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MisterDuck

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Damn, the other night I went over to compusa (yes, I'm guilty - I hate the place but I needed some cables) and while browsing I saw the new Toshiba laptop with a 1600x1200 LCD screen, driven by the geforce4 mobile deal....and I have to admit, it was damn slick.

It was 2k, but it was definetly a billy bad a$$ laptop. Almost makes me regret building my current system, as cool as it is...

Oh well. Hindsight is fifty fifty. 😀
 
To be honest with you, I don't even remember - I know it was 512 megs of ram and a 1 ghz+ processor, but I was too blown away by the display to really pay attention to details like who made the proccessor.

One really bad aspect of this whole thing: now all the text on my monitors looks like ass. That screen had by far the crispest text I've ever seen in my entire life. The text on the screen I'm using right now (a sony 17 inch trinitron, flat - pretty nice monitor, IMO) doesn't even compare.
 
If that's the model I think it is (Satellite 5005-S507), then it uses a 1.1 GHz Pentium III, and it's NOT the mobile version! It has the NVIDIA® GeForce4? 440 Go graphics controller with 32MB DDR VRAM and a DVD/CD-RW drive, the 1600 x 1200 "Personal Theatre UXGA" screen, a 40 gig hard drive and what's supposed to be a super-duper sound system which includes a built-in "subwoofer" for $2,000. I was thinking of getting one for my wife as a gift. She's a graphics specialist and Web developer for SAIC, and she's never far from a power outlet. I'm thinking the non-mobile processor might drain batteries dry in a hurry, but it probably wouldn't matter to her. Wonder how much hotter it runs than the mobile PIII.

Heck, Toshiba is even selling a non-mobile Pentium IV notebook with less impressive graphics and sound for about the same price.

I've always loved Toshiba notebooks. I've used Satellite Pro and Tecra models mostly. Right now I've got a Dell Inspiron 7500 that is two years old and has had just about every component replaced twice. I won't be making that mistake again. I should have known better. I had two of their laptops in the early 90s that fell into pieces. But I trusted PC Mag <jerks> when they said that Dells were more solid now. Maybe some of them are, but I know that the one's I've had seemed to be made of cheap cardboard. No matter how good the innards are, if the chassis is weak and flexes a lot, stuff is gonna go South!

- Collin
 
pc mag lies. dell wins because they pay the extra to get that glossy ad in the back cover on every magazine. bar none that is the #1 reason they get better reviews. outside of that they make average laptops.


that laptop is sick. i dont get why toshiba is using desktop CPUs, but oh well, intel desktop CPUs especially the .13 ones arent that power hungry. the p4 one even has a door so you can upgrade the cpu but has like 4 different cooling ventes. i wish the p4-1.6A laptop the had came with tthe good video card though.
 
Yup, there's (almost) no such thing as a free press. It's mostly bought and paid for -- by advertisers!

I was thinking the same thing about the Pentium IV notebook. Why not put the fancy video card in it? And then I started thinking about all of the heat those two items (the CPU and the GPU) would be putting out inside that notebook case. Maybe they were afraid of the China syndrome!

😀

- Collin
 
I thought that the prcessor in the laptop was the Tuatalin (sp?), which would be the same as the regular laptop version, just without speedstep technology. It should affect battery times that much since the processor already runs @ a lower voltage. At least, that' my understanding of it.
 
Too many processors for an old man like me to keep straight. The technical specs they have posted on the Toshiba site are not very specific. I just noticed that they list the PIII processors on Satellite Pro / Portege / Tecra as Mobile Pentium III, but they list the PIII processors on the Satellite series simply as Pentium III. The speed for this one is funny for a notebook, too -- 1.1 GHz. If the only difference in the processors is the lack of SpeedStep on the Satellites... I've found SpeedStep to be mostly a nuisance. Most people I know disable it.

- Collin
 
Too many processors for an old man like me to keep straight. The technical specs they have posted on the Toshiba site are not very specific. I just noticed that they list the PIII processors on Satellite Pro / Portege / Tecra as Mobile Pentium III, but they list the PIII processors on the Satellite series simply as Pentium III. The speed for this one is funny for a notebook, too -- 1.1 GHz. If the only difference in the processors is the lack of SpeedStep on the Satellites... I've found SpeedStep to be mostly a nuisance. Most people I know disable it.

- Collin
 
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