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Eleven-year-old Kobe Whitaker said he had something specific in mind when he looked for a Boy Scout troop to join: It had to be progressive and inclusive.
Most troops in Utah are sponsored by churches, predominantly the LDS Church. And Kobe said he and his mother were concerned that some "are rude toward gay or non-Mormon people. We found one that's really supportive and there's a comfort level"
It's that sort of inclusive environment that Utah Pride Center officials said they were looking to create when they recently applied to charter a Boy Scout troop. But their request has been denied for a second time despite the organization's historic vote in May to begin accepting gay youths in January.
After an initial denial, center officials applied a second time to the Great Salt Lake Council in the wake of the vote, reiterating that all leaders of the new troop would be straight adults in accordance with national rules. Many had held leadership positions in Episcopalian and Methodist churches.
"Having a BSA (Boy Scouts of America) troop affiliated with the Utah Pride Center offers tremendous advantages to minorities, youth of color, disenfranchised young men, and other marginalized demographics," center officials wrote.
They were told no deal in a letter they received this week, dated June 7.
"As we discussed several weeks ago, after reviewing your mission and comparing it to ours, we do not believe a partnership is in the best interest of your organization or Scouting," wrote Rick Barnes, Scout executive for Great Salt Lake Council, one of the largest in Utah overseeing about 75,000 youths.
Fifteen council representatives recently joined 1,400 voting members of the BSA National Council at a meeting in Texas on May 23, where a final vote approved allowing gay Scouts. The policy continues to exclude gay leaders.
Barnes offered this suggestion as an alternative to a Pride Center troop: "If you have youth who desire to be in the program, we are happy to invite them into one of our existing Scouting units."
But Valerie Larabee, Pride Center executive director, said that suggestion is unrealistic, partly because some youths are concerned they will not feel comfortable in a troop sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
She said a Utah Pride Center troop could have provided support to youths similar to troops run by the Tongan Community Service Center.
The Utah Pride Center is a nonprofit based in Salt Lake City that serves Utah's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, including thousands of youths in programs such as the annual gay prom.
The troop denial and the continuing BSA ban of gay leaders fosters outdated stereotypes of gay men, said Charles Frost, Pride Center director of community engagement and awareness.
"We're not here recruiting people to be gay," Frost said, "but to help them grow up to be happy, healthy adults. There's inconsistencies in the new policy when at 18 you're supposed to be pedophile. When 18, be gone."
BSA national spokesman Deron Smith responded in an email: "As it does with each organization that requests a charter, Scouting thoughtfully reviewed this application. Based on the organization's mission, Scouting does not believe granting a charter is in the best interest of either group. Scouting is a youth program, and we are focused on serving kids."
The LDS Church supported the new Scouting policy allowing gay youths. Church leaders recently issued a letter titled, "Church Relationship with the Boy Scouts of America" to be read during Sunday services.
"The church will move forward in its association with Boy Scouts of America with a focus on strengthening young men in their role as bearers of the Aaronic Priesthood," reads the May 28 letter, signed by the Utah-based faith's governing First Presidency.
LDS leaders reaffirmed that young men who follow church standards, including abstaining from sexual relationships outside marriage, are "welcomed warmly and encouraged to participate" in church-sponsored Scouting activities.
Larabee said there are about 300 pride centers in the country, many running Girl Scout troops.
"We wanted a program where youth could build character, competencies and skills, where they feel safe and affirming," Larabee said.
Top civic and faith groups taking part
in the Boy Scouts of America
The top five faith-based chartered organizations based on youth membership in 2012:
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints • 430,557
United Methodist Church • 363,876
Catholic Church • 273,648
Presbyterian Church • 125,523
Lutheran Church • 116,417
The top five civic-based chartered organizations based on youth membership in 2012:
Educational organizations • 313,040
Groups of citizens • 100,751
American Legion & Auxiliary • 68,154
Businesses • 66,454
Lions International • 64,563
Source: BSA National Chartered Organizations Report
The new policy
The resolution approved in May by the Boys Scouts of America reads: "No youth may be denied membership in the Boy Scouts of America on the basis of sexual orientation or preference alone."


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Author: Brock, R. A. (Robert Alonzo), 1839-1914, comp. and ed.
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Layla Tucak Louise Perry The Australian 8.4.02
SLEEK, graceful and incredibly rare, the Abbotts Booby bird found only on Christmas Island has faced many natural foes throughout its evolution, but none as powerful as its most recent the federal Government. The commonwealth recently announced plans to build a detention centre on Christmas Island at the North West Point an area surrounded by national parks and identified as a high priority centre for the rehabilitation of the birds.
The National Parks Australia Council has denounced the plan as "illegal". In a letter to Environment Minister David Kemp, the NPAC said the proposal did not have proper approvals and asked that the work on the site cease immediately
NPAC president Andrew Cox said the development, which was of national environmental significance, should have been referred to Mr Kemp under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, but wasn't.
He also said the development contravened an approved recovery plan for the Abbotts Booby and an environmental impact statement should have been prepared but wasn't.
"There are more suitable sites on the island that do not have such severe environmental impacts, and already have infrastructure provided," he said.
Monash University biologist Peter Green said Abbotts Booby birds were the focus of a commonwealth funded rehabilitation program, which had been taking place at the site of the new detention centre. "And now they have just put a bulldozer through it," he said.
If the development goes ahead, the researcher said the island's famous red land crabs would also be under threat from increased traffic along the one main road that connects the site to the eastern side of the island where most people live.
"Once a year the crabs migrate across that road to spawn and increased traffic will result in millions of deaths," he said.
Dr Green said nesting habitats of the endangered seabirds were also threatened by phosphate mining companies.
"One mining company wants to clear 450ha, 75 per cent of which is pristine rain forest that has never beer touched before," he said.
"It's crazy. It would not be an overstatement to say that Christmas Island is a jewel in the environmental crown of Australia.
"We have the world's only population of Abbotts Booby birds and other endemic creatures as well as land crabs that control the entire bio diversity of the rainforest ... and we should protect it.'


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The Omneo P5Q PCM is a 90nm device delivering high-speed SPI-compatibility. The device combines serial NOR flash memory and EEPROM technology benefits into one by delivering byte alterability, faster programming times and greater endurance.
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Can you suggest me How to Protect Smart Phone from Viruses? by doing internet in smart phone some unwanted applications are accessing. So,can you suggest best Antivirus protection for smart phone.
Hi there,Could you let us know which smart phone you have (make, not necessarily model) and which OS it is running.
If you're using an android phone, there are a few antivirus apps available, such as the free trend micro and avast apps.
If your using iPhone you don't have to worry about it.
i am having some antivirus applications but what is the process of using the antivirus applications.while iam using internet some unwanted applications are automatically browsing.How can i stop those unwanted applications can you please suggest me about this.
This sounds like more than one.Multiple antivirus software is not a good idea.
Which ones?I'm afraid we need more information before being able to answer this.
I am not sure what you mean by this.What does "automatically browsing" mean?Could you be a little more specific.
Also, could you let us know which smart phone you have (make, not necessarily model) and which OS it is running.
i am using windows lumia smart phone.while using internet the applications are very slow in process.
Is that Windows Phone 7?
Yes, its windows phone 7. In this i am using internet in opera browser.Now my phone was hanging at the time of doing internet.
There are antiviruses for smart phones so you should use one of them. Lumia is a fast phone and you shouldn't have much problem but you may need to check if you also have other programs running that take all the memory and if our connection is fast enough.
The AVG Security Suite seems to be the main antivirus solution for the Windows Phone.http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/avg-security-suite/d38389dc-c261-44ff-8bb9-1cae1490084c
However, it seems to be the widely held consensus of opinion that there are no viruses for (non-jailbroken) Windows phone and that security software is useless.http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/winphone/forum/wp7-wptips/anti-virus-program-for-windows-7-phone/c634dbb5-7c79-421c-83ee-c7556c5abfe8http://forums.wpcentral.com/nokia-lumia-900/191807-antivirus-lumia-900-a.html
By way of a disclaimer, I have an iPhone.Is there anyone listening to this that has a Windows Phone who could advise the OP further?
I must be missing something. There is no Opera browser for WP7. Opera only provides a version for the old Windows Mobile, which is completely different from Windows Phone. And there are no Anti-virus software for WP7, (AVG is just some Safe browsing list like the one built into Firefox, course its not even available now anyways.) Even if there were malware, applications are in a sandbox on the phone, they cannot get root access, unlike on Android.
It is actually funny. Android is currently the only smartphone (that has any major market share) that has a REAL malware issue. And Android is Linux. Go figure. But that is the trade off with an unlocked OS. Anything can be done to it. Versus closed systems like the iPhone and Windows Phone.
And yes. I do own a Windows Phone.
me to agree with you my phone is with old windows version and which is completely different from present windows phone.Android is only the current smart phone, Which has the best technology with it.
Wall + Head...yup... :unhappy:
However, The Nokia Lumia is a Windows Phone, not Windows Mobile. The Lumia line was introduced in 2011 well after WP7 was on the market.
Things are becoming even more confused now.
I feel lucky then that I never had a single issue after 1 year with my Android phone :lol:
Aye, it only really becomes a problem if you go outside of the Android Marketplace. And start hacking the phone with custom this and custom that. But that doesn't make it any less of an issue.
If you have an android, avast antivirus should do the job. If you are using iphone, you have nothing to worry about. iphones does not require any antivirus as it does not get infected with any virus and malware.
I'm sorry if this sounds harsh but that is just rubbish! It's like saying that you dont need an antivirus because you have a Mac.....That kind of complacency and macarrogance (just made that word up!) will cost you dearly sometime. Mac's get virus', iPhones get virus' - just because it's rare doesnt mean it cant happen!
Use the phone as it's supposed to be used and download from a reputable source and you will be ok, as LE said in post #17, go outside of that and you are as vulnerable as the rest.
Plus the fact, the OP has a Windows Phone.


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Acer Aspire V3-571G-9435: The Value Propositionby Jarred Walton on 7/4/2012 4:25 AM EST
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weiran - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkTerrible display ruins a laptop.
You should refuse to review 15" laptops with a resolution more suited for an 11". Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkIf we refused to review any laptop with a marginal display, we'd be stuck with about 10 to 15 laptop reviews per year -- and that's assuming we could even get all the good display laptops in for review. We would also forego reviews of any laptop that doesn't cost at least $1000. Needless to say, the volume of laptops sold for under $800 is probably an order of magnitude more than the volume of over $1000 laptops sold, so it's an important market to at least look at. Reply
duploxxx - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkno one in this budget needs that quad core horse power. Acer would be better of spending the wasted money on build quality or better screen. Reply
Penti - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkOn the other hand GT 640M wouldn't drive a high-res screen at native resolution. In games that is. But I'm quiet appalled that we can have chassis like this in the Ultrabook and starting configurations for business notebooks price range. Even if you don't have the best displays, or the budget to do all like a super nice case you should at least have a good touchpad and keyboard. Something like a Acer TimelineU M5 wouldn't be more expensive either. So I'm note sure what they are thinking it looks to be a much better notebook, you don't need quadcore notebooks for gaming, the trackpad looks to be better (if they don't fail at it, looks to be a cheap variant on the V3 though) at the M5 and it also comes in a 14" variant.
A 2kg dualcore notebook for 800 with GT 640M should be well enough here, and does look better then this. But you loose 1GB of VRAM as well as that quadcore. Yet this doesn't look like a 800 dollar notebook from today and I think it's time to leave the plastic gamer ~800-1000 dollar notebooks behind and let compal and Clevo come up with better computers to fill that need for the OEM's or for them to take the market more seriously and design something decent themselves. Mobile gpus for mid-end performance for gaming obviously exist for half decent power and price range. I thought Acer was trying to clean up their act and please kill all the packard and gateway branding too. Those might have filled up a space in the early 90's, but it's not something you like to remember. Lots of similar stuff isn't the right thing here, if you still like to have budget lineups they will need to be more differentiated from high end models. They should still be decent enough for those that don't like to spend 800-1000 or more too. Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkStatements like this are so arrogant. "No one in this budget needs that quad core CPU." Really? Who made you the determiner of what every person needs? I know a lot of poor college and high school students that would like to be able to have access to more than just basic dual-core processors. Following your logic, we end up back with the old "640K should be enough for anything" mentality of the DOS era. While most people don't need and won't use the processing power of a quad-core CPU, to say that no one needs it is very narrow minded. Reply
bupkus - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkI know a lot of poor college and high school students that would like to be able to have access to more than just basic dual-core processors.
Good, but the question is, "can they afford it"?
We have promised to buy a nephew a notebook and had anticipated to pay no more than $500. Now I'm wondering what we can get that will allow this high school grad to do school work and just not even try to provide him gaming or media capabilities.
For that purpose a good monitor seems more significant than an i7 processor. We hope we can find just such a notebook with perhaps a dual core Sandy Bridge processor and even a decent keyboard. Intel HD 3000 display will do just fine. Only the resolution needs a little upgrade. Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkObviously there's no single answer to what's most important, but For many of the components, whatever you buy with your laptop is going to be what you're stuck with until you buy a new laptop. If you buy a laptop that doesn't have a discrete GPU, it will generally be inadequate for gaming. You have a better chance of upgrading the display (see the LCD testing section where I discuss what's required) than you have of adding a discrete GPU to a laptop that doesn't come with one. Even swapping out CPUs can be a bit tricky, as you have the potential for locked down BIOS firmware that refuses to support anything besides a couple specific CPUs.
Anyway, while I understand that many parents might find the lack of graphics hardware a benefit, if your son/daughter/nephew/niece/etc. ends up not liking the laptop and taking out a student loan to go buy a laptop that they do want, you've wasted money. This definitely happens, as I knew quite a few people back when I was in school that spent $1500+ from their student loans on a new PC that they "needed" for their studies. Of course, I was a CS major so they really did need a computer of some form, but I'm not so sure the 3dfx Voodoo cards were required hardware.... Reply
jabber - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkTrue, however, if you keep reviewing these inferior screens then they will still keep coming.
If you said to the manufacturers "No sorry but we consider that spec to be obsolete/inferior to what our users want to buy!" then the message may get across that things have to change.
If you only review 15 laptops a year so what? They are more likely to be ones your readers want to buy after all.
Plenty of other stuff to review than crappy screened laptops after all. Reply
retrospooty - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - link"True, however, if you keep reviewing these inferior screens then they will still keep coming. If you said to the manufacturers "No sorry but we consider that spec to be obsolete/inferior to what our users want to buy!" then the message may get across that things have to change"
I agree in theory, but the root cause is the issue. Having a site or two or several say that wont change anything. Manufacturers will keep making it as long as people keep buying it.
At least today there are alot more 1600x900 and 1920x1080 options in 13,14 and 15 inch laptops than there has been for the past 3 years. It's starting to shift to higher res. Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkExactly. I love how I'm supposed to refuse to review laptops that 90% of people I know outside of AnandTech will buy, and in turn only review hardware that 10% or less of people I know will use. And AnandTech should apparently also only cater to the enthusiasts, rather than trying to build our audience.
Articles like this can get noticed by the semi-technical readers that are researching a laptop, and they might end up saying, "Wow, there's a ton of information in that review that I can't find elsewhere. If they think this laptop is fast but cheap -- in price as well as quality -- what do they recommend as an alternative? Maybe I should read more...." We have the potential to increase knowledge as well as readership with mainstream articles like this.
It's always important to see what's going on in the budget oriented market segment when evaluating higher end offerings. I should have a few higher quality (and higher price) laptops in for review shortly, some with good/great screens and some with more of this 1366x768 nonsense. Reply
rwei - Thursday, July 05, 2012 - linkI'm in favor of the "repeatedly beat the manufacturers with a stick for using crappy screens" approach. Better to complain loudly than to suffer in silence.
Though, I've noticed that these days most of the Anandtech reviews spend less time lamenting the screens - more like a line or two saying "meh, ANOTHER crappy screen", rather than the old reviews where it was not uncommon to see a 500+ word diatribe on how bad screens were the root of all sin.
When I switch from my Envy 4t (14", 1366x768, sigh) to my Envy 17 (1080p upgraded LCD), it always startles me. That the 17's screen is so much bigger and yet STILL has a denser screen never fails to impress on me how bad the 4t's screen is. And that's not even discussing the colors and contrast...
Such a shame, because the 4t and so many other laptops would be fantastic machines they didn't have such awful screens. Reply
kmmatney - Thursday, July 05, 2012 - link90% of people I know would be fine with a Core i3 laptop, priced around $400. I just bought an HP laptop (for someone else) at Microcenter at that price, and it's not bad for the price.
I feel this Acer laptop is in a funny place - it has the screen of a $400 laptop, and the processor of a more expensive one. It is too expensive for me to want to buy for personal use, and yet too cheap for a business - my laptop budget for my job is around $1200. Reply
jmunjr - Thursday, July 05, 2012 - linkKeep reviewing as many laptops as you can, but make it clear to readers how poor the screen is, make it very clear. Reply
cknobman - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkI may not be in the majority (of the masses at least) but I refuse to buy a laptop with a screen resolution below 1600x900.
Heck last laptop I purchased was in 2010 and even then I refused to go lower than 1600x900. Reply
CSMR - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkCould be good for someone wanting a laptop to connect to different external displays (e.g. work, home office setups), who would just use the internal screen on occasion. Reply
benoitlevesque - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - link720P IS GREAT for cheap gaming laptop. At this resolution its fairly easy to get decent FPS even with high details. If the resolution was 1080p the GPU would struggle way too much and you would be stuck with mediocre FPS even at low details. If the only thing you want is web browsing and office work, this is not a good laptop for you IMO. Reply
whatthehey - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkTry telling this to older people that can't read text on 720p displays. Or try explaining to someone why they need to spend an extra $200+ for a laptop with a better display when "It looks fine to me. What did you say was wrong with it?"
You techno snobs (aka "enthusiasts") are delusional when it comes to what makes for a good laptop or desktop in most people's eyes. They want it to be fast enough, but more importantly they want it to be affordable.
If you want a high quality laptop with an excellent display, go buy a MacBook Pro Retina for $2100+. Meanwhile, the average consumer will buy this $800 laptop that apparently doesn't deserve a review, and in a couple years they'll be another $800 laptop to replace it, and they'll be perfectly content not knowing how awful their system is.
You probably also tell everyone you know that they shouldn't but Dell or HP desktops and should just build their own. Then they can get a GTX 680/HD 7970 graphics card instead of the horrible GT 630/HD 7570 most prebuilt systems ship with (or God forbid, the integrated HD 2500/4000 graphics). Except, for the hundreds of millions of adults that never play games, having that extra graphics horsepower means diddly. Reply
CSMR - Thursday, July 05, 2012 - linkRidiculous, the better the quality of screen (higher resolution, better contrast, better viewing angles etc.) the easier it is to read text. You can measure this by speed of reading, and fatigue. Ordinary consumers buy poor quality displays because mainly they are not informed. I am not saying everyone should buy a high end display, but producing a reasonable quality display in 2012 is not expensive. Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, July 06, 2012 - linkI'd disagree with this, at least for older users. I have encountered so many >40 people that can't handle even using native resolution on a 24+ 1080p display. I helped set up a dental office for example where all of the secretaries and receptionists (40-60 years old) complained like crazy until I dropped the display settings down to 1366x768 -- yup, even on a 24" display, and even with them wearing their glasses.
I'm not saying there's no point in good displays, but I would definitely agree that there's a large number of users that apparently can't tell a good LCD if it walks up an bites them in the rear. I'd wager the number of computer users that actually know (and recognize) a display with good contrast without having it explained over a five minute period (with a demonstration) is a lot smaller than most of our readers think.
Bottom line is that we'll still continue to call out bad displays in our reviews, but clearly there are a ton of people buying laptops with bad displays and they apparently don't notice and/or don't care. I call it the "Best Buy Phenomenon". Reply
aliasfox - Monday, July 09, 2012 - linkI can never forget when an ex once pointed to the screen on her budget, bottom-of-barrel HP laptop and told me 'this is how pictures are supposed to look' and prefered the washed out low-contrast light bleeding screen to the IPS on my iPad.
It's gotten to the point where some people simply can't even tell when they're experiencing quality:
- Prefering low light P&S pictures to an SLR
- MP3s from a blackberry speaker to a CD from my (very nice) sound system, just to name a few more examples
I'm all for trying to show people the difference, I just get the feeling I'll be branded elitist if I try. Reply
MobiusStrip - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkYou should severely downgrade any computer with a shitty glossy screen. It's time to call manufacturers out on this massive regression and fraud.
Are these the "deep blacks" we're supposed to be getting from a glossy screen?
Even Acer's own "glamour shot" shows the color being washed out by this asinine surface: http://images.anandtech.com/doci/6066/acer-v3-571g... Reply
Darkstone - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkThe spec table reads 3.21 lbs (1.46kg). Are you sure that is correct? Reply
jurgenvwyk - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkAccording to acer.co.uk it's 2.6kg( 5.73lbs) Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkSorry -- I used the last Ultrabook review as the base table and forgot to update the size/weight sections. It's fixed now. :-) Reply
Fx1 - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkWho really comes to anandtech to read about budget laptops? Reply
zorxd - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkNobody. We all come here to read about laptops so expensive that we won't buy them anyway. Oh, but we will have the picture in our bedroom. Reply
Fx1 - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkI buy them.
Sux to be you Reply
piroroadkill - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkI've always considered Acer the bottom of the pile. I'd personally not buy an Acer desktop or laptop for myself, or recommend one.
I haven't really seen anything to change that yet.. Reply
frozentundra123456 - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkSurprisingly, I have an Acer desktop that is going on 6 years old, and it has been more reliable than any other off the shelf system I have had. The only thing that went wrong in this entire time was that the hard drive went out. Otherwise, no problems at all. Maybe I just got lucky though. Reply
Iketh - Saturday, July 07, 2012 - linkMy $500 Gateway i3 2.13ghz laptop from January 2010 is still going strong. It gets used heavily too. Reply
StormyParis - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkIt's an article of faith among tech reviewers that SSDs are where it's at nowadays. I have doubts:
1- Size: especially on a laptop, I'd rather have a large HD on which I can stick a few games, 10+ hours of films for me and the kids. AN SSDs pretty much means you *have* to carry an external HD. Or read getting bored.
2- Reliability: the only reliability survey I ever saw says SSDs fail on average almost twice as much as HDDs.
3- limited use case: very few apps do a lot of disk I/O once launched, and 4GB systems mostly don't swap, so SSDs are mostly useful during boot and app launch. Also, many users now do sleep/hibernation with apps open, instead of a full reboot + apps relaunch. That makes for a scarce few seconds when the SSD will be felt.
I'm fairly sure reviewers aren't needing hours of videos during their reviews (they're at work, not snowed in with the kids ^^), do full startups (and few of those), and are given somewhat pre-tested units. Isn't there a big disconnected between reviews and users ? Reply
Omoronovo - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - link1. For a laptop, you're unlikely to have many games installed that are dedicated, hardcore games that take up 25GB of space each. Diablo 3 et al are all relatively large games, certainly, but you will know which ones will be playable on a machine like this and you will be clever enough to plan accordingly. As for movies, having anything higher than 720p on a machine with this resolution is pointless; and even at maximum quality (again, ruined on a panel of this quality, but for arguments sake), you're talking about 40GB of movies for 10 hours of potential playback. A 128GB ssd would be enough to cater to both of these with space to spare.
2. Unless you can cite your source for this survey, we can't really comment on its validity. Solid state drives have come a long way; I have no doubt that drives like my first generation Indilinx-based SSD have higher failure rates, but that's the price for early adoption. They are far, far more reliable now, with Sandforce being able to de-dupe and compress data so that only a fraction of nand is physically written to (whereas early Indilinx based drives had insane write amplification, wearing nand far faster than necessary for the sake of performance).
3. SSD's make a tangible "snappiness" improvement to your machine. This is especially noticeable with Windows due to the way it prioritizes data in ram. Take a theoretical example: Opening control panel. On a standard disk based system, each and every file called needs to be accessed from disk; excluding those files already loaded (like the ui elements as those are shared with all standard explorer windows). If there are 30 files to access, with a standard disk you will have as much as 450ms latency to get all of those files loaded into ram and the panel opened, not to mention any processing time (ordering of icons and such). This is only half a second, that is true. Scale this up with all file and folder access on the machine (from all programs, devices, and services, bearing in mind that when multiple programs try to access the disk (HDD) at once, the latency is exacerbated), and you quickly realize why using an SSD makes such a huge improvement to the day to day usability of a machine.
In my case, personally, I noticed far more of an upgrade in my day to day use of my machine when I upgraded to a SSD, than I did upgrading to a core i7-920 from a Core 2 duo E7200.
One final point I'd like to make: Although this laptop doesn't, there is nothing preventing a manufacturer dropping optical storage and using the space for a hybrid disk drive and SSD setup. When Windows 8 ships and OEM's start tearing into the Storage Spaces feature, "normal" people won't even have to go out of their way to move bulk data onto the disk drive, as windows will do it automatically and merge the SSD and HDD space into one contiguous area. Just something to think about. Reply
Rollo_Thomasi - Thursday, July 05, 2012 - linkEven if the OEM:s usualy favors an ODD over a SSD HDD combo you can simply replace the ODD yourself.
Here is an article on that:
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/131697-ivy-br... Reply
Christopher29 - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - link1. Agreed, size still is not enough ...
2. Completely untrue - see forum xtremesystems thread: SSD-Write-Endurance-25nm-Vs-34nm/page195 - where users intentionally try to wear out SSDs, most of them hold from 600TB - 800TB, and 256GB Samsung 830 holds 2,500TB Host writes. Everyone died after stating correct S.M.A.R.T warnings.
For your perspective, I have written 3,8TB of data on my SSD since 2009 and this is 1/200 (0,5%) of possible writes that this SSD will handle - in other words - this SSD will outlive two to three laptops in which it will be used.
3. You tottaly don't know (and probably used) anything what You've just written in this point. Reply
piroroadkill - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkWhat are you even talking about? You can get 256GB SSDs for a very reasonable price these days, job done.
Less power use, less likely to die in the manner that is MOST caused by use in laptops - knocking the heads around...
I would say maybe you can't afford an SSD, but really, very recently the prices have come right down to the point where there's no reason not to have one.. Reply
jabber - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkYes I picked up a SATA2 120GB SSD for $100 a few weeks ago.
Why SATA2 well as my laptop only runs SATA2 I felt it pointless to get a 500MBps capable SSD when it will only run at half that speed.
Oh and its cheaper. Anyway instead of the WD Black 320GB drive giving me 85MBps I now have an SSD giving me around 275MBps. Big improvement especially in access times. Reply
zorxd - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - link$780 is a high end laptop. Most people by laptops cheaper than that. This review sounds like the review of a BMW by a Ferrari owner, saying that the BMW is OK if don't care about cheap build quality and bad performance. Reply
zorxd - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkThe average selling price of a windows laptop was $513 in the US in February 2012. Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkWhere exactly does that stat come from, and what happens if you remove netbook class hardware from the list? Netbooks (and ultraportables like the 11.6" stuff with Brazos) are very inexpensive, but if people want to complain about this Acer's quality they should be even more harsh on such laptops. Regardless, $780 is hardly high-end for a laptop; it's at most lower-midrange pricing. Reply
zorxd - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkhttp://blog.laptopmag.com/the-average-pc-laptop-co...
netbooks or not, $780 is still much more than the average price for a laptop.
And this is only in the US, a rich country. The average of the world is probably much lower. Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - link"The average cost of all notebooks, which includes MacBooks, was $672 in February, lower than January's mark of $724 but much higher than December's $631 mark...."
So actually, they're restricting some higher cost offerings (Apple products at the very least, possibly others?) in order to drive the average cost down, but they're not restricting the inclusion of netbooks. It looks like a purposefully lopsided statistic.
Regardless, what you get for $500 is less than half the CPU potential (lower clocked dual-core instead of quad-core), and about 1/3 the gaming potential. For the casual gamers and/or video types, the extra $250 to upgrade to something with specs like the Acer would improve the experience dramatically. Reply
zorxd - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkThat's why I said windows laptop. Macs are obviously much more expensive. Apple had something like 90% of the $1000+ PC market 3 years ago. It must be even worse today as the average price of windows laptop fell.
"For the casual gamers and/or video types, the extra $250 to upgrade to something with specs like the Acer would improve the experience dramatically."
Of course. That's why gamers and those doing video editing buy high end laptops. Reply
Randomblame - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkit's an acer - if you type too fast that piss poor screen will fall right off it's hinges from the vibration. Build quality in acers is so awful you'd might as well buy something better that will actually last longer than a year - there is no value in something that simply does not last. Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkWhile it's true that the build quality isn't exceptional, you're taking things too far. All the budget laptops from Dell, HP, Acer, Sony, Toshiba, Clevo, etc. all feel about the same to me. I have friends that purchased budget Acer laptops (and Dell, HP, etc.) that have worked fine for several years. I've had other friends with Acer/Dell laptops have an HDD failure after 18 months. Unless you're the type to routinely drop your laptop, though, I don't think Acer is going to fail within a year. My biggest concern is the long-term reliability of the motherboard, which unfortunately is impossible to gauge, but I suspect Acer's boards don't last nearly as long as higher quality laptops (e.g. ThinkPads). Reply
warisz00r - Thursday, July 05, 2012 - linkWith that said, I have to point out that the general design (ports / vents layout etc.) of mid-range Windows laptops are quite similar across the brands, especially in OEMs from Taiwan. I suspect they outsource the design of these low-margin devices to the same ODM... Reply
jabber - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkAs in how long it took from very first switch on out of the box till you were able to properly use it?
I've had some laptops in for customers that have been nearly two hours before they are usable.
First setup, install this crap and that crap, uninstall McAfee, install MSE, updates, burn the recovery DVDs etc. etc.
Also would be good to know how much crapware is installed and how long it took to remove it all etc. Reply
Beenthere - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - link...i7 and Kepler. Sorry no sale. Reply
frozentundra123456 - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkWhy???
i7 is far superior to AMD on the CPU side, and the new die shrunk nvidia cards seem fine to me. Reply
warisz00r - Thursday, July 05, 2012 - linkAre you from the future? Reply
winterlude - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkJarred,
Thanks for this review. I hate the compromises Acer makes, but I love the prices. Since I'm a value buyer, I find I get more use out of buying cheaper laptops more often than buying expensive laptops infrequently. I picked up two i3 Acer laptops in early 2011 for the equivalent price of a better made i5. Having 2 laptops gives me more resources. I basically buy acer for the specs--usually I cannot find a better performance/cost ratio. I try to focus on Acer's strengths and mitigate their weaknesses (i.e. screen quality and keyboard) by using external monitors/TV, keyboards, speakers etc. I use one laptop as an HTPC media center. I leave them on 24/7 and they tend to run hot; so laptop coolers are a must.
I would seriously consider the V3. Creating and rendering 1080p home movies in Windows Movie Maker would get a huge boost with this laptop, and I'd love to play Skyrim at higher res with smooth framerates. I'd likely upgrade to a 256GB SSD right away.
I am disappointed in how few Ivy Bridge non-Ultrabook laptops announced so far are sporting SSDs. I think every new laptop over $500 should at least incorporate an SSD cache. I think this might happen next year, and I'm curious to see what Haswell can do, and I expect SSDs to only get better and cheaper, so perhaps I will wait and see. Reply
bji - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkWhat is the difference? I thought they were the same thing? Reply
earthrace57 - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkThey aren't, chicklet is far nicer to type on, it is where the keyboard is more of ingrained into the body of the laptop. Floating island keyboards are well....like floating over the body of the keyboard, one little part sticking down to support the entire key, its really bad for typing, especially if you type with the weight of a feather and don't always hit the center of the keys (I hope this is easy enough to read). Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkSome places have referred to some chiclet styles as "floating island". We have used the term to refer to the old-style Acer keyboards. There's some overlap, of course, but here's a couple closeups of what the old and new Acer keys look like:
New Acer V3:
Old Acer:
Both keys "float" in one sense (the small connector in the middle), but the spacing between the keys is the real issue with the old style -- without looking, it's easy to lose track of where your fingers are on the keyboard. The feel is just... [shudder]. Reply
3dgeneralist - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkI love acer laptops. Bang for the buck! Owned several laptops. Last one I switched from an Asus core2duo laptop to an Acer i7 laptop. My Asus would reboot after 3 years of heavy use in 3d rendering so I sold it. Had a choice to buy a macpro or acer i7. Needless to say I bought the acer instead. The price for the macbook pro was double with only an old nvidia 9600 card and dualcore only. Ridiculous!
Now my acer i7 is on its third year and no problems yet. Heavy use in 3d rendering and video editing on the go.
I actually bought a netbook n2600 from gateway knowing its a sister company from acer. Again its a good buy compared to other brands like toshiba, samsung with the same features. I'm not surprised this price point has the most sales for laptops. Only hardcore gamers really buy 1000USD plus laptops. Reply
san1s - Wednesday, July 04, 2012 - linkSome commenters here are ridiculously arrogant. I am part of the population that buys these laptops (I bought a similar one last year, $750 with i7 quad core and GT 540m). I am a college student, and can't afford Macbook Pros that cost twice as much (or more) while only offering the same amount of performance. This doesn't mean that I shouldn't be allowed to use my computer for purposes that usually requires lots of computing power. I use it as my desktop and connect it to an external monitor, and I can take it with me when I need to take notes. I would love a higher resolution matte IPS screen and a larger battery, but I understand that these are compromises required for the price. Reply
karasaj - Thursday, July 05, 2012 - linkI like the mid range priced laptops! Did you mention that you will be reviewing the TimelineU M5 as well soon? And hopefully other laptops in that area/range? I like reading about the 800-1k range, since that seems to be what I'll be spending next :P Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, July 05, 2012 - linkWe should have a Timeline M5 as well as the Aspire S5 (I think those are the right model names) in for review soon. I also have a Samsung Series 7 coming, should be some ASUS Ultrabooks, and Dell's new XPS 15 among others. For the gamers out there, we're also hoping to have GTX 680M vs. HD 7970M notebooks ready for testing in the near future. :-) Reply
karasaj - Thursday, July 05, 2012 - linkAwesome! I imagine it's too greedy of me to ask when these reviews will be up? :) I'm strongly considering the TimelineU m5 and I'm trying to decide if the cheaper cost is worth it over something like the Vizio notebook. Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, July 06, 2012 - linkThey're supposed to be on their way right now, so hopefully we'll get them in the next few days. Once we have them, 1-2 weeks at most before the reviews are up. Reply
karasaj - Friday, July 06, 2012 - linkAwesome! Reply
3dgeneralist - Thursday, July 05, 2012 - linkRegarding the resolution. Its also dumb to think everyone uses higher than 1440x900 res on a 15inch laptop. Can barely read the text and icons higher than that on a small screen. Even on my 23inch monitor I am using 1440x900 because I'm on it for more than 10 hours a day working on graphic software. Eye fatigue is worse when reading small fonts and images. Reply
seapeople - Thursday, July 05, 2012 - linkThis has always puzzled me. Does it really help your eyes to be looking at large, fuzzy text all day (LCD non native resolution) versus looking at smaller but perfectly sharp and clear text?
This is of course assuming you are unable to increase DPI due to application incompatibilities, otherwise you're just being silly. Reply
3dgeneralist - Saturday, July 07, 2012 - linkIts not really fuzzy looking at 1440x900 with text 110% dpi and adjusting cleartype settings on my 23inch monitor. The comfort gained is huge compared to setting it to 1920x1080 which in 8 hours looking at the monitor seems like my eyes would just drop and my head hurts.
Remember the less effort you put into something that should be automatic, the less strain you experience. Reply
antef - Thursday, July 05, 2012 - linkJarred, I will be in the market for an even cheaper laptop soon (~$600), and I'm not sure I like Dell's offerings. I hope you are able to review some even cheaper Acer machines in the near future (with Core i3/i5 CPUs, possibly no discrete graphics, etc.). Reply
Meaker10 - Thursday, July 05, 2012 - linkMuch like the 5935G then, the cable connector looks like it could just support enough extra lines for a second LVDS channel but its not like the old connector where you could slot extra wires into place, it's an extremely fiddley connector and would require VERY VERY fine soldering skills. I killed a mobo trying.
Thats assuming the extra spaces are for an LVDS channel and the chip on the motherboard supports two. Reply
Kill16by9TN - Thursday, July 05, 2012 - link"The only complaint I have is a minor one: the "merged" Enter and Backslash keys. We've seen this on a few Acer laptops in the past year, and I don't know what purpose the non-gap layout serves,"
The answer is probably rather simple: globalisation.
There are some keyboard layouts I know of, German for example, where 'Enter' occupies the additional space of the US KB's 'backslash', while the left-hand 'Shift' key in turn is shortened on its right side to make room for the now relocated key.
Acer's design choice therefore accommodates for US-style and European-style keyboard layouts.
BTW, I couldn't agree more with your criticism of those insane highly glossy 'piano' finish surfaces, no matter if with laptops/notebooks or monitors/TVs. It just majorly sucks. When will this nonsense finally face extinction? Reply
Burticus - Thursday, July 05, 2012 - linkMy A8-3500 Gateway 17" was $550 with blu-ray 7 months ago. Spent $20 to get it up to 8gb 1333. Nothing in that price range can touch it. On the other hand, while it doesn't weigh a ton it is pretty big. Trinity is faster and the same price or cheaper. I think the display on it is pretty decent for 1600x900 but it does have some contrast issues. Those only come into play when watching dark movies though: which my wife does constantly and complains constantly. I told her to buy her own laptop if she didn't like mine :-)
This is interesting for budget power with that i7 and the Kepler video, but it seems an odd compromise... you would think someone would go down $200 to get Trinity, or go up $200 to get something a little better build quality and better display. I don't think you can score an ultrabook for a grand though (and those don't have optical drives which slays me). Reply
karasaj - Thursday, July 05, 2012 - linkAssuming there aren't any major major compromises, you can get an Acer TimelineU M5 for a pretty nice 800$.
Piss poor screen though, which might be the biggest compromise that is probably a dealbreaker for some. I would consider it though since it's so much less expensive than other ultrabooks (or thin form factor specs) like the Vaio S and Vizio. Or SS7. And build quality is hopefully more ultrabookish and less Aspire V3ish. Reply
Ipatinga - Thursday, July 05, 2012 - linkWhen you thought manufacturers couldn´t screw you more... you face a "chiclet" keyboard everywhere.
Damn... do engineers really use what they make? (Yeah, dumb question...) :P Reply
PubFiction - Friday, July 06, 2012 - linkThere seems to be some sort of stupid idea that chiclet keys are better.
The form a key has nothing to do with its quality, in fact chiclet keys are most known for being implemented in cheap shit. The physical properties are what make a keyboard good or bad regardless of weather it is chiclet, island or anything.
Most chiclet keys are not as good as the keyboards they replaced, they are mushy, unresponsive and are flat lacking qualities designed for accuracy.
It is fine if you prefer chiclet, go ahead and state that but done gloss over all the other properties. The pictures clearly show that these keyboard is flat, lacking the concave nature or a real good keyboard.
You can also see that this keyboard exposes the underside of the keys slightly meaning things can easily get in there such as crumbs dust and such, wholely defeating one of the biggest advantages of chiclet. The spacing appears to be close which means that you are likely to trigge another key if you miss.
Finally there is not mention of the quality of key rollover. Reply
JarredWalton - Saturday, July 07, 2012 - linkIt's not an "assumption" that chiclet is better, but I can't think of one thing about the old style "floating island" keyboard that is better to this new "floating chiclet". That's not to say that this keyboard is perfect, but as I note in the review, I did a fair amount of typing on the V3 and the keyboard is certainly usable without severe complaints by me -- someone that writes 5000 word articles for a living. Is it equal to some of the older ThinkPad keyboards? Not really, but I'm not sure ThinkPad has ever done a perfect keyboard layout with a 10-key either, outside of the W700 line. For a 15.6" keyboard with a 10-key, the layout is just about perfect, even if the key action could be improved. Reply
pullmyfoot - Saturday, July 07, 2012 - linkYou guys should do a review of the Samsung Chronos 7 700Z5C. I just got one and its the perfect laptop IMO without breaking the bank.
70% aluminum construction
A above average screen at 1600x900
1TB 7200RPM with 8GB SSD express cache
Rest of the specs are the same if not slightly better than this Acer. Reply
apmon2 - Saturday, July 07, 2012 - linkGiven that so many Laptops still seem to be sold with crappy screens and that good replacement screens can be got for less than $100, it would be great if AnandTech could write more about this.
If you could write a separate article on how to switch laptop screens and what you need to consider, as well as review the different available after market LCD screens, perhaps more people would choose to switch their screens and not suffer from their crappy display.
This could even benefit those buying high-end laptops, if it becomes common to order the laptop with the cheapest display and then replace it with a high quality on later on, just as it is common to order the cheapest HDD and then replace it with an SSD.
E.g. Lenovo charge $250 for the full HD screen upgrade on the Thinkpad T530, whereas the screen costs less than $100 if bought separably. One also then has a better choice, be it matt vs glossy, IPS vs TN, high colour gamut or not, rather than the one choice offered by the manufacturer. Reply
jabber - Saturday, July 07, 2012 - linkI'd like to see an article on what the costs are to the manufacturer for screens.
Basically what does a standard 15" TN glossy 1366x768 screen cost compared to -
15" TN 1600x900 (glossy/non glossy)
15" TN 1920x1080 (glossy/non glossy)
15" IPS 1600x900
15" IPS 1920x1080
I havent included 16:10 as I don't wish to hope for too much. Reply
JarredWalton - Saturday, July 07, 2012 - linkThe manufacturers don't disclose their costs for individual components, so it's impossible to say what they pay. I've had one manufacturer insist that what we pay for an LCD on, e.g. LaptopScreens.com, is less than they would pay. That seems unlikely to me (if you're ordering 10,000 LCDs, you're not going to pay more than if you're ordering 1 screen, are you?) but they do note that there's also difficulty at times in procuring the required number of displays. My hunch is that LaptopScreens probably marks up the LCDs they sell by 10% over what they pay, and large manufacturers pay a bit less than them. But I could be wrong. Reply
chromatix - Saturday, July 07, 2012 - linkI have a 14" display from *1994* that can manage 115 dpi without much trouble. Bear in mind that 14" is the tube diagonal, not the display area, and that this is a fairly bog-standard "fishbowl" monitor. Driving it at 1152x870 results in the aforementioned 115dpi.
Coincidentally, this is also approximately the density of both of my much newer flatscreen monitors, which are of course meant for viewing at a greater distance than a laptop. It is also the density of the roughly 2000-vintage ThinkPad that I rescued from the office scrap pile recently - with 1400x1050, the screen is excellently configured for coding, even if the viewing angles and colour reproduction are awful by modern standards. (It's very useful to have lots of *lines* of code on screen at once.)
My 2006 17" MBP pushes the density up to 130 dpi with 1920x1200. I have to go back to my 2000-vintage PowerBook G3 to get down to 100 dpi.
Meanwhile, a 15.6" laptop display with less than 1400 pixels across is going to be 100 dpi maximum. At laptop viewing distances, that's like putting standard definition up on a 50" TV - you can see the pixels without even trying. Antialiasing is a wonderful thing, but it has limits to what it can hide. On an old PowerBook it was forgivable because it was the best thing available (and the panel was decent) - but today, and with contrast numbers that make flip-up sunglasses look good...
Surely someone out there knows how to make a laptop with good build quality, good ergonomics, a big battery and a good screen, and doesn't mind reducing the performance a bit to suit the price? I don't even care if it's two inches thick, as long as the screen and the body aren't shiny - I would prefer to see my code and my game rather than my own ugly mug.
That's another point - thinness is vastly overrated. Comparing my PowerBook G3 to my MBP, they are the same depth, the MBP is 21% wider (15.4" vs 12.7") and the G3 is 70% thicker (0.98" vs. 1.7"). They're not much different in weight - the G3 is 2.8kg, the MBP is 3.1kg. But it's the MBP that feels "bigger". It also feels considerably more fragile to pick up - I feel the need to grab it by both sides, rather than levering it up by one side, even though intellectually I realise it's probably strong enough to withstand such treatment, and my other hand might be otherwise occupied.
Meanwhile, I still have a lot more difficulty putting both the MBP and my 15" AlBook - a total of 2.1" thickness - in the same bag, than I do just putting the G3 in. Part of that is, I think, because the G3 is more rounded at the edges, so it doesn't catch on things so easily. Little details like that - and thermal performance - matter a lot more than being thin. It's even worse when important functionality (such as recording dual-layer DVDs, or being able to replace the battery, RAM and hard disk without risking ruining the whole machine) are sacrificed in the name of the holy measurement. Reply
Iketh - Sunday, July 08, 2012 - linkYEA SILVA!!!!! Reply
QuantumPion - Monday, July 09, 2012 - linkI got an Acer laptop last year with sandy bridge core i5 and nvidia GT 540M for $450 after instant rebate. The display sucks but $450 for a laptop fully capable of playing Skyrim and Battlefield 3 is hard to beat. Reply
DotNetGuru - Monday, July 09, 2012 - linkJust wanted to drop a comment to show my appreciation for this great review.
Very well done. Thanks!! Reply
rudolphna - Monday, July 09, 2012 - linkI actually just picked up the Trinity A8-4500M version of this laptop for $529 on newegg, and I have to say, though the screen isn't that great, overall it's a great deal for the price. I'm certainly not going to complain about the amount of horsepower I managed to get for $530. I also did order a Momentus XT 500GB, and 8GB of Corsair DDR3-1600 that should arrive tomorrow to hep up the performance a bit more. Once that's done, I doubt there are any other laptops on the market with this kind of value. Reply
Abirzenith - Thursday, July 12, 2012 - linkWell Despite what many people are saying , this review will be very helpful to those who are researching for a new laptop. At the end of the day it all comes to the person who's going to buy the product , To some display matters the most, To some processing power and to some the graphics processing unit matters the most. It depends on individual taste, you need to decide what you want the most out of our Laptop Reply
pman6 - Thursday, July 12, 2012 - linkwe need more core i5's with dedicated graphics at budget prices.
Give me 15.6" 3rd gen core i5 + gt650m + 1600x900 lcd for under $700 please. Reply
karasaj - Sunday, July 15, 2012 - linkThat's asking for way too much for way too little, haha. You can get that for ~900 I think, but 700$ is pretty expensive.
I think there could be more i3 +dGPU options below 700$ to compete with AMD, but i5 + 650M + a good LCD is a lot to ask for under 700$ I think. Reply
Jiah - Saturday, July 21, 2012 - linkcan you compare this 2?so that i could tell which one is better
i'm about to buy one of them
(sorry bout my english) Reply
bloodlife - Monday, August 27, 2012 - linkIs this model available in India..?
It's isn't displayed in Acer.in Reply
anakr3 - Friday, November 23, 2012 - linkVery useful review; thank you. Reached here looking for an in depth review of the Acer Aspire V3-571G-6407 (the Core i5 3210M 2.5 GHz model) which is about $550. I am planning to use this mainly as an htpc for streaming HD movies and music..I was initially thinking of a mac mini, but it looks like a laptop with this spec will be more flexible for my purposes. Two questions:
1) I've read somewhere that some of the laptops don't output full HD via their HDMI ports. Is this the case with the Acer V3?
2) Is it ok to run a laptop like this 24/7? Reply
Vundolf - Saturday, May 04, 2013 - linkCan you please make a video tut of how to open this laptop ? I'd like to clean it's fan cuz' it's overheating Reply
FiloSvR - Thursday, October 17, 2013 - linkwhere i can find a dual-channel LVDS cables for acer v3-571g ( 2012 - 2013 model ), i had bought a 1080p screen replacement, but i can't use it! Please help Reply


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Monday, August 24 2009 - 9/11 Consequences
War Crimes Should be Prosecuted!
By Debra Sweet
CIA Torture Report to be Released
The release of the long-anticipated CIA report, quashed since 2006 by the Bush regime, and then postponed several times by the Obama administration, is set for Monday August 24. It's been leaked. Newsweek and the Guardian UK, "Bombshell report on CIA interrogations is leaked" report the CIA used mock executions to terrorize detainees through threatening the use of pistols and electric drills.
It's reported that the Attorney General will make a decision in the next few days on whether to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate allegations of torture. The New York Times analyzed the problem Eric Holder is up against, having been instructed by Barack Obama not to look "backward" while saying "we do not torture":
"Mr. Holder has told associates he is weighing a narrow investigation, focusing only on C.I.A. interrogators and contract employees who clearly crossed the line and violated the Bush administration's guidelines and engaged in flagrantly abusive acts. But in taking that route, Mr. Holder would run two risks. One is the political fallout if only a handful of low-level agents are prosecuted for what many critics see as a pattern of excess condoned at the top of the government. The other is that an aggressive prosecutor would not stop at the bottom, but would work up the chain of command, and end up with a full-blown criminal inquiry into the intelligence agencies - just the kind of broad, open-ended criminal investigation the Obama administration says it wants to avoid."
Clearly, the interests of the people living in this country who care about humanity are not conflicted at all. The war crimes should be prosecuted! The CIA agents, contractors, and the lawyers and "deciders" who were in the White House should all face justice.
CBS News also weighs the danger for the Obama administration in prosecuting, and in failing to prosecute. Even the New York Times is now allowing a debate among lawyers on whether John Yoo should be prosecuted. This issue is not dead. Those of us who've been calling for an end to the US torture state are right, and we should be more insistent than ever.
Arrogance And Torture: A History of Guantánamo
If you're looking for an introduction to the extra-legal horrors of Guantánamo, and the casual, almost mundane manner in which randomly-seized prisoners, who were not even screened according to the Geneva Conventions, found themselves the victims of a torture policy designed to make them reveal their mostly non-existent secrets, then you may like this article, which I wrote for the Future of Freedom Foundation, for whom I write a weekly column.
The mesh-wire cages, suitable only for animals, are empty now and overgrown, but they will stand forever as a symbol of the Bush administration's inept, brutal and destructive "War on Terror" policies, implemented in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the US mainland on September 11, 2001.
Continued here
Call to reopen US prison abuse cases: report
By Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON (AFP) -- The US Justice Department's ethics office has recommended reopening nearly a dozen prisoner-abuse cases, potentially exposing CIA employees and contractors to prosecution for their treatment of terrorism suspects, The New York Times reported Monday.
Citing an unnamed "person officially briefed on the matter," the newspaper said the recommendation was made recently by the department's Office of Professional Responsibility and presented to Attorney General Eric Holder.
The Justice Department will disclose on Monday new details on prisoner abuse that were gathered in 2004 by the Central Intelligence Agency's inspector general but have never been released, the report said.
The inspector general has reportedly found that CIA interrogators used a handgun and an electric drill to try to frighten a captured Al-Qaeda commander, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, into giving up information.
Nashiri, who was captured in November 2002 and held for four years in one of the CIA's secret prisons, ultimately became one of three Al-Qaeda leaders subjected to waterboarding, according to earlier media reports.
Nashiri's interrogation is said to have included episodes in which the detainee reportedly was threatened with death or grave injury if he refused to cooperate.
When the CIA first referred its inspector general's findings to prosecutors, they decided that none of the cases merited prosecution, The Times said.
But Holder's associates say that when he took office and saw the allegations he began to reconsider, the paper noted.
The recommendation to review the closed cases, in effect renewing the inquiries, centers mainly on allegations of detainee abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan, the report said.
Meanwhile, US President Barack Obama has approved the creation of an elite team of interrogators to question key terrorism suspects, The Washington Post reported Monday.
Citing unnamed senior administration officials, the newspaper said the decision was part of a broader effort to revamp US policy on detention and interrogation.
Obama signed off on the unit, named the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG) late last week, the report said.
It will be made up of experts from several intelligence and law enforcement agencies and housed at the FBI, the paper noted.
The group will be overseen by the National Security Council, which means shifting the center of gravity away from the CIA and giving the White House direct oversight, The Post said.
Obama moved to overhaul interrogation and detention guidelines soon after taking office, including the creation of a task force on interrogation and transfer policies, the report said.
The task force, whose findings will be made public Monday, recommended the new interrogation unit, along with other changes regarding the way prisoners are transferred overseas, The Post pointed out.
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Students in the Business School have the opportunity to develop and use professional leadership skills in several ways outside the classroom. An active student research bureau performs marketing research studies for area government and private enterprises. A student chapter of the American Marketing Association and a local chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi, national business fraternity, undertake several service projects annually. A local chapter of Delta Mu Delta, national honor society in business, recognizes exceptional scholarship in business. As a member of either of these organizations, students will have the opportunity to build their portfolios and participate in service projects that will have a meaningful impact on the community.
Texas Lutheran University allows you to specialize in a range of business topics including finance, economics, international business, and even aviation management. If you're pursuing a different degree and just want to get a handle on the business side of your field, TLU offers minors in business relating to science, history, and the arts.
Major in Business Administration for a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) degree
Customize your bachelor's degree in business with a specialization in accounting, economics, finance, international business, management or marketing.
Earn a Master of Accountancy (MAcy) degree at the same time as your bachelor's degree in accounting.
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Minor in Business Methods for Historians
Minor in Business of Science
Minor in Business of the Arts
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Annette Citzler
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"There's always going to be pressure when people set the precedent for you, especially in your family," Long said after Thursday's practice at the Senior Bowl. "I just have to continue to work hard and be the best Kyle Long I can be."
Where do the comparisons start between himself, his brother and father? "I play offensive line, I don't play defense like those guys," he explained. "The one thing I can control is my attitude, preparation, and effort."
Long, a former pitcher, originally chose to play baseball at Florida State before dropping out of school; he found himself drowning in the party scene and collected a DUI while in Florida. The naturally gifted athlete then found his way to Mission Viejo, Calif. attending Saddleback College and deciding to get back on the football field.
He played one season for the Oregon Ducks before his eligibility expired.
Though the pressure has always been there to continue the family legacy in the league, the offensive tackle also says he now sees it as a blessing to have his family's guidance through his career.
"There's two guys I can call and that's my brother and my dad," he said. "With any situation on or off the field, they're a big help for me."
Long, who officially weighed in at 6-foot-6 304-pounds, was sidelined due to illness for two practices in Mobile this week but is expecting to participate in Saturday's game. "It's great to be out here with my teammates again," he said. "It's good to get a good sweat going, especially since being sick."
The feedback from the North squad's Oakland Raiders coaching staff has been limited due to his absence, but there's been plenty of action for him at the team hotel with NFL scouts. "I think we're all ready for those guys to go back to their regular schedules," Long admitted with a smile. "It's good to get to meet with teams and let them in on your personal stuff, but we're ready to get back to football."
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LONG BEACH — The Southern California District Council of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union has endorsed Councilwoman Suja Lowenthal for re-election, her campaign announced Wednesday.
"Growing up in a port city as a little girl in India and having a father who was a port worker, I respect and am thankful for the sometimes thankless work performed by our brothers and sisters at the ports," Lowenthal said in a statement.
"Long Beach has many monikers, but 'port town' always evokes a sense of rich history and steadfast future to me, mainly because of the men and women I've met over the years."
The ILWU represents thousands of workers at the Port of Long Beach and Los Angeles.
Lowenthal is running for a second elected term against Janet Ballantyne, a sponsor relations manager at a large financial firm, and Mike Kamer, a graduate student at Cal State Long Beach and volunteer coordinator.
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REDLANDS - A native of this city is going to test her luck on "Let's Make A Deal."
Jazmine Burel, a 2008 Redlands East Valley High School graduate, will be a featured contestant on the show hosted by comedian Wayne Brady on Wednesday where she'll compete for a chance to win prizes.
The 22-year-old and two friends - Brianna Davis and Jenny Rose of Redlands - attended a taping in Sept. after she requested tickets online.
Burel requested the tickets on a whim after months of viewing the show with her grandparents.
"I used to sit with (them) and watch (the show)," she said. "I figured they taped somewhere in California and signed up to go. But I kind of forgot about it until I received an email that I had received priority tickets and told my friends to go.
"We didn't have anything to lose, so we thought we might as well give it a try."
The trio traveled to CBS Studios in Los Angeles for the taping, and as they arrived, they were ushered in and interviewed by a show producer.
Burel said the interviewing experience was pretty standard. They asked for her name and what she'd like to do.
"I told them my name was Jazmine and that I was from Redlands and had recently graduated from (Idaho State University) while jumping and screaming and having a good time," she said.
After the interview process ended, Burel and her friends were ushered into the soundstage where the show was filmed - the party continued there.
"There was a DJ playing music and everyone was dancing and having a good time in costume," she said. "The atmosphere was pretty lively."
Burel said it was like attending a Halloween costume party since everyone was dressed up. The show is known for that, she said.
To dress for the occasion, Burel dug out one of her old costumes to partake in the festivities - a guitar.
Soon it was time for the show to start, and as the party continued, Burel said, she suddenly heard Brady call her name.
"When (he) called my name, I was more shocked than anything," she said. "The entire time I had been dancing, having fun. I knew there could be a possibility that I could have been picked, but I didn't think it was going to happen.
"When he called my name, it took a second to register," she said. "After it hit me, I got really excited."
While viewers will have to wait to see how she did, Burel did give a sneak preview of what to expect.
"I would absolutely say it was a good run and absolutely encourage people to go to this show," she said. "For the past two years, I was going over to my grandparents house in the morning yelling at the TV, never thinking one day I'd be on the show.
"It was definitely an experience of a lifetime - kind of like the greatest thing ever. Going on `Let's Make a Deal' was one of many great things that happened to me in 2012."
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Layton • One teen decided to snowboard in a city park in the middle of the night. Another a promising high school athlete was caught by police for skipping school.
On a recent Wednesday evening, both faced judgment from their peers in Layton's Youth Court.
Across the state, teens run about 30 such courts, which give juvenile offenders accused of class B and C misdemeanors a chance to erase minor blunders with the law as long as they comply with the punishment handed down by a trained panel of other young people.
"[Once they complete court], the police do whatever they need to do to get rid of the citation. It's like it never happened," said Karlene Kidman, Layton's Youth Court director.
This year, Layton's court is celebrating its 15th anniversary, while the Salt Lake City court has hit the 20-year mark.
"You're getting youth volunteers who are conducting the court hearings and mentoring their fellow peers and trying to help each other out," said Kathleen Zeitlin, program director for the Salt Lake Peer Court. "So you're creating a sense of community and a sense of values and expectations of behavior, and helping kids to make better choices."
As youth courts continue to become more popular across the country, Utah legislators are looking at a bill SB119 that would require any state youth court to be certified, a requirement intended to better coordinate what they do.
"The certification process just helps each court make sure they've got all their ducks in a row," Zeitlin said.
On Jan. 30, the bill got a favorable nod from the Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee.
If the bill is approved, youth courts would no longer be allowed to accept referrals from law enforcement agencies, schools, prosecuting attorneys or juvenile courts unless they were certified by the Utah Youth Court Board. The majority of youth courts now operating in Utah are already certified, officials said.
The bill also would allow case proceedings and dispositions to be shared only with the referring agency and the victim. But if a defendant does not fulfill terms set by the youth court and the case is sent to juvenile court, the youth court would share the case file with the juvenile court.
'Everybody makes mistakes' • The snowboarding teen was just about to turn 18 when Layton police busted him and his 18-year-old friend for riding in a city park about 1 a.m.
Rather than sending the younger teen to juvenile court for his minor brush with the law, which might have left a permanent scar on his record, everyone agreed he would be best served by the Layton Youth Court. First-time offenders are typically referred by schools, student resource officers or police departments.
When the teen pleaded guilty, he and his mother told the court they were aware of the city's curfew but thought he could be out after hours with an adult.
Not so, the panel of peer judges told him, urging him in the future to know the law and the time city parks close.
He was sentenced to 20 hours of community service and asked to write a list of 10 life goals five short term and five long term. He'll have to report back to the court in a few weeks for a status update.
The Salt Lake Tribune does not typically identify youth charged with crimes. The members of the youth court are also required to take a pledge of confidentiality that prohibits them from discussing defendants outside the courtroom.
Layton's chief justice, Hayley Tomney, 18, said her classmates have been among the defendants appearing before the court. Other times, it might be family.
"Everybody makes mistakes," she said. "The only difference between the offender and me is they made a bad choice."
Of the cases that come before the Layton Youth Court, about 47 percent involve truancy and 20 percent are for theft. Other offenses that crop up include curfew violations, interfering in school, tobacco possession, criminal mischief and simple assault. The courts do not hear alcohol-related offenses.
For the 16-year-old caught skipping school, a recent appearance in the Layton Youth Court marked the moment he made good on a bad choice.
He had been ordered to complete 40 hours of community service. He sewed a quilt, which are often donated to a Kaysville domestic violence shelter, made coloring packets for a local school program, and volunteered 10 hours with his church.
"The quilt looks really, really good," Tomney said. She then congratulated the 16-year-old on completing the terms of his sentence.
Over the years, some veterans of Utah's youth courts have gone on to pursue legal careers, Kidman said. Six former Layton youth judges have become attorneys.
"It's a lot of fun to participate," said judge Shelby Myers, 17.
About 30 youth ranging in age from 14 to 18 serve on the Layton court, which averages about 40 cases per year, Kidman said. By comparison, Utah's largest court in Salt Lake City, which operates six courtrooms every Monday night, has 120 youth volunteers and handles more than 300 cases.
"It's a great group of kids," Zeitlin said. "[The youth judges] are there because they want to make a difference with their peers. It isn't always easy and sometimes it takes a while, especially with truancy, to turn around bad habits."
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CONWAY, Ark. —Central Arkansas quarterback Wynrick Smothers made sure history didn't repeat itself when Northwestern State visited Estes Stadium Saturday night.
Smothers had a hand in all five UCA scores, throwing for four of them and piling up 322 yards of total offense in a milestone 35-14 victory for the 13th-ranked Bears.
The Bears (8-2, 6-1 Southland Conference) locked up the conference's automatic FCS playoff slot and at least a share of the league title, their first since stepping up from Division II in 2007.
The Demons (4-5, 2-3) lost to a nationally-ranked team for the sixth straight time since their 24-19 upset of the then 22nd-rated Bears on the same field two seasons ago. It was UCA's 10th straight home win since that contest.
The Bears got touchdown passes of 20, 33, 26 and 42 yards from Smothers along with a 57-yard run.
"We hadn't given up the long ball like that all year, but they beat us down the field tonight," said fourth-year Demons coach Bradley Dale Peveto. "He made some really good throws, they made a couple of great catches, and they just beat us like nobody else has."
Smothers had 255 yards of total offense and was responsible for all four first-half touchdowns by the Bears, including a back-breaking 26-yard pass to Dominque Croom with 15 seconds left in the second quarter for a 28-14 advantage.
"That was huge," said Peveto. "If we could have gone in one score down, it's an entirely different game. But we didn't take advantage when we had a chance to get it tied or get it closer, and they took it down the field making plays like a championship team does."
Northwestern moved the ball impressively for the game's first 20 minutes but ran out of gas after drawing within 21-14 on a 1-yard Brad Henderson scramble with 9:32 to go in the second quarter. The Demons netted just 13 yards on their last 11 plays of the half, failing to take advantage of the Bears' first turnover, a fumble forced by Anthony Gilbert and recovered by Brashard Booker at the UCA 36 with 2:48 before halftime.
UCA forced a three-and-out, took over with 1:56 left, and sharply moved 84 yards on seven plays, the last being Smothers' third TD toss of the game. He opened with a 20-yarder to Brett Soft just 3:32 into play after a long punt return. Early in the second period, he laced a 33-yarder to Croom on the heels of breaking a 57-yard run for a score on the previous series, and the Bears were up 21-7.
Northwestern mounted its most impressive drive of the season for a 7-7 tie. Henderson led a 17-play, 84-yard march and capped it with a 3-yard keeper, but Smothers broke his long scoring run just over a minute later to push UCA ahead 14-7.
The Demons didn't let UCA hold a two-touchdown lead for long in the second quarter. After Croom's first TD catch, Northwestern covered 70 yards in 11 snaps, with Henderson's scramble on third down wrapping it up.
But UCA's defense woke up and stymied the Demons for the rest of the half, making the critical stand late in the half following the fumble recovery. Smothers had a career-high 93 yards rushing by halftime and steered the Bears to 5-of-7 on third down.
Both teams slowed down after halftime. UCA took command on Smothers' 42-yard bomb to Dezmin Lewis with 4:06 left in the third for a 21-point advantage and kept the visitors contained for the entire second half, as NSU didn't threaten to score until the waning moments of play.


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Rihanna may not be any closer to giving us new music, but she looks so stunning on the cover of the latest issue of French magazine Jalouse that we're willing to forgive her.
Die-hard Rihanna fans will recognize the cover photo from back in March when Riri attended a Givenchy show at Paris Fashion Week. Most celebrities would need a full photo shoot to get the cover of a major fashion magazine, but Rihanna's day-to-day style is so fly that her paparazzi shots can turn her into a cover girl.
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Vida Cannabis Corp. announced Monday that the company has signed a Financial Partnership Agreement with High Alert Investment Management Ltd. ("High Alert") to provide various venture capital services. These include the provision of a US $1,000,000 line of credit securing the company's ability to close on its recently announced acquisition of a 315,000-square-foot facility in Stellarton for the production of medical marijuana.
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Vida Cannabis CEO J. Gregory Wilson stated: "We selected High Alert as our strategic venture capital partner based on the people involved. Anthony Wile, High Alert's Chief Investment Officer, has venture capital experience. We look forward to working with Anthony and his High Alert team."
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Rivlin agrees to hold Knesset session on outposts (JERUSALEM POST) By TOVAH LAZAROFF, JOANNA PARASZCZUK 03/26/12)
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Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin agreed Sunday night to hold a special plenum session on legalizing outposts constructed on private Palestinian property if he receives the necessary 25 signatures.
Vice Premier Silvan Shalom (Likud) said he supports such a move. The last word has not been spoken on this subject, he said.
Right-wing parliamentarians moved immediately to call for the plenum to debate the matter during the Passover break, upon hearing that the High Court of Justice had ordered the evacuation of the Migron outpost by August 1 of this year.
The outpost is built on property classified by the state as belonging to private Palestinians.
The state had hoped to delay its evacuation until November 30, 2015, when permanent homes could be built for the outposts 50 families on state land located 2 km. away.
The courts rejection of the compromise prompted parliamentarians to turn to the Knesset to legislate a solution.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has rejected such legislative attempts in the past. The Prime Ministers Office did not respond to the latest initiative.
As of press time, however, the MKs had not yet collected enough signatures to ensure a special session.
In light of Sundays court ruling, however, MK Uri Ariel (National Union) said, there is no option but to advance legislation that would give Migron legal standing at its present site without any relocation or evacuation.
Migron is not the only immediately endangered outpost located on land classified as private Palestinian property.
In separate court cases the state had promised to evacuate the outposts of Givat Assaf, Amona and the Ulpana, which are similarly classified.
Parliamentarians from the Likud, the Nation Union and Habayit Hayehudi want to push forward legislation that would authorize such outposts, and any other with the same classification.
The legislation argues that under the law of abandoned property, outposts that have been in existence for more than seven years can be reclassified as state land.
In addition, the state should compensate the Palestinian landowners for the property, according to the legislation.
MK Yaacov Katz (National Union) said that from the start it had been clear to him that the only solution to Migron was legislation.
The government should not destroy any community it helped to create, he said.
There is no reason why Jews should be evacuated from their homes under a Likud government, said MK Danny Danon (Likud). We must make use of the responsibility given to us by the people to lead the nation and the settlements in Judea and Samaria according to the values of Zeev Jabotinsky and [former prime minister] Menachem Begin.
A number of right-wing parliamentarians slammed the courts decision warning that it could lead to violence and possible civil war.
MK Arye Eldad (National Union) said that the court proved today that it preferred Arab interests over Jewish settlement even at the expense of spilling blood. If blood is spilled in Migron it will be on the heads of the court justices.
Likud activist Moshe Feiglin warned that parliamentarians who opposed the legislation would lose his support and that of his followers in the next election.
MK Uri Orbach (Habayit Hayehudi) said the courts judgment clarified the irrelevance of setting a date for new elections.
There is no need to advance the elections. We should eliminate them. Any which way it is clear that the judges believe they run the country, he said.
The Legal Forum for the Land of Israel slammed the court.
The High Court justices could have made a decision to avoid conflict in Israeli society, said Forum director attorney Nachi Eyal. Clearly the court thinks human rights are only for Palestinians, not for Jews.
What do you expect from a panel containing a justice who wont sing Hatikva? Eyal added, in a dig at Supreme Court Justice Salim Joubran, who declined to sing the national anthem at Supreme Court president (emeritus) Dorit Beinischs retirement ceremony.
Eyal called on the Knesset to strengthen legislation to resolve land disputes in the West Bank in different ways. (© 1995-2011, The Jerusalem Post 03/26/12)
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