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    Soon to be the proud owner of a 6920G

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by mc6415, Dec 13, 2008.

  1. mc6415

    mc6415 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Howdy all, I'm new here so go easy on me.

    I'm soon to be the proud owner of a new Acer 6920G laptop with these specs:

    * Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5750
    * (2 GHz, 667 MHz, 2 MB Cache)
    * Genuine Windows Vista (R) Home Premium
    * 3 GB Memory
    * 250 GB Hard Drive
    * Blu-ray Combo drive
    * 16" CrystalBrite widescreen Display
    * ATi Mobility Radeon HD3650 Graphics Card
    * dedicated 512 mb Graphics Memory
    * Wireless enabled


    Just wondering is there anything I should know to do for when I recieve, or little tweaks and tips for it?

    You can throw anything at me, I'd class myself as a mid-range geek, to give you an idea, I've dabbled in volt mods on graphics cards, bios flashing, overclocking on pretty much everything on this desktop which I built myself (it's my baby), so yeh anything you can think of?
     
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  2. Andy

    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    Well, I can tell you what you can search for on this forum.
    Once you get it, install SP1, check out the "Vista tips and tweaks guide", Undervolting guide, burn your recovery discs, and get rid of the useless Acer bloatware, which kinda slows down the already slow and lame Vista. Launch Manager is fine IMO. You can find substitutes in the free software/antivirus section.
    You won't be able to overclock the CPU/RAM, but there are a couple of GPU overclocking guides here (checkout the gaming section).
     
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  3. mc6415

    mc6415 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm definately getting rid of whatever free anti-virus, firewall or whatever comes with it, in favour of Comodo firewall and AVG, thanks for the response
     
    mc6415, Dec 13, 2008
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    matmat07 Notebook Evangelist

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    I would tell you not to delete acer's programm, but instead just take them out of your booting. I hope you understanded that. If something goes wrong, it will always be on your computer.
     
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  5. TeeJay 44

    TeeJay 44 Notebook Deity

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    AVG is not a good option right now. There have been many issues.

    Avira is rock-solid and has an excellent detection rate.

    And, it's free like AVG.

    http://www.free-av.de/en/download/1/avira_antivir_personal__free_antivirus.html

    Cheers,
    Theo
     
    TeeJay 44, Dec 13, 2008
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  6. Full-English

    Full-English Notebook Deity

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    I'm with Teejay on the Anti-Virus, Avira is much better than AVG. On some tests that were done Avira came out on top. Faired best in 2008.

    Burn your back-up disks as soon as you get the Laptop. Then see what bloatware there is and get rid of what you want. I basically got rid of the lot when I got the my machine, acer stuff included, you can pretty much find everything the acer stuff does in vista.
     
    Full-English, Dec 13, 2008
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    I like Mcafee but its not free like other said Avira is a very good free anti virus
     
    Halo360Fan, Dec 13, 2008
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  8. matmat07

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    there's avast too. I'm testing it and avira right now to see if one will get something the other didn't.
    Avira detected a trojan avast didn't. I would sugest you use it.
     
    matmat07, Dec 13, 2008
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