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post #21 of 1272
6/8/04 at 6:20pm
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Originally Posted by flashram
The HP nc8000 is the only one I know of that has WVA SXGA+ and a decent video card (9600 128MB).
Yeah, i tried that one out for a while...great screen and laptop, but the 9600 was clocked low, and overclocking it was quite difficult without causing lockups (at least the unit i had)

-Scotty
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post #22 of 1272
6/8/04 at 8:55pm
Adam (or anyone with the access to these machines),

How would you rate the 3200 screen with an SXGA+ on a 5690 and with a WSXGA+ on an 8790?

-Joshua
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post #23 of 1272
6/8/04 at 8:58pm
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Originally Posted by CJoshuaV
Adam (or anyone with the access to these machines),

How would you rate the 3200 screen with an SXGA+ on a 5690 and with a WSXGA+ on an 8790?

-Joshua

I haven't seen the WSXGA+ screen on the 8790 yet (just the WXGA screen)...but i did have (breifly) a 5690 with a SXGA+ screen, and the screen on that sucker was the worse SXGA+ screen i've ever worked with....the Acer screen is MUCH better than that one, but not the best.....as someone stated earlier the SXGA+ screens with WVA on the HP/Compaq's are superior to both the 5690 SXGA and Ferrari screens.
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post #24 of 1272
6/8/04 at 11:28pm
How annoying is the fact that all of the USB slots are on the left if u have to use a wired mouse, did u try it with the supplied mouse?
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post #25 of 1272
6/8/04 at 11:42pm
damn that batt life blows, i have to be honest and say i expected more from a low power mobile a64 system.
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post #26 of 1272
6/8/04 at 11:44pm
doesnt the battery have to be broken in, so to speak, so shouldnt it get a TINY bit better (like ten to twenty minutes maby?) i really dont know, just what iv heard
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post #27 of 1272
6/9/04 at 1:02am
We've been doing some hard drive swaps for people also to the 80GB 5400rpm hard drive and 60GB 7200rpm drive. ----Question for Adam: Is PCTorque offering HDD and RAM upgrade options then for the Ferrari? I checked with Luke McBride last wk and he said that PCTorque will only be shipping the Ferrari "as-is". If customization features are now offered on the Ferrari, how can one place an order through the website since its not enabled for such options? How about the costs of the upgrades?
Thanks.
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post #28 of 1272
6/9/04 at 1:41am
Nice mini-review Adam. And thanks for your information, shboyles.
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post #29 of 1272
6/9/04 at 4:35am
what about dead pixels?

nice review, thx!
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post #30 of 1272
6/9/04 at 5:14am
Dead Pixels - There is a PCTORQUE agreement is their not that there will be no dead pixels. (My Acer TM8006lmi has no dead pixels but didnt get it from pctorque).

USB Ports On Left - Perfect excuse to use a Bluetooth mouse such as the Logitech MX900 - works a charm with the internal BT.

Internal Memory Module Access - 15 min job dead easy - See 8003 review thread or 8006 thread for instructions.

SHBoyle,

Does the fan on the ferrari 3200 run as often as the TM8006 fan. I would be interested to see the CPU temperatures using MobileMeter and at what temp the fan turns on and off at.

I have a couple of people looking at the HW control for the CPU Fan as Acer cooling is Way to early in my opinion turns on at 46c and off at 40c - WAY TO EARLY for these chips. If I can get a fan control program sorted out like they have for the Dell inspiron I would be very happy.

Having said that think I am going to artic Silver 5 the CPU in the TM8006 see if I can drop the cpu a few deg to keep the fan off longer.
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post #31 of 1272
6/9/04 at 10:15am
Just a question about the battery.......is it easily swappable? Say you are on a long trip and want to watch a few dvds..... Great machine, bit worried about battery life though.
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post #32 of 1272
6/9/04 at 10:16am
nice, lets see some larger pics andsome gaming benchmarks
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post #33 of 1272
6/9/04 at 11:12am
Adam@PCTorque: Are you really sure that you activated PowerNow! in Windows XP when you did the battery test?

It dosen't seem to me like you did, so you should ativate it by selecting Portable/Laptop in Control Panel>>Power Options>>Power Schemes that looks something like this:


Then you should be able to use AMD's PowerNow! Dashboard to monitor your system and to make sure that PowerNow! really is active and it looks something like this:


You can download the AMD PowerNow! Dashboard from here:
http://www.amd.com/images/PowerNowDashboard_setup.zip
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/...5E4396,00.html

Also make sure that you've installed the latest AMD Athlon 64 Processor Driver for Windows XP that you can download from here:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/cont.../Cpudriver.ZIP
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/...5E9706,00.html

Enabling this should extend the battery life significantly, and reducing CPU heat dissipation and thus providing an even cooler and quieter-running system
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post #34 of 1272
6/9/04 at 11:40am
I wanna see a teardown
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post #35 of 1272
6/9/04 at 11:52am
naw it gave me a good laugh this morning
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post #36 of 1272
6/9/04 at 3:17pm
nice, can you do a test running this for optimal battery? Im really curious as too the real battery life of the unit, the first test seemed like horrible battery life.
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post #37 of 1272
6/9/04 at 6:58pm
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Originally Posted by xxh0lywarsxx
nice, can you do a test running this for optimal battery? Im really curious as too the real battery life of the unit, the first test seemed like horrible battery life.
Why are you surprised at 1 hr 40 min on battery while watching a dvd? That sounds about right considering it is rated at 3 hours under a "normal" drain.
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post #38 of 1272
6/9/04 at 8:15pm
yeah usually the battery lasts as long as the DVD...unless you're watching lord of the rings
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post #39 of 1272
6/9/04 at 8:23pm
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Originally Posted by flashram
Why are you surprised at 1 hr 40 min on battery while watching a dvd? That sounds about right considering it is rated at 3 hours under a "normal" drain.

I was thinking about how the e-Machine notebooks did on battery life and they lasted at least 2 hours or more on batt life. I was hoping for at least that much.

I wanted to know more about the performance of the low powered athlon64 2800+ in the machine. Playing a dvd might not be the best test for comparing how the low power processor compared to the DTR processors.
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post #40 of 1272
6/10/04 at 12:51am
i did a search for batt life in the emachiens forum and i turned up with users getting between 2-3 hours watchign dvds.
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