My only laptop experience in Toshiba and it has worked well. I'd make sure to get Windows 7 on it, they've made some nice UI enhancements.
Well, look who just popped open a fresh can of venom.
Xander ,'Empty Places'
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Gudanov - Oct 19, 2009 5:27:10 am PDT #11399 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
SuziQ - Oct 19, 2009 6:28:49 pm PDT #11400 of 25501
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
le nubian - thanks for the help. I have all my iTunes stuff on my new computer. Wheeeeeeeeee!
I also have a shiny new external hard drive and have backed up the old computer and have room for backing up the new one too!
le nubian - Oct 19, 2009 6:37:47 pm PDT #11401 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
awesome cakes! :-)
Theodosia - Oct 20, 2009 3:45:51 am PDT #11402 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Yay SuziQ! Tech to the rescue!
beekaytee - Oct 20, 2009 7:08:26 am PDT #11403 of 25501
Compassionately intolerant
Update: Thanks to encouragement from ND and Gud, I steered my friends to the Toshiba Satellite L550. I'm excited for my oldster friend to have something she can rely on.
Much obliged gentlemen.
Gudanov - Oct 20, 2009 7:19:23 am PDT #11404 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
Glad to help in a small way. If they haven't bought it yet, be sure to wait a few days for Windows 7 to be the OS instead of Vista. You can get a free upgrade but it will likely be a pain to get and install.
Theodosia - Oct 20, 2009 7:31:20 am PDT #11405 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
What's a good utility for DLing an online movie trailer (for a friend) that's an FLV and does not have an unobfuscated URL?
le nubian - Oct 20, 2009 7:57:00 am PDT #11406 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
firefox, downloadthemall extension.
tommyrot - Oct 20, 2009 8:12:34 am PDT #11407 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Motorola Droid: Look out, iPhone
Could this be the next iPhone "killer?" If you think hardware is the secret to the iPhone's success, maybe. Here's the first good look at Motorola Droid, the much talked-about smartphone running Google's shiny, updated Android 2.0 operating system. It's only slightly thicker than an iPhone, but looky there — there's a slide-out keyboard and a 5-megapixel camera.
One thing's for sure: When this baby ships in the next few weeks, it'll be the best Android phone ever. Faster than any other Android phones, it'll run the same processor core as the iPhone 3GS and Palm Pre, the TI OMAP3430. Best of all, the boy genius who got his hands on this 3.7-inch-screened trinket says it has a sturdy build, an "awesome capacitive display," and is "the thinnest QWERTY slider we've ever seen." And hey, AT&T haters, it'll be on Verizon, maybe the lesser of four evils.
Theodosia - Oct 20, 2009 8:36:58 am PDT #11408 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Thank you kindly, le n!