What happen to you 4820tg? I am currently using 3820tg, still strong and nothing wrong with it.

It's thinner than my 3820tg. It should be much thinner than 4820tg. According to spec: Height: 30.40 mm

V131 is 21.00 mm.

Other advantage including USB3.0 and e-Sata. Both allow you to use external HDD at 10 times (theoretically) faster. With this option, it is now possible to install a small SSD (cheaper) for OS and application, then keep all movies, VMware, etc in an external HDD. You can access the external HDD at full speed.

V131 has faster HDD (7200 RPM), 2 hours more battery life with wifi, Sandy Bridge CPU and there is also a finger print reader... but i dont use them... the Webcam is a HD webcam, much better than most web cam.

The difference between i3 and i5 in most daily computing are not noticeable; even in running a few VMware and gaming. But i3 should run cooler.

But since you already have 4820tg, I recommend you keep it. V131 is no match when it comes to gaming. The 5650 / 6550 GPU in 4820tg will make V131 cry.

This post has been edited by cowithgun: Aug 25 2011, 08:29 AM

cow: ur lappy got flickering issue? hide us ah??

If there is, I am not aware. I dont see any problem / flickering while playing movie and game... and I do both of those very often. Can check out many of my game play:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_quer...urce=opensearch

This post has been edited by cowithgun: Aug 25 2011, 09:14 AM

sien leh. u can play the 4k vid with dvxa?

my hard disk failing.. S.M.A.R.T reporting hdd going to fail.. lucky I have few months before my warranty period over.
I have few other complaints like lid not closing properly and noisy fan even when not gaming, keyboard trapped so many dust and it flexes.
I have desktop already for gaming, and I don't like gaming in laptop coz the fan will kick in, laptop feel hotter and I feel like my laptop under stress
I use my laptop mainly for java programming, that's why I require to have i5 processor, and the portability of the laptop means I can do programming more on the go. u have explained more advantages v131 have compared to 4820tg. but then when it come to my senses, maybe I should just keep the acer. dunno

how u check the SMART? http://majorgeeks.com/HDDScan_for_Windows_d6321.html

check ur task manager kill rundll32.exe & dun click games explorer. u need cooling pad only the fan won't kick so hardly. ambient temp take consider also. as long the underneath got some ventilation then ur lappy should be fine.

yes, I used hddscan, and this error message always come out in windows "Windows detected a hard disk problem"




Attached thumbnail(s)

toshiba? omg it proved again toshiba not like old-days so lasting liau.

did u tried clean format ur hdd? still under warranty? just call vendor!

I didn't bother to clean format the hdd. Just do backup and sent it to service center. they are going to replace it. and yeah, it looks like this hdd so easy to fail, haven't yet experience other brand of hdd that fail this soon, or maybe just my bad luck

ask for other brand like WD or samsung? might be refurbished? acer lappy rarely use toshiba hdd leh. mostly WD or seagate.

I don't think can ask for other brand. dat's why I'm thinking to replace it with other laptop after I got it back. v131 is one of the candidate.

can! y can't? just tell them if same issue happened again how? make them speechless. a lot user of 4820TG still kicking strong. no need buy new 1 lah. just unlucky u get lousy HDD.

dat's why i said, i have mixed feeling about replacing the laptop. just like after ur car involved in accident.. even after fix.. dun feel like keeping it anymore

This post has been edited by digitheatre: Aug 25 2011, 10:51 AM

i will keep it cos tight budget! u tried hdd tune 2.55 c got how many bad sector? if they dun1 change the hdd for u. bad sector can't be fixed.

HDD failure! I hope you managed to save your data.

Desktop is much prefer if playing game. I play game mostly when traveling, so a portable and gaming notebook is preferred.

I list down all advantages of V131 as you have requested for it! If you dont have 4820tg, make sense to get V131. But since you already have 4820tg, make sense to keep it. Unless $ is not an issue.

Even with Eclipse+JWS+JBOSS+everything jav-else running, I doubt you will see the differences in i3 and i5.

read the star paper 2 day. Q1 & Q2 profit loss b'cos apple.

cow: wat is ur hdd apm & aam setting? ur 3820tg come with WD hdd right?

Who lost money? Steve Jobs resigned as CEO.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/24/steve-j...s-ceo-of-apple/

When he come back to Apple, he wanted to prove that those who fired him were wrong. He did it.

Dont know the apm and aam setting of my HDD, but i know its WD. What you want to do with the APM?

This post has been edited by cowithgun: Aug 25 2011, 02:39 PM

wanna play with those setting to perform the best

How much performance can you manage to squeeze?

dunno. meaning wanna fully utilize it lah~ sien~ pes 2011 patch not yet out. pes 2012 graphics damn nice.