I guess some sales rep are unscrupulous and are ignoring the street date set by Acer?

Any ideas if it's already out at PJ Section 14 Digital Mall? I might drop by to get mine within this week.

So, any reviews yet? Need to know about battery life, viewing angle, heat, etc. Specs we all know already.

edit:
Just read some online review. http://translate.googleusercontent.com/tra...w4SKbhvgwLDnmbA

(original is russian)

This post has been edited by mudster: Apr 6 2011, 11:21 AM

I got mine too. It looks pretty.

Will give a review tomorrow probably. Gonna try to install orange box and diablo 2

Installed beyond good & evil. The graphics is slightly glitchy. it can run on the intel hd3000 smoothly. Tried to run it on nvidia must be manually added to list of programs (maybe because it's old?). Gonna try different settings later...

Still need an online connection after this to install steam...

So far heat has been quite cooling. But haven't done any heavy duty processing yet (i.e. gaming). Only browsing the internet and installing stuff...

Discharging 100% at 7:04pm.

I bought it yesterday. Was planning to go to digital mall 14 PJ, but found one in Sunway Pyramid. They still have one more unit on show...

Enough poison?

Edit: Powersave mode on. Wifi on. 7hrs 57 minutes left.

This post has been edited by mudster: Apr 7 2011, 07:07 PM

I also got the free cooler but not using it because sitting in aircond room

Battcare not showing the temperature of the HDD or CPU/GPU... Dunno why.

I am falling in love with the keyboard and touchpad. It's pretty nice to use...

The thing is, if the battery runs for 8 hours in 1 go, then that's a lot of battery life. Awesome

max> I think 41LY45 said it already. The battery's replaceable, but You'll need to bring it to acer. No 3rd party batteries because it's unremovable.

30 minutes = 10% discharge. If 100% = 6 hours.

So, looks like 6.5 hours on a single charge... Maybe more if you turn off wifi. I started watching music video while waiting, so might have drained a bit more.

Also checked viewing angle. From left and right, maybe about 120-150 degrees. But from top and bottom, maybe only about 45 degree angle can see...

I'm still waiting for steam to finish downloading my orange box patches... Can't wait to see the GPU in action...

I am surprised that aluminium chassis doesn't heat up as I thought it would be. The fan is surprisingly quiet too...

I think this is one of the best laptops in the market for this price. Yay for acer!

lee> link?

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Added on April 7, 2011, 8:07 pmAlso, since we are the first people to have robocop, we should be running some benchmark testing on it... Anybody got any ideas?

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Added on April 7, 2011, 8:09 pmHmmm... Steam does not detect my video driver...

This post has been edited by mudster: Apr 7 2011, 08:09 PM

revamperz> left click on NVDIA GPU activity icon in task area and select "Customize which Programs use the GPU". THen manually add. That's what I did with BG&E

Okay, what settings should I use for Intel Burn test & Furmark?

Intel HD 2000 suuuuuuuuuuuucks on furmark. XD 2-3 fps only... Gonna try with GPU...

HD2k... And it seems if you are on batt and on power, they have different scores. 559 when running on power and 169 when on battery...

I still don't know how to select to test for the NVIDIA GT540M...

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Added on April 7, 2011, 8:33 pmIntel burn test not showing any result at all... confused...

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Added on April 7, 2011, 8:34 pmBattery at 73% after 1.5 hours. So, roughly 6 hours running wifi, basic webbrowsing, some videos and widgets...

Not bad.

This post has been edited by mudster: Apr 7 2011, 08:34 PM

Yes it does have sleep in charge for USB devices...