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| 393147 | 2005-10-03 23:25:00 | I am planning on buying a new laptop and have decided to go with Toshiba. I am especially after one that has ideally Centrino 2.0Ghz processor and ram of about 512MB and definitely a DVD burner. As long as screen is 15inch or more i a cool with it. I dont want a bulk desktop replcaement and neither ultr portable. Will this sort of laptop be able to handle Windows Vista with all its glossy stuff turned on? Also if i hold till Dec 05 in time for Xmas will these laptops go cheaper considerably? Currently i think it retails between $2k - $3k. Cheers |
vista (8617) | ||
| 393148 | 2005-10-03 23:44:00 | Not even MS could tell you that, may have to wait a bit. www.microsoft.com |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 393149 | 2005-10-03 23:44:00 | all the bells and whistles? Couple GB of system ram and a dedicated video chipset with its own seperate ram, most probally want something with 256 or 512mb v-ram. Fat chance, No laptop has that sort of video chipset to my knowledge, and when they do arrive it won't be from Toshiba.... |
Metla (12) | ||
| 393150 | 2005-10-04 01:04:00 | Couple GB of system ram and a dedicated video chipset with its own seperate ram, most probally want something with 256 or 512mb v-ram. Fat chance, No laptop has that sort of video chipset to my knowledge, and when they do arrive it won't be from Toshiba.... There are a few laptops around running the 256Mb NVIDA GeForce Go 6800, and more recently the GeForce Go 7800 GTX. And no, I don't think Toshiba is one of them... :) |
MyHost (8982) | ||
| 393151 | 2005-10-04 01:08:00 | On the NZ market? Anything exotic would have to be imported I would say, Dell (curse them) have some top end models and then you get the overclock at new and sell it as higher spec Alianware.... Madness just to run an OS. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 393152 | 2005-10-04 01:10:00 | i brought a m50, it has 1GB of ram and a X600 dedicated graphics chip, with a dual layer dvd burner. im not planning on buy vista, ill use xp as long as i can then ill probably switch to linux, stuff vista, windows is bloated enough... |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 393153 | 2005-10-04 02:04:00 | On the NZ market? You picked it - the Dell Inspiron 9300. They're really becoming genuine desktop replacements. Back to the original post, I regret not picking a more specialised laptop when I bought my current one. I too got an average spec, neither high-end nor compact. Having lugged it on a few flights here and there next time I'll be going for something lighter, and having waited half a lifetime for apps to load, I'll be looking for more performance. A fine balancing act... Just make sure you don't end up with an under-performing brick that is average at most things but good at few :D |
MyHost (8982) | ||
| 393154 | 2005-10-04 03:52:00 | Typing this on a laptop with 512 MB or ram, I would sacrifice processor power for more ram in a flash (when you start hitting budget). With laptops I can't stress more ram enough. This baby slows to a crawl when it has to disk swap. As for vista, I have heard wild speculation ranging from "it will run faster than XP on the same hardware" to "you will need a water cooled overclocked monster". I wouldn't buy a system planning to "upgrade" the OS later. apart from the problem of it may not work right, you also have the cost of purchasing both the inital OS and the upgrade version. Get vista OEM if you must have vista. That said I have my vista test box sitting ready to go as soon as I can lay my hands on a copy. But I don't intend it to be my primary worskstation.. just a toy to see how vista works, and what is different. -Qyiet |
qyiet (6730) | ||
| 393155 | 2005-10-04 04:37:00 | The closest you'll probably get to the required spec at the moment is here: www.microsoft.com | MyHost (8982) | ||
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