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You like this laptop?
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 11:23 pm
by Benjamin
Check
this out and tell me what you think.
Here are some specs:
240gb drive space
2gb ram
Built in harmon/hardon speakers with subwoofer
GeForce® 8700M GT has 512mb ram I believe
WiFi Link 4965 AGN
Webcam and microphone built into LCD bezel
Dual core Intel Centrino processor (64bit I believe)
HDMI output
6 USB ports
S-Video output
HD DVD-ROM/DVD SuperMulti (+/- double layer) drive supporting 12 formats
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 7:40 am
by feyd
Specs are nice, but I'll tell you right now, the battery will not last long.
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 7:56 am
by miro_igov
Never seen dual core intel 64bit, are you sure?
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 8:27 am
by Chris Corbyn
miro_igov wrote:Never seen dual core intel 64bit, are you sure?
I have. I'm sure our P4's at work are dual core 64bit.
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 8:33 am
by feyd
My Mac's running on dual-core 64bit.
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 8:34 am
by Chris Corbyn
Heh, good point, mine too.
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 8:50 am
by miro_igov
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:55 am
by Chris Corbyn
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:36 am
by Benjamin
Well I'm glad you all like it because I bought it last week. I'm going to replace my main desktop with it through the use of an external mouse, keyboard and monitor. I put Fedora 7 on the second partition. I can't get wifi or the subwoofer to work in Linux yet but there is a way to. I'm just not that good at figuring out driver issues yet. This thing is powerful enough for me to play need for speed on and I can just pack it up and take it with me whenever I travel.
Toshiba really made a good machine. This is the first computer I have ever purchased and been extremely happy with. I haven't needed to call support yet and it came with recovery disks. The sound is amazing for a laptop too. The only thing I didn't like about it was that when you peeled off the Vista logo it left gunk all over the plastic which I still haven't figured out how to get off yet.
This thing is also going to save a lot of money as far as electricity usage. I think my main desktop that I use for development draws 500 watts, with this only drawing 160 or so. Battery life is 2 hours, not very long but that's what you get with a laptop like this I suppose. It's very quite too. I won't have an office that sounds like a windtunnel anymore because I can throw the other computer in a closet and just have it wake up on lan or something.
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 12:12 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Sweet rig dude. And as for battery, my laptop with about half the specs as yours only gets about 3 hours (with things off and the monitor on dim). Congrats on your new toy.
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 4:49 pm
by Benjamin
Thanks Everah. I just have to make sure I don't drop it. I was able to get two hours out of it with everything running. I'm betting I'd be hardpressed to get 2.5 hours though even conserving power though.
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:37 pm
by Arawn
feyd wrote:Specs are nice, but I'll tell you right now, the battery will not last long.
Read a day or so ago Samsung is showing off a fuel cell piggy for laptops that lasts 30 days (8h/day).
Samsung SDI’s Fuel Cell runs for a month...
EDIT: Think I got link fixed.
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 4:08 am
by Chris Corbyn
Arawn wrote:feyd wrote:Specs are nice, but I'll tell you right now, the battery will not last long.
Read a day or so ago Samsung is showing off a fuel cell piggy for laptops that lasts 30 days (8h/day).
Samsung SDI’s Fuel Cell runs for a month...
That link dies on me with what appears to be a Japanese error message

Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 2:01 pm
by Arawn
d11wtq wrote:Arawn wrote:feyd wrote:Specs are nice, but I'll tell you right now, the battery will not last long.
Read a day or so ago Samsung is showing off a fuel cell piggy for laptops that lasts 30 days (8h/day).
Samsung SDI’s Fuel Cell runs for a month...
That link dies on me with what appears to be a Japanese error message

Here's a couple more links:
Samsung's one-month Fuel Cell piggy given a real purty mouth
Samsung Shows Updated Fuel Cell for Notebooks
I fixed the original link too.