LalahBit Market announced the second Gundam-themed notebook PC from Bandai Networks. Orders are being accepted for an Anaheim Electronics version to ship in March. The PC's base is the Toshiba Dynabook Satellite and it comes with AE-themed wallpaper, icons, and other contents installed. Like the Quattro sunglasses, they're only producing the item if the demand is sufficient. In this case, if they receive more than 500 orders. Price is 241,500 yen (264,600 yen with Microsoft Office Personal Edition 2003). The first Gundam notebook PC was the Char Custom model offered in December 2002.
Must...have...
How come it has a Romanised keyboard??
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My buddy who was out in a Japan bought a laptop out there, the keys are madness, but still QWERTY.
It should play that little Gundam ditty when you start windows.
Ni na Naaaaaahhhhh... Ni nah nnnooooooo.
Shame it's a Tosh, I've had nothing but woe from their laptops.
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"For the next year most of the 360s will end up in the hands of the hardcore gamers because they are the most eager ones. So the first wave of software will reflect that." - Gerhard Florin, Head of EA Europe
Woes from TOsh....?
I'm loooking at buying a Tosh shortly, what woes? What brand... i neeed DEEEETAILS
I'm sure they've fixed the problems now, but I've had two Toshs in the past and both have been rubbish.
Last one I had sas a Satellite Pro 3000 (iirc) and it crashed about four times every day. I also had problems with the screen corrupting and not working properly.
The one before that was properly old school and when it hibernated it just went bananas on restart with the screen going completely white and locking up. I got so annoyed with it in the end that I phoned up Toshiba who said it was a known problem with the power management and suggested that I turn it all off in windows and the BIOS to rememdy the situation. -_- Right, so a laptop with faulty power management, great...
I'm using a Dell at the moment, which touch wood and ignoring a couple of knackerd CD drives has been bulletproof. Although I'd not recommend it for a home purchase as you can get better for less.
I'm sure Tosh have ironed out all the problems by now?
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"For the next year most of the 360s will end up in the hands of the hardcore gamers because they are the most eager ones. So the first wave of software will reflect that." - Gerhard Florin, Head of EA Europe
This is a work purchase... but it'll end up basically being my machine, the budget aint great, and I don't want a stinking Widescreen laptop, just a robust one.
Interesting about DELL, we've been through a few here, build quality is hysterical (bad).
My HP has been decent, but I would definitely buy a Thinkpad given the choice.
This is a work purchase... but it'll end up basically being my machine, the budget aint great, and I don't want a stinking Widescreen laptop, just a robust one.
Interesting about DELL, we've been through a few here, build quality is hysterical (bad).
The Dell desktops are shit. I've know CDs actually fall inside the machine! Our whole group is kitted out on DELL laptops and we travel all over the world. Aside from the slices going belly up on the regular we've not had any problems. Mines coming up for three years old now. The only thing I will say is that on some of the units the screen can appear to be a little blurry, which is kinda suspicious.
IBM do make some great machines. I'm not overly convinced by the biometrics crap though. I'd rather lose my computer and give up my password at knife-point than have my thumb cut off.
What's the vibe on Sony? They certainly look the business.
I'm slightly concerned about IBM ThinkPads and this whole Levano thing...
But yeah the Dell laptops last, just need patching up now and again.
What's the vibe on Sony? They certainly look the business.
I've got an old Vaio (700mhz, 256MB RAM) that's a lovely machine: it seems to out-perform its spec, which will no doubt be due to the high cost of the components (at the time - it's about 3-4 years old now, and I got it for £300 a couple of years back).
Basically, you get what you pay for with Sony, and they are actually a lot more robust than they look. You just have to be able to cough up the extremely high prices in the first place, though
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Conversely... I used to have to support Dell, IBM and Sony Vaio laptops, and it was the Sony jobs that fell apart first.
Loose trimmings, weak plastic, bust catches, you name it. The hinges eventually went on the Dells, but comparatively they did the job. Similar to the HP (Compaq) laptop I use now in that respect.
The Thinkpads were far and away the most robust, and normally I would avoid IBM kit as overpriced junk. The only thing to ever wear out was the slightly rubberised coating on some models.
Apart from the odd duff hdisk as well of course, but that seems to be par for course with any laptop.
It's a coin toss isn't it.
Seems laptops are fairly homogenous at the lower end of the market anyways. It might just be down to asthetic.
Yeah, at the lower end there doesn't seem to be a lot in it does there.
I've heard, anecdotally, that the cheaper Acers are good value these days, when in the past they've had a reputation for being poor build quality, for example.
This is the issue, I might be falling into the buy #insert brand# becuase my Grandad says they rock.
I suspect that after ALLL this deliberation, nothing is going to last 15 seconds after I boot it up.
wow never heard of this thanks
http://www.google.com Does this show