As far as I can tell, there are already a few models in the Aspire line that were realeased with 9700's. A few Canadians stores have them listed as in stock.
I'm pretty sure no one makes a UXGA 12" screen. The only ones I have seen are XGA (1024*768). I also wouldn't expect much in the way of a video card. Most have integrated video or an older chipset (rad7500 or so), the only...
A crossover cable would be labelled MDI-X whereas a regular cable would be simply MDI. Cat-5 is the grade (quality) of the cable.
If you have no connection light, my first guess would be a dead cable. Try with a different cable. ...
The CPU speed thing can be resolved in Windows. Go to Control Panel-->Power Options and set the Scheme to "Always On".
As fiction said. expect your battery life to go down when you do this.
As far a I know, the best sub-notebook you can get right now is a 12" Powerbook. That has a 32MB FX 5200Go.
Only problem after that is finding games that run on OSX.
Easy way to check would be to see what Widnows says your system memory is. If it's 64MB lower than the actual amount it should be, then the answer is there.
2 quick questions about this model:
1. Aopen's site says the 1557G has (The typo on Radeon is them, not me)
"Graphics ATI M10 Radion 9600 (AGP 8x, Support DirectX9)
Intel Dynamic Video Memory Technology"
Does the video...
Aspire 1700 Intel® Pentium® 4 2.26-3.06 GHz
Microsoft® Windows® XP Home or Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional preloaded
15.0" XGA TFT or 17.0" SXGA TFT
256/512 MB
40/80/120 GB
CD-ROM, DVD-ROM or DVD/CD-RW combo drive...
