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Yeah course I've got Wi-fi.
I've got the pro wireless abg 2915, is that any good???
Just been on 3dmark03 and looked into system details.


It has external clock running at 133.0mhz, is this okay?

Do you have the latest NVIDIA drivers?

Nope. Just pre-installed drivers. Would it be wise to do a fresh install on the laptop due to the amount of crap installed?

probably. When we got our new Sony desktop, it came with a bunch of useless and mediocre software. If it was mine exclusively, I'd have deleted all of that.

I too just received my Z71V yesterday. I'm new at benchmarking, but went ahead and downloaded 3dmark2001 and tested. I'm using XP Pro with adaptor power, 2 GHz Pentium M, 2 Gig DDR2 400 (?) memory, Hitachi 7200rpm 60 Gig. The score was 13395 with settings of 1024x768 32bit. No other prgrams running.
The only trouble I've had was an XP installation glitch. Initially, I was unable to load any software. I'd get about halfway into an install and the system would freeze. I did a reinstall of XP and everythings OK now.
The screen is very clear, but it is no better than any notebook that I've ever had in bright sunlight, say in the passengers seat of an automobile.
There is significantly less heat production than with my Dell laptop.
Can anyone recommend better graphics drivers than the ones that came with the unit?

That should be okay. External clock @ 133.0 Mhz..internal runs 4 pipe, thus equal to 533Mhz internal bus.

Hmm your video might be underclocked for battery purposes...

Try using the omegadrivers to see.

nice review

this is the most promising notebook i've seen

Hey Olli, was your last avatar some army guy with coffee? I really liked that one... you should switch back !

Yeah can you update the drivers and see what score you get with 3dmark03? The Travelmate 8100 (it's direct rival) can easily get 6000 on it without overclocking with the catalyst 5.3 drivers. I personally am seeing around the 6500 range after overclocking the X700.

I have to say though, those stock numbers are a bit dissapointing.

What are the things that you most dislike about the Z71V, and are you glad you bought it?

That is pretty low compared to the Acer. Hmm I wonder if it was seriously underclocked for battery purposed.

I guess I'll play with it when i get it later this week.

Good news! The 3.8 hours reported by Geared2Play might be a fluke. You've made me a happy camper!

Doubt it was a fluke. We will run another test on continious 3dmark. Not sure how you got 4.5 hours out of it with all the hi end utils running. 3.8 hours we got was just basic stuff some movie playback mostly browsing. ALS was set to low and cpu was half way. Will give it a few more tests. 4.5 hours is more then the m6n. Almost next to imposible. Olli you sure the time is right? I am guessing that is without the optical battery? What were the tesed model specs? It really doesnt matter the specs we should both get the same ballpark figure if environmental was the same. Can you confirm that you got in excess of 4.5 hours? If so we would have to retest that.
On the subject of omega drivers. What exactly makes them different from the base drivers? Is the clock speed in these drivers increased?