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Is This Toshiba Satellite Pro P300-1AY a Great Machine?




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Old 22nd Feb 2009, 11:00
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hi guys 3 questions:
-is this a good laptop?
http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/-/654/861...archtype=genre

-does it have good graphics capability?

-it has 3gb of ram, 1x1gb and 1x2gb, does this mean it would not run as fast as dual channel ram or does it make no difference?

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Old 22nd Feb 2009, 11:07
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That's not a laptop, that's a really hot, battery-powered desktop with an integrated LCD and a mediocre graphics card. If you want that sort of performance buy it in a desktop.
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Old 22nd Feb 2009, 11:07
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Games + Laptops = No.

I assume you want to know if it will play games good as you're asking about graphics capability...
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Old 22nd Feb 2009, 11:12
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Games + Laptops = No.

I assume you want to know if it will play games good as you're asking about graphics capability...
actually no dude, it's for my friend who is an architect and wants a nice fast big screened laptop (mainly for use in the house so weight is not an issue) that he can use the program "vectorworks" on (among other things), i wasn't sure if he needed a good graphics card for that?
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Old 22nd Feb 2009, 11:14
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That's not a laptop, that's a really hot, battery-powered desktop with an integrated LCD and a mediocre graphics card. If you want that sort of performance buy it in a desktop.
why is it hot carbon?

it's for my friend and he wants a 17 inch screen (minimum) laptop, i offered to help build a pc for him but he wants it to be portable so insists on a laptop
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Old 22nd Feb 2009, 11:21
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he wants as powerful a machine as possible with £650 or so being the absolute limit (this laptop is more expensive but you get £100 cashback on it), are there better options guys?
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Old 22nd Feb 2009, 11:37
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what do you reckon carbon?
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Old 22nd Feb 2009, 11:44
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mATX systems are portable too.
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Old 22nd Feb 2009, 11:46
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do you mean little pc's like shuttles?
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Old 22nd Feb 2009, 12:13
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The point carbon is making is laptops are for portability. As soon as you want high spec get a desktop. A high spec laptop is 2x the price of an equivalent desktop but the spec will have had it's wings clipped to save space, price, heat. It will last next to no time on it's battery, will overheat like a bitch which raises reliability issues and they are big and heavy, which defeats the point.
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