Critique new LAPTOP

[Fishhead]

TOSHIBA SATELLITE M65-S9065 WIDESCREEN

*Extra-large 1440 x 900 screen
* 17" WXGA+ TruBrite LCD screen
* Intel Pentium M processor 740 1.73 GHz 2MB L2, 533MHz SDRAM
* 60GB 5400-RPM HARD DRIVE
* Windows XP home edition
* DVD+/-RW/-RAM/+R DL drive
* 802.111b/g wireless LAN; Ethernet
* 3 USB 2.0, 1 Firewire, 1 S-video
* 7.8 lb, 1 1/2" thick

 

[Fishhead]

Including tax, paid $800 for it at Office Depot(floor model).

 

[1cheater]

Fishhead, the Loyal Brotherhood of Geeks is currently in councel, we will adrees your question momentarily...

 

[Fishhead]

Fishhead, the Loyal Brotherhood of Geeks is currently in councel, we will adrees your question momentarily...

Thanks, patiently awaiting.

:smoker2:

 

[hellah10]

damn fish...thats an excellent laptop. I only buy Toshiba or Sony laptops because of the quality - so I think your making a wise decision

I own the Toshiba A75...and Im in love with it.

I think with a 17 inch laptop, 7.8 pounds is pretty good...usually they are much heavier. Seems like you have plenty of outputs with 3 USBs, SVid, and Firewire. Always a good thing to go with a 5400 RPM hard drive for the laptop for cooling purposes.

How much memory does this puppy have?

 

[Salain]

TOSHIBA SATELLITE M65-S9065 WIDESCREEN

*Extra-large 1440 x 900 screen
* 17" WXGA+ TruBrite LCD screen
* Intel Pentium M processor 740 1.73 GHz 2MB L2, 533MHz SDRAM
* 60GB 5400-RPM HARD DRIVE
* Windows XP home edition
* DVD+/-RW/-RAM/+R DL drive
* 802.111b/g wireless LAN; Ethernet
* 3 USB 2.0, 1 Firewire, 1 S-video
* 7.8 lb, 1 1/2" thick

It's a nice laptop. Comes stock with 512ram, if you ever want to speed it up a bit double that and it'll be perfect!

 

[Fishhead]

Thanks, really have enjoyed the little puppy thus far.

 

[TTinCO]

Great deal!! I'd only do 2 things-as Salain mentioned, kick it up to a gig of memory-the speed difference will be well worth it. The second thing would be to upgrade it to XP Pro, but it's probably not the end of the world if you don't (assuming that all you are really doing is surfing the web).

 

[Jarbo]

Make sure you are getting all of the Microsoft updates.