Rather than pay $150 for a new battery pack for my old Compaq LTE 4/40cx 486 laptop, I figure I have nothing to lose by trying to open the dead one to see if the individual cells are replaceable. I...

Are the Toshiba Notebook drives decent? I was about to purchase the Hitachi/IBM Travelstar 40gb 5400rpm (8mb cache) but I found that the Toshiba 40gb 5400rpm (16mb cache) is about 20.00 cheaper....

I am looking to buy one of the IBM T40 notebook series soon. I will be using the laptop away from home for moderately sized graphics in Photoshop and CorelDraw from time to time, as well as the...

I've monitored this group for several days and haven't seen any discussion on "Things to consider when ordering my first notebook computer." Now you know what my question is all about. <grin> I've...

Hi Last week I bought a HP ze4325c, and am seiously thinking about taking it back since it has a line in the screen and no one else seems to notice it or says it's a big deal but me. Hey, if i spend...

Was wondering if anyone had any experience with this laptop and with Dell in general. Seems like a good price but I have never had a laptop before. Thanks!

I purchased an M15-S405 a couple of months ago from best buy. The $100 rebate from the store and $100 from Toshiba came in very quickly. It is a fast machine and works well... the 802.11b also...

My 71 year-old dad decides he wants a laptop despite never having used a computer before. Against our advice, he runs out and buys one and all kinds of unnecessary accessories (the salesman really...

Raja <raja05@yahoo.com> wrote: : I was browsing the Toshiba site looking for M10/15-S405 model with : Centrino processor. Bestbuy and Circuit city are giving huge mail-in : rebates on these models....

I can't get my LTE 5400 to boot from a CD in the laptop drive bay, even though I have set it to that in the bios. Any reason why this won't work? Thanks.

Hi All, I have a Toshiba Satellite 4070CDS for sale. Processor is 366MHz with a 4GB hdd. Everything works fine with it: floppy, hard drive, LCD, modem, ethernet, sound, usb, serial. It comes with a...

hello I'm looking for a notebook with 14.1" LCD, weights around 2.5kg for roughly usd$1200, does anyone have any suggestions? thanks

Hi all, just a quick question i hope you will be able help me with... i've had my battery for some time now, its always worked well, recently it stopped working. after checking it with some...

I just ordered a new T40 Thinkpad. It hasnt arrived yet but I'm already wondering what I can do to keep it safe once it arrives. First thing I'll do is buy one of those security cables I see many...

Some months ago the time I could use my laptop on battery fell to under 3 hours (it was over four hours when new). OK, I thought, it's starting to get old and I took to taking the battery out when I...

I have a cooler that I use with my notebook just to increase the lifespan, as it would with ANY notebook. I'm wondering why you are wanting one? Also, the 8500 uses a Pentium M so I'm not sure what...

Hello to all. I am agonizing over the purchase of a new laptop. My work-issue Satellite Pro 6000 has been GREAT and so is the Inspiron 4600 laptop I bought for my Pop. (He's 80 God bless him and...

More independence! less dependence from the power grid! Why has this something to do with notebooks? Because notebooks are 8 times more easy to operate with solar energy than a desktop with...

Installed a new 40 GNX drive into my A20p. Every so often I get a long beep from the motherboard while I'm using the ThinkPad. I can't re-create the situation to produce the beep because when I...

I was able to get a PC Card second hand with ethernet capability but it has a USB connection and I'm missing the cable which has a USB connection on one end and an ethernet jack on the other. ...