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did I miss the pics?........

I need to find my camera, not sure where it is, I'll get to it this weekend for sure (unless the surf is really good.)

Part of the problem is that if I have time to take pictures of my laptop I'd rather spend it gaming on the thing!

it shouldnt be too long, i have taken many pics of mine and they can be done fast...

why a 4200 serial-ata?!.. i think its the only thing that sux!!!...

My guess is heat, or reduction of it... less rpm equals less heat.

But yeah, I do notice when trying out FEAR, the lag from hard disk caching/loading, now that I have had some time with it. ANy suggestions on hwo to speed that up, without getting a new HD?

Probably becasuse they wanted to thow tons of storage space in there and the only options for a 160GB HDD at the present are a 4200 and a 5400. They probably went with the 4200 to make a price point (keep the unit "under" $2k. Also, I don't know if Toshiba Storage manufactures a 5400rpm 160GB drive or Toshiba has contracts with anybody that does. Besides, the performance should be pretty high due to the high density of the drive so it shouldn't be THAT big of a deal. Besides,HDD's are all too easy to swap out so you could just wait until a 7200 rpm drive comes along and swap it for that then.

yeah... i was waiting for m1710, but its damn overpriced... so starting looking for a new...

when i saw p105.. why not.. it have an 7900 gs same m1710 cheaper model.. but... a 4200 realll sux..

well.. as your question ... i dont think that have any magic to get better... only way is replacing... which is sux, isnt!!?

btw qosmio 35 has an 7300 .. out of question..

hard times!!

regards,

You can customize a P100 on the Toshiba web site.

yeah the 1710 is a good $1000 more fully loaded, that 512mb vid card is nice; but it seems to be limited to 2 gigs of memory while the Toshia is 4GB.

I just don't know, the guys at work would kill me if I got a Dell since we sort of compete with them, but damn I really want to play some cool ass games soon at full res.

did u conisder the 5950????

That would be false. The 1710 has 4gb option as well.

For optimal drivers, try omega-drivers.net (I think it is). All you have to do in that one is open up the advanced properties, enable overclocking, then push find optimal. Usually you can bump it up a tad, but not too much. Easiest overclock I've ever done.

However, you guys need to note a few things. As troyus said, its the lightest most portable gaming 17"-er out there. It has a 7900gs and a 4200rpm hard drive for a reason. If you want a mammoth power-house machine, you're probably looking at the wrong computer. Get a Clevo that only has 55 minutes of battery life and weighs 14.5 pounds, or get a Toshiba that has hours of battery (dunno how many, probably simple to find out) and weighs 7 pounds. Totally different machines for totally different purposes.

I have read somewhere that average battery life (no intensive gaming) is somewhere between 2.5 and 3.25 with the 9-cell battery. Not bad in my opinion.

Not at the time of the post; At the price for 4GB, you could almost get a second notebook

Still, it looks like an incredible machine, its version of the 7900 is hot.