Recent content by Saito S

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    Dell Inspiron 11 - Celeron vs Pentium

    This sparked more of a discussion than I thought! Didn't mean to be gone from my own thread for so long, things have been rather busy. I appreciate all the replies. :) From what I can gather, it sounds like the Pentium is the better bet overall. Well, the 4GB of RAM will "be enough", because...
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    Dell Inspiron 11 - Celeron vs Pentium

    So, I've been seriously considering trying out Dell's Inspiron 11 for a few months now. When I first saw this computer being offered, it had only 2 GB of memory, which was a sticking point in a lot of reviews I read. This has now been updated to 4, so I'm gonna pull the trigger. But, I know...
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    Battery conditioning/calibration for new ultrabook -

    It's a 4-cell battery, and you may very well be right. It occurs to me that I was sitting and waiting and timing it, because I wanted to gauge how long my new computer was taking to charge. Prior to this, I've never really paid attention to preciesly how long it took to charge a mobile device...
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    Battery conditioning/calibration for new ultrabook -

    ^ For whatever difference it might make, that link is referring to the S7-391, whereas I got the S7-392. A Haswell CPU makes for better battery life, but I don't know if that would affect the recharge time or not. The charging I referenced the other night (from 10% to 50% in about an hour and a...
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    Battery conditioning/calibration for new ultrabook -

    Thanks for the reply. This is pretty much what I did; I went with what the Acer user guide recommended, which was draining it until the low battery warning went up, then plugging it back in. However, the recharge seems REALLY slow. Should it really take over an hour and a half to go from...
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    Battery conditioning/calibration for new ultrabook -

    So, I just ordered an Acer Aspire S7. It will arrive tomorrow. While I'm decently knowledgeable about desktop hardware, laptops are a different story. The only one I've had in the last several years was a pretty low-powered netbook. While looking up info for the new one, I've seen it...