Posts by east coast fool

It's very very easy to upgrade. On the right side of the top panel (where the power, mediadirect, and camera buttons are), there is a small notch. Use a small flathead screwdriver to pry that up. Lift the panel off. Make sure the LCD...

I too am eagerly waiting for SP1 for Vista. I really do like the M1330, but I'm not sure if it will indeed fulfill the needs I'm going to be throwing at it. Perhaps with higher end C2D and a junkload of Ram, it'll do the job...

I have Vista Business on my M1210. My setup is similar to yours, but I'm sporting a Yonah 1.66ghz Core Duo with 1 gig of ram. Not a good idea with one gig of RAM, because right now my physical memory is hovering around the 56% mark. I'm...

Quote: Originally Posted by longlive Boo then clean it so the adhesive is gone The adhesive is gone, the surface is smooth, but some of the silver finish turned to black.

mine already has a smudge where the windows sticker used to be :-(

Quote: Originally Posted by Pondskipper same here! hopefully it will work out! Ditto :-)

All 3 componenets share one fan along a copper rod(heatpipe maybe?) Southbridge transfer heat first, then GPU, then the CPU, finally arriving at the Heatsink with the fan. So the heat does "add" up.

The hardware acceleration drop is a result of the installation of the QuickCam software with AEC enabled. Logitech's problem I'm afraid :\

I believe it is logitech's problem, after installing the QuickCam software with AEC enabled, it throttles down to basic everytime. This apparent with Creative cards and Logitech's Orbit...

if you mean artifacts as in breaks in the music/sound, it's because of basic acceleration is on, and not full in dxdiag.