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:

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. [...]

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.

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 [...]