[Stealth]

my friend gave it to me





running windows 98.  pentium 3, with 64 MB ram.  nice if (for anything) to take notes at college and such

[Setekh]

Hehe, very neat. Handy to have something like that to lug around - especially if you have no qualms with taking it places (as many do with shiny new cutting-edge laptops). And if that's running 98, you can still play cool games like Commander Keen on it.

[Stealth]

hell yeah

it runs freespace and starcraft too

[MatthewPapa]

YEA, STARCRAFT!

[Stealth]

are you making fun of me?  or are you really a starcraft player?

if so, we need to play.  very soon.  and you live in houston, that's even better

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Got a Thinkpad T21 off Ebay for 250 quid (GBP) a while back. 'tis a P3 800 and it's very handy for uni.

Unfortunately I've installed X-com: UFO on it so work might take a while.
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[MatthewPapa]

Originally posted by Stealth
are you making fun of me?  or are you really a starcraft player?

if so, we need to play.  very soon.  and you live in houston, that's even better

Yea, I LOVE starcraft. We need to play sometime.

[Ghostavo]

1 vs 1 vs 1?

Nice laptop

[Liberator]

really quite nice, what graphics chip does it have?  also, you never said the processor speed.  Pentium 3 suggests 700-800 mghz

[Ghostavo]

at 64 megas of RAM I doubt that, probably more around 500Mhz / 450 Mhz

[Kosh]

My laptop has a 2.4 GHz P4 and 384 MB of RAM

[Stealth]

Originally posted by MatthewPapa


Yea, I LOVE starcraft. We need to play sometime.

hell yeah!  we need to go to Netzone one of these days and play there.  it's like $6.00 an hour, but they have comfortable chairs, very good computers, fast connection, it's great  but yeah.  starcraft is probably the only game i can say i'm good at.  been playing it fairly often for over two and a half years.

as far as processor:  to tell you the truth, i really don't know.  usually you know how computers go through the bootup process and they display RAM and processor speed before they boot up windows... well the laptop doesn't do that, it asks you for a password, and when you enter it it goes right into windows 98, so i never really bothered to find out what processor it has.  i'll do that tomorrow morning.  it has a DVD drive though, so i can watch DVDs

[Liberator]

That almost guarantees that it's a 6-700 mhz processor.  But you need to bump that memory ASAP, take it from me, I got a Compaq with a DVD in it and it only had 64 MB of RAM.  It would play like 5 mins of the DVD and then either hang or crash outright.  Also, make sure you've got a decent player.  I like PowerDVD(i got a copy with my GF4MX).

[StratComm]

Stealth, if the laptop is just going into hybernation or sleep when you think you're turning it off, you aren't getting the remedial effects of a boot-up sequence.

Of course, not all computers display processor info at startup.  I know none of the ones my family owns does.  Best place to look though is in the system properties or system info panels, if bios doesn't display it outright.

[Cyker]

Originally posted by StratComm
Stealth, if the laptop is just going into hybernation or sleep when you think you're turning it off, you aren't getting the remedial effects of a boot-up sequence.

Of course, not all computers display processor info at startup.  I know none of the ones my family owns does.  Best place to look though is in the system properties or system info panels, if bios doesn't display it outright.

Could get wcpuid to check also...
Then again you can just say "CPU speed? Who  cares?! I just got a free laptop!!"

[Gloriano]

Free laptops are always nice:)

I have laptop for work only so (1.4 GHZ pentium M), XP pro

[Hippo]

heh... its IDENTICAL to the laptops our teachers have...

Now would be a bad time to point out i spend 3 grand for my laptop?

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Do bear in mind that the laptop's processor speed may not be reported correctly if the chip has clock throttling.
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[Stealth]

Liberator:  yeah i use powerDVD on the laptop too  Actually i've watched a few DVDs, and as long as i set the power settings on 'high' (high processor speed, high monitor brightness, etc.) the DVDs run fine!  if i set it on a lesser setting,then it does lag a bit.  i usually just plug it in  but yeah i had intended upgrading the RAM one day.

Strattcom:  I'm not THAT n00b you know
but a lot of non-custom built computers, Compaq, HP, Toshiba, etc. both laptop and desktop, particularly back a few years, didn't display information at startup, they'd display the brand name, and then just start the operating system.  most times the company had their own little custom-BIOS and everything.  pissed me off, which is why every computer since the first one i've built myself.

[IceFire]

A good buy.  Toshibas in my experience are rock solid machines that do what they are supposed to with few problems.

Even the new ones seem to have a good rep so far.  Definately a good buy!