Acer Aspire 4750Z review

Pros:

Acer Aspire 4750Z is an awesome budget laptop (21,600 INR on 1st Oct 2011) with all the necessary hardware features.This laptop is unique-as it has a latest Pentium dual core processor B940 (http://t.co/tGHhaH0G) launched in June 2011 by Intel.

Triple booting Win XP SP2 32 bit,Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit(Windows Experience Index out of 7.9 :

Processor – 5.8

RAM – 5.5

Graphics – 4.6

Gaming Graphics – 5.9

Primary hard disk -5.8

) and Ubuntu Linux worked as a charm.

The processor doesn’t heat at all ,battery backup of 3+ hrs(though in specifications it is mentioned 4.5 hrs).

Con:

In built speaker is poor(to watch movies, have to use VLC (Equalizer-Live)

Tips:

1>Change SATA controller to IDE from AHCI in BIOS settings (F2 while booting up) before installing any OS

2>Windows 7 drivers are there in CD supplied or here.

Almost all device drivers for Windows 7 is backward compatible for Windows XP too(use device manger>update driver>browse for driver files,in case of any problem).Only Graphics driver isnt compatible.

Download the following Graphics driver for XP:

http://t.co/yfY8o2rQ (Lenovo VGA driver-compatible with Acer’s)

3>To boost volume on win 7(on XP it is somewhat fine):

Right click on the speaker icon in the task bar and select Playback Devices .The Sound dialog box opens up- From the Playback tab select the Playback device >Properties>Speaker Properties>Enhancements tab Disable All Sound Effects

Also use VLC (Equalizer-Live)

So this one is cheap though power buy!

Available on Flipkart .

<Update 7th Dec’2011>

Uploaded XP drivers:

>LAN and WiFi drivers

>Audio Drivers

>VGA -http://t.co/yfY8o2rQ (Lenovo VGA driver-compatible with Acer’s)

 

Silverlight uninstall/install broken error

Microsoft Silverlight has some problem currently in its installer package,when we try to update/uninstall/reinstall.

Follow steps to remove traces of it,so that reinstall is success.

Step1>Start>Run

reg delete HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Silverlight /f

Step2> Start>Run

rmdir /s /q “%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Silverlight

Step3>LogOff ,Login again,install Silverlight now.

Step4>It works!

 

FlazTxtr.co.nr –another service provider–sms via web–what’s new? why bother?

FlazTxtr:is not just another free web sms sending service.It is an attempt to provide updates(say latest news headlines,live cricket score…and more) on your handset via sms.

So why FlazTxtr?
Features:
*Instantly receive updates via sms on your handset across India.
*No requirements to send sms to register(like MyTodaySMS or GoogleSMSChannel).
*Twitter updates of your favourite buddy(ies).
*Feature to send updates in regular intervals..after registering just once.

Coming Up:

*Market updates of share(s) of your choice.
*Entertainment Updates.

How it Works?

 

Some C#.NET nice basic functionalities

C# beginner like me?

Go through basic codes-

1. http://bit.ly/c9tAV
2. http://bit.ly/qWMBH (Great collections at one place!)

More nice functionalities:

• Remove duplicate elements from the array.

eg.

using System.Linq;

string[] sampleArray={“1″,”2″,”3″,”2″,”2″,”3″,”2″};
sampleArray =sampleArray.Distinct().ToArray();

//now sampleArray contains 1,2,3

• 
  

to be continued..