Posts by kangazoom

1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot Memory, Samsung, or other)? Yes, and yes but considering all (I'm...

nevermind, reseated the DIMMS--everything works fine now

I've noticed that with some laptops, the screens aren't so great in that the blacks don't resemble real blacks (more so gray, if anything). There seems to be too much light leaking. When watching video on my friend's laptop, the poor...

So I finally got my T61 today, and after Vista loaded and it scanned my fingerprints and whatnot, I started to install some programs (firefox, thunderbird, bitdefender, vlc media player). Afterwards, I restarted the machine to let the...

well, ibm's flexview screen is not glossy. it uses similar technology i think, but ibm coats the screen so it's matte.

fire -- thanks sooo much for replying! the laptop seems to be working fine now, but i have sent for a new hard drive anyway. this was the error, as told from pc-doctor: device hts726060m9at00 (my hard drive, i presume) - SMART short...

ack, now that specific test fails every other time it runs. ??

I got my laptop yesterday morning. the laptop was working fine for a while and then programs began hanging up. if one hung, all the others would start to as well. i ran the short version of the hard drive test on pc-doctor, and...

im so addicted and ive learned so much that when my boyfriend asked me to help him start his notebook search, i rattled off tons of stuff for five minutes straight and then suggested this site to him. i never want to leeaaaveee

ah, thanks for the review! i hope you're happy with it! -- how's the heat, noise, and like mercutio asked above-- the fan -- are DVDs almost unwatchable b/c of the ghosting? this frightens me.