot. It's horrible, I can tell you from personal experience |:

Uhm, you can define the action of what Windows will do when you close your screen by opening display properties (right click desktop, properties), and going to "screensaver -> energy -> advanced" (translated roughly, my...

Sorry, found my answer pretty much -- but can't find a delete button to remove this post :x

Is it at all even possible, to upgrade the graphics card/GPU in a laptop (or to be specific, an Acer Aspire 1620 series model)?

Graphics for sure, if that is even a possibility in the Acer Aspire 1620 series. Otherwise, I'd either swap this 5400rpm drive for a 7200rpm one. Or maybe, switch the 512MB Ram for 1024MB.

Meh, we didn't try these forums. Never thought of that possibility. All we used was google :x I appologize.

HL2 requires a fairly high-end machine (when you take todays standards into account), as opposed to any of the graphical design software you listed. So you'd mostly be paying for a machine that can handle HL2, while you could quite...

Considering how long it took us to find something that would actually properly read our temperatures (many 'commercial' readers completely failed) -- I didn't quite get the impression that this was a popular tool.

Considering it can come with wireless pre-installed, I reckon it is indeed a possibility. Whether or not you can find these specific parts for sale anywhere, is another question. I found the following partnames/descriptions/numbers in...

MobMonitor is a tool my friend found somewhere on a very inconspicuous Japanese Geocities hosted website. It has proven to work on Acer Aspire models. I'm just curious if it will work on other models/brands as well. So if anyone would be...