Excelent, thanks for the help Divine Madcat.
Well it seems the heat is relatively the same as my current laptop, but it doesnt have the performance hit, thats good.
Everything seem decent about this laptop, and since im gonna own it for a year, i dont mind it not being the most powerful one, but it has great features.
all the benchmarks and games run as expected, mainly the due to the 128mb card the scores are lower, but what i dont get is.... the 3dmark03 score. thats the only thing puzzling me.
anyways ill be getting this lappy soon enough, and when i do i will post maybe a little review and benchmarks etc.
is it absolutely possitive that the Video card is locked? maybe we can find a way to unlock it. also changint he fan settings would help a lot the heat.
Well it seems the heat is relatively the same as my current laptop, but it doesnt have the performance hit, thats good.
Everything seem decent about this laptop, and since im gonna own it for a year, i dont mind it not being the most powerful one, but it has great features.
all the benchmarks and games run as expected, mainly the due to the 128mb card the scores are lower, but what i dont get is.... the 3dmark03 score. thats the only thing puzzling me.
anyways ill be getting this lappy soon enough, and when i do i will post maybe a little review and benchmarks etc.
is it absolutely possitive that the Video card is locked? maybe we can find a way to unlock it. also changint he fan settings would help a lot the heat.
(dont count my X700, because mine is terribly crippled than other 64mb versions)
ACER 5673 specs : Core Duo T2400 1,83GHz 2GB DDR2 533 120GB 5400rpm SATA ATI X1600 128MB (512 HM) Actually it's a 5672 with a X1600 from ATI, so most of the things written about 5672 are the same for that model. It's fast in CPU (1min 20 secs for SuperPi) but average in the GPU measures (it gets around 2800 in 3DMark05 with the latest Omega drivers). This happens because of the 128MB the card has and the 439/369 speeds of core/memory. The card is locked and you cannot overclock it (it would be nice to increase the memory speed that's too low). The only thing to consider (in my opinion) is the heat. I live in Greece and it's actually quite hot that period of year. Inside my house and without air conditioning still installed (about 25 Celcius) the cpu temperature in idle mode is about 50-55 degrees (C) and at maximum perfomance around 70-72 degrees (C). In the second case it's getting hot but you can still use the palmrest area without problem.The only bad thing is the hot air pushed in your right hand while using the mouse (you are lucky if you are left handed 
) -The temperatures were measured with MobileMeter)- These are my first impressions...... I'll get back when I have time.
The only drawback is about the x1600 which, as you and other people said is probably locked... I hope that somebody finds a way to unlock it and finally be able to overclock that sucker!
to acer...
I just think there is some sort of misread with the Omega Drivers, there is no reason why they would cripple ATI would set themselves up for this, especially in the wake of harddrisk manufacturers settling lawsuits over inaccurate advertising of drive space, all that can be for sure is, numbers don't mean jack, when your performance isn't being interfeared with if you really wanna see 12 Pixels, and have that "Need" to be able to see that, then uninstall all your omega drivers maybe even format ur PC, and use your actual manufacturers drivers, not 3rd party, and from ur posted display information it just shows, the you using omega
