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Acer Ferrari 3200 or Cl56?

post #1 of 8
6/8/04 at 5:46pm
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Question to anyone in the know. First off, is it possible to buy a notebook hard drive (40/60 gig 7200 rpm) off newegg.com and swap it out from a notebook easily? If that is the case which would be a better deal for a university student who is also an avid gamer? Should I buy a fully loaded CL56 or a Acer Ferrari 3200 and then swap out the hard drive and add 1 gig of ram? The prices are about equal at $2400 and please factor in the the pain in the ass i have to go through in making the swap. On a side note, I think I have given up on the Eurocom Python aka Sager 4750, seems to be delayed indefinitely. Any advice would be appreciated.
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post #2 of 8
6/8/04 at 5:50pm
The Cl56 will give you 4+ hours of battery life. The Acer will only give you a little over 2 hours I believe. Therefore I beleive you should take that into consideration. However if you really dont care about battery life, then the Acer would probablyu be the way to go.
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post #3 of 8
6/8/04 at 5:51pm
Add in one other question, as well: can the memory be DDR 400 instead of the 333?
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post #4 of 8
6/8/04 at 5:55pm
the chipsets right now can only make use of DDR333
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post #5 of 8
6/8/04 at 6:04pm
Unless you like a really really red laptop, i would get the cl56. Also the cl56 looks better in person than the pictures do on the web.
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post #6 of 8
6/8/04 at 6:14pm
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Battery Life is kind of important since twice a year I fly from somewhere in north america to the Philippines where my dad works and it is a 36+ hour flight. I would be nice to have a laptop during that time. Also the red paint does look pretty slick but at the same time seems a bit corny with the whole Ferrari - Laptop theme. I don't mind the look of the Cl56 and did consider getting one painted from hypersonic, but that seems too expensive (around $300) and hypersonic takes like a month and a half to deliver. Powernotebooks.com, where I plan to buy from claims to take only a week to deliver. Any one have any experience with them?
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post #7 of 8
6/8/04 at 7:21pm
alot of ppl ordered from there

they have really high reseller ratings
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post #8 of 8
6/8/04 at 7:30pm
hypersonics main advantage is the dead pixel policy
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