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    Acer Unveils Aspire Gemstone Blue Notebooks

    Discussion in 'Notebook News and Reviews' started by Andrew Baxter, Mar 12, 2008.

  1. silvine

    silvine Notebook Enthusiast

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    Why is it 10x worse than the Dell offerings?

    The XPS range is overpriced.

    Also, how would this laptop handle Crysis?
     
    silvine, Apr 20, 2008
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  2. pcteck

    pcteck Notebook Enthusiast

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    i want one so bad but waiting to see if they have anything better then 9500 gs or 9650 gs the specs are identical to 8600 m gt and 8700 m gt,
     
    pcteck, Apr 20, 2008
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  3. Barry Hall

    Barry Hall Newbie

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    Acer 8920G nVIDIA drivers??
    I know its been about a year since the last posting in this thread and not sure how relevant this info is but thought someone may benefit!
    I've just spent a few frustrating days reading forums every where regards my 2nd hand Acer 8920G with 9500m gs card which didn't run blu ray disks and seemed to be a nVIDIA driver issue. Thought maybe the issue was Acer Arcade Deluxe, so I got hold of Cyberlink PowerDVD 8 and this also indicated a graphics driver issue.

    After finding a few drivers that crashed the display & a few that ran but didn't run blu ray, I finally tried 181.22 Dox’s (file version Vista_181.22.1) on my 32 bit Vista Home machine & I'm really stoked now.

    Both Acer Arcade Deluxe & Cyberlink PowerDVD 8 play Blu ray disks.

    So driver can be found here:
    http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showforum=122

    It said to uninstall your existing driver which I did from Safe Mode then used Driver clean Pro 1.5 (free version can be googled) to remove 'nvidia' remains. It can be used for Vista but you need to right click the DCProSetup.exe and choose properties, Compatability & tick 'Run this program as an administrator'.

    I don't play games so not sure if they work or not!

    Good Luck
     
    Barry Hall, Mar 11, 2009
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  4. conghelach

    conghelach Notebook Consultant

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    I agree, sadly acer notebooks are not very well built, too bad they do not have a high quality line of notebooks.
     
    conghelach, Mar 12, 2009
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  5. conghelach

    conghelach Notebook Consultant

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    Indeed, Dell has become just as low quality as Acer, all Dell cares about these days is Colors......... tangerine and pink and blue OH MY............
    Quality? You cant put a price on it or color for that matter, just ask Dell...
     
    conghelach, Mar 12, 2009
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