emachines laptop

[Mike Larkin]

The 2nd dimm slot is internal, inside the system (but I did confirm with 
the eMachines rep that there really is a dimm in there, it's not some 
RAM soldered on the system board). It's not a field/user-replacable 
module. :(

Hence, unless you want to void the warranty, you've got to send it to 
eMachines and get an RMA for them to install the memory for you.

That's not good news, but at least they offered to do it for me under 
warranty.

As for the drive, it's a 60GB Toshiba 6021GAS, 4200RPM and 2MB cache 
(low end unit).

I can't try the memory suggestion without replacing both modules, so 
even if I were to do that, it would be a while before  I could comment 
on the effect.... I can however say that the clock speed is not 2GHz but 
rather 1.8GHz..  3 different OSes all report 1.8GHz.

On another subject - is AMD64 ACPI any better under 2.6.1? Because 
without ACPI for power management, you only get about 1 hr battery life 
under FC1, while with Win32 ACPI battery management, it's closer to 3 hours.

-ml




Brian Stretch wrote:

>>Still looking for the second dimm slot.. So far, I've only found 1, 
>>which means that the max would be 1.25GB.. The door on the 
>>bottom of the laptop only exposes a single slot.
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>Try emailing eMachines.  They've been very good about replying
>to emails I've sent to them within hours.  I don't always get the
>answer I want but they do appear cluefull.  Be sure to tell them
>to smack Broadcom while you're at it. 
>
>Still, I'm disappointed they didn't document how to get to both
>DIMM slots in print.  There's probably info in the online docs
>under Windows that you can't get to. 
>
>I have a suspicion that if you dropped in Corsair PC3200 SODIMMs
>in place of the included PC2700's you could tweak the BIOS for
>400MHz memory and effectively have an Athlon 64 3200+.  The
>specs they list, 1MB L2 and 2GHz clock, match those for a 3200+
>with PC3200 memory.  Using PC2700 subtracts 200 points on the
>TPI scale.  I guess PC3200 SODIMMs were too hard to find in
>quantity?  Just speculating here.  Newegg.com has the Corsair
>SODIMMs. 
>
>BTW, is the included HD a 4200RPM drive or 5400?  2MB cache or
>8MB?  I haven't bought a notebook yet but when I come up with a
>proper excuse I'm planning on getting an eMachines 64-bit. 
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