Posts by CalvinHobbes

Well if u are going for entertainment like DVD's u should definitly consider one with a Tru Brite widescreen, depending on how portabel u want to be u can choose 15,4" or higher.

For the people who find the 4200 rpm from Toshiba painfully slow and want to upgrade their harddrive to 5400 / 7200 rpm I just stumbled onto this interesting review: Fast Harddrives: The Key to High Performance

Yeah I wondered that to, according to The Register Intel delayed the launch of the Sonoma platform from autumn 2004 to Q1 of 2005. It is gonna ship between 17-20 January 2005, so probably u can expect vendors like Toshiba to present...

Thanx for the info jumpman! Ordering a prebuilt from the toshiba site is indeed way cheaper than from the stores like bestbuy/compusa (u can save for my config about $200!! with 3dcard) . But as u said u will have to wait 12-15 workdays...

That depends on what you want to do with it! If u want to play 3D games then u should go for the P35 S629 with the Ati Mobile 9700 (directx 9.0 support),cos the S609 with the integrated graphics chips like the 9100 IGP (directx 8.1) is...

After some research on the internet and this forum ofcourse I decided to purchase the toshiba M35X-S49 at Best Buy for $1699,99 (+$150 rebate). Although I also considered the cheaper HP DV1040US and the more expensive Sony VGN-S260...