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Reverend
May 25th, 2003, 07:48 AM
Here's my new toy.Toshiba Satellite 2450-201.
Bought it on Friday (£1050).

http://www.techzonez.com/images/screenies/laptop.jpg

It came with XP Home pre-installed,but i uninstalled it and replaced it with XP Pro.
I haven't had a chance to use it much yet,but the picture quality is impressive,especially DVD playback,and the sound quality from the SoundMax AC97 codec,coupled with the built in Harman/kardon speakers is excellent.

Specs:
Processor Type Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz
RAM Memory 512mb DDR (upgradeable to 1024mb)
Hard Disk Capacity 30 Gb
DVD/CD-RW
15.1" TFT XGA
3.8 hours battery life on full charge
Battery Type Li-ion
SoundMax AC97 Audio
Harman/Kardon stereo speakers
56K AMR Modem
3 x USB 2.0 sockets
Touchpad mouse
Weight 3.6 kg
Height 334 mm
Width 272 mm
Depth 45.3 mm
32mb Nvidia GeForce 420 Go Graphics
Infrared Port
TV-out (S-Video)
1 x Firewire Socket
Lan Interface
External USB Teac Floppy Drive
XP Home
3 x Expansion Bays

Conan
May 25th, 2003, 07:57 AM
Nice! You're still upgrading your Desktop PC?

Reverend
May 25th, 2003, 08:00 AM
Originally posted by Conan
Nice! You're still upgrading your Desktop PC?

Yep,in a week or so. :)

Big Booger
May 25th, 2003, 08:23 AM
Very sweet little toy :D hehehe.
I am envious. :p

zipp51
May 25th, 2003, 11:25 AM
I bought an Acer a few years back.It's a p3600 with an ATI 8mb mobile graphics and it came with windows 98se.I installed win2000 then win xp to see how it would run.After adding 128mb of pc100 for a total of 256mb xp ran quicker than 98 and 2000.I am amazed at the leaps and bounds that laptops have made since I bought mine.I paid about $1300 and could probably get a nice fast one that will play UT2003 or Max Payne.Good luck Rev,sounds like a winner.:p

FastGame
May 25th, 2003, 15:42 PM
Man-o-Man Rev, with the spec's of that new toy why would you upgrade the PC....lol

I was looking at those the other day @BestBuy, very nice ! I'm still amased at how they get such a powerful system in such a small package....my PC takes up the whole desk :eek:

Enjoy you lucky dog :cool:

shadow_warez
May 26th, 2003, 05:55 AM
mine looks like yours cept the mouse pad on mine is a little more blended into the notebook lol, and you can add 256 more then i can, you cpu is 600 mhz faster and is prob a desktop p4 not a mobile,