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Acer Ferrari Repair

I've had my Acer Ferrari 4000 for four years now, and it has been a great laptop. Yes, I wish I had a dual core. Yes, I wish I had a laptop that had 4 GB or even more. But honestly, the Ferrari was still a quite good little laptop, iwth a great display...
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Windows Home Server - Public Beta Includes x64

The public beta of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 is now available on the Microsoft Connect site for download. This is a major update for WHS - not only does it fix the corruption issue that has plagued WHS in certain scenarios, but it also adds full...

MVP Insider this month

http://blogs.technet.com/canitpro/archive/2007/11/01/mvp-profile-charlie-russel.aspx Too bad I don't think SteveB actually reads these things, so I don't think I'm likely to get an answer to my question for him. ;)
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BIOS Update Workaround

Several manufacturers have provided 64-bit BIOS flash utilities, but there are still some holdouts. Acer, for one, can't seem to manage to create one for their Ferrari, even though there are a lot of Acer Ferrari owners out there running 64-bit Windows...

Design a Laptop

So, HP has asked fellow MVP and ExpertZone Columnist Barb Bowman to help them design their next laptop. If you want to have input, post a comment to her blog . I have! This is your chance to help HP out-do the Acer Ferrari, my current favourite laptops...

Vista x64 Drivers Available for Ferrari 5000

Well, I don't have a Ferrari 5000, I've only got the 4000, and those drivers aren't showing, yet. But for those of you lucky enough to have one of the 5000's, the Vista drivers are at: ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/ferrari_5000/driver/vista...

vrrrOOOOOOOOmmm

I've had my new Acer Ferrari 4000 for 3 days now, and I'm loving it. Not only is this a fast notebook, and good looking, but it's really well built, with all the little touches that can make a difference. I've not been a big fan of Acer...
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