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poita
5th February 2010, 08:41 PM
Well my old Toshy packed it in finally, and after a fair bit of waiting my new baby arrived :)

Still in the Toshiba family, cause, well, after the hiding mine copped (including being dropped 1m off a bench onto a concrete floor) I couldn't stay away.

I eyed off a few models, had my eyes set on one of the 14" models.
After a few weeks of waiting he never turned up :(

A quick call to Toshiba confirmed my fears, discontinued model.

So the hunt began for a new baby.

Having a look through a few models, found a HP i liked also. But still wanted a Toshiba.

Anyways after searching for quote a while found this bad boy.

Brand spanking Toshiba Satellite A500/02S

Intel Core i5 M520 2.4Ghz/2.9Ghz
4GB DDR3 Ram
500GB Hard Drive Sata2 Fujitsu 5400rpm
Nvidia GeForce GT330M 1GB Video Card
Wireless N
Digital TV/Analogue Hybrid Tuner
15.6" Screen
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit (so I can run EPC and TIS)

Then the usual bits, bluetooth, dvd burner, card reader, webcam, numeric keypad.

All I can say is wow its quick, I also run Office 2010 64 bit and Photoshop CS4 64 bit.
It's a bloody great machine, very happy with it.

Not even gonna bother building a new desktop now, this runs Bioshock @ 1366x768 will all settings maxed, also C&C 3 with all settings maxed. Not that I will be playing many games on it, just installed em to see how they would go.

Price, well I cant let you in on secrets but it RRP for about the $1599.

hazrd
5th February 2010, 10:13 PM
its funny i read those specs

and the only difference between my new lappy and yours, is a centrino2 2.67ghz processor and blueray burner, and mine retails for $2k!! (got an undisclosed discount too)


i couldnt run officexp 2010 64 bit coz i had 32 bit office apps on the pc still, couldnt be fked removing them, so i installed 32bit instead (64 bit is really only for the epic nerds like my boss that run huge macros in ssheets etc)

poita
5th February 2010, 10:15 PM
32 bit programs run perfectly fine in W7 64 bit.

bet you never actually use your blu-ray burner

hazrd
5th February 2010, 10:16 PM
32 bit programs run perfectly fine in W7 64 bit.

bet you never actually use your blu-ray burner

i still havent used the one in my PC i bought 18 months ago :lol:
bluray has to become more dominant in the market for me to even think about using it imo

poita
5th February 2010, 10:18 PM
if discs werent $20 each it prob would be lol

solid state media will take over before blu-ray i reckon. no more discs, everything on a usb stick

hazrd
5th February 2010, 10:22 PM
yeh thats a good point

bought one of these suckers a few months ago
http://www.elive.co.nz/images/Verbatim_USB_Drive_47375.jpg

stick it into the side of the lappy and u practically dont see it, and they go to something like 8gb+ !!

hazrd
6th February 2010, 08:22 AM
pete

have u installed firefox on yours yet? i put 3.6 on mine and it shits itself when opening it every time, cant get in to it at all.... i tried installing an older copy aswell and that did the same thing :confused:

poita
6th February 2010, 08:59 AM
yer no probs with firefox 3.6

ROCCO
6th February 2010, 10:58 PM
Dude thats one shit hot lappy....very jelous....nice buy congrates