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Re: Apple iPad Review

krunker — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:56:36 -0000

thanks for the correction. I'll update the article to reflect that.

Re: Lenovo Mini Wireless Keyboard N5901 has arrived

krunker — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:42:32 -0000

shoot - I forgot exactly where I found the dongle. It's in there.. just not the most obvious location at all. I remember having to look hard for it.. Hopefully i took a picture of where I found it!

Re: Gateway announces EC14D01h 11.6 inch thin-and-light with built-in DVD drive for Canada

krunker — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:48:49 -0000

I hear ya.. the core 2 duo is definitely needed for this model. Love my ASUS UL30 b/c of the SU7300.

Re: Netbook Review Roundup

krunker — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:37:52 -0000

Umm.. thanks? We didn't review the ASUS S121 but.. we're happy you're enjoying the system!

Re: Dell launches new Vostro 3000 series of thin-and-light notebooks

krunker — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:37:04 -0000

Chances are your ASUS has a better battery life than the Vostro. Now if you're looking for a better performing system I do recommend the ASUS UL30 series. Great battery life and 2-3x performance thx to CULV Intel Core 2 Duo

Re: Samsung announces pricing and availability to 2010 LED HDTV product lineup

krunker — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:35:59 -0000

The 7000 series have begun hitting the store shelves and I have to admit.. I am tempted to pick one up - at least at the 55 inch range. It'll cost an arm and a leg but man.. the thought of an LED LCD HDTV .. makes me drool. Of course the 3D features are a nice thing to have but the truth is - there just isn't enough content in 3D right now.

Of course.. the slightly older generation LED models are coming down in price big time soooo maybe???

Re: On Vacation

krunker — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:33:44 -0000

amen to that!! Could use another one shortly!!!

Re: Kanguru announces highly-secure Kanguru Defender Elite

krunker — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:33:08 -0000

It boils down to hardware-based encryption and being able to meet federal government standards. Of course given enough time, anything can be broken into. For me - the real question is - is the security features enough to warrant the higher price they're asking for?

Re: Thin-and-light deal – Amazon lowers price of Toshiba Satellite T135-S1307 to $549.99

krunker — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:59:44 -0000

This thin and light is also available at Best Buy for the same price. Played with it this morning and wasn't crazy with the keyboard and the battery is thicker than I would like it to be. Fingerprint magnet too.

Re: Amazon to cut price of ASUS UL30A-X5 thin-and-light notebook at 8am Wed 11/25

krunker — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:56:43 -0000

there was.. it apparently sold out in minutes that morning. I woke up at around 8:45 am and it was all gone. I think the price was around $620? I forget exactly.

Re: Toshiba to release Blu-ray player before end of year

krunker — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:42:19 -0000

whoops - sorry - clicked on the wrong link here in disqus. ignore that claim email. So.. which comment are you referring to?

Re: Gateway LT3103u Review

krunker — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:19:45 -0000

If you have a mini-PCI expansion card - probably

As for app rundown - you would expect any application that's well threaded to like the hyper-threaded Atom just a bit better - but again - it depends on the nature of the application as well as your usage pattern. Word processing, email, web surfing - you probably won't notice much of a difference. Anything else? depends. We unfortunately don't have the time to sit down and compare app by app and benchmark things. One of these days..

Re: Gateway LT3103u Review

krunker — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:16:08 -0000

@james:
battery: will try that test one of these days. Sorry but we're backlogged on some work here.
The gateway was on and under zero load when it was being charged.

video: will get to it later.

CPU: joanmarie found out that PowerNow is not enabled in this processor. Clock speed stays at 1.2GHz despite on battery,.

Re: Gateway LT3103u Review

krunker — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:37:26 -0000

that's certainly an odd thing to do. I'll look into the BIOS settings this weekend. I must admit I paid very little attention to the BIOS during the review.

Re: Gateway LT3103u Review

krunker — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:53:49 -0000

It's a Synaptics TouchPad - not exactly sure the model number.

Re: Gateway LT3103u Review

krunker — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:52:13 -0000

The LT3103u has the Atheros AR5B95 chipset. I would assume Windows supports PowerNow but I didn't actually look into that.

Re: Installing Windows XP Professional on Gateway LT3103u

krunker — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:50:13 -0000

OK - FINALLY GOT THE REVIEW DONE. I'm sure I'm missing some things here and there but feel free to read the review here:
http://www.netbooktech.com/...

Enjoy folks!

Re: Unboxing the Gateway LT3103u 11.6 inch netbook

krunker — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:49:20 -0000

@joanmarie - that's pretty cool that you got opensolaris working. How was the driver support for you? Did all the components work under OpenSolaris??

As for the fan - it's not too bad but occasionally under high load you do hear it whirring away. I honestly don't notice the fan but that's also b/c I tend to be surrounded by a lot of systems at home so the sound gets washed out by the ambient fan noise :)

Re: Unboxing the Gateway LT3103u 11.6 inch netbook

krunker — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:47:23 -0000

I do recommend that you pick up an external DVD burner for yourself. They're fairly cheap to get these days. With that said, I'll try and see if I can zip up the drivers at least and put them up on netbooktech.com for ya. Will let you guys know soon.

Re: Gateway LT3103u Review

krunker — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:46:05 -0000

@bob - re: h/w acceleration that's certainly correct. The older X1270 GPU is only going to take us so far. I'll try and modify the amount of memory dedicated to the GPU tonight but somehow I have low hopes here..

Re: Installing Windows XP Professional on Gateway LT3103u

krunker — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:44:02 -0000

@ron - I'll try and come up with a guide for installing Windows 7 RC 64 bit this weekend. I finally finished my review of the netbook so I should have a little time to do this guide for ya. However, if you want to go ahead and try - it's pretty straightforward. If I remember correctly the only additional drivers you'll need that Win 7 RC X64 doesn't take care of is Wi-Fi, and graphics. I believe Ethernet was detected just fine.
The most important thing you can do is create the recovery application/driver dvd via the Gateway Recovery Management application. You'll need an external USB burner for this tho - but once you have that up and running, you're golden because this DVD will contain the drivers needed for 64 bit Windows. Since most if not all Vista drivers will work under Windows 7 - this worked just fine. I did however end up installing ATI's latest Radeon drivers for the X1200 series I believe.

In any case, I'll try and come up with something this weekend. No promises tho because I need to start working on the Toshiba netbook review too :)

Re: Unboxing the Gateway LT3103u 11.6 inch netbook

krunker — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:37:48 -0000

I'd love to give those OS's a spin on the system - just need some time to do so.

Re: Unboxing the Gateway LT3103u 11.6 inch netbook

krunker — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:12:48 -0000

Glad the guide helped!!

Re: Installing Windows XP Professional on Gateway LT3103u

krunker — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:12:06 -0000

@bohh - sorry it's taking me so long to get the review going. So much to do these days. However, I did want to answer your immediate questions about Adobe Flash playback. On my Windows XP install, I had no problems playing back standard resolution flash videos on both YouTube and Hulu WHEN inside a browser window.
However, viewing these videos in fullscreen was problematic at best. Playback was choppy and the CPU was pegged at 100 percent.

With that said.. 720p playback varied - depending of course whether hardware acceleration was available for video playback. WMV playback at 720p was OK - it was slightly jerky here and there but otherwise acceptable. 1080p? Forget about it. MKV 720p playback has been laughable at best thus far but I need to do more testing.

It should be said all of this was done on Windows XP. I'll be going back to Windows Vista Home Basic shortly and redoing all the tests again.

Re: Installing Windows XP Professional on Gateway LT3103u

krunker — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:53:01 -0000

There are a couple of ways of getting sound to work.
1. Upgrade to service pack 3 and Windows XP should automatically detect the sound device (it did for me).
or
2. Try the Realtek HD driver here - http://www.realtek.com.tw/d...

One of these two options should work for you.