I also have a Toshiba Satellite, and I'm pretty sure it must be at least
as old as yours. It also came preloaded with Windoze Vista, which I
never quite took a shine to.
It came with two hard drives 160 GB & 240 GB, which I've subsequently
replaced with a 500 GB & a 1 TB drive. It has the 4 GB max memory & that
has been a problem ... or at least an annoyance.
Under Vista I had 3.5 GB usable memory. I installed 64-bit Windoze 7 so
I could take advantage of ALL of the installed memory, but under 64-bit
Windoze 7 I only have 3GB of usable memory. Something in hardware or
bios makes it allocate that other memory to video even though the video
sub-system has its own dedicated VRAM separate from the main memory &
there's no where I can find that lets me tell the computer that I don't
want to use main memory for the video subsystem.
On 2/13/2014 7:17 PM, Mark C wrote:
I have a 7 year old Toshiba Satellite that is still running well. The
dual core processor and 4 gigs of ram are good enough to support
Photoshop CS5.1. It's taken its licks over the years and the pins that
hold the top cover/screen down broke off when I dropped it a few years
ago, but otherwise I have no complaints about the machine. I'm not a fan
of the Vista OS but aside from unduly long bootup times and the annoying
habit of disabling the USB ports after downloading updates (re-enabled
on the next reboot) it is OK. My wife bought a Toshiba 4 or 5 years ago
and it has also held up very well. When I go to get a new laptop someday
I'll check out Toshiba - I'm not current on whether or not they are
still good.
The HP Elite Books that the IT folks at work give me are pretty nice as
well.
Mark
On 2/13/2014 6:20 PM, Bill wrote:
On 13/02/2014 4:03 PM, John wrote:
They used to be good quality back when IBM owned the company. They
weren't the fastest or the most bang for the buck, but their quality was
ROCK SOLID.
Who does give you good value for your money in a laptop PC nowadays?
That was my next question.
I only have two criteria that must be met.
It must be Windows 7, and it must not be Lenovo.
bill
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