Recent content by Pyromania42

I have a Toshiba, and it's fine, just fine. My gf has the brand new IBM Thinkpad, and it's amazing. The difference in price is quite amazing too, so just do some soul searching. If you want an awesome laptop that won't break ever down and is built incredibly well with high quality parts, go...

Yeah well, according to such fines sites as BestBuySux.org, most Best Buy employees don't know their ass from a hole in the LCD (nothing personal Doug, but that's my experience too). However it is a fine country where, if you complain enough, they will give you an exchange/refund...

Wow, I can't believe people really thought I was going to sue Best Buy. I guess in my future posts I'll have to make sure sarcasm is marked clearly as such. Maybe it was just a deep wish for people to see the miserable store go down in flames. Except I don't think that would happen with the...

Oh no, I did know better, just curious. I bought the laptop for all the other specs. A pretty sweet deal w/ all the rebates ($900 after rebates and a free printer). Another small curiousity: why are a measly 256kB of cache memory so expensive to pop onto a chip? Is it because of the chip's...

Hey, just got me a laptop (Toshiba Satellite A15-S157) with a 2.2GHz Celeron. 2 questions: - do people know if this is already a Northwood? - since it's inside a laptop that already tends to get a bit hot, how high would people recommend I OC it? I hear that the new Celerons are not like the...

Hi, so I bought a Toshiba Satellite A15-S157 laptop from Best Buy, and I noticed that in their specs they claim that it has a 2.2GHz Celeron with, hear ye hear ye, "Cache Memory: 512KB integrated on die Level 2." False advertising or did I get myself an uberCeleron? I assume the true figure is...