Toshiba CD-ROM Drive

Advantages: Speed, price, ease of installation
Disadvantages: Heat (so a noisy fan is needed)

..., but I have got used to it now and it is easily drowned out by some music. The system has been so reliable that I have not had to experience AMD's support - an excellent buy! The other components in my system are as follows: Abit Siluro Geforce 2mx graphics card Abit KT7 motherboard Soundblaster Live 1024 soundcard Maxtor 7200 rpm hard driver 128mb pc133 RAM Toshiba CD-ROM Freecom 12x10x32x CD Writer Toshiba CDROM Drive There were no problems installing any of these devices, even with the original drivers. I am using Windows 98, which configured everything automatically the first time the system was booted (just had to feed it the cds from the manufacturers).... Read review

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Advantages: Not perfect but good keyboard and build quality
Disadvantages: Extra to pay for CD rom

...itself, and it also has its own internal V.90 fax modem, but one thing you don't get is a CD-ROM drive. Toshiba sells this as a £95 extra, which will not please everybody. Something else that might not be to everybody's taste is the finger-joystick pointing device which Toshiba still stubbornly refuses to replace with a mouse pad. Still, the keyboard is well above average for a subnote, and avoids common evils like undersized Enter and Backspace keys, an excessively cramped layout, and non-standard function-doubling to save space. The screen is only 11.3-inch across, which is rather on the small side for its native XGA resolution, so you get the desktop area but everything's fairly tiny on-screen. Performance is sound, with nothing bottlenecking the system, and this shouldn't be an issue, while battery life is average for a subnote... Read review

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Advantages: Good value for money
Disadvantages: Doesn't do anything fancy (is that really a bad thing?)

...'d love one ... and am still waiting for someone to buy one for me! For the time being, I'm quite happy where I am with a 2 year old 16Mb NVIDIA Vanta AGP card manufactured by Taiwanese producers, Jetway. To give some proper indication of the performance of the card, I'd better give the specs of the system it's running under ... Processor: AMD Athlon 650Mhz (Slot A) Memory: 256Mb PC-100 Hard Disk: Western Digital Caviar 18Gb DVD/CD-ROM: Toshiba 4x4x24 DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive Audio: Yamaha Waveforce 192XG Other Hardware: E-IDE ZIP Drive OS: Windows XP Professional Ease of Installation -------------------- The Jetway card was originally installed when I had Windows 98 running on the machine. As with most video cards, it was a simple process of fitting the hardware (in this case, replacing an 8Mb S3 Savage) and installing... Read review

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