BTW it´s not one missing part but two: 33.M9UN2.004 and 20.M9UN2.001 that including shipment cost 100€ over the SSD.
Even with a 1 TB mSATA drive for everything it`s difficult to see multimedia requirements in the mist: Harddrive performance matters in games, fx. this youtube example compares two external USB drives and "shows" that even with a fast GPU disk i/o access matters to graphics performance as well. So how´s the current fastest mSATA drive doing when a game has to share disk i/o access with windows (pagefile) and some background download of a large file (which seems normal) and unknown programs small write/read to logs etc.? Fraps can show FPS as fullscreen overlay, the rest is in the mist.
According to CoH (shown in the youtube example) it officially requires:
OS: Windows® XP or Vista
Processor: 2.0 Ghz Intel Pentium IV or equivalent or AMD Athlon XP or equivalent
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 9.0c compatible 64MB video card with Pixel Shader 1.1 support or equivalent and latest manufacturer drivers
Hard Drive: 9 GB of uncompressed free hard drive space (We recommend having 1 gigabyte of free space after installation)
Sound: DirectX® 9.0c compatible 16-bit sound card
Look 9 GB of free hard drive but what about write/read speed? They haven´t got a clue!! They don´t tell whether it would run better on a separate drive or just as well on the system drive. So right now when CoH lags/stutter at the end game with multiple units bombing and shooting, though the FPS still seems pretty, it´s a wonder! No doubt NVIDIA tech personal would recommend buying a faster GPU regardless of the matter with the disk access. That do apply, because many folks ask on the net about lag/stutter though FPS is high and describe their CPU, RAM and GPU and no more ... hi hi.
According to Microsoft Windows 7 requires:
1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
So what about how fast a hard disk, since the CPU obviously has to be a certain speed? No clue!
The Acer R7 offers 1 mSATA(6Gb/s), 1 SSD(6Gb/s), ext. 1 SD Card(1-2Gb/s) and more ext. USB3 ports(5Gb/s) and that sucks, because first two parts are missing inside to connect the SSD so when bought it will cost 100€ extra for those parts assuming you haven´t got a bank with a new stupid policy that requires extra security codes to your creditcard that you just don´t comprehend, and you´ll probably also need 50€ extra for the Aspire notebook surgery tools and looking at the weight and size of the SSD that could have contained 3 or more mSATAs if designed so, it´s a bad deal! So there´s only ONE internal port for a harddrive and even fast as it is, does it service both windows and download and gaming okay? It´s in the mist.
The USB3 ports do okay for extra peripheral devices in speed. But the SD card port is slow and annoying. It should clearly have been a port for an external mSATA device, which is much faster. Video camaras and etc. are probably just expensive because of expensive SD cards that might as well had been inexpensive mSATAs... The Aspire R7 should have had 2 internal mSATA ports and 1 external instead of that big SSD and SD card nonsense.
If Windows 7 requires 2 GB RAM, is it better to have 2 x 1 GB RAM cards or 1 x 2 GB RAM card? Is the mainboard capable of separating access to each card simultanously for paralel processes or does it just read/write to them simultanously in a kind of RAID configuration for faster speed? Guess it should matter in "system requirements" but it´s in the mist...
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