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Raz5555

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  1. Wow, thanks, the breakdown really helped. Considering what you said, I think I'll look into swapping out the 5738G for a better system. You know, it's funny that you mentioned the Dell Inspiron 1545, since my sister has one. Wish me luck in trying to convince her to swap it for mine
  2. I'm sure it doesn't have an expresscard slot... Only the usual mPCIe where the WiFi card is tucked. And I have no idea what chipset it's got or how to find out. You'll have to excuse my dilletantism, but aside from takin the laptop apart and putting it back together from memory, I don't have any real hardware experience. Also, right now (recently became a father) the 5738G is all I have available to make something out of, and of course, if I had the money necessary to get another rig, I'd definitely go desktop. For their portability, laptops have proven to have a much shorter expiry date.
  3. There has been this annoying bug with Win 7 on Acer laptops, that freezes up the system once data transfers larger than about 100MB are attempted through the USB ports. This seems to occur through transfer of large files, or collections of smaller ones (a photo album for example). Microsoft published an update to adress the Win 7 USB drivers, many users though still seem to report system freezing despite the update. Alternatively, USB devices will suddenly be "disconnected" (with disconnection sound and all) and will not be recognised again without a system reboot (There have also been cases where USB sticks weren't identified ever again - at least not without a new Win 7 installation) Has anyone else heard of any workaround for this issue? Many theories on the origin of the issue have been flying around forums and boards, but it's generally accepted that it's the Win 7 USB drivers that play up
  4. Hi, the time has come when my laptop has started showing its age, and I'm doing some research on beefing it up through an eGPU. I went through your elaborate post in Notebook Review (although I can't wrap my head around most of the terminology), but I found no mention to my laptop, the Acer 5738G. Specs are: CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 @ 2.00GHz RAM: 4GB DDR3 1067MHz GPU: nVidia Geforce G 105M OS: Win 7 Ultimate x64 (was originally Vista Home x32) Is the eGPU solution even possible with the 5738G? What parts do you suggest? Would downgrading my OS to a performance version of XP SP3 make sense? (Since I get the common Acer Win 7 USB bug) Thank you for your time, Ian PS: Any chance the laptop will let me display to the internal LCD? PPS: Don't shy out on the crazy, since the laptop is way past its guarrantee, and I don't mind one bit building a Frankenstein out of it.
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