Laptop Question
 

Hello everyone, here I am with a product question :D

Saw a toshiba satellite U300-11V laptop in comet today (http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/p....do?sku=406961), looks exactly what I want - small, light, alot of RAM, big hard-drive. Not sure about the processor though, I havn't had experiance of the intel core 2 duo; also, I havn't had experiance of windows Vista.

Does anyone have one of these laptops? I trust toshiba, my current laptop is toshiba and I love it, except its too big and too heavy to carry about with me easily. Is Vista any good? I'm used to WinXP, and I've had no trouble with it.

Everyones thoughts please, and anything else you think I should be considering. Some sony laptops are the size and weight im looking for, although I don't remmber the models

Matt

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I don't like vista, far and away prefer XP as all the bugs with that are fixed.

You can use simple software that actually works and is mostly free, harder to get hold of software that works with vista.

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This is my problem; ive heard alot of bad things about winVista; i would like to have the new lighter, seemingly more powerful laptop, with what I currently have on this laptop (WinXP)

That would be perfect

Hmm

Matt

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Well buy it and put XP on it then :confused:

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Then im paying loads for Vista, and not using it

Matt

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See if they'll upgrade it to XP, dell will give you XP home for same price, XP pro you pay extra.

Otherwise, you're not paying a lot for vista, it's a couple of quid a time as they buy in bulk, just think as if you're paying for the hardware.
Oh and don't go do anything silly like buy a copy of XP either :-P

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Matt

Hello mate, i have a toshiba satellite A-200 i think it is with Vista and an intel duo core 2 thingy. There not as bulletproof/reliable as i was told and vista does seem to have a lot of problems, a lot of my old driver cds (for ipod type things) simply don't work on it and a lot of the new vista drivers aren't available on the net yet. It also seems to be getting slower as time goes on for no reason and after having it about 4 months i had to reinstall the OS for no particular reason as the CPU was constantly running at 100%. That was after i'd spent about £200 on virus and spyware software (norton 360 etc.) but to no avail. Overall they're a good machine and the blue lights look pretty but don't be taken in by all the hype or people who say they never break, because they do!

Si

P.S My screen has developed a fault that has left some white cloudy patches in it, visible when you're displaying a dark image on screen :( FYI i bought it about 6 months ago...

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On the Vista thing, we've had two laptops now with it on and no problems with either, its a bit awkward to use if you are a geek like me as all the geeky stuff is hidden away and you have to go routing around for it. I've heard lots of horror stories about drivers but not as yet come across any myself, Liz's laptop runs vista and her Ipod and all her games etc that she wants to do with no trouble.A guy in our office uses it on his work machine again with no trouble.

I've been out of the retail side of things for ages, but Toshiba always used to have a good rep.

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Vistas awesome. Far better than XP - it's only the fanboys who don't like it.

Move on people. Vistas coming and XPs gonna be unsupported soon.

Or get linux :p

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Hello, there's a big forum on moneysavingexpert.co.uk which may help.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...ad.html?t=1993