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Just ordered Acer Aspire 1712 XP-Home!!

post #1 of 9
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After 4 long weeks of searching for a notebook, I have made my decision and ordered an Acer Aspire 1712 XP-Home "portable desktop" from a relatively new company called Space Center Systems. They seem to have a good company rating according to pricegrabber.com. They told me that they are going to order it straight from Acer and that I should get it within a week....I hope so.

I was also wondering how much of an improvement I would get if I upgraded the 1024 MB memory from PC2700 to PC3200?

When I receive my "beast" of a notebook, I'll update you guys on its performance.
post #2 of 9

Nice

I'm waiting onthe first benchmarks from this machine before I decide on it. It looks like exactly what I'm looking for. Can;t wait to see how it does. Eagerly awaiting the reviews and benchies.
post #3 of 9

The Beast

I just got an Aspire 1711. Screen is AWESOME!!!MUCH Brighter than the HP ZD7000 I returned.Very good build quality,fast,and with basic usage (word processing,internet)it is quiet.I tested battery life and is not bad at 90 minutes with full screen brightness and listening to cd's.If weight is not a concern this is a great buy.
post #4 of 9
For reviews try checking out http://www.trustedreviews.com/. I think they have a version of the 1700 Acer. Might not be as powerful as yours, can't say, though, I'm not too familiar with Acer.

However, it's better to hear what actual owners have to say.

Hope this helps.
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For MJCQ or who can ...

Hi,

can you find the factory model name and number of the display inside your Aspire or the specifications ??

I know it can display really 16.7 Mil colours but I do not know the rise/fall time of the lcd.

I am seeking to find if it is 30 ms or even less and so better.

Can you help me ???

Thanks in advance
post #6 of 9
It's an LCD. It should be in the 20-25 ms range. I'm assumign they're using the AL 1712 LCD diplay but this is somehting I'm also dieing to know.
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Originally Posted by EightCounts
After 4 long weeks of searching for a notebook, I have made my decision and ordered an Acer Aspire 1712 XP-Home "portable desktop" from a relatively new company called Space Center Systems. They seem to have a good company rating according to pricegrabber.com. They told me that they are going to order it straight from Acer and that I should get it within a week....I hope so.

I was also wondering how much of an improvement I would get if I upgraded the 1024 MB memory from PC2700 to PC3200?

When I receive my "beast" of a notebook, I'll update you guys on its performance.
I have been doing a lot of research too. The 1710 series does support PC3200 (ddr400). I am not sure if it will support dual channel as well. I know the the chipset does, but wether they enabled it or not, i don't know. Adam@ PCT ordered one, so we should get a very good review soon. Did you get the model with the go5700 GPU. If so, let me know how it preforms
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Hello

I found a benchmark for 5700go.

http://cgi.butler.edu/cgi-bin/gate2?...Alu9r=UaUatjnD

Seems like it is not as fast as Radeon 9600 and 9700.


Hope to see some benchmarks from the Aspire 1712smi and the 1714smi.

The 1714smi is coming to Finland where I live,in a couple of weeks time.

I would like to order the Sager 8790,but the VAT to get it to Finland is so high.


Petri
post #9 of 9
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Hi Petriu,
Those benchmarks on that page are not factual. They are "leaked" numbers before the go5700 was even released! Here's a quote on their page.

"Obviously, it would be extremely hasty to jump to conclusions using a set of tests not run by ourselves regarding an as yet unannounced product. However, assuming that these results are indeed accurate, it gives an interesting insight into what to expect from the GeForceFX Go 5700, as well as a very small teaser into what ATi's forthcoming M11 will offer. From these results, it seems that ATi's current dominance in the growing mobile market will continue unabated for the time being. Of course, only time will tell...."

I would even go as far as to say that those numbers are flat-out wrong. According to their page, they were testing, and I quote:

"The benchmarks which follow shows an ATi M10 chip at its lowest possible clock settings, against a GeForceFX 5700 Go overclocked with extra cooling. In other words, the worse case performance scenario for the ATi board against the best case scenario for nVidia's new contender, which obviously needs to be bore in mind when looking at these scores."

The M10 is the Mobility 9600....Not even the Mobility 9700, which at the time hadn't been released.

Those two things make the results real "fishy".

I think these benchmarks are much more accurate. They tested the go5700 vs the Mobility Radeon 9700. The tests show that the M11, for the most part, outpreforms its counterpart, the go5700. HOWEVER, the go5700 was tested with the "performance" settings enabled and not the "desktop replacement" settings which run 100 mhz (29%) faster.

Also, I may be nit-picking here, but the M11 was spotted a 6% CPU clockspeed advantage. (3.4 GHz vs 3.2 GHz)

But who knows, probably the M11 is better. If so, not by much. I am just trying to reassure myself that I didn't unknowingly buy an extremely inferior GPU.

Order Update: My 1712 has been shipped and is estimated to arrive this Tuesday! Awesome.
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