Recent content by Langkawi

Hi, Yup, I managed to get the restore to factory settings to work (had previously told me there was no factory image when I tried - so not sure what happened) but the restore got the Blu Ray working again. For what it's worth I'm happy with my purchase and think I chose the right one. I also...

Hi All, I bought an Acer 8943G recently and have been upgrading it and trying to get into as speedy and efficient as possible. The Blu Ray was working fine but since I last used it I've performed the following actions and I suspect that during the removal of bloatware I've deleted the software...

Thanks dark_lord69, OK, that's pretty much what I was thinking. I'll just go with the extra 4GB 1066. As an aside I'm also adding replacing the HDD with an SSD and between the two of these upgrades am hoping to have a machine with some serious juice. Cheers, Alan

Hi All, My Acer 8943G supports DDR3 1333MHz but comes installed with 4GB 1066MHz. I want to add another 4GB (have Windows 7 so should support it) but am wondering about the performance difference between 1066Mhz DDR3 and 1333Mhz. I niavely figured that the 1333 was 25% faster but a decent...

Thanks buwish, Yeah, I guess that's a good start. I haven't installed much on it so far, so I'm gonna revert to factory settings, run something like decrapify and then add just the good stuff that I need & want like Firefox, VLC, Comodo Security and whatnot. Hopefully getting a decent...

Hi All, So I'm the proud owner of a very shiny new Acer 8943G and whilst it's early days am very pleased with loads of aspects of the new lappy compared with my old HP Pavillion DV9500. HD screen and whatnot are cracking. However, I'm not finding the machine as fast as I expected and well, not...

Hi, I have an Acer 8943G laptop with an i7 CPU. The laptop came with a 640GB HDD but it's only a 5400RPM one so I'm concerned this is the weakest link. I'm therefore wondering if adding an SSD (and moving Windows 7 and the system software onto it) would make a noticable difference to speed and...

I just bought the Acer 8943G and am loving it so far (but early days). It has i7 CPU, 18.4 inch full HD screen, 4GB RAM (upgradeable to 8GB), Blu Ray and the clincher for me was the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 which is one of the better lappy GPU's around. Cost 1200GBP but the UK is generally...

Forgot to mention that the MSi is available in store whereas the others would need to be online. Anyone got any feedback on whether the MSi with better GPU makes sense even tho I'm trading down from i7 to i5? Thanks, Alan

Looks like I can pick an MSi GX740 up for £1000 GBP which is 200/300 less than the Acer and the HP Envy. The MSi has a cracking graphics card (Mobility Radeon HD 5870) but means I'm accepting an i5 CPU instead of an i7. But from what I'm reading not many apps or games are likely to use the i7...

Thanks sidewinderx2, Tho darn - that adds to the pressure to find one with a great GPU to start with !! Cheers, Alan

Hi All, I just wondered if there is an easy way of telling which laptops can support which GPU cards? Is there some kind of website resource where you can enter the laptop make/model and the GPU and it will tell you if the lappy can support that GPU? (Background is I'm looking to buy a high...

Hi, So I had a look at both the MSi US site and the MSi Europe site and their UK stockists but none seem to have anything that ticks enough of my boxes(17inch 1080 screen, i7 CPU and Blu Ray). There's obviously the option of importing one from US but that sounds like a minefield in itself...

Hi vipers992, No worries on the american links. I did have a quick look at the MSi website at lunchtime and was impressed with what I saw. Also there were details of the UK stockists on the MSi website so I could do that route. Initial misgivings were around the lack of 1080HD displays and no...

Hey vipers992 - cheers for the info. I know what you mean about Acer and that would be a reservation, but my first ever laptop was an Acer Travelmate and I thought it was a cracking, reliable machine - especially for the fact it was only £400 back when laptops were not cheap. Also the Acer in...