Received my 4760 a few days ago... - Page 2

Maximizing any window, web page or application, fills the entire glorious screen

This is AWESOME in DreamWeaver, VisualStudio, and PhotoShop.

For web pages, I find that I prefer to keep my browser a little narrower, so that I have room on the right hand side of the screen for Instant Messenger windows

I love this computer!

the Camera

Yes! So, about the camera. Have you had any luck actually taking pictures with it? The software comes with a capture utility that makes AVI movies. Now, to make stills, you seem to have two choices. Either, get a new program that works with the same hardware, or convert the AVIs that the default software makes into still frames.

I tried to go the latter route and I have met with little success. The brain dead approach, of just playing the movie with WMP or RealOne and taking a screen capture with the movie paused, doesn't work. The screen capture comes up blank - apparently the media players output directly to the screen bypassing the normal graphics buffers. Blah. So the other alternative is converting the movies into another format using software. Unfortunately, the AVIs that are produced apparently are compressed with a strange codec that Adobe ImageReady can't read. (It can convert most AVIs to animation sequences if you have QuickTime installed.) After hours of searching and experimenting I dropped $20 on a shareware AVI-to-animated-gif program, only to discover that it uses the system 256-color palette and the converted images are BADLY dithered. (the animation that I used to test it didn't show that, grr.)

So I am at my wits end with that and about ready to try the (probably more sensible) option and find a new capture program. Has anyone looked into this? Know any that work with the camera? I am hardware/driver challenged and not sure where to begin.

(BTW: I'm talking about Windoze here... I haven't even BEGUN to think about making it work under Linux... )

Sounds like quite a pain to grab stills out of the AVI. I would recommend using camera image capture software instead.

You can download a kind of pathetic app from Microsoft that will do the trick for free:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p.../powertoys.asp

Camera works well as long as there is sufficient light.

Simple and perfect. I didn't know this little app was among the PowerToys. THANKS!

got a question for the 4760 owners over here. In the first inside pic Adam showed of it, you could clearly see two fans to blow over two parts of the heatsink. The heatsink looked like the one in the 4060, but just extended to have another group of fins there.

In the 4760's we are receiving in New Zealand we are getting the same heatsink as in the 4060, and there is a black piece blocking off the extra vents on the far side.

Thanks

Another simple way to use the camera

It's a USB camera so (under XP) just click on "My Computer" look for "Scanners and Cameras" and just double click. You will have an option on the right to "Take a new picture" as well as have a live video feed in the main window.

PS: I just love this 4760 so far as well. Can't argue anything negitive used under Windows. I will however have to get BSD onto this sucker or else I'll go mad.

gaming

How is this baby with games? Is it as powerful as a 5660 with 64 meg?

I'm not sure if it was mentioned, but it kind of looks like a PC attempt at the G4 mac laptop. How's the weight on it too? I think it's like 7.5 lbs but does it feel like a beast?

Yes, How much does it weigh and is it possible for me to get a 2.4Ghz version and buy a 3.06GHz w/ HT chip later? Dang, its the 20th and no one has posted any pics yet Did you have any scratches on yours? and if so, is it obvious and can you return a scratched up case? Thanks

here you go...

also, xn4rk, thanks for the tip, that's even *easier*. lazy people everywhere (represented by me) thank you.

How is it with games/DVDs

How is this baby with games and DVDs? What is the response time on the LCD?

Thanks Ratha@PCTorque for the lovely pics and a idea of the internal memory card reader

What about battery life? What do you get with normal everyday use?