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[WTA] Netbook?

ChaosGenesis — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:15:25 +0800

I want to buy a netbook and I have a few questions in mind...

1. Does any netbook come with Windows 7 Home Premium? (I know most ship with Starter)

2. What netbook comes with 2GB (or at least upgradeable to 2GB without needing to void the warranty? RAM?

3. Does any netbook ship with SSD anymore?

That said...

Any netbook meet these requirements?

- Windows 7 Home Premium

- 2GB RAM

- < RM 1.4k

[WTA] - USB flash drive~

ChaosGenesis — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:14:38 +0800

Hi,

I would like to know which of the 'normal' USB flash drive on the market now performs best (in terms of read and write speed)...

Normal as in.. within RM 80 for a 8GB version (or say RM 50 for a 4GB)~

I've searched through loads of data sheets and I'm more confused than when I started lol

I don't really want anything too bulky either if that's not too much to ask for ^^

Thanks in advance!

WTA - RAM O.o

ChaosGenesis — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:21:00 +0800

Hope you guys can help me out here...

I use an Acer 5920G (1 year +)~

So... I thought of upgrading my RAM...

Question(s)...

1. Kingston's website says I should use KAC-MEMF/2G... as opposed to the conventional KVR RAMs... I want to know if there's a significant compatibility issue or performance difference between the two models (and I can't find any information on KAC's RAM speed...)

2. And how about HyperX RAMs? I've read if I don't overclock (which I don't).. there's no point getting these RAMs... is that true?

3. Performance... will a 800MHz RAM provide any significant improvement in performance over a 667MHz RAM?

4. I'm using Vista 32-bit... I know I'll only get 3GB+ RAM out of 2 2GB sticks... but I want to know if having 2 2GB sticks will provide any significant amount of performance boost since I'm guessing Dual Channeling would be enabled... (and the fact I get a couple of extra 100s of MB from the 'leftover' 4GB...)

5. And... something not RAM related.. LOL... What part of the notebook CAN I change? I know this sounds stupid... but yeah... for example.. the HDD... the CPU... Graphic Card... and what not.. which part is... changeable? ^^

Thanks in advance for any answers!

Vista slow bootup...

ChaosGenesis — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:57:15 +0800

Hear me out? XD

Let's see...

I'm having more than 2 minute long boots... which I think is pretty long.. (it's more than double what I used to have...)...

That said... most of the boot time is spent at the black screen with moving green bar page (OK.. I'm no computer expert.. if I was.. I'd probably be giving advice instead of asking for it right? XD)... It used to be something like.. 4 runs (the bar crosses the page 4 times...) but now.. it's taking more than 20 LOL

I got this from Event Viewer...

This is my current boot performance log...

BootTsVersion 2
BootStartTime 2008-11-13T08:38:45.843Z
BootEndTime 2008-11-13T08:42:17.042Z
SystemBootInstance 748
UserBootInstance 589
BootTime 139643
MainPathBootTime 96643
BootKernelInitTime 25
BootDriverInitTime 27265
BootDevicesInitTime 3071
BootPrefetchInitTime 44389
BootPrefetchBytes 316686336
BootAutoChkTime 0
BootSmssInitTime 28929
BootCriticalServicesInitTime 1110
BootUserProfileProcessingTime 876
BootMachineProfileProcessingTime 13
BootExplorerInitTime 2447
BootNumStartupApps 16
BootPostBootTime 43000
BootIsRebootAfterInstall false
BootRootCauseStepImprovementBits 0
BootRootCauseGradualImprovementBits 0
BootRootCauseStepDegradationBits 0
BootRootCauseGradualDegradationBits 0
BootIsDegradation false
BootIsStepDegradation false
BootIsGradualDegradation false
BootImprovementDelta 0
BootDegradationDelta 0
BootIsRootCauseIdentified false

While this was about... 4 months back I think...

BootTsVersion 2
BootStartTime 2008-07-15T16:17:15.718Z
BootEndTime 2008-07-15T16:19:29.789Z
SystemBootInstance 589
UserBootInstance 457
BootTime 73145
MainPathBootTime 37645
BootKernelInitTime 22
BootDriverInitTime 5325
BootDevicesInitTime 8837
BootPrefetchInitTime 60416
BootPrefetchBytes 613384192
BootAutoChkTime 0
BootSmssInitTime 9047
BootCriticalServicesInitTime 1523
BootUserProfileProcessingTime 1106
BootMachineProfileProcessingTime 9
BootExplorerInitTime 7297
BootNumStartupApps 21
BootPostBootTime 35500
BootIsRebootAfterInstall false
BootRootCauseStepImprovementBits 0
BootRootCauseGradualImprovementBits 0
BootRootCauseStepDegradationBits 0
BootRootCauseGradualDegradationBits 0
BootIsDegradation false
BootIsStepDegradation false
BootIsGradualDegradation false
BootImprovementDelta 0
BootDegradationDelta 0
BootIsRootCauseIdentified false

Numbers in red are the ones with markedly changed values...

Now.. I'm not expert... so I have no idea what in the world those data MEAN...

If anyone would be so kind as to enlighten me on the matter?

Or maybe suggest other diagnostic tests I could run?

Best if you could come up with a series of steps to perform to increase the performance of my machine!

Oops.. nearly forgot.. Specs >.<"

Acer 5920G (one year + old model), Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 (2.0GHz), 2GB RAM, nVidia GeForce 8600M GT, running on Vista SP 1

Thanks!

[addedon]November 14, 2008, 9:49 pm[/addedon]Anyone??

[addedon]November 15, 2008, 11:59 pm[/addedon]Nobody? >.<

WTA - Reconditioning?

ChaosGenesis — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:36:36 +0800

I'm wondering if anyone has any idea where I can send my phone to get reconditioned

If you have any idea where.. please state the price range too thanks!