and mav still not yet appear

mav must be busy with school work ..or trying to extend his 'string' for more moolah

Acer starting its move again, BenQ really need to start its engine
Ethos

hopefully they are preparing for some AMD laptops...

cuz from history, BenQ was 1 of the first few to come up with Sata Rosa and Montivino laptops... it's really a bit strange that they didn't come up with anything related to the new Core this yr...

If they wanted to use the new AMD, it would set them back to May

Well, with BenQ we can nvr know...btw, that Ethos is how big?? seems like a 17"

15.6'' for 5943G and 18.4'' for 8943G...
equipped with HD5850

This post has been edited by lee_what2004: Mar 26 2010, 07:39 AM

trying hard to compete with Asus...

Competition is good

Yup, the higher the competition, the better deal we can get

@BBX
You got played BFBC2?? Just want to ask the temp?? And on what reso?? ..me is playing now, 1280x800 reso with medium can get me till 98C peak ..

me playing also... but didn't ve much time for it though... 1366x768 Medium...

thinking of installing on my friend's Sager and see how it runs on GTX 285M...

concentrating on Borderlands instead...

This post has been edited by astria: Mar 26 2010, 08:01 AM

been a while since i've played Borderlands ...maybe if got time after BFBC2, i play it again ...

Running with GTX285M must be ...even my sis Dell SXPS 16 HD4870 HD4670 can run 1366x768 with high setting with a little big of lag

This post has been edited by monza84: Mar 26 2010, 08:51 AM

SXPS 16 with HD4870

Gosh, must be sleepy...typo ..its HD4670 ...sorry for misleading

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Added on March 26, 2010, 8:54 amedited my post ..

This post has been edited by monza84: Mar 26 2010, 08:54 AM

morning guys. upgraded to windows 7 without any hiccups. running it now and it's awesomely faster than vista.

it'll be nice to see BenQ to come with new ranges with the i-series cores though. A dedicated gaming rig would be nice

didnt have BFBC2, last time the closed beta i got the key also i didnt download and play..cant help u with that...
recently also i am rather lazy in playing game...but this is what i notice, 3 days no off laptop liao, whenever i launch HD movie to play(720p), the temperature will go around 69-70C like that at times, instead of the 66C i used to get..i guess is because the heatsink also become rather warm after 3 days of running..hehe...
need to get that copper heatsink thing soon...

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Added on March 26, 2010, 9:34 amguys, nautis have release a customized optimus inf for us to test out..
although he say s42 might not support, he did mention there is a chance, and the inf already included s42 in it...

here's the site:
http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/topic/264...hics-notebooks/

any brave souls would like to try it out and report back?? hehe...
i might not try it out, too many hassle to format, install vista, delete partition and recover my W7 booter..not to mention if fail i'll have to get myself on hybird graphic again, which don have the latest improvements

This post has been edited by BBXiong: Mar 26 2010, 09:34 AM

Wow, another breakthrough from Nautis..

actually got ppl saying that both cards and active, and there were like no complains for system for the driver, but just that intel card is doing all the work, despite both cards are visible...maybe he's gonna work on some coding to make possible for us to use..hehe

benq gonna let those ppl compete till they are worn out and they will produce some monster.. hahaa.. maybe i5 with GT330M?? hahaa

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Added on March 26, 2010, 9:59 amwhy ah.. asus and acer ethos.. follow macbook keyboard edi..

This post has been edited by Batusai: Mar 26 2010, 09:59 AM

Its vaio keyboard, they started first, not macbook

Anyone want help me to try ffdshow tryout? It supposed to activate dxva when playing h.264, see how much it can help, my gma950 can't do it

On Media Player Classic option, External Filters, Add filter, choose "ffdshow DXVA video decoder" and set it to prefer.
double click it, and go Hardware Acceleration, then enable H264 and VC1 and try play your HD movie and see any improvement on the CPU usage?

Just remove the external filter if don't like it...

http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/

This post has been edited by lee_what2004: Mar 26 2010, 10:16 AM


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