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big_D
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The hardware is nice - although I would have preferred the brushed aluminium case of the Dell... But their driver support and bundled software is attrocious. I had a recovery CD, so thought "great, no problem" and nuked the machine and installed Vista 64-bit... The recovery CD includes a bootloader, which redirects to a hidden partition, it doesn't actually allow you to re-install the system!  This, combined with the supplier ordering it with 32-bit Windows and then selling my employer 64-bit Windows on top led to a very frustrating install process! Especially as nothing in the specs tells me what Ethernet controller it has! Finally managed to trawl through some third party reviews and found the right chipset listed somewhere, only needed 2 hours!
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okenobi
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Not a great impression then! Oh well, thanks for letting us know, and I hope your new boss gets a Dell account soon.
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finlay666
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I have a Toshiba Tecra M1, it's 6 years old now, I bought it with 3 years on it from a company for £100 (was an ex work machine) had it for 3 years and I can't fault it, it is still fairly good performance wise despite being 1.4ghz centrino + 1gb RAM Installed Windows 7 on it, only thing missing is the driver for the SD card slot (shame as I would have liked that), but other than that everything is still working, hinge is a touch loose....but for 6 years service I can't complain (and battery still lasts >2 hours) _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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okenobi
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My mate's Satellite Pro has done 3yrs faultlessly, but has now died. I don't think it's completely dead though. It seems to be some kind of problem related to heat and the graphics card...
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big_D
What's a life?
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3 years isn't good.  My "current" home laptop is over 5 years old and the previous one was bought in early 2001, both are still working fine - although the battery failed on the older one a few months back. The Toshiba is great, although it was a mistake trying to dual-head it with a 24" screen! The high resolution on the 15.4" display (1680x1050) makes the 24" display, with "only" 1920x1200 resolution looks big and chunky!  I might get used to it, but it looks really odd at the moment! The fact that the docking station has a DVI port, but the Tecra can't use it caused a couple of hours of head scratching, before I stumbled across an article somewhere which discussed it. HUGE fail! 2009 and it can't use DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort!
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