The Questions Game -- v1.o

I can answer a few of your questions. I just got my laptop on Nov 8. From the limited time I've played with it, this is what I've noticed:


I played Battlefield 1942 for 1/2 hour and watched a DVD for about 1hr. 10min before the battery ran out. So, that's a total of 1hr. 40min playing a little Battlefield and watching a DVD. I don't know, is that any good considering games and DVD's are notorius power zappers? I have not tried running office applications only. Thats next on my agenda.

DVD burner works fine. Remeber, it writes DVD's in 1X speed only and reads DVD's 2X. That means an hour's worth of digital recording will take an hour to burn to the DVD. It will read the info twice as fast or take only1/2 hour.

The first day I got the system, I noticed a crackling sound eminating from the speakers while playing cd's and dvd's when the wireless was on. When turned off, the crackling stopped. Interestingly, today I had the wireless turned on and no crackling came from the speakers while playing cds or dvds. Go figure.

As I spend more time with my laptop, I'll give a much more comprehensive review sometime in the next week, and continue to post anything interesting about the laptop. So far so good. If the crackling has disappeared for good, then I can say the system is almost perfect.

about the dvd burner...how does it only burn at 1x...its specs clearly state 2x write 1x rewrite 8x read...am I missing something?

You are absolutely right. Sorry my mistake.

don't sweat it...happens to best of us...you just had me worried that AW made another infamous 'typo'

Can answer a few as well -

How long does batter last just sitting there doing nothing?

1 Hour 54 Minutes - Tested this last night - (All power savings turned off)


How long while playing a movie?

Will try shortly

How long while gaming?

Ha - until I get my "Washed out issue fixed"
How does the dvd-burner work?

I can tell you that it does not work with the most popular DVD backup software (DVDXCopy Platinum) - which is a bummer - even my Dell 8500's DVDRW drive works.

How long does it take to burn a DVD?

Forever -- well not quite that long but after burning on a 4X - going back to 2 is ... well lets just say I won't be using this laptop for burning DVD's.

Hope to actually start playing some games on this thing shortly - will post FPS then.

It doesn't work with DVD X Platinum!!! What??? Why? Did you try contacting them to see if there is patch or something? I was hoping to use this program...any other suggestions for backup programs that would work?

DVDXPlat

I tried a few different DVD's - and it was not able to ready any of them.

It works fine on my desktop - and that's where I will have to do my backups.

Re: Can answer a few as well -

This might sound silly but is it the legit, registered version? And if yes have you tried the latest update v3.2.1 from the site? If so this really is a bummer. I don't have a dvd burner as of yet, just my ordered AW. I was going to use my new slow 2x to make backups of movies that I own

Yes - retail

DL'd the latest drivers from their website today - still not able to backup Finding Nemo... does not recog the disk.

Re: Yes - retail

Email 321 with some info on your drive:

The problem you are having
Model #
Firmware (a copy of the bin file)
Computer model
Disks used

That will help them get AW users up to speed.