New PC

[Pain Freak]

I almost took George's advice and got a Apple laptop, but there's to many compatabilty issues with all my other stuff so I went with this....


Operating System **

Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium (SP1, 32-bit) Processor

Processor Type * : Core™2 Duo Processor Number * : T5750 Processor Speed * : 2.0GHz Front Side Bus * : 667MHz Memory Size *

3072MB Memory Speed

PC5300 DDR2 667MHz SDRAM Display Size *

17.1" widescreen Display Type *

WXGA+ with TruBrite® Technology Display Resolution *

1440x900, Supports 720p content Graphics Engine *

Mobile Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 Graphics Memory *

128MB-358MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory Hard Drive Size *

250GB Hard Drive Speed

5400rpm Optical Drives *

DVD-SuperMulti (+/-R double layer) with Labelflash™ drive supporting up to 11 formats Wireless LAN * ♣

Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG (802.11a/b/g) Bluetooth *

No Bluetooth (No Antenna) Webcam

Webcam and microphone built into LCD bezel Input Devices

TouchPad pointing device, CD/DVD Buttons (Play/Pause, Stop, Prev Track, Next Track), 104 key US keyboard with 10 Key Pad, Mute button, Media button Modem

Modem LAN

10/100 Ethernet LAN Audio

harman/kardon® stereo speakers, Headphone jack (stereo), Microphone jack (mono) AC Adapter

75W (19V 3.95A) Auto-sensing, 100-240V / 50-60Hz input Battery Type

Li-Ion (4000mAh) PC Express Slot

1-ExpressCard™ Slot USB Ports

4-USB (2.0) with Sleep and Charge iLINK

i.LINK™ IEEE-1394 Media Port

5-in-1 Bridge Media Adapter, S/P DIF output port (shared with headphone port) S-Video

TV-out (S Video) Software *

TOSHIBA ConfigFree®, TOSHIBA Disc Creator, TOSHIBA Speech System, Microsoft® Office Trial Home and Student 2007 Edition (60-day trial), Ulead® DVD MovieFactory® 5 for Toshiba, TOSHIBA DVD Player, Google Picasa™, Microsoft® Works Version 9.0, TOSHIBA Games Console, designed by WildTangent®, Norton 360™ All-In-One Security (60-day Trial), TOSHIBA Face Recognition Weight

Starting at 7.1lbs Color

Fusion™ finish with Horizon pattern Warranty *

1-Yr Parts and Labor, 1-Year Battery
Also Includes:

<LI class=bulletSquare>Fusion finish with Horizon pattern, Webcam with Microphone, Microsoft® Works v.9.0, Microsoft Office Trial Home and Student 2007 Edition (60-daytrial), Norton 360™ All-In-One Security (60-day Trial), Ulead® DVD MovieFactory® 5 for TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ConfigFree®, TOSHIBA Game Console, designed by WildTangent®, 5-in-1 Bridge Media Adapter, ExpressCard™ slot, 4-USB (2.0) ports with Sleep and Charge*, i.LINK™ IEEE-1394, TV-out (S-Video), S/P DIF output port (shared with headphone port), 10/100 LAN port, Modem port, RGB monitor port, Microphone jack (monaural), headphone jack (stereo)


I got the demo one so I got it for 700.00

[mtnbikerfred]

Nice!! Now go buy an "XP-upgrade" (less than $100), and you'll have a nice computer with a nice OS

[JoeTruth]

That's a tank and I wouldn't exactly consider it a laptop. A portable desktop replacement, maybe. 2 things to consider.

1. Upgrade the HD to a 7200 rpm's.
2. Purchase extended warranty with maybe accidental coverage. Laptops/portables are so damn prone to breaking. More times then not, it's a worth while investment.

[Good_ol'_slappy]

JT - how could you not possibly be the 1st reply on this one? Is your geekness waning?

[JoeTruth]

Since you're the president, don't you have to be at a rice rocket/car drifting meeting @ the Elks lodge tonight, big hat and all? Why are you still here? Go, get on, get out of here, scoot, punk!

Originally Posted by Good_ol'_slappy

JT - how could you not possibly be the 1st reply on this one? Is your geekness waning?

[hoovermd]

Originally Posted by Pain Freak

Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium (SP1, 32-bit) Processor
...

You poor soul. Vista is such a dawg!
Nobody would be buying this OS unless Micro$haft wasn't forcing the OEMs to push it off on the poor hopeless home PC buyer.

XP Pro is one of the best OSes the Evil Empire ever created. I've moved onto OS X and am happy as a clam. Thank the gods for VMWare though since I also have a few applications requiring XP.

VMWare Fusion on a MacBook Pro is a dream come true.

[Pain Freak]

Originally Posted by JoeTruth

That's a tank and I wouldn't exactly consider it a laptop. A portable desktop replacement, maybe. 2 things to consider.

1. Upgrade the HD to a 7200 rpm's.
2. Purchase extended warranty with maybe accidental coverage. Laptops/portables are so damn prone to breaking. More times then not, it's a worth while investment.

Bigger is better.It's the American way. Jeez Joe, don't you know anything?

[new2mtb]

Freak, mac's can do windows xp too if need be. But i think its too late for that now =). nice laptop!

[jeffj]

OMG, Mike, does that thing actually fire up and work?

Although I'm sure it runs your everyday applications just fine, more importantly, can you somewhat easily modify your recycle bin icon to resemble a toilet?

Hazaaahh! I thought not

3GB should run Vista just fine.