Recent content by DISK

OK, I was waiting for someone to mention this...forget about Microsoft Office! Yes, you can get it cheaper with a student discount, but save some money and just install OpenOffice! It is a free download (open source). It can open and save as Word files (.doc) and I believe it can also do the...

Well, I just bought my first laptop about 2 weeks ago. It's a Toshiba and the first thing I noticed was that it had no silly "system restore partition". And I thought I was going to have to format it first thing! It did take me awhile to get all the pre-installed apps off but I must say that...

I have just scoured their site and found no mention of this. I guess I should have asked before I purchased my laptop. So anway, I want to upgrade the RAM. Anyone know if this would void my warranty or is this "minor" upgrade allowed? I will call them to confirm. I'm just at work right now...

I think I will take your advice. I didn't really take battery life into consideration. With 2gb I could make the RAM drive for my pagefile as I mentioned earlier and then it would cut back on the HD access even further. While I enjoy the lightness of my battery, it is only a 4 cell so I get...

"only way your proposed method will work is if you get like 5 gigs of ram, install windows on the ramdrive, and never turn off the computer" -Well, obviously I won't be doing that, but I still think using a ram drive for the pagefile would tend to be much faster then the 5400rpm HD in my...

Thanks for the welcome! First of all, I am using the laptop for the usual internet/word processing, etc. but I plan on buying a laptop card for my Echo Layla24 so I can do mobile sound recording. I only have 1GB in my desktop so I know that would be sufficient. So Ernie, you are saying...

Ok, I just bought my first laptop. It's a Toshiba A105. It came with 1x256MB DDR2 533 RAM. Obviously it runs very slow because of this (the boot time is horrendous). I am not wanting to spend money on more then what I need. So I am thinking about ordering two 512MB sticks and having them in...