They moved it because they thought it was more approprite in mobile computing. (I kinda agree:)
To compare the screens you need to go to the store and see for yourself. That is the only way to compare.
Learux
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They moved it because they thought it was more approprite in mobile computing. (I kinda agree:)
To compare the screens you need to go to the store and see for yourself. That is the only way to compare.
Learux
'Tru-brite' or whatever name the company chooses is basically a glossy coating on the screen which gives more vibrant colours and darker blacks. Generally these screens are the preference but some don't like them due to the increase glare.Quote:
Originally Posted by lenninkynan
John
$500 for a new laptop! Take it! Just upgrade the memory. Enjoy it :)
I don't now if you are still interested in the laptop, or if they are still on sale, but it's a great laptop for the price. The Celeron M at 1.6GHz is not a slow processor, it has plenty of power for normal laptop use.
With XP Home, office and a e-trust firewall and AV and a few other programs we still have about 36 Gig of drive space remaining. The 256 MB's of RAM is not enough, I added a Gig of Gskill DDR2 4200 from newegg for $75 and it made a world of difference. With 256 MB of RAM the onboard video appears to default to using 64 MB and when you add more RAM it increase to using 128 MB.
The onboard wireless has great range. Connected to a D-Link 624 xtreme router and I get 1900 kbps download speeds, versus about 3200 kbps for wired.
Screen is great, speakers suck as expected. I don't like touch screen so I picked up a DCT optical usb mouse for $8 with a retracable cord, plugged it in and it works fine.
Plan on speeding a number of hours deleting all the "crap" trial programs preloaded on the system. Some of the Toshiba provided software is ok. Love the "radar screen appearance" for location near wireless networks. It is finding a couple of near wireless networks that are not showing up on any other desktop systems I have. (need to take it on a drive.....)
Geez, sorry, almost wrote a review there.
EDIT: Battery life about 90 minute with normal use. Toshiba sends you a 15% off coupon by e-mail when you register your laptop so you can get a new battery with about twice the use, for about $85 shipped.
Marv,
Thanks for your wonderful analysis. I think I have compounded my situation. I purchased another Toshiba that was on sale last week, The A105-S101 which went for $499, just a hundred bucks more. The improvement over the L25-S1216 that you talked about is that it has 60gb instead of a 40gb hard drive, free upgradable RAM to 512 and the warranty is for 1 year instead of 90 days. It has a15.4" tru-brite wide-screen instead of just the square 15"LCD (although I would actually prefer not having the extra glare of the tru-brite).
Do you think that the 512 Ram is enough? What would be the outcome, good or bad, if I just bought an extra 512 Ram for one slot and use the other slot for one of the 2 256 Ram chips that I will now own with the original machine? Does not having equal amount RAMs in both slots corrupt the machine in anyway?
I am a real beginner with using a computer...I just email, surf the net and would like to play DOS games and a few of the modern games that wouldn't tax this budget machine. Which programs do you recommend I keep that Toshiba gives me and those that I wish to get rid of (How much space do I save by getting rid of them?) how do I go about doing that?
What is the "radar screen" you allude to?
Besides the USB mouse you mentioned (DCB...who are they?), which particular brands do you suggest? Logitech? etc.
Thanks for your comments.