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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: Installing Windows XP Professional on Gateway LT3103u

lolsers — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:24:50 -0000

If you want to make it so that the RAM isn't constantly pegged to 100% on that 2GB RAM, buy yourself a single 4GB RAM chip, it'll definitely solve all those problems.

Re: Guide to installing OS X on Lenovo IdeaPad S10

concreategarages1 — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:58:39 -0000

I want to know that OS X could run on normal notebook. As i am not computer geek, is it easy to use as compare to Windows. OS X is far behind in Os race. Can`t compete with Windows.......

Re: Installing Windows XP Professional on Gateway LT3103u

lite2 — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:40:07 -0000

I totaly agree!!!!
I have Win7rc1 on mine and it's great! Peppier than Vista was, Love it.
I do have an order in for the $50 upgrade for 7 so for me this pc is where it's going(like i'd ever go back to Vista).
I am looking into the possibilities of OSX on this beast though. Just for fun.

Re: Unboxing the Gateway LT3103u 11.6 inch netbook

mkanet — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:54:58 -0000

Krunker, could you please do me a huge favor and look for the AMD chipset drivers that comes on your DVD? I made the mistake of installing Windows 7 without creating the DVD. I need the chipset drivers (particularly the 64 bit ones for Vista). I have looked for hours and cant find them anywhere on the Internet; and, of course, Gateway doesnt provide these Laptop's drivers online. The Acer website has the chipset drivers for the Intel mobile platform only. You can email me at mkanet@yahoo.com.

Re: Gateway LT3103u Review

James — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:36:07 -0000

@krunker .. This is one of the few places (communities if you will?) so far, where owners and would-be owners can discuss and improve their experience with this lovely Gateway netbook.

I appreciate your efforts and await your inputs on the above. Thanks a bunch.

Re: Unboxing the Gateway LT3103u 11.6 inch netbook

mkanet — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:28:16 -0000

Sorry for the double-post. I'm not exactly where to post a new question.

I'd like to know all of you that installed Windows 7 64 bit, how you managed to pull off getting the card reader to work, I tried the Realtek USB 2.0 card reader drivers from Acer's site with the 64 bit drivers in it, but nothing changes after running the executable. I'm guessing because there isnt a respective yellow exclamation mark for an SD Reader. The system should show the SD Reader in the device manager, but it doesnt. How do I get Windows 7 to show the SD reader in device manager so I can even install the driver.

Thanks!

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: Unboxing the Gateway LT3103u 11.6 inch netbook

Joanie — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:28:39 -0000

@krunker - Yeah, it all just worked out of the box with only one (temporary) exception, the wifi adapter. But the OpenSolaris laptop community has a driver for that available. Easy to install, worked as expected: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/...

Thanks for the fan info! It's definitely quieter than my desktop systems. And seems to be quieter than my Toshiba laptop. While the fan *does* run all of the time, in retrospect I think I was being hyper-sensitive. :-)

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

fixture — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:56:03 -0000

according to sources, Gateway locked powernow in the BIOS, at least whatever they did rendered the powernow driver in linux non-functional. Thanks,

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/2009/07/10/gateway-l...

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: Installing Windows XP Professional on Gateway LT3103u

KC — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:57:58 -0000

Thanks for this blog. Here are two links I used for drivers:

Wireless: http://station-drivers.com/telechargement/ather...

Audio: http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/ExpressFTPS...

Both work fine.

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/downloads/downloadsCh...

One of these two options should work for you.

Re: Installing Windows XP Professional on Gateway LT3103u

Jerry — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:32:42 -0000

I am loading XP but can not get the sound card to work or my PCI device / network controller...how can I get this please?