Yoo hoo ..Computer Nerds ! :)
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Yoo hoo ..Computer Nerds ! :)
So you have a BD coming up and your wife who loves to spend money walks up behind you and says:" Since you have been so much help to me in battling the powers to be this last 3 years, I would like to get you something special for your BD this year. I looked in a couple of flyer's and found Toshiba Laptops on Sale til the end of August,which one would you prefer " ?
This one ?
http://www.toshiba.ca/web/product.gr...1&product=3151
or this one ?
http://www.toshiba.ca/web/specificat...2390&part=1830
Oh Yeah...I like to Save money...she feels the need to spend it
or 
This one ?
http://www.toshiba.ca/web/product.gr...1&product=3151
or this one ?
http://www.toshiba.ca/web/specificat...2390&part=1830
Oh Yeah...I like to Save money...she feels the need to spend it
or
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personily i hate tosiba i had 2 and both dieed within 6 months and i did not drop it or anything (thank god for best buy's extended warrenty) go with hp i have had mine for 1.5 years now and no problems if you buy a laptop go to best buy if you have one near by and get it thier and get the 3 year warrenty for $200 more it even includes free cleaning and cheakup
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Dennis, HP has always been a good company and may be worth looking at.
I usually hate dealing with Best Buy but that $50 3 year warranty on my monitor has saved my behind twice. The first time my monitor failed it was 2 years and 11 months into the warranty and Best Buy was real ugly about replacing the unit. I had a top of the line monitor and they wanted to replace it with some garbage fuzzy monitor. I have not been in the store since except I did have the foresight to buy the $50 warranty on the replacement monitor. When the replacement monitor failed, 2 years 11 months and 3 weeks into the warranty, I went back to the store. They sent it out for rapair (un-repairable), they replaced it again, -this time with no arguments. I purchased the $50 warranty again. I asked the guy what they would do to replace it if it failed again since everything was going to LCD now. He said they would probably just give me my money back. At $500 for that first monitor and 3x$50 warranties, getting my $500 back would be OK. Of course LCDs may be real cheap by then...
I usually hate dealing with Best Buy but that $50 3 year warranty on my monitor has saved my behind twice. The first time my monitor failed it was 2 years and 11 months into the warranty and Best Buy was real ugly about replacing the unit. I had a top of the line monitor and they wanted to replace it with some garbage fuzzy monitor. I have not been in the store since except I did have the foresight to buy the $50 warranty on the replacement monitor. When the replacement monitor failed, 2 years 11 months and 3 weeks into the warranty, I went back to the store. They sent it out for rapair (un-repairable), they replaced it again, -this time with no arguments.
I purchased the $50 warranty again. I asked the guy what they would do to replace it if it failed again since everything was going to LCD now. He said they would probably just give me my money back. At $500 for that first monitor and 3x$50 warranties, getting my $500 back would be OK. Of course LCDs may be real cheap by then...
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Of those two choices, I would go for the first one, as 93greenf150 said, it's faster. It has a little smaller hard drive, but that wouldn't influence me. They both have a wireless adapter built in, the A60 uses 802.11g the M30 uses the slower 802.11b. Memory is the same, Bothe CD/RW-DVD...yeah, the A60. -TD (I see Dean is still pushing Apple products!)
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I would want the M30......but thats over my head.
You could challange your patience and skill with a nice Dell laptop. It keeps me on my toes.
You could challange your patience and skill with a nice Dell laptop. It keeps me on my toes.
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You can get the same thing from dell for half the price...
say what you want about Dell or Gateway... I've used them both, mine right now is a Gateway. I've never had a problem with it. I had a Dell Inspiron 5600 in college, it was very nice, except for the crappy speakers...
I don't know what you are really gonna pay since the $1500 is a retail suggestion and thats about a 100% markup of cost. I also don't know what you have for computer stores in Canada. I know there is a Future Shop, thats a pretty cool store, they had a few stores here in the states for about 6 years, then they yanked all US operations.
The Inspiron had about 3.5 hours battery life... it goes into powersave when you unplug it and the monitor brightness goes down and the speakers go to 50% volume.
it has a LAN card built in, but only two USB/USB2 ports
say what you want about Dell or Gateway... I've used them both, mine right now is a Gateway. I've never had a problem with it. I had a Dell Inspiron 5600 in college, it was very nice, except for the crappy speakers...
I don't know what you are really gonna pay since the $1500 is a retail suggestion and thats about a 100% markup of cost. I also don't know what you have for computer stores in Canada. I know there is a Future Shop, thats a pretty cool store, they had a few stores here in the states for about 6 years, then they yanked all US operations.
The Inspiron had about 3.5 hours battery life... it goes into powersave when you unplug it and the monitor brightness goes down and the speakers go to 50% volume.
it has a LAN card built in, but only two USB/USB2 ports
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i have a toshiba a45 that has most of those features (have 256 meg ram, and no wireless built in, but have all the rest of the options) and i love mine. havent had a problem with it at all. speedy little thing, and handles dsl really well, so if i had to pick one, i would pick the a60.
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Dennis have you thought about a Dell like Mattsbox said?
Take a look at http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/prod...HS1&l=en&s=dhs
Take a look at http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/prod...HS1&l=en&s=dhs
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i personally would stay away from the intel celeron chip. i had a HP with one. never worked right. took the drive out andf put it in a dell PIII, works great. Doesn't crash anymore. Keep looking dennis. try dell or HP
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Thanks Jeff, That was my first thought as my computer had an Celeron chip.
I had constant problems with it.
The one I have on my desk is a AMD & it way out performs the celeron.
I am still wondering about this new Centrino chip .
I had constant problems with it.
The one I have on my desk is a AMD & it way out performs the celeron.
I am still wondering about this new Centrino chip .
