How much would the battery life drop with 4GB of RAM and Windows 64 Bit installed. Can it and does it run well?
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This statement is no longer accurate. Due to BIOS updates, the full 4GB of memory is now accessible.
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Remarkably good, but I haven't measured it. On all day yesterday, actually using it probably a total of 3-4 hours with sleep mode between uses, and still good life in it. Only time it died was at the end of that day I started a download of Windows 8.1 and forgot to plug it in--died about 75% of the way thru after a couple more hours.
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Yes it will run windows 8 and it can handle a 64bit OS. Now is it going to be a speed demon? Nope. It should be a stable little computer.
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windows 8 is still in it's nascent stage - i installed and later uninstalled as nothing 'd be done in the present form.....too young for an OS satisfied with win 7 HP after removing the bloatware works great anyone know if i'd use a external battery pack for long use ? please advise
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Battery life is great! I get about 3+ hours of basic use (browsing, etc) and about 1.75-2 hours using photoshop, light gaming, etc. if you manually specify most programs to use the intel graphics it lasts quite a while more than the nvidia graphics, but you'll always trade power for speed. Overall it's a great setup and I've thoroughly enjoyed mine for both work (photographer) and play (gamer).
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You coul but you would not be able to use all your Ram memory and the whole power of the equipment. If you want to use XP, I would install the 64 version of it.
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I have a good review of this laptop. It runs surprisingly fast with a 2nd generation processor and 8Gb Ram. Boot time from off is less than a minute. I use it 16 hours a day and never have issues with it.
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yes, I'm running it in windows 7 64bit and so far I haven't had any trouble with it .
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What operating system do you plan on using? Windows 7 64 Bit= probably not, unless you are playing high end games or using CAD related programs. Windows 8= it would be worth the investment. I'm running 16 Gb of RAM with a Sabertooth on a high demand CAD machine with Windows 7, and the performance is outstanding. I'm also running 8 Gb of RAM on a Sabertooth with Windows 8 in a Premiere/After Effects/Photoshop environment and I'm purchasing 8 more Gb's to improve the performance.
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for basic use I would say it can run for at least 4 hours or more, obviously less if youre gaming and such.
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I run Windows7 and have not had a problem. As to if it will take more Ram ask Acer
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I would assume it would load it if you had enough (ram) memory. Not sure about the 64 bit. I'm running 7 on mine with 4 gigs of ram and a 2 gig geforce video. Remember the board does not have a video out. For me that was a selling feature.
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3.5 HRS tops. That, and the clumsy track pad are the only downsides to this rig. I would still recommend this laptop to anyone who needs these specs at an affordable price. Can't beat it.
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Depends on what you're using it for. I get about three hours of use out of the battery. I modified it and bought a 120GB SSD drive and 4GB of RAM. Those upgrades made it super fast, and it does all the user basics with ease.
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Hi. I have owned this laptop for a couple of months now and it is amazing. The average battery life I am getting while running wifi and having the brightness about 3/4 bright, I am getting 5 1/2 hours. With wifi off running regular programs like Word, Excel and Powerpoint, I am getting about 6-6/12 hours. Amazing battery life
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Yes. Yes it can. Running 64gb of ram and glad it can take full advantage of it
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Ultimately up to you, but performance mode is by far the best user experience I've ever had with a laptop and power saving mode gets literally 4 hours of battery life while capable of multi-tasking programs that would normally kill a laptop's battery in 45 minutes. More memory than you can imagine, including 250GB of Solid State goodness. Very capable of a dual boot if necessary, and has zero cooling issues whatsoever - This laptop really doesn't get that warm because of the killer technology inside it. I'm definitely happy with it!