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post #101 of 182
5/7/04 at 4:39am
In looking at the manual, it looked like both sticks were under one externally accessible panel. Is one stick "inside" instead?
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post #102 of 182
5/7/04 at 5:06am
i'd get that Acer with Dothan as well, but I don't think we'll see it anytime soon
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post #103 of 182
5/7/04 at 8:32am
Quote:
Originally Posted by klas
1) is there a reason to choose name brand (i.e. Kingston or what-not) over 3rd party RAM? quality ram is always good vs unknown brands

2) can you directly swap the 80 gig stock HD for a 7200 Hitachi?

you can, but in the manual they recommend to contact Acer tech support for that, so I assume it could be pretty tricky

1 - that is a matter of opinion, but, with DESKTOPS, the answer is YES. The named brand RAM has better warranty, better latency (lack thereof) and faster speeds, and can be overclocked with 'headroom to go.' Sometimes you can find generic ram is REALLY good RAM, since there are only a few manufacturers of the chip itself, but you really do not know what you are getting. I personally have used Kingston HypserX for 2 years and I read the reviews on the tech sites ad nauseum. Kingston wins because they are sold at Best Buy and often have rebates that really make it not much more expensive than generic RAM when bought at the right time. I have not researched enough on laptop RAM.

2 -yes

I found it interesting in the Ferrari manual that they say 2 slots of upgradeable RAM but only tell you how to upgrade 1 stick. StormX are you sure about "voiding the warranty"? It would seem to me that they need to remove that "2 upgradeable slots" from the manual
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post #104 of 182
5/7/04 at 12:29pm
I heard some time ago, that the second memory slot of the TM8xx/TM8xxx & Ferrari F3xxx is under the keyboard. Maybe Adam of PCTorque can exactly answer this question about the slot destination and the warranty effects.

Bye
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post #105 of 182
5/7/04 at 3:26pm
so we'd only be allowed to upgrade the 1 outside stick and not the other inside? that's not going to work!!!

edit: i just read part of the manual...it says "memory upgradeable up to 2 GB DDR-SDRAM with 2 slots"

so how could chaning 1 slot, if its inside, void the warranty then?

i think the better question is how do you access the inside RAM since only one is accessible from the outside??? eh....so much for doing this myslef
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post #106 of 182
5/7/04 at 4:43pm
is the ferrari logo remvable? its pretty cheesy
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post #107 of 182
5/7/04 at 7:21pm
it is....

anyway, looks like the battery life is sucky up to 3 hours

http://www.acer.com/APP/AKC/INTERNET...7?OpenDocument
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post #108 of 182
5/7/04 at 7:48pm
The data of that document does not mean anything.
Acer spoke in the documentation of the 1501LMI (Mobile Athlon64 DTR and Radeon 9600) also about 2 hours battery life and some users reached about 3.5 hours during office use.
So it is also possible that the F3200 reaches about 4.5 hours during office use.

Bye
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post #109 of 182
5/7/04 at 8:23pm
my only complaint about Acer 3200 is the acess to HOME and END keys :/
Does Anyone know of a utility that will enable u to reporgram those keys? lets say switch those two PGUP and PGDN keys with HOME and END, and make FN+ to pgup and pg dwn
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post #110 of 182
5/7/04 at 8:27pm
lol, i wish i had the same complaints as you

I just like having my laptop running on batteries as long as I can.
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post #111 of 182
5/7/04 at 8:44pm
well then you should get centrino heh, i have fujitsu 1ghz pentium-m , fast as hell , runs for 10 hours with extra bay battery
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post #112 of 182
5/7/04 at 8:50pm
well waiting till next week and see if the price will drop on acer 8003, then I might get it. The only thing I will miss in Ferrari is the slot loading drive... everything else seems the same...
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post #113 of 182
5/7/04 at 8:51pm
Anyone knows of this laptop's LCD Contrast Ratio?
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post #114 of 182
5/7/04 at 9:04pm
On Acer's site, they say that the 3200 has an 80gb 4200rpm drive. That sucks...
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post #115 of 182
5/7/04 at 9:09pm
wow you are right, how did we overlooked
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post #116 of 182
5/7/04 at 9:43pm
Yea it does now say 4200, but we were lead to believe it had a 5400rpm. We hadn't received a demo to confirm all the specs. I can't believe they would even CONSIDER putting a 4200rpm hard drive as the only option for this high end laptop. We had it listed as a 5400 and we'll manually put in our own 5400rpm hard drives if we have to for those that ordered from our site expecting it when we had it listed as 5400.
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post #117 of 182
5/7/04 at 9:49pm
Wow, that's very honorable of you Adam. Too bad the battery life is listed as only being 3 hours. I was hoping for 4. Oh well, guess I'm going to have to go for a Dothan.
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post #118 of 182
5/7/04 at 9:52pm
it's great that you are going to do this....

oh and I just noticed you changed it to 4200 already I am cancelling the order anyway, because I need laptop sooner then this. waiting till tuesday to see if the price will drop on 8003. Not happy with the battery life either.
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post #119 of 182
5/7/04 at 9:56pm
Even though it only has a 4200rpm hard drive; the system will simply be an incredible performer. As if the 128mb M11 isn't good enough, it has the Athlon64 with a 1600mhz bus speed!!! And if it does get a 4 hour battery life it will simply be the best system on the market IMO. Plus the hard drive is upgradeable (if you're willing to shell out the extra $225 )
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post #120 of 182
5/7/04 at 9:58pm
do that and u will have an 80gig 4200rpm sitting around

and no warrranty coz u voided it
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