Posts by Ferrari Dark

You don't need anything. Go to Control Panel and change your power profile. Always On = Always run at max speed on AC or battery. Home Office = Runs at max speed on AC clocks down on battery.

Quote: Originally Posted by palizzz yeah, you can turn it off...I ended up uninstalling the ferrari startup.exe thingy. I couldn't stand that sound & additional boot time to start her up. <control panel- add...

Quote: Originally Posted by noexss I don't know if acer will do this again but with the old ferrari design, they released a non branded version with the same specs, slightly different colour scheme, can only hope they...

Sound like a real crappy Name. Windows Vista? Way to be original. Windows XP was a good name.

MultiMedia versus Business

The Noise does not sound too good. What has Acer said about the noise? Have any of you contacted Acer? For a brand new notebook I would not put up with it. Sound like some kind of slight hardware conflict possibly.

Did you opt to create a Recovery Image DVD of you HD when you first turned the machine on? I would use that to restore you Ferrari and in the meantime send the CDS back for a new set.

Windows Media Player will probably play all your HD-WMV. My 3-4 minute long videos 349MB in size [Interlaced MPEG2 - 1920x1080 ] it cannot play back. I always found InterVideo WinDVD 6 or 7 Platinum to work flawlessly.

Bought? I use the same black protective cloth that shipped with the laptop. Perfect, nice smooth cloth. I would use that if you still have.

It plays HD Videos fine. I have many music videos/performances about 349MB in size each 1920x1080 Format. Windows Media Player to plays them? Windows Media Player definitely cannot handle it. I play them in WinDVD 7 Platinum and it...