I have never owned a laptop in my life, but i am going to need one for school. I was looking around online and the best deal i could find was the Toshiba L305-S5944 at bestbuy http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1218071605696 I was looking at cpu benchmarks online for this particular laptop and noticed that it dominated many of the amd processors that were more expensive. I was thinking of performing a bsel mod on the laptop. Maybe someone could comment if the motherboard would be capable of accepting the mod. The one thing I am worried about with this laptop is that it seems to be larger than other laptops and doesn't have a video output. I have also heard that Toshiba laptops are not reliable and the motherboards have a tenancy of dieing. I was also thinking of add more ram and installing a solid state drive in the laptop later on when the technology has further developed and the price has come down. Also I have not done much research on the gpu, but im guessing it's probably not a very powerful? I was wonding if anyone on this forum had an opinions on my choice of laptop or if they could suggest a better laptop for about the same price.
Below is the specs:
Below is the specs:
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| Warranty Terms - Parts 1 year limited <li class="banded"> Warranty Terms - Labor 1 year limited Product Height 1.5" <li class="banded"> Product Width 14.3" Product Weight 5.5 lbs. <li class="banded"> Product Depth 10.6" Processor Brand Intel® <li class="banded"> Processor Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Processor Speed 2.16GHz <li class="banded"> Display Type WXGA widescreen TFT-LCD with TruBrite technology (1280 x 800) Screen Size 15.4" <li class="banded"> System Bus 667MHz Cache Memory 1MB on die Level 2 <li class="banded"> System Memory (RAM) 2GB System Memory (RAM) Expandable To 4GB <li class="banded"> Type of Memory (RAM) PC6400 DDR2 SDRAM Hard Drive Type Serial ATA (5400 rpm) <li class="banded"> Hard Drive Size 250GB Optical Drive Double-layer DVD±RW/CD-RW <li class="banded"> Optical Drive Speeds 6x DVD+R DL; 6x DVD-R DL; 8x8x8 DVD-RW; 8x6x8 DVD-RW; 5x DVD-RAM; 24x24x24x CD-RW Direct-Disc Labeling No <li class="banded"> Digital Media Reader or Slots Yes, select memory card slots Graphics Mobile Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500M <li class="banded"> Video Memory 128MB - 1342MB dynamically allocated shared Personal Video Recorder (PVR) No <li class="banded"> TV Tuner No MPEG Yes <li class="banded"> Built-in Webcam No Modem 56 Kbps* *Capable of receiving 56 Kbps downloads. However, current regulations limit download speed to 53 Kbps. <li class="banded"> Networking Built-in 10/100 Ethernet LAN (with RJ-45 interface) Wireless Networking Wireless-B+G <li class="banded"> Bluetooth-Enabled No S-Video Outputs None <li class="banded"> Speakers Built-in stereo PCMCIA Slots 1 ExpressCard 34/54 <li class="banded"> USB 2.0 Ports 3 IEEE 1394 FireWire Ports None <li class="banded"> Parallel Ports None Serial Ports None <li class="banded"> Game Ports None Laptop Weight Ultraportable (5.5 lbs. or less) <li class="banded"> Battery Type 6-cell lithium-ion Battery Life Not available <li class="banded"> Pointing Device TouchPad with enable/disable function Operating System Windows Vista Home Basic with SP1 <li class="banded"> Included Software Toshiba DVD Player; Disc Creator; Adobe Acrobat Reader and more ENERGY STAR Qualified No |
