Yeah baby! Just arrived today!
Anyways... I get what they mean when it's viewing angles really aren't that great, especially vertically. Unless you're in the "sweet spot" the colour does "fade" or whatever you call it. But, being my first laptop it's not really a big deal...
I live in Toronto and ended up ordering from Sonexpc.com seemed fine I guess, shipped out a day after sending in the money, so that was nice. That was last friday, the 18th, todays the 23rd so 5 days pretty good, lol. Avoided 7% PST by ordering out of the province though, lol.
I'm just in the midst of installing updates and drivers and stuff so I really don't have much to say yet...
As far as I can tell the keyboard is great and I really am not having any troubles typing on it... The curved thing I dunno, seems the same to me not really noticeable though I've not really typed on many other laptops so I wouldn't know what to compare it to... Looks pretty sleek though and I don't have many complaints there
I'll do a dead pixel test in a bit, but haven't ntoiced any as of yet.
Edit: Cruddy... I've got one dead pixel
It's red and in the top left corner so it's not noticeable though, I can really only see it on a white background and wouldn't notice it normally.
Setup went pretty quick, with XP pro installed and all just had to load it up. Acer doesn't install much crap on it, so I'm not complaining. Yep, anything else I should be looking out for?
Update: Alright I've got most of the basics installed and just running with it for now... Turned off the auto-ferrari wall paper, though it is pretty cool it's a built in Calendar as well, lol. But... I don't like it, haha. I've taken some pics, but gimme a l'il while to stick 'em up 'cause i've got some other junk to do...
Speakers, I guess they're laptop speakers so can't really expect much. Though, being as it is my first laptop it doesn't seem TOO bad... You can hear things properly and all... Bass is almost non-existant though, lol.
Touchpad is nice and all, though I'm not really used to using it and I prefer a mouse. The buttons seems quite responsive though, the 4 button thing does work fine though... letting me scroll side to side and up and down...
The left palm rest does get warm though, the harddrive is there so I guess that's kind of expected.
The fan really hasn't gone on except when i've restarted it the few times to get all the things installed, so that's good. Though, even when on it's really not all that loud, doesn't bug me at all. The DVD-RW drive isn't very loud and when I installed Warcraft 3 on it, didn't really notice it, more quiet than my comps CD drive anyway.
Yeah... Don't know what else to say about it, seems like a pretty sweet system to me
Update 2:
Battery life under general use is about 3 hours, give or take 5 mins.
Battery life while playing NFSU gave me about 1.5 hours give or take 10 mins or so.
Update 3:
Ran aquamark 3 on the comp and finally noticed some fan noise, lol. I was running NFSU and Wc3 neither of which generated ANY fan noise at all... Either that or the sound playing from the speakers, which I have set at the lowest possible without muting... totally covers it up.
More on heat: The left palm rest is still quite warm, though no warpage of any stickers or w/e yet... Though with the tests and stuff the middle near the LCD, around the power button, has gotten about as warm as the harddrive... Though no one touches that so... Touchpad and keyboard are experiencing a little heat, nothing bad though i'll say just a touch above room temperature 25 celsius?, I guess it's the heat dissipation so it's being spread around... The right palm rest is still quite cool though.
Score with the Omega drivers with no overclock, just what it came with.
GFX = 3171
CPU = 7504
Total = 26186
Just to compare I did an aquamark3 on my desktop, 2.4 ghz p4 w/ 9700 pro.
GFX = 4779
CPU = 7474
Total = 36207
Anyways... I get what they mean when it's viewing angles really aren't that great, especially vertically. Unless you're in the "sweet spot" the colour does "fade" or whatever you call it. But, being my first laptop it's not really a big deal...
I live in Toronto and ended up ordering from Sonexpc.com seemed fine I guess, shipped out a day after sending in the money, so that was nice. That was last friday, the 18th, todays the 23rd so 5 days pretty good, lol. Avoided 7% PST by ordering out of the province though, lol.
I'm just in the midst of installing updates and drivers and stuff so I really don't have much to say yet...
As far as I can tell the keyboard is great and I really am not having any troubles typing on it... The curved thing I dunno, seems the same to me not really noticeable though I've not really typed on many other laptops so I wouldn't know what to compare it to... Looks pretty sleek though and I don't have many complaints there
I'll do a dead pixel test in a bit, but haven't ntoiced any as of yet.Edit: Cruddy... I've got one dead pixel
It's red and in the top left corner so it's not noticeable though, I can really only see it on a white background and wouldn't notice it normally.Setup went pretty quick, with XP pro installed and all just had to load it up. Acer doesn't install much crap on it, so I'm not complaining. Yep, anything else I should be looking out for?
Update: Alright I've got most of the basics installed and just running with it for now... Turned off the auto-ferrari wall paper, though it is pretty cool it's a built in Calendar as well, lol. But... I don't like it, haha. I've taken some pics, but gimme a l'il while to stick 'em up 'cause i've got some other junk to do...
Speakers, I guess they're laptop speakers so can't really expect much. Though, being as it is my first laptop it doesn't seem TOO bad... You can hear things properly and all... Bass is almost non-existant though, lol.
Touchpad is nice and all, though I'm not really used to using it and I prefer a mouse. The buttons seems quite responsive though, the 4 button thing does work fine though... letting me scroll side to side and up and down...
The left palm rest does get warm though, the harddrive is there so I guess that's kind of expected.
The fan really hasn't gone on except when i've restarted it the few times to get all the things installed, so that's good. Though, even when on it's really not all that loud, doesn't bug me at all. The DVD-RW drive isn't very loud and when I installed Warcraft 3 on it, didn't really notice it, more quiet than my comps CD drive anyway.
Yeah... Don't know what else to say about it, seems like a pretty sweet system to me
Update 2:
Battery life under general use is about 3 hours, give or take 5 mins.
Battery life while playing NFSU gave me about 1.5 hours give or take 10 mins or so.
Update 3:
Ran aquamark 3 on the comp and finally noticed some fan noise, lol. I was running NFSU and Wc3 neither of which generated ANY fan noise at all... Either that or the sound playing from the speakers, which I have set at the lowest possible without muting... totally covers it up.
More on heat: The left palm rest is still quite warm, though no warpage of any stickers or w/e yet... Though with the tests and stuff the middle near the LCD, around the power button, has gotten about as warm as the harddrive... Though no one touches that so... Touchpad and keyboard are experiencing a little heat, nothing bad though i'll say just a touch above room temperature 25 celsius?, I guess it's the heat dissipation so it's being spread around... The right palm rest is still quite cool though.
Score with the Omega drivers with no overclock, just what it came with.
GFX = 3171
CPU = 7504
Total = 26186
Just to compare I did an aquamark3 on my desktop, 2.4 ghz p4 w/ 9700 pro.
GFX = 4779
CPU = 7474
Total = 36207
