I purchase a lot of laptops for the company I work for and we tend to stick with Toshiba. Why? Because they offer excellent build quality and reliability not to mention the speed of repairs etc.
A director wanted a light laptop as he travels a lot. I recommended the Portege 4010 and tool delivery of it this morning.
It is a very sleek silver design. The keyboard area is black. The unit I brought is the following specification. Pentium III 933 Mobile processor, 256Mb RAM, 30Gb Hard disk, 12.1" TFT screen, internal 10/100 network and 56K modem, WiFi, 2 x USB and internal DVD drive.
I brought it from Action.com for £1644.99. The floppy drive is a further £53.99.
The laptop is extremely light weighing in at 1.7Kg. The power adapter is also light weight. To reduce the weight even further, you can remove the DVD drive and replace it with a plastic insert which weighs no more than a plastic cup.
It is supplied with Windows 2000 or XP Professional edition. You choose which operating system to install at startup. A full set of manuals, safety guide and product recovery disks are supplied as well as the modem lead and adapter.
The processor is classed as the SpeedStep Mobile model. When you have the laptop connected to the mains, the processor will run at full power. If you use the unit on battery, the processor will slow down to give a greater battery life. This does make the laptop perform a little slower, but not to a point of where you are waiting for operations to take place.
Over all this is a very nice laptop but it is expensive. If you want a lightness then you have to pay that little bit extra. I can't actually find anything to fault the laptop except you have to buy the floppy drive as a seperate item.
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(+) cool and quite robust trackpad, good display,64-bit windows 7 (-) few connectors,dell drivers only, not realy for gameing (most models), finger print prone!
Sounds like a good machine but a little more info on it's ease of use would have made me rte higher. It's a little too expensive for my liking though. Georgina
Elainebaba 24.06.2002 05:22
Can I have it?
Avril
MRSCANADA 22.06.2002 18:27
I enjoyed reading about your lap top computer..Lyla
Advantages: Fast on a small OS, very light and small, has a good LCD screen, comes with essential bits Disadvantages: Can be slow on Win 2K, has limited RAM, one USB 1.1 port on laptop, can get hot,
Jun 21st, 2002
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