Laptop And Desktop Reviews

[rabbut]

OK, a quick review thread for laptop or desktop computers to give any people considering a new computer a healping hand choosing an "off the shelf" job. You can review custom PC'c if you whish, but it won't help buyers too much. If you do that, please clearly state that it is a custom job

Make Toshiba
Modle Equium L20-264
year of purchase Febuary 2004
year use ended (where applicable) December 2008
Pro's

A good solid Laptop PC that is highly reliable and user friendly. A nice clean quick-launch pannel. Basicaly everything I needed in a computer untill I started programming with an interpreted language (Python 2.5)

Con's

The speakers aren't great, but hey, what laptop speakers are?

Additional comments

I'm realy going to miss this PC once sold on (A bid of £100 has been made for it by a work collegue. PM me if interested and able to collect)

Upgrades and add-ons you've bought for it

Upgraded from 256mb ram to 2GB
Upgraded from a 60GB HDD to a 120GB HDD

Outline of current specs

RAM 1024mb
Processor Speed 1.4 GHz
Processor technology Intel Celeron

Make HP
Modle unknown
year of purchase April 2004
year use ended (where applicable) Still in use
Pro's

A solid Desktop PC that is highly reliable. This has multiple connections for prehipials in clever places. It's internal hardware is very easy to work with simple "clip to fit" component cradles all round.

Con's

Rather slow to boot, and has less "junk" on it in comparison to my Tosh laptop

Additional comments

None I can think of

Upgrades and add-ons you've bought for it

Needed a new CD drive after purchase and a clean install of Windows. Went with Pro over Home though...

Outline of current specs

RAM 512mb
Processor Speed 1.8 GHz
Processor technology Intel Pentium 4


Get them listed

 

[smegforbrains]

Make Toshiba
Modle Satellite Pro
year of purchase jan 2007
year use ended (where applicable) still in use
Pro's

Superbly easy to use laptop after replacing Vista with XP Pro. Internal wireless excellent. LCD screen crystal clear.

Con's

Sound quality crap. Supplied OS (VISTA) even crapper. Battery life less than 2 hours.

Additional comments

I love my lappie but a bigger screen would be handy sometimes.

Upgrades and add-ons you've bought for it

Processor upgraded from 1.3GHz to 2.4GHz
Upgraded from 512mb ram to 4GB
Upgraded from a 80GB HDD to a 500GB HDD + 250GB external caddy

Outline of current specs

RAM 4096mb
Processor Speed 2.4 GHz
Processor technology AMD Athlon

 

[Truck]

Make:Toshiba
Model:Lp300
year of purchase: october 2008
year use ended (where applicable):still in use
Pro's

a good laptop, very fast quite good sound for a laptop speaker wise.

Con's

The speakers aren't great, but hey, what laptop speakers are?



Upgrades and add-ons you've bought for it

vista home premium

Outline of current specs

RAM 3gb
Processor Speed 2.4 GHz
Processor technology Intel Celeron quad core precessor

 

[rabbut]

Make Dell
Modle Vostro 1310
year of purchase December 2008
year use ended (where applicable) still in use
Pro's

Fast and adjile. Took me about 1/2 an hour to install all my programs onto it (ok, not the best performance benchmark) where it took the rest of the computers in the house arround 2 hours. Chasis is solid as a rock and the finish is nice. I like the shrap clean lines also. Nice little media toolbar like on the Equium before, but this once actually works with iTunes also Very quiet and cool running, even when pushing performance (though pushing performance ATM is a bit difficult)

Con's

The speakers aren't great, but hey, what laptop speakers are? Haven't sussed the biometric fingerprint reader yet. The drive is a bit brutal about returning/loading your cd, so watch your fingers!!

Additional comments

A worthy replacement IMO at this stage. Time will tell if I find any bugs or little niggles though...

Upgrades and add-ons you've bought for it

Upgraded from 1024mb ram to 2048GB
Upgraded from a 1.8GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo processor to a 2.5 GHZ

Outline of current specs

RAM 2048mb
Processor Speed 3.5 GHz
Processor technology Intel Core 2 Duo