Re: [LIB] Received my new U100 today!

[Des]

Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 05:16:33 +1000
From: "Des" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Received my new U100 today!
Yes mine came with PM 1.2gig, 512mb of ram, 60gig drive, XP home, dock dvd 
as standard,
I live in australia ordered it through the only supplier of the Libretto 
here, Harvey Norman.

Regards
Des
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack Schudel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Libretto" <libretto@basiclink.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 1:33 AM
Subject: Re: [LIB] Received my new U100 today!


Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 11:32:54 -0400
From: "Jack Schudel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Received my new U100 today!
The Toshiba web site says that the U100 comes with Windows XP Pro,
but yours came with XP Home?
Where did you order it from?
Thanks,      -jack
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Des" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Libretto" <libretto@basiclink.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 6:23 AM
Subject: [LIB] Received my new U100 today!


Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 19:54:37 +1000
From: "Des" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Received my new U100 today!
I received my new Libretto U100 this afternoon, opted for the Blue model,
U100's come in Black, White and Blue.
Haven't had much of a chance to play yet, fired it up, went through the
final setup steps for XP home and booted into windows.
U100 comes loaded with Norton 2005, Office, some DVD writing software and
the finger scanning software.
U100 comes with a 60gig drive, noticed that it is already down to 48gigs
without me installing a thing. It seems the new Libretto has a restore
parition on the drive which you can run a Toshiba utlity to restore the 
OS
and system to a factory state. Seems most new computers these days come
with
this option, which I guess is nice for the new users if they break
anything
they can start from scratch again. First thing you notice when booting up
one of these babies is the quality of the screen, it is VERY bright and
very
sharp, once I worked out how to sit the Libretto in the DVD combo drive I
fired up Gladiator on the DVD player. U100 makes a very nice portable DVD
player, sound quality is not as good as I had expected, although
definately
much better than the 110CT, is slighty tinnie I guess is the best way to
describe this. Although still plenty of clarity and scope to the sound
system. Again the screen is very sharp and there is no ghosting affect at
all. DVD drive is a little noisy and slow to fire up.When it is spinning
the
disc up you can notice a quite loud hummm and vibration from the drive. I
keep going to reach for the pointer on the side of the screen, however it
is
located in front of the keyboard as with most laptops. The U100 still
features the same style pointing device as the older Librettos, however
the
little touch circle is quite small, probably the thickness of a pen,
however
it is quite responsive and a natural progression from the previous 
models.

Overall I am very pleased with the new model, is expensive, probably more
than it is actually worth at $2k US, however I can see I am going to get
many happy hours of use once I whipe the OS and install XP Pro and my own
choice of software.
If anyone has any questions or comments please fire away.
Regards
Des