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>500
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well, i sorta decided not to buy a laptop, after i made that thread about laptop shopping (i cant find it any where) but when in shop, i couldnt resist. i actually bought one. Purchased yesterday. My sister and i went laptop shopping, she needs for school as she is a teacher, we were going to finance both of them, but i decided to buy out right, saves me $130aud in the long run. My sis didnt buy, but later last night bought one off ebay, an Asus one. Bad thing is though, i come home, see laptop advertisements everywhere and ebay listings with better laptop for cheaper, ah well, life goes on.
Any way, here are some piccies:
any one guess what brand laptop it is?  
here are the specs:
http://www.dse.com.au/cgi-bin[....]a87f9c0720/Product/View/XC3999
decent pc?
any one owned a Toshiba? what did you think of it if so?
so far so good for me.
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Miss UK
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Very nice 
Someone told me that Toshiba laptops have extremely
poor battery life though 
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i didnt have a problem
i think its cos they go more for pc like parts that use up alot of power
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@5 - I like Toshiba notebooks too, specially those ofthe satellite-series ! I like anything that comes from - Japan !
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Miss UK
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whats your average battery life on a normal Toshiba Laptop then 2hrs?
my mates dell lasts about 3hrs at the most!
my F400 lasts about 30mins hahaha
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ive been on my toshiba laptop right now sat in bed for about 1hr 30 mins and its at 43% (from a full charge), and ive had msn on, firefox, music, watched a bit of a film, etc. i find the battery life is very acceptable.
i love mine apart from the crappy 60gb hdd and the scratches ive got over it
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@5 - What's this SONY product below . . . encircled in RED  Is that a mobile-phone?
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excellent choice in a Toshiba!
You'll find amazing customer service and that they are extremely reliable.
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Miss UK
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So roughley your talking 2-5hrs then
25% remain ing on this Dell does live upto 3hrs though!
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>500
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@jojo
its a Sony NW-A808 mp3 player
well its been fine so far, just battery a bit average, i charged it about 5 hrs when i got it, then used it, 1hr later, almost dead, so i charged overnight, again, about 1-1.5hrs was almost dead. Hopefully the battery life gets better down the track. Its a 6 cell battery so should be good for a few hours. If it doesnt get better ill give Toshiba a buzz.
Any one know if the Sony battery cell problem has been resolved yet? i know there was a big battery thing going on with Dell, Toshiba and Fujitsu and they had to recall a large number of cells.
OH and, Vista seems to be working great, for now 
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@5 - OK, thanks . . thought twas a new fone mate !
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Dogmann
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Hi>500
Congratulations on your new Laptop i think you made a wise choice going with Toshiba. My first Laptop and many after that were all Tosh's until Sony came on the scene and then i switched. After quite a few Sony's including my one and only desktop Christmas a year ago i bought a Sony Laptop that within a year had seriously slowed down and the letters on the keys had started to disappear all within 14 months on a Laptop that had never left my flat.
Needless to say i have now returned to Toshiba and what a wise choice i think i have made the build quality IMO is better than Sony, who i personally think charge a premium for there branding whilst there quality is now questionable at best.
The link you gave doesn't show any spec's mine is a Satellite P100-160 and the spec is
Core2 Duo T5200
1024 Ram @533mhz
100GB hard drive @5,400rpm
17" WXGA+ Trubrite TFT Screen
DVD-Super-Multi Drive(2 Layer)
W-Lan 802.11A/G
Vista Home Premium 32bit
I have found Vista to be really memory intensive and notice you also have a performance Widget setup, mine was showing 75-80% memory in use even when doing very little. I have mentioned this in another thread but you can get a USB memory key and use it to boost your memory. Whilst this is obviously not as good as adding real RAM it does work and makes quite a difference.
If you decide to do this you need to make sure the Memory Key is actually Boost ready as not all keys are, but i added 2GB for under £30 and the results are a much quicker system especially opening Web pages and the widget now shows only 50% in use most of the time a worth while upgrade IMO and relatively cheap to do. I also must add the Toshiba Trubrite screen really is stunning especially as i am using it as my TV whilst stuck in bed and much better than even the Sony X-Black screen that before seeing this i thought was very good. Also i find the sound from the built in Harmon Kardon speakers very good as well. Although i have set of JBL Invader 4.1 sitting in the garage which i must hook up to improve the sound further.
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hmmm, must have put wrong link, here it is:
http://www.dse.com.au/cgi-bin[....]a87f9c06e3/Product/View/XC3999
battery seems poor so far on mine.
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@>500
Looks like a nice Laptop, one other thing i forgot to say if you are using it mainly at home it is better to run it off the mains and remove the battery as Laptop batteries have a limited life span of charges.
I can't really comment on battery life as i only use it on mains power but you do seem to have a problem in general with battery life are you sure you not in some weird kind of electromagnetic field or something?
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no i dont think there is any electro magnetic field.  my bros acer seems to last a good 2.5hrs. Mine is only lasting bout 1 to 1.5hrs. 6 cell should be running more. I was told i would get 2hrs minimum. Should i call toshiba or take it back to the store?
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