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post #221 of 1526
5/2/04 at 8:23pm
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Originally Posted by DWStrickland
Here is a link to the product offerings for the Acer Aspire 1700 series (NOT 1710).

http://www.acer.ca/APP/AKC/INTERNET/...5?OpenDocument
Thanks DWS. This actually is the site that I have already visited. It's where I found the AS1705SCi and AS1703SC. What I'd like to know is how far ahead of these models are the 1712 and 1714.

Thanks,

BG

PS: how'd you know I was from Canada???
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post #222 of 1526
5/2/04 at 10:19pm
I didn't really know you were from Canada, but I knew that the Aspire 1700 series was still listed on Acer's website and available in Canada. As far as a time differential, the Aspire 1710 series was announced in early March 2004. I am not quite sure when the 1700 series made its original debut, but it has had numerous component updates (Ex. CPU, HDD, Video, etc.) for awhile now up until the 1710 announcement.

Also, if you are in Canada, the Aspire 1710 series is available in Canada. It has just not been added to Acer's official site in Canada. I just checked and several of the companies listed as Acer retailers in Canada showed them for sell.
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post #223 of 1526
5/3/04 at 12:19am
thanks again
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post #224 of 1526
5/3/04 at 12:33am
Now this is Great. I was looking for a new home computer and something that has a 5700 in it and I just found it. I like how it used all desktop parts. thank you all for the info and thank you pctorque for this site. I will order soon.
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post #225 of 1526
5/3/04 at 4:01pm
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Originally Posted by Shaolin
What is CF ??
Sorry, Compact Flash
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post #226 of 1526
5/3/04 at 4:10pm
can someone who has the notebook make a review of it. Also dose anyone think this would be any real diff from a 8790 as to portability?

I ask this as I was looking at a normal notebook like a 8790 or 5690, ones that use normail notebook stuff for ram and hard drive. I really like the price and I dont mind it being 15lbs. just trying to get my good info from people that have it already.
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post #227 of 1526
5/3/04 at 6:47pm
This whole thread is a review. Adam at PCTorque even tested different components in it such as DDR 400 memory and a 250 gb hard drive. He also posted benchmarks. Check the front of this thread for all that.

So, anyone playing Farcry on this machine?
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post #228 of 1526
5/3/04 at 6:53pm

installing win2k - bad expierience

Just want to let you know...

I tried Win2k Pro on the 1712. I was stupid enough to try it on the same partition like the XP - so after that the XP does not run anymore and I had to re-install from the recovery disks (my fault - I thought this should work

BUT - Win2K did not found:

Graphic (even with drivers from Nvidia)
CDBurner (Nero does not find it)
Network (only after installing a driver from Broadcom)
WLAN
It even complains the USB but did found a external SmartCardReader so I could load the network driver eventually. The internal card readers did not work under Win2K.

I will give a try again on the second partition, because I need Win2K for some special software.

You will not find ANY drivers at the Acer Web site so far. So I assume even installing WinXP Pro as a clean install and not an update will give you some trouble.

Has someone expierence with this? (XP Pro or Win2K installation?)

Marcus

PS: I could host a 17xx forum if there is interest. Would setup a PhpBB2 forum software. Any admins who want to help?
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post #229 of 1526
5/3/04 at 8:15pm
I could help mod the site as I would try to find out any more info about this notebook. he he
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post #230 of 1526
5/3/04 at 10:03pm
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Originally Posted by rfs830
can someone who has the notebook make a review of it. Also dose anyone think this would be any real diff from a 8790 as to portability?

I ask this as I was looking at a normal notebook like a 8790 or 5690, ones that use normail notebook stuff for ram and hard drive. I really like the price and I dont mind it being 15lbs. just trying to get my good info from people that have it already.

I have the 1712 and my office mate got an 8790. His is FAR more portable. I could squash his puny 8790 under the magnificent weight of my 1712. It would probably take the desk out too if I dropped it from high enough.

As far as comparisons since I've seen them bothat work....

The screen is really nice on both. The 1712 screen seems twice the size but in reality I suppose it's only an inch or two. His 8790 is louder and gets a bit hotter. I'm definately happier with the 1712... he seems pretty cool with the 8790. I do however get alot more "wows" and "what the hell is that?!" from office passerbys.
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post #231 of 1526
5/3/04 at 10:10pm
well that was what I was wanting to know but I still like the 1712. Im stuck now. I have to deside between the 1712 or the 8790. I do like to be portable though.

also is that a full size keyboard on it. it looks like it is but im not sure.



Think brain think. .........






brain dies ............


lol
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post #232 of 1526
5/3/04 at 11:07pm
I Upgraded from home to Pro.... I will say that with the Hyperthreaded CPU I ran some excel macros that used to lock my machine. Now I see 1 cpu maxed the overall CPU load at 50%... I can do whatever I linke in other programs while Excel is doing its thing and never have a 100% loaded CPU....


nice...
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post #233 of 1526
5/4/04 at 3:37am
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Originally Posted by mac
Just want to let you know...

Graphic (even with drivers from Nvidia)
CDBurner (Nero does not find it)
Network (only after installing a driver from Broadcom)
WLAN
It even complains the USB but did found a external SmartCardReader so I could load the network driver eventually. The internal card readers did not work under Win2K.

I will give a try again on the second partition, because I need Win2K for some special software.

You will not find ANY drivers at the Acer Web site so far. So I assume even installing WinXP Pro as a clean install and not an update will give you some trouble.
I found drivers only to the 1700 model, and only for winXP, you may try them with win2k, but they do not have to work. Contact acer support on that matter, they have to supply you with drivers, if you want to have a dual system configuration (winXP/win2k) it is your choice. I think they suppose to provide you with the drivers for it.

ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/note.../driver/winxp/

I would like to see the drivers to winXP and win2k too, as I already have a regionalised language pro version, so I might want to use it, and it is the good old instalation CD, not some recovery one.
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post #234 of 1526
5/4/04 at 4:04am
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Originally Posted by arokis
I found drivers only to the 1700 model, and only for winXP, you may try them with win2k, but they do not have to work. Contact acer support on that matter, they have to supply you with drivers, if you want to have a dual system configuration (winXP/win2k) it is your choice. I think they suppose to provide you with the drivers for it.

ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/note.../driver/winxp/
Yes - I know this drivers - but they are for the 170x series. The 170x series has another motherboard with SIS chips and not with Intel like the 171x - so the drivers will not work on the 171x.

But anyway - I just tried to install the Win2K on the second partition - and AGAIN it crashed the WinXP installation.
I could boot Win2K but while booting WinXP I got an error and the hint to use the repair option from the installation disk. But there is no WInXP installation disk - the only thing I have is this recovery disk. I will contact Acer and ask them, if they support Win2K on this machine...

Anyone has an idea how to get Win2K on this machine without crashing the WinXP installation?

Marcus
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post #235 of 1526
5/4/04 at 7:06am

Got WIn2K running on the 1712



I got Win2K running on the 1712. The tip came from Acer support - on the recovery disk 1 are all drivers for XP. So I installed all this drivers into Win2K and after doing all updates from MS everything is working now.

3DMark2001SE marked 10465.

So here is my way to install Win2K:

- backup everything you need into the D: partition (the recover process does not delete the d: partition - and you might need to recover your XP (by the way - better would be to backup everything on CD/DVD too)
- install Win2K into D: partition
- try to boot XP - if it does not boot use the recovery CDs to re-install it (you might try to backup C:\windows on D: as well and maybe you can just copy back after booting Win2K)
- Boot XP and tell the boot.ini that there is a Win2K on partition 2
- Boot Win2k - install all drivers from the Recover CD Disk 1 - install all updates from MS (e.g. 3DMark runs only after updating IE on my machine)

Not the nicest way - but at least it worked

Marcus
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post #236 of 1526
5/4/04 at 6:44pm

and Linux runs well on tyhe 1712 too

I think I am a OS junky

After installing Win2K I tried it again with the newest Knoppix version (this is a CD bootable debian based Linux distribution)

Everything worked fine. It uses power management so the fan is as usual and the ethernet card works as well. WLan does not work out of the box I hope to find a driver somewhere.

Just to let you know.

Marcus
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post #237 of 1526
5/4/04 at 6:50pm
how about posting some pictures of your notebook!!!! especially the screen.

Thanks..
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post #238 of 1526
5/4/04 at 7:12pm
Well, just placed my order for this monster. No one posted back about Farcry results so if anyone else wants to know, make the request and hopefully I can get an answer out in about three weeks. (Darned Military postal system)
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post #239 of 1526
5/5/04 at 8:58am

farcry

Terry im on my second 1714 atm and as far as i can see after playing farcry it seems to work a treat very smooth for a laptop i have to say but then again what else would you expect with this monster
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post #240 of 1526
5/5/04 at 10:04am
Hey, thanks for the reply. I was worried about how the 5700Go was holding up. I would like to have the ATI 9700 but I really wanted that 17" 4:3 screen!
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