NIGn0g

I'm happy with my laptop. I have a TC4400 tablet pc and it works wonderful! Power is there from the idle to the redline, no problem. Lack of ports and I don't have any cd/dvd player...

IBM is the ----. Even if its for industrial, they are well built and have all ports you want for tuning. I don't know many laptop with parallel, serial, usb, 2 x pcmcia, VGA, s-video, ethernet, 56k, wireless. And this laptop was built in 1996 and still run Catia v5 without problem. They have 2 slots of ram, you can swap cpu, swap cd player, blah.

CXyD

I have HP50g calculator best for Engineering, Physics,and Mathamatics I ever used. Already has most of the equations needed for these classes in the eq. library. I walked all over all the Ti and Sharp users in my classes when it came to ability to get homework done. As for HP computers I've owned a few but the were the much older ones (86486 100mhz variety) and the were alright at the time. I have a cheap Acer and Toshiba laptops and the work great as long as I keep replacing a 2g DDR2 memory about once every 6 mo. each.

nummbr7

I can actually **** on my T23 and it comes out the bottom as champagne

no, but a guy with a fox body mustang backed on to our dyno when I was in the can, and clipped it with his front tire it fell 4.5ft to the floor and it was no worse for wear , as for my new dell (didn't buy it, got it given to me from a local parts supplier ) someone tripped over the cord and it fell 3ft from my tool cart and was all done - I managed to get it working again but it has no sound now and will randomly shut down

CXyD

I once dropped my Toshiba and a the same problem with random shutoff and sound issues I replaced the memory chip/stick back in the slot and had my computer check for updates for any drivers and my computer worked like before.

stenseltizm

I loved my hp until it had power issues, then talking to support in india 'hello my name is bob' turned me off. search on the web turns up huge threads where everyone with that frame has the same problem as me and hp refuses to fix any of them.

I did feel it was frail though, I put it in my mom's jeep and when she opened the gate it flung across the paved parking lot. One corner was split open and was generally busted. I snapped it back together and removed the broken pieces and everything still worked fine, just case damage.

So I bought a Dwell precision M3400 (because of the lack of support).
I hate it, I don't know what it is but this is the one dwell recommended for engineering with 3d CAD but my solidworks freezes 12 times a day and this pc just generally blows. I know little about pc's but I get all kinds of stupid problems like when you change the device settings for plugged in ac power or battery, the next reboot turns them back to factory bullshit. If I boot up with the wireless turned on, I get extra problems and jsut general headaches.

CXyD

How much memory do you have in "Dwell" and does it use Vista?

stenseltizm

Dell Precision M4300
Intel Core2 Duo CPU
T7300 @ 2.00GHz
1.99 GHz, 2.00 GB Ram

copied from properties, not sure what some of that ---- means.
But it's not that I'm overloading the machine, it freezes when I do stupid ---- too like click 'file open' when there is nothing open.
It's not just my solidworks, ectune gives me ---- every single time I try and update there is a new problem no one else has.

oh yeah and it's xp pro there's no ------ way i'd go to a new microsoft os out of the box, they're always full of problems

Tom-Guy

Yah, you can get T-series shipped to the door for that price. Mine cost $875, I added WSXGA+ screen, bluetooth, bumped up the processor to T8300 (2.4Ghz dual core, 3MB L2) and some other ----.

Holy ----, have you priced a Toughbook? Nice machines but


If Thinkpads were priced at an intermediate level between commercial plastic shelf units like HP, Dell, etc and the $$$ Toughbooks I can see where the average guy would have a very good excuse not to own one. When they cost just as much, or even a little cheaper, uhm I'm going to dance around like a pedantic ------- and tell everyone they are stupid. :P


Thinkpad/Lenovo's helpdesk is in Atlanta, Georgia. They never moved it overseas and has no intention of doing so. Welcome to a company that supports their product... instead of selling laptops with a dog processor, 1 gig of RAM, Vista, and making you talk to someguy on the other side of the world to get your warranty denied.

CXyD

By another 2g stick or 2x 2g sticks if your computer came with 2x1g stick and install them. Then check what is being started up on your computer every time you restart and disable anything you do not use. Then check and see if you have more than one security scan software in use (Norton, Macfree, ect.) because you will get conflict issues and tie up all your cpu memory and then your computer gets confused and stalls or craps out. Delete all the extra security that you do not need and that will solve this issue. Some time if the new laptop has some multimedia program like ACER's E-power will start up and tie a lot of memory and cause issue later I just deactivate it saved to a back-up file hopefully you do not have to do that. And if you have Vista keep up the updates because they update the drivers also.

Tom-Guy

It's XP, dude, 2gigs should make it a ripper.

Probably TSRs, and badly allocated dlls due to shoddy installers. If Timmy doesn't mind a reformat I'd steer him towards TinyXP rev08 or rev09, ---- runs great and occupies ~46 megs of RAM at system startup.