Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi

[gorcorps]

I've been looking at a laptop to replace my desktop, and I came across this. Actually the whole Ferrari 4000 line looks good, but the 4005WLMi is the one I'm negotiating over. I mainly want this for school work, solidworks (autocad), movies, and possibly a little light gaming nothing more than some CS:S. I like how light it is (6.3lbs) considering the power it has. Does anybody have experience with this and how it performs? I have no experience w/ acer but heard they've been doing good lately.

 

[NewBlackDak]

I have a TM4404. It's nearly the same machine with no bluetooth, only 64MB on the video, and without the paintscheme.

I'm incredibly happy with this machine. I use it for coding, playing games, encoding movies for travelling, and light design work.
It handles everything I do with it. I can play UT2K4 and HL2 maxed. It'll play Q4, and FEAR with everything turned down.

My only gripea so far:
The right mouse button feels flimsy, but works fine.
It only came with DDR333 RAM. Popping in DDR400 made a big difference in gaming.
The speakers sound tinny, and have no volume. It's fine with headphones though.

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: NewBlackDak
I have a TM4404. It's nearly the same machine with no bluetooth, only 64MB on the video, and without the paintscheme.

I'm incredibly happy with this machine. I use it for coding, playing games, encoding movies for travelling, and light design work.
It handles everything I do with it. I can play UT2K4 and HL2 maxed. It'll play Q4, and FEAR with everything turned down.

My only gripea so far:
The right mouse button feels flimsy, but works fine.
It only came with DDR333 RAM. Popping in DDR400 made a big difference in gaming.
The speakers sound tinny, and have no volume. It's fine with headphones though.

I have good headphones so that's good. The slower ram worries me a bit, but I don't intend to game too much so it doesn't worry me that much yet. I'm only planning on using the touchpad when it leaves my desk. Otherwise I'm using my G5 mouse. Thanks for the info, sounds great. Oh, how is the battery life?

 

[simms]

Originally posted by: NewBlackDak
I have a TM4404. It's nearly the same machine with no bluetooth, only 64MB on the video, and without the paintscheme.

I'm incredibly happy with this machine. I use it for coding, playing games, encoding movies for travelling, and light design work.
It handles everything I do with it. I can play UT2K4 and HL2 maxed. It'll play Q4, and FEAR with everything turned down.

My only gripea so far:
The right mouse button feels flimsy, but works fine.
It only came with DDR333 RAM. Popping in DDR400 made a big difference in gaming.
The speakers sound tinny, and have no volume. It's fine with headphones though.

You do realize that if your laptop only supports DDR333, DDR400 memory runs at 333 speeds?

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: simms

Originally posted by: NewBlackDak
I have a TM4404. It's nearly the same machine with no bluetooth, only 64MB on the video, and without the paintscheme.

I'm incredibly happy with this machine. I use it for coding, playing games, encoding movies for travelling, and light design work.
It handles everything I do with it. I can play UT2K4 and HL2 maxed. It'll play Q4, and FEAR with everything turned down.

My only gripea so far:
The right mouse button feels flimsy, but works fine.
It only came with DDR333 RAM. Popping in DDR400 made a big difference in gaming.
The speakers sound tinny, and have no volume. It's fine with headphones though.

You do realize that if your laptop only supports DDR333, DDR400 memory runs at 333 speeds?

I believe the board supports ddr400 but only came w/ ddr333. I'm not positive though.

 

[NewBlackDak]

I get 2:45 at default. With RightMark keeping the CPU throttled down, the wireless card in powersave mode, and powerplay set to "Optimal Battery Life" I get ~3:15. Wireless off gets it to ~3:30.

If you have an a64 notebook, even if your motherboard doesn't "support" 200MHz fsb there are several software utilities that can take care of it.