{"id":111,"date":"2006-12-16T22:11:41","date_gmt":"2006-12-16T22:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalmediaphile.com\/2006\/12\/16\/Driving+The+Ferrari+5000+Turion+64+X2+On+Vista+X64.aspx"},"modified":"2011-06-09T04:24:19","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T11:24:19","slug":"driving-the-ferrari-5000-turion-64-x2-on-vista-x64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/2006\/12\/16\/driving-the-ferrari-5000-turion-64-x2-on-vista-x64\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving the Ferrari 5000 Turion 64 X2 on Vista x64"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The nice folks at AMD recently provided an Acer Ferrari 5000 with 2 gigs of RAM and swapped out the hard drive for a faster 7200 RPM upgrade from the stock configuration. With the latest ATI (AMD) video driver for the Mobility Radeon x1600, I&#8217;m convinced I have the coolest and fastest laptop on the planet. I thought the Ferrari 4000 was to die for, but the 5000 is even better.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 494px; height: 504px\" height=\"539\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/content\/binary\/smferrari5000.jpg\" width=\"494\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The 5000 provided to me had an included Atheros a\/g wireless radio. While that works fine with all my a\/g routers and access points, I have some draft N equipment as well. With the Ferrari, I felt the need for speed. Vista does not have any 64 bit Draft N Atheros drivers at this point (altho there are drivers for Atheros 802.11 a\/g). I don&#8217;t know what those folks are doing. However, there ARE in box drivers for Broadcom based draft N for x64 so that is what I&#8217;m using.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 503px; height: 383px\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/content\/binary\/ferrari1.jpg\" width=\"503\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#800080\">12\/28\/06:<\/font> <font color=\"#800080\">The Ferrari 5000&nbsp;was provided by AMD and not part of the Microsoft\/AMD program. Through the MS\/AMD program, I received a Velocity Micro MCE Vista desktop and disclosed it as such. <\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nice folks at AMD recently provided an Acer Ferrari 5000 with 2 gigs of RAM and swapped out the hard drive for a faster 7200 RPM upgrade from the stock configuration. 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