New Laptop - any suggestions?

jumper918 · Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 4:10 am

Found a great Australian supplier (for any Aussies's here), MLN. Just got the Belkin PlayMax router (for under $200AUD) and am now getting much better internet speed.

Instead of 4-5mbs on both wireless and Ethernet I'm getting 10-12mbs wireless and 17mbs+ on the Ethernet on the DM3. Finally got a perfect system. Only thing is upload speed. Any ways to maximize upload? Or is >1mbs normal?

dasiydee · Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 3:21 am

Had my Toshiba L500 give out on me about a month ago and as it is out of warranty (by around a week when it died),
it will cost more than I paid for it in the first place to replace the motherboard, RAM, and CPU etc. It was
caused by my mistake of leaving it on on a 47*c day.

Well i like Lenovo Thinkpad Edge 13

Ended up getting a bargain on the HP Pavilion DM3 (Core 2 Duo, 13" Screen, 512mb nvidea graphics, 4gb ram and a 320gb 7200rpm HD) for $579.

arnaudnorgdegren · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 9:57 am

randomchaos wrote:

@ jumper918 - When I bought my Acer tower last year I made the recovery discs when I first started using it but I also had the option to make a completely SEPERATE disc for all the drivers for the bloatware. I found this useful because some of the bloatware that came with my tower was ACTUALLY "useful". The seperate disc I made for the bloatware drivers came with checkboxes, so I could "pick and choose" which apps I could install again if I so chose to do so. [The ones I found useful were free video/audio converters] - It was good to have the bloatware disc seperate from the OS recovery discs ....... hope you've made your recovery discs by the way ....!?!

Nice choice of laptop you got there too!

thanks for the info..... :thumbup:

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