Welcome to the club

Your score is same like mine. 4.0 is the lowest. Im suprised gaming can get 4.1. Desktop only 4.0

Battery should easily last 1hr for normal usage(wifi, bt on). Only 2 hrs is a bit hard to reach. Did you tweak your vista power setitngs?

Heat can be really bad for this model. the HD 3450 and Turion is burning the laptop. I think the bottom is poorly designed because no ventilation. Even cooler doesnt work. Try to elevate the laptop a bit.

Yeah the score doesnt matter much. U can go to Change advanced power settings and manually configure the power settings. Im sure that would help to squezze a few mins of battery time. For the battery life, I'm very sure it can last more than an hour. Maybe can reach 2 hr or more. Havent try before though. Most of the time I use AC Power cos the laptop light enough.

For cooler, Ive tried RM8 one before and no difference. I dont feel like spending up to RM100 for a good cooler since this is a cheap laptop. For long term investment I think it might be good. I just use some small but thick books/mag and elevate is on both side or font back. Make sure you dont cover the air vent on the left part of the back so that hot air can come out. At the bottom, there is virtually no air vents so I think getting a cooler wont help much. Just make sure the hot air can come out.
I got exactly the same score like yours but Im using 2GB DDR2 677. Maybe switching to DDR2 800 can get memory score to 5.7 or 5.8. Normally Vista Aero score will be higher than 3D graphics score but this model is opposite. I suspect Powerplay is the culprit because on normal desktop, my HD 3450 downclocks to 110mhz and switches gradually to 500mhz according to load.

not sure about that cos i rarely used headphone on this model.

last time i tried i think no problem. Maybe settings. try to reinstall the driver again and set the default audio playback device to speakers and headphones.

So far I have 0 problems although I dont use DVD much. Did you update to latest bios?

no problem with my drive..it burns all kind of dvd so far from china made until branded one..

at lelong.com the price is bout rm40-50..seems nice for laptop cooling but just looking at its design..can it be mount to CQ???

Very interesting design but I doubt it will help much in cooling this model. More holes are needed for air intake IMHO.

Yeah, your feedback would help the community here. currently I'm using this but I dont notice difference in temp, in fact more noise.



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