Posts by Odie

Just wanted to throw this bit of info out there about the 2012WLMi battery life (I've now had the laptop for 2 months) Today I managed to get about 3 hours of battery life out of it (with 22% battery power still left at the end) while...

Okle, see the review I wrote, linked in my sig for pics of my 2012WLMi - Odie

bigbillyt - That's a real shame that you had to fight to get NewEgg to take back the laptop, especially since your purchase was based on their false information.

I'm happy for you yogi! For future reference, sometimes if you have what looks like a stuck/dead pixel on an tft screen, lightly massaging the area sometimes helps to bring the pixel back to life. This only works sometimes, so nobody...

Jeff - Did you manage to break 10,000 in 3DMark2001SE (at stock speeds)? I would have thought that the Dothan and the 7k60 might have given your 2012WLMi that extra 75+ point nudge. - Odie

My sig shows the best 3dmark scores I've managed with no overclocking. The extra 512mb of ram may make a small difference. - Odie

Quote: Originally Posted by abf Dothan Vs Banias: Banias is old tech that goes as high up as 1.5ghz Banias chips are actually available up to 1.7Ghz

r u stuck2: The restore disks will only reset the system to factory defaults, eg with FAT32 partitions and with all the extra Acer supplied software pre-installed. A fresh XP install from an oem or retail disk is...

Quote: Originally Posted by jhwee Is it okay to boot off of a WinXP Pro CD and just format and convert to NTFS right off the bat? Yes, that should be fine. Boot to the CD installation, then delete all the...

Husky55 - I think you may have taken my post in the wrong way, and if you did, then I am sorry. My post was meant to add some extra info about the points you mentioned in case anyone else wanted to compare and comment. I also...