Posts by g00nter

IIRC the cable select/having to flash the drive was only an issue for laptops that have fixed drives (i.e. 99% of the satellites) and was not an issue for laptops with modular optical drives as is the case with most tecra's. Do a search...

You absolutely can upgrade the HDD and RAM yourself. Pay attention to the configurations they are offerring you. Sometimes if you buy, for example, 2 GB of ram it can come as either 1 stick of 2 GB or 2 sticks of 1 GB each. The first...

I disagree. Since the external works fine, it sounds more like a problem with the LCD or it's connection to the motherboard.

I've hot docked my Tecra many times both with it on or in standby and never had a problem. There was a mobile extensions pack that I installed from the Toshiba website that added some support for the docking station to windows. Maybe...

If you buy from a Toshba authorized retailer, you can buy an extended warranty for up to 3 or 4 years directly from Toshiba within 30 days of purchasing the laptop. IMO it's a pretty good idea to get it. It could save you some serious...

If it works on an external screen it might even be the ribbon cable connecting the LCD to the mother board. But yea, first thing you should try is connecting the laptop to an external screen and see what happens.

The Print Screen just takes a snapshot of your screen and saves it on the clipboard. You then have to paste it somewhere to save/edit/print/do whatever with it. The easiest is MS Paint (as suggested by Saugen in the previous...

From what I've heard about the F31 the IQ is pretty average at lower iso's (below 400). The reason for DPReview's obsession with it is its fantastic IQ at higher ISO's (400 and above) in comparison to other digicams. keep in mind...

Gonna have a hard timne finding all that in a pocketable design (depending onthe size of your pockets). There are plenty of cameras out there that meet most of those criteria, but none that I know of that will meet them all and fit into...