1. [OT] considering new 'puter, questions
- Posted by DanM May 16, 2009
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With summer and hot weather just around the corner, I may be looking for a laptop to use rather than my Compaq AMD Sempron desktop room heater, so I'm wondering if anyone has anything to say about:
Toshiba L305D-S5940 (AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core QL-64 2gb Ram memory 160gb Hard Drive 15.4" Display Windows Vista home premium)
Besides any info you might have about the Toshiba model, I'm wondering about whether Euphoria can make use of 64-bit, and the Dual-Core also?
Can't tell yet from specs if the 2gig is one or two modules, from what I hear Vista is a mem HOG? Not liking to move to Vista, 'specially with new Windows soon out.
Dan
2. Re: [OT] considering new 'puter, questions
- Posted by rowrasaur May 16, 2009
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Not liking to move to Vista, 'specially with new Windows soon out.
I've seen retailers offer a XP downgrade credit. Might be worth looking into with that new OS so close.
3. Re: [OT] considering new 'puter, questions
- Posted by useless May 16, 2009
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I suggest a nettop box, with an Atom cpu. The entire computer is the size of two desktop harddrives. Ones i saw came with winXP, i think they couldn't run Vista, but some run some flavor of *nix. Price is $150usd and up. Power use is anywhere from 5 watts to 36 watts. They are not powerhouses, and aren't generally expandable, no changing the graphics card or adding a 2nd harddrive. They have all the standard i/o jacks tho. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettop
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4. Re: [OT] considering new 'puter, questions
- Posted by DanM May 16, 2009
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Not liking to move to Vista, 'specially with new Windows soon out.
I've seen retailers offer a XP downgrade credit. Might be worth looking into with that new OS so close.
Thanks, I had forgotten about that downgrade credit possibility!
Dan
5. Re: [OT] considering new 'puter, questions
- Posted by DanM May 16, 2009
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I suggest a nettop box, with an Atom cpu. The entire computer is the size of two desktop harddrives. Ones i saw came with winXP, i think they couldn't run Vista, but some run some flavor of *nix. Price is $150usd and up. Power use is anywhere from 5 watts to 36 watts. They are not powerhouses, and aren't generally expandable, no changing the graphics card or adding a 2nd harddrive. They have all the standard i/o jacks tho. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettop
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Kat,
That's a very interesting idea, hadn't even thought of it!
I see there's even one called Meerkat 
poor Flower 
Dan
6. Re: [OT] considering new 'puter, questions
- Posted by vmars May 16, 2009
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You're on the right trail with Toshiba. But need 4gb with Vista. Toshiba's tech support is great. I am on my 4th Toshiba laptop. Yum Yum...
Of course, with any computer, get the 2yr extended warranty.
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7. Re: [OT] considering new 'puter, questions
- Posted by DanM May 16, 2009
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- Last edited May 17, 2009
You're on the right trail with Toshiba. But need 4gb with Vista. Toshiba's tech support is great. I am on my 4th Toshiba laptop. Yum Yum...
Of course, with any computer, get the 2yr extended warranty.
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Thanks, I suspected 4gb might be the real minimum for Vista! Now I'll try to find out if the 2gb in Toshiba L305D-S5940 is fully populated with 1gb modules, or if there is a space left for another 2gb.
Dan
8. Re: [OT] considering new 'puter, questions
- Posted by achury May 17, 2009
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What is the seller of so cheap equipments? The best price I have find for eeepc is $200
9. Re: [OT] considering new 'puter, questions
- Posted by useless May 18, 2009
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What is the seller of so cheap equipments? The best price I have find for eeepc is $200
It was on sale in city store. New model nettops were coming out, and they did not want so many on the store shelves.
If you want to build your own computer, mini- nano- pico-itx motherboards are available, and sooo small now. Some are $79 with the cpu installed.
See:
http://www.mini-itx.com/store/
http://www.mini-box.com/site/index.html
This one is about 1/2 the price of those tigerdirect advertises now: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4400154&CatId=2630 but it's still pricey, because they include stuff with it.
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