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post #721 of 1678
2/15/05 at 4:13pm
The new Acer 8104 has quite nice design, on the other hand the Acer 8006 has terrible design.
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post #722 of 1678
2/15/05 at 4:32pm
3/08 is the date pcnation told me.... even tho i ordered on 2/2 =(
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post #723 of 1678
2/15/05 at 5:24pm
SHEP>> http://www.jmedata.se/start.asp?fromJS=product.asp||itemno=22413

22995:-

Sugen? =)
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post #724 of 1678
2/15/05 at 5:39pm
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Originally Posted by srw101
I just got my 8104 from CDW!!!

It's absolutely brilliant! I can finally breath a sigh of relief and to those waiting I can honestly say the wait was worth it. It's very snappy and responds really fast. Boot up (after initial setup) was reasonably fast despite the 5400 rpm hdd. I've yet to install any games in the short time that I've had it but I'll post a decent review when I have more time.

Good luck to all those waiting for it you WILL NOT be dissapointed
Wow, I’m so jealous. Can’t wait to get mine. I’m gonna call them up right now but could you please provide some kind of proof that you got it from cdw and the date. Maybe just email if you don’t feel like posting it. gfr33man@hotmail.com, that would be awesome.
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post #725 of 1678
2/15/05 at 5:54pm
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Originally Posted by Hodnick
3/08 is the date pcnation told me.... even tho i ordered on 2/2 =(
Yup that's what they told me after I ordered on 2/3. I decided to call around. Two different people at CDW told me 2/15. I cancelled the pcnation order and placed an order at CDW on 2/4. 2/15 is today. I got an estimate from CDW this weekend that I won't get it until 2/24 or maybe even 3/8. Luckily I got in on that brief newegg stock and might get it by tomorrow.
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post #726 of 1678
2/15/05 at 6:11pm
Mine is all packaged up and ready to ship out! It's coming from Newegg and should be here tomorrow!
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post #727 of 1678
2/15/05 at 6:13pm
Ah you guys are lucky... wish i didn't miss out on the newegg stock of them... At first pcnation told me mid to late feb. =(
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post #728 of 1678
2/15/05 at 6:14pm
how is an acer 8100 diff from the hp nc8200 series? how significantly diff are the gpu's? both are pci-express and have large hds and sonoma...but i personally love the way the hp nc8200 series looks. its a little lighter and more importantly it includes a 3 year warranty...guess HP has confidence in it.
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post #729 of 1678
2/15/05 at 6:18pm
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Originally Posted by MrMsyvc
Haven't tried any Ghosting, but the FAT32 is one of my peeves with this machine. It IS using 32K clusters, no NTFS permissions support, and I've already had Chkdsk run several times on reboot. Not a show stopper but definitely archaic. Hope Acer upgrades their own in-house ghost util one of these days. We've used various versions of Ghost successfully here at work. Basically a great imager. I've read that Acronix (sp?) is good also, and free?

Maybe I'm missing something but is their any reson you can't just reformat the hard drives and when you reinstal windows set it as NTFS?
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post #730 of 1678
2/15/05 at 6:19pm
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Originally Posted by andhraangel
how is an acer 8100 diff from the hp nc8200 series? how significantly diff are the gpu's? both are pci-express and have large hds and sonoma...but i personally love the way the hp nc8200 series looks. its a little lighter and more importantly it includes a 3 year warranty...guess HP has confidence in it.

It looks to me the hp nc8200 has:

512mb vs 1gb
60gb 5400rpm vs 100gb 5400rp *16mb buffer* (not sure what hp has)
x600 vs x700 (big difference in video card)

got the info from http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1757556,00.asp
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post #731 of 1678
2/15/05 at 6:25pm
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Originally Posted by Hodnick
It looks to me the hp nc8200 has:

512mb vs 1gb
60gb 5400rpm vs 100gb 5400rp *16mb buffer* (not sure what hp has)
x600 vs x700 (big difference in video card)

got the info from http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1757556,00.asp
This month's paper issue of PC Mag has short reviews of 6 or so "Sonoma-Alviso" laptops, of which they picked the HP nc8200 as their favorite. ALL OF THEM, as I recall, had X600 graphics cards. "ZZZZzzzzzz." (Imagine the sound of snoring.) Some of the others were a Dell D610 and D810(?). No Acers.
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post #732 of 1678
2/15/05 at 6:28pm
Is x700 much better at games or should it be enough to get hp nc8200 with x600?
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post #733 of 1678
2/15/05 at 6:30pm
the thing is the hp nc8200 has a batt life of 5 hrs and it comes with a travel battery that may double that...also both should be avail in wuxga res soon...that'll be sweet!
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post #734 of 1678
2/15/05 at 6:31pm
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Originally Posted by MrMsyvc
This month's paper issue of PC Mag has short reviews of 6 or so "Sonoma-Alviso" laptops, of which they picked the HP nc8200 as their favorite. ALL OF THEM, as I recall, had X600 graphics cards. "ZZZZzzzzzz." (Imagine the sound of snoring.) Some of the others were a Dell D610 and D810(?). No Acers.
Yeah I have noticed a lack of reviews for acer laptops in general on the net and in mags.... to me there is nothing that really comes close to matching the performance : weight : price ratio as the 8104 has to offer... I plan on getting the total coverage warranty with the laptop and pcnation offers it for 199 which I think is a deal incase something would happen with the lcd screen or the motherboard.
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post #735 of 1678
2/15/05 at 6:38pm
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Originally Posted by WarriorJoe
Is x700 much better at games or should it be enough to get hp nc8200 with x600?
heres a link to reviews for the pci cards:

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/gra...charts-01.html
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post #736 of 1678
2/15/05 at 6:49pm
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Originally Posted by Fr33m4n
Wow, I’m so jealous. Can’t wait to get mine. I’m gonna call them up right now but could you please provide some kind of proof that you got it from cdw and the date. Maybe just email if you don’t feel like posting it. gfr33man@hotmail.com, that would be awesome.
Well I'm typing to you from my new Acer it's awesome needless to say. I just sent you a cc of the confirmation E-mail from my rep Kevin At CDW. I can't believe you're still in disbelief lol If you want when I get home I'll send you a picture of CDW box and the 8104 next too it.

Patience my friend, patience
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post #737 of 1678
2/15/05 at 6:56pm
yeah...i think i'm just gonna wait til the summer to see what is gonna happen...i really like the hp nc8200 but i figure it'll get cheaper soon enough plus they should improve the gpu and all i don't game all that much...but i do like HL2 and that game is pretty intensive
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post #738 of 1678
2/15/05 at 7:02pm
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Originally Posted by andhraangel
how is an acer 8100 diff from the hp nc8200 series? how significantly diff are the gpu's? both are pci-express and have large hds and sonoma...but i personally love the way the hp nc8200 series looks. its a little lighter and more importantly it includes a 3 year warranty...guess HP has confidence in it.
Not that you were meaning to threadcrap

But, the nc8200 is QUITE out-speced against the 8104. (512 MB RAM, 40 GB less HD, weaker video card (x600 vs x700), no DVD burner). Oh, and it also lists for $400+ more than the 8104.

Guess HP taxes you for the 3 year warranty and lower specs.

-ALL Taken from http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759...,00.asp&e=9901
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post #739 of 1678
2/15/05 at 7:07pm
I would like to ask something for anyone here that already got the 8103/4 .

As the resolution is very high, text is probably small and also it'll be difficult to play games at the native resolution with a reasonable framerate (this is what I think, without seeing one personally).

How bad is the image if you use a lower resolution (let's say something near 1280 or 1024 pixels) ?

Can anyone take pictures of "non-native" resolutions (windows/text and/or gaming) ?

Thanks a lot!!
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post #740 of 1678
2/15/05 at 7:07pm
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Originally Posted by andhraangel
yeah...i think i'm just gonna wait til the summer to see what is gonna happen...i really like the hp nc8200 but i figure it'll get cheaper soon enough plus they should improve the gpu and all i don't game all that much...but i do like HL2 and that game is pretty intensive
Yeah, $2699 for these specs?:
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Processor Family: Pentium M
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
RAM: 512 MB
Hard Drive Capacity: 60 GB
Hard Drive Speed: 5400 rpm
Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon X600
Graphics Memory: 64
Primary Optical Drive: DVD-ROM/CD-RW
Wireless: 802.11g
Screen Size: 15.4 inches
Screen Size Type: widescreen
System Weight: 6.2 lbs
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