Posts by Schembfs

The limited range of 802.11a is overrated due to the first generation 802.11a which had 1/2 to 2/3 of the range of 802.11b. Most dual band (802.11abg) have second generation 802.11a which only has a slight disadvantage in range compared...

I've upgraded a Latitude C610 and an Inspiron 8000 with these 7,200rpm drives. No noticeable difference in battery runtime. No noticeable changes in temperature either - it got warm before, it still get warm now. However, I noticed a big...

jmmm...;s right. Rip your DVDs to your hard drive and replace the modular DVD with the modular secondary battery. Change your power profile to max battery. Dim your screen to as low as you can tolerate. Turn off wifi. With two batteries...

A good solution for the "poor" (3 to 4 hours) battery life of the Acer 81** is to get the secondary battery for the modular bay when it becomes available. Another is turn off wifi (specially 802.11a) and bluetooth if/when not...

Can't you just eject the card and read the label? AFAIK, PCMCIA wifi cards have built-in antennas. You can't install an external antenna on those things. Or maybe you're are actually talking about the built-in Mini PCI wifi card???...

Quote: Originally Posted by topmuser They are all the Next Gen Centrino (Sonoma), except Ferrari 3400 Saw the Benchmark of HP zd8000 with 256MB X600, the 3D gaming result is kind of disappointed (a bit faster than old...

I have experience with 4 of these 7,200rpm Hitachi 7k60 hard drives. 2 came with notebooks that I've helped a couple of my friends buy. The other two I bought as bare drives to upgrade my C610 and I8000. On the upgrades, I didn't notice...

Your original problem sounds like "power saving" related. If you encounter similar symptoms with the replacement card, disable any power saving options for the wifi card in the BIOS and driver/software.

ATI X300 is roughly based on MR9000/9200 but with native PCI-Express support. I think the best compromise for speed and mobility(less power consumption) is the X700 due to it's based on .11 die fabrication (thinner, cooler, potential for...

I can see the benefit of a P4/800Mhz FSB system with a dual channel DDR400 memory subsystem. It means that the FSB can access the memory kinda like a RAID0 (striped) dual harddrives. But P-M/533 FSB with a dual channel DDR2/533Mhz memory...