Hi guys,
Another new 4730ZG owner reporting in... just got it in PC Fair today. Btw, I am from Penang

The very first thing I did was to remove all the junks (Acer Game Consoles) and those trial wares... I use Avast! instead of McAfee... So far so good... I like it very much!!!!

It's FOC ! No need annual renewal!

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Added on April 19, 2009, 8:52 amBacklight bleeding is normal for LCD because of its technology. This LCD is a TN panel, so the 'bleeding' is just whitish. If you get those expensive LCD with more colour gamut, you might see orange or reddish bleeding!

This post has been edited by Dothan: Apr 19 2009, 08:52 AM

Why bother to install XP since you got genuine Vista Premium?

The problem is this lappy got a hidden partition around 10GB (not sure) that stores Vista image (purposely slipstreamed for this lappy). Either you make a backup copy of it first, then only redo/format the HDD for XP installation.

You expect a RM2199 lappy to play crysis at 1280x1024 at full 8x AA? Give it a break. You should get a better model.

The dimmer you set the lesser whitish 'bleeding' you see
Please treat it as normal case... 'bleeding' is normal for LCD unless your LCD panel got coating (like those branded LCD TV)... even with coating, you might see the 'bleeding' in a dark room.


To ease your anxiety... let me paste part of the drawbacks in LCD technology explain in Wikipedia...

Source

This post has been edited by Dothan: Apr 19 2009, 11:28 PM

No need to wonder, the cost of upgrading to C2D on your own is more expensive than you thought. It is not easy to source OEM C2D processor with lappy low thermal and low wattage spec.

This post has been edited by Dothan: Apr 20 2009, 08:34 AM

I did a background check of the pentium dual core T4200. Interestingly, it was a Penryn processor with 1MB cache. In other words, it is a C2D with retarded cache (1MB instead of 3/4/6MB you name it) and retarded FSB (for more stable operationg and marketing segmentation purpose) . This is due to the manufacturing yield (not all chips produced on a same wafer are the same). So Intel disable the cache and downgrade the FSB via fusing off the eletrical paths and rebrand it as Pentium dual core. However, the logic units are still functioning as C2D, you have all the features. 1 more interesting fact is sometimes Intel purposely downgrade the C2D to sell at different market depending on demand!

Not advisable because lappy's component are tightly integrated into 1 tiny space and the thermal dissipation solution are built to dissipate certain amount of heat only. When you overclock it, you are really shortening the lifespan freaking fast. But again, why spend the money on lappy if you know you are going to overclock? Not senseful right??

Ditto to the gpu performance comments. It is not powerful and plays crysis at high details with full aa. Yet it serves me well on casual gaming (counter strike) with less noticed framerate drop. Btw, anyone can tell me where can I tweak the gpu? The acer supplied ati catalyst seems only allow me to change the colour and screen width ratios

Fed up with the crappy Vista 32bit... install the Win7 RTM and voila! It works like charm. The supplied vista drivers are compatible with Win7 (But i downloaded the latest catalyst driver though)

I like Win7 more and more

Hmm... I am not sure this consider complication or not. First and foremost, the on screen display is gone. Meaning, you won't see the green volume/light indicator overlay. The e-management functionality also gone. To me, it is acceptable because I just want a clean OS with 100% power management support will do.

The booting of Win7 is impressive especially you slot in big capacity SD Card into the lappy's SD card slot. Win7's ready boost helps to boot into window within 30 sec.

Still found this good old lappy is very good in handling non-demanding games... have been playing CS, CS:Source on this lappy for good.