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post #101 of 579
7/20/05 at 8:23pm
On what settings can you play Battlefield 2 smooth on this laptop? i'm planning to buy this laptop to replace my current computer and to use it for my studies etc.
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post #102 of 579
7/21/05 at 4:51am
No idea. I'm not certain, but you may need 2GB of RAM to play that game smoothly. This laptop has an nVidia GeForce Go 6800, so ask on the gaming board.
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post #103 of 579
7/23/05 at 3:16am

RAM frequency

Hello

I am going to buy the Amilo M3438G Laptop and I want to know whether the ram frequency of this model (2x512MB) is 400Mhz or 533Mhz.
Also I want to know if it is possible to make some changes to this model before buying it. I am going to buy it from the UK.

Thank you
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post #104 of 579
7/23/05 at 4:00am
It depends where you buy it, but typically its 533 MHz.
If you want to change anything, you have to buy this lappy through net, or make a little conversation with Fujitsu salesman. There shouldn't be any problems at all.
Oh, and remember then M4438G has got its graphics card on MXM slot. It means, then in future we (probably) will be able to upgrade graphics card!
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post #105 of 579
7/23/05 at 4:14am
Have anyone tested how long it can work on battery? But without extensive using graphics card, for... lets said... office tasks and internet surfing
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post #106 of 579
7/23/05 at 5:13am
Probably 2 hours, according to the spec.
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post #107 of 579
7/23/05 at 5:38am
What spec says is one thing, what you can see in practice is second thing :]
I wonder, is there avalible 12-cell battery for this lappy? I'll had to flight by 18 hours soon (1st flight - 6 hours, 3 hour waiting in airport, and next 9 hours), and in first flight I'll travel by economic class (without lappy power-support) so I had to know how long (or how I can make time longer) I'll be able to work.
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post #108 of 579
7/23/05 at 8:18am
You could buy loads of batteries

In other news, I went to PC World today to check it out again. 3D Mark 05 gave it just over 3500, and that's most likely straight out of a new install, except with 3DMark 05 and 03 installed. The screen is truly amazing. Plus PC World will replace the laptop if it has a dead pixel within about a month, which is great news.
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post #109 of 579
7/23/05 at 8:57am
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Wow...thats some nice promises. I would go for it
If you could, ask them how to get a proper bios. We allt want the standard Bios options. Do F-S think they will need the extra Support with standard Bios? They are wrong.

Also as someone said, With this Bios the graphics can not be overclocked. I can confirm that now.
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post #110 of 579
7/23/05 at 8:58am
3500 in 1920x1200?
What settings did you used?
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post #111 of 579
7/23/05 at 9:17am
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I also have some bad news about the Powercinema Linux. I have been in contact with the Software developer (http://www.gocyberlink.com/english/index.jsp) and the version supplied does not support playing movies from harddrive. Its a big joke. The support at Cyberlink is a bunch of retards. They dont even understand the problem.
It seems I have to use USB or DVD when using the Remote. This is very sad. It was a reason for me when choosing the Notebook. And when I try 2 harddrives, the program doesnt even boot.
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post #112 of 579
7/23/05 at 10:30am
3500 in 1920x1200?
What settings did you used?

I was referring to the 3438, not 4438, but it was running at 1024x768, the standard benchmark (I couldn't change it, as it wasn't registered anyway).

As for the BIOS, I forgot to ask, but I doubt they'd know anyway. Does the current one have a language option? If so I'll also consider looking on german sites for an upgrade, otherwise I'll stick to english. Plus, we really need someone that knows german to have a look as well.
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post #113 of 579
7/23/05 at 10:42am
3500? Nice. On my Athlon 64 3000+, 1 GB DDR400 RAM and nVidia GeForce 5950Ultra I recived 881
BIOS is always in English. I've seen many PCs in many countries and 99,9% have got BIOS in English. If BIOS is in German, French, etc it means, then producer moded it.
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post #114 of 579
7/23/05 at 10:44am
Ok, well that's good news. However, no luck in searching google for a BIOS update
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post #115 of 579
7/23/05 at 10:46am
3500? Nice. On my Athlon 64 3000+, 1 GB DDR400 RAM and nVidia GeForce 5950Ultra I recived 881

My current PC does 250
I blame its graphics card (GeForce 5600)
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post #116 of 579
7/23/05 at 10:56am
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Originally Posted by Strange Species
Ok, well that's good news. However, no luck in searching google for a BIOS update
Amilo is too new product, to relase BIOS upgrade. However, it's posibble then germans moded something :]
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post #117 of 579
7/23/05 at 11:09am
lol, I suppose that's a possibility. As I said though, we need someone that understands the language.
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post #118 of 579
7/23/05 at 11:26am
I know German!
Maybe not so good as English, but I'll seek for that
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post #119 of 579
7/23/05 at 1:19pm
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Originally Posted by Belch
Im sorry to say but there is definetly problems with the SPDIF-out. I did have redlight emitting, but only 2-channel. I had long discussion with the reseller for 3 week ago with no success. Yesterday I noticed on their homepage they are supplying all at my work (with the 4438G) with this: http://www.komplett.se/k/ki.asp?sku=303120&cks=PRL
I think this means the SPDIF dont work with toslink, dont know about analog 5.1. Maybe they will fix it later on. Good gesture but I'd liked the onboard SPDIF to work rather than this.
I may be wrong, but from what little I understood in a Babelfish-translated discussion thread at Chip.De, the SPDIF should work for DVD:s (which use preencoded DD 5.1 sound), but not for computer games (which use realtime DD 5.1 encoding a.k.a. "Dolby Digital Live"). Still, I was under the impression that the "Dolby Digital Live" feature was an integral part of the Azalia sound chip and if that's the case this should be only a driver related issue which a future driver update would solve. However, maybe it's an optional feature and Fujitsu-Siemens decided to throw it out? Would be interesting to find out somehow...


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Originally Posted by Belch
I also have some bad news about the Powercinema Linux. I have been in contact with the Software developer (http://www.gocyberlink.com/english/index.jsp) and the version supplied does not support playing movies from harddrive. Its a big joke. The support at Cyberlink is a bunch of retards. They dont even understand the problem.
It seems I have to use USB or DVD when using the Remote. This is very sad. It was a reason for me when choosing the Notebook. And when I try 2 harddrives, the program doesnt even boot.
Is there any possibility that it could be upgraded later on? The lack of the option to open files from the internal HDD:s would definitely kill of the whole purpose of this feature to me...


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Originally Posted by Belch
I think the M3438G is a great notebook. I got the M4438G and is of course happy. The WUXGA is better in every way than the WXGA. With a huge pricegap between them, the 3438G is much more for the money. Dont underestimate the WXGA. Its much, much better then Dells (WXGA and WUXGA) anyway in my oppinion.
Given the problems with the BIOS, SPDIF, PowerCinema and possible other issues you've encountered this far, have you changed your opinion or are you still positive about it?
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post #120 of 579
7/23/05 at 5:38pm
Come to think of it, the issue with PowerCinema is probably due to the fact that the internal HDDs are S-ATA based and that PowerCinema doesn't have built-in S-ATA drivers, i.e. the same issue as with Windows XP install CDs...
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