Posts by gl2006

Hope you'd share with us 2 very important issues on the 5652 : 1. Heat 2. Battery life I sold off my 5673 becos I just about have enough on the heat it generates. Makes my palms hot and sweaty, very uncomfortable. Wonder if the...

The plastic surrounding the screen is just a cover, won't hurt but feels quirky. You may go back to Acer to have it replaced. Do you see grainy MIDTONES for grey, light blue, ight green, light red etc. ? My 5673 with X1600 have this...

Reading from several posters here, I get the impression that the recent models like 5562, 5672, 5673 runs hot, WHY ? I also noticed that their accompanying AC adapter are also bigger, heavier and hotter. Is Acer going backwards or...

Some gripes about the Acer 5673 I am picky about screens. So, I made a comparison with the Dell6400. I found the Acer 5673 to have a purplish tint on the whites. Blotchiness can also be detected on midtones like greys on the upper...

I simply cannot understand why notebook manufacturers are doing away with line-in jacks these days. Now only LG and Acer notebooks still have them. HP is the stupidest, they'd rather go for 2 headphones jacks than give you a...

Hi Matthew, You know, for things like computers, the longer you wait, the better it becomes. I have since dropped the Acer 5512 becos better and cheaper laptops have emerged. This laptop was never officially reviewed and by the time it...

Good comprehensive review. I noticed that most notebooks nowadays do not have a Line In including this one but some still do. To me, a line in is a must.

Can anyone advise me whether all external HDD runs continuously when connected or does it stop when not being used for a prolonged period of time? Or does it depend on the casing chipset? I noticed that my Samsung HDD runs all the...

Hi, I have just bought a Samsung HDD 0804, 5400rpm,80GB, 8MB buffer after reading a lot of reviews on the net. So far, it performed very well, very fast when transferring and operating on the disk itself. I didn't choose Toshiba...

Thanks a lot for the info! Sounds very positive this laptop. I didn't know it can also receive DAB radio! Gotta get one!