hey guys. found out something interesting.. remember me post about asking for a 8-cell battery for the S57 ? our batteries are all 6-cells right? well i emailed BenQ and guess what they told me.

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Dear Kenny,

--------------------Replied by CSD klyap at 2010/03/30 11:35:17--------------------
Hi Kenny,


The original battery pack (14.8V, 4.4Ahr, P/N: 2C.20E04.001) is already an 8cells battery.


rgds.
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I'm curious.. i checked and my battery is 11.1V instead of 14.8V and i have the P/N of 2C.20E04.011 which is different. Is mine 6 cell or 8 cell? :S I'm pretty sure it's not 8 cell.

Thanks

dudes. i think it's possible for S57 users to get an 8-cell battery.

--------------------Replied by CSD klyap at 2010/03/30 19:44:28--------------------
Hi Kenny,


Strange, I can't find the battery P/N info that you given.I have cross check with other set at our service center & it comes with the battery P/N that Imentioned earlier. I think, most likely your battery type is from 6cells. Perhaps S57 package comes in 2 type of battery, i.e 6cells& 8cells.


If you wish to purchase the 8cells battery, pls make sure that you are using the information that I provided earlier. You can contact our customer care toll free at 1800-88-BenQ(2367) during normal office hourfor further assistance.


rgds.

I'm gonna try calling them up and see what's the price.

@astria: yeah mine is different. lower voltage output and all.. i've told him already. should i send an email with pics attached to him ? :l

@mia: haha i thought of getting an 8-cell also.. better for me as i'm always on the move in uni. but money confirm fly one lar. haha

i shall try that.

that's why astria.. any help can you give for me? mine full charge 2 hours and 30 mins only MAX. actually i tried turning off WiFi, not much difference..

sad that BenQ doesn't have a power management software.

yup i locked my processor to 50%. but i didn't do a change of the background layout though. how do you do that ? imma using win7.

edit: it's okay i change the layout via control panel.. changed it to windows 7 basic layout. will see if it helps the batt.

This post has been edited by Bushido: Mar 31 2010, 08:52 AM

ahah. i'm using Realtek HD. It helps la.. not used to the sound at first because it's very Surround-ded. if you know what i mean.

Haha not only S42, S57's speakers lack bass big time also.

lan party is a group of people playing games together via LAN. like L4d and CS or Dota. hahah. if i'm correct.

yeah i rarely use my laptop speaker. i have Philips SHP1900 and Klipsch Custom 1 for headphones.

btw i know some laptops have mini woofers built in right. will it even last? haha

edit: btw, my GPU temp shot up to 101C max on Dirt2. o.O

This post has been edited by Bushido: Apr 2 2010, 11:53 AM

@BB: yeahh haha. hot day somemore. don't worry. i always alt-tab after each race to cool it off. just that i saw my max temp on HWMonitor.

@astria: we cannot use other drivers right? bahh. too bad Creative don't do onboard sound chips. i feel like getting a USB DAC lar.

ahah shizz. now i'm worry about my S57. :S good laptop but seemed like they have lots of hardware problem. haehineohi !

guys any idea? recently when i switched over to win7 and updated my video drivers to 10.3 for ATi, videos in FLV and MPC seemed pixelized. same goes to HD videos. weird..

nope. reinstalled it's still the same for me. i google-d. it seems that a lot of win7 users have this problem.

well i re-adjusted my video card settings and now VLC turned out as normal again. but when it plays my video on VLC, it changes my win7 theme to normal instead of aero. and when i exit VLC, it goes back to aero. haha. incompatible ?

eh guys. what laptop would you recommend ar? budget under RM3k. nth above 14 inch wor. asking behalf of my friend.

thankyou. xD

mia: haha she just wanna do basic stuff. surfing, music, videos. nothing major.

HAHA started la all when see SHE.

nola i told her NO vaio. yeah will be using mostly for uni, so batt life has to be reasonable lor. she doesn't want anything like mine..

i think i'll try ubuntu with my old compaq v3000.

mine changed motherboard 3 times already. it's going to boom soon again

hmm. VMware's interesting.. will give it a try tmr.

now i'm beat from JAVA and web authoring. ==