Posts Tagged ‘ASUS’

Seconday HDD for Acer 7738g

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

So as my laptop supports two internal hard drives I bought second one – sata 5400rpm and 500gb. I must say Acer does not give any parameters even in specification coming with notebook. But ok – hdd is finally bought. I opened secondary hdd cover and look:
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There must be a special connector. You cannot buy this connector on the ebay and even cannot in local computer shop. You must go to you local acer dealer. And you know what? My local dealer does not have it because model is new. I should have bought asus…

Updated: As Letty from findtheanswers.com commented – I need to het connector, secondary hdd cover + secondary hdd bay. That is possible only at local acer dealer.

Here findtheanswers.info thread

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Acer 7738g Laptop

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

So as my asus c90s was dead and warranty said that will not repair it I had to choose something in very short time. And bought this toy – acer 7738g. My demands were very simple – Core 2 duo of course at least t6400, Geforce GT 130m as a must, 4Gb preferably ddr3, high resolution – width starting with 1400px – screen size does not matter as I will not be bringing this machine with me very often – I have small HP mini 2133. Must be Vista.

What is good with this laptop is that is supports two hard drives. And you can put one more hdd not instead of dvd-writter but in addition to it :) So in standart I have 320Gb and probably will buy 500gb 7200rpm secondary hard drive. Btw standart one is 320gb and is 5400rpm.  Comparing to c90s asus this one has very high quality display. Also I should mention very good speaker quality. It says it has small subwoofer – I don’t know if it is true but sound is good.

First things I tried – installed several games that had problems on c90s – Overlord 2 and Vin Diesel Wheelman – they work perfectly. Though the processor is weaker than on my previous c90s – I had 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo Extreme desktop processor, but in overall performance this machine is much much better. I am planning to try videi editing in some time – I will leave some comments :)

Specification looks like this:

Specifications of Acer Aspire 7738G-644G32MN

Processor

Processor family -Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor – T6400
Processor clock speed – 2000 MHz
Processor front side bus – 1066 MHz
Chipset – Mobile Intel PM45 Express
L2 cache -3 MB

Disk drive

Hard disk interface – SATA
Hard disk rotational speed – 5400 rpm
Total storage capacity -320 GB
Number of hard drives installed – 1

Display

Display diagonal – 17.3 “
Display response rise/fall -8 ms
Display resolution -1600 x 900 pixels
Number of colours -16.7 M
Display brightness -220 cd/m²
Aspect ratio -16:9

Memory

Internal memory -4096 MB
Memory slots -2 SODIMM
Internal memory type -DDR3
Memory layout -2 x 2048 MB
Maximum internal memory -4 GB
Memory clock speed -1066 MHz

Storage media

Compatible memory cards -SD/MMC/MS/MS Pro/xD
Card reader integrated yes

Video

Graphic adapter- NVIDIA GeForce GT130M
Dedicated video memory -1024 MB

Optical drive

Optical drive type -DVD±RW DL

Audio

Built-in microphone yes
Audio system High Definition Audio
Number of built-in speakers 2

Camera

Camera includedyes
Megapixel – 1.0 MP

Networking

Internal modem – yes
3G network access module no
Networking features – Gigabit Ethernet
Wake-on-Ring readyyes
Wireless technology
IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n
Modem type
ITU V.92
Modem speed
56 Kbit/s
Wake-on-LAN ready
yes
Bluetooth
no

Operating system/software

Operating system provided – Windows Vista Home Premium Edition
Frankly speaking I would highly recommend this model.

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Why upgradable notebook sucks

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Some time ago (1.5 years ago?) I bought for my work great laptop – Asus c90s. Main feature of this model is that this notebook from Asustek is upgradable. It has MXM video card (standard GeForce 8600M GT 512mb), Desktop processor Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme 2.4 GHz with overcloacking function on the fly to 2.9 GHz, 2Gb of DDR2, etc. First thing to upgrade always is memory. At that step I realized the problem – its chipset allowed to put only 3Gb max. Bad thing but ok – I put 3 GB.

This laptop was a good working machine for me all this time. But several days ago stopped functioning. Shows black screen and that’s all. The notebook is old (though I cannot see modern notebook that could be much better than this one) but I looked to the warranty document – oh, I had 2 year warranty. Why not to use it? So I went to ASUS local dealer and I have good answer – ASUS warranty rules in my region (may be all over the world as well?) do not allow you to upgrade your computer!!! They did an upgradable laptop but they do not allow upgrading it. Very smart!

So I consider that if you are buying a laptop – do not look to such tricks as upgradability and buy from the very beginning the most powerful machine. Of course if you need such :)

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