Yep, new toshiba.
Like I said before, first time my tired eyes could deal with 1600x1200. I've got a nice sony 21" flatscreen crt that I can't handle 1600x1200 on, but this lcd does it.
You do get reflections off the screen if the light is coming from directly over your shoulders, but the finish on the screen, while glossy, also appears sort of 'wavy' or 'rippled' so that even with the reflection, it isn't like it is shining right into your eyes. Hard to explain. Viewing angle is pretty flexible, we had 3 people sitting next to each other in office chairs, and none of them had any problems watching DVD movies.
Tuner doesn't come with an external antennae. I haven't used it all, don't have much use for it. I ordered a 2nd battery for that bay(which hasn't shipped yet). I'll try to find time to play with the tuner and with the media edition software/remote this weekend.
I play dark age of camelot all the time, and this is the first notebook I've played it on where I could actually move around in rvr without lagging up. I play my main character on the toshiba, and have a buffbot on a compaq evo n180. Allows me to play on the T1 at work, just have to carry my notebooks in and out with me every day.
Keyboard is pretty good. Not quite as deep a keythrow as the evo n180, but still pretty good for a notebook. One of the nice things is that the 'windows' key isn't between left-ctrl and left-alt, but instead is in upper right corner, with a windows 'right-click' button as well. I don't have to worry about accidentally hitting it when in a fullscreen game. Keys are a translucent blue color, with lights for the usual keyboard toggles, and for a couple others. Looks like there might be a way to illuminate the entire keyboard, which would be cool at night.
I should probably read the manual. The front edge of the notebook is pretty sharp, and I can see this possibly causing some discomfort during long sessions.
Built-in wifi has a mechanical switch on the left side of the machine, by the SD slot, so that you can physically turn it off and on, which is nice.
Trackpad works fine, though I'm not much into trackpads. First thing I usually do is turn of 'taps', so I miss out on most of the advanced features. Scroll wheel between the mousebuttons works ok, could use a slighty rougher finish, imho.
PCMCIA slot has a spring loaded cover instead of an 'insert', which is nice, long as it doesn't break.
Doors covering audio input/output, svga out, and network/modem ports are fairly flimsy, I expect to break the network door off within a month or two. I may just take it off and store it. Screen latch is also thin plastic, which is kind of sad. That is one of the things I really like about the evo, it has a really big metal latch that just isn't going to break.
Nice to have USB 2.0 ports on both sides of notebook, I use a tiny microsoft notebook optical mouse usually. Haven't hooked up the ipod via firewire yet, will give that a go soon, need to pull my mp3s off the network and burn them to dvd, kill two testing birds with one stone.
Exhaust port on back is fairly noisy when the fan is running, but it seems to be variable speed, and not run at all when the machine is not doing anything. Speakers kick ass all around. This isn't your typical notebook 'sound'. The 'subwoofer' has a port on the left side of the notebook. Kind of cool to feel the air rushing in and out of there when the music is pumping. Yeah, I'm a geek, I admit it. Is a convenient volume dial on the front edge, right corner, built-in to the IR port area.
Installed nvidia's dawn demo, worked fine.
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