Toshiba notebooks

[Geoffc]

So I might get a rendering job due in 3-4 weeks that may include a decent fly around. I'm panicking since I doubt my P4 3.0 will be able to pull it off by itself. So I think I'll finally upgrade my wife's laptop to a current core-duo and use that as a rendernode.

I've done a bunch of reading so far regarding the vaio's, thinkpads, etc, but while in an office supply store today I see this Toshiba:

http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/rdet.jsp?poid=325277&seg=HHO

on sale until Sat for only $999!

 

Now, is this series junk or something? Because the specs are amazing for that cost. Am I missing something?

[Ernest Burden III]

The graphics chip looks awful.

 

Otherwise, I recently bought a Toshiba laptop and it has been great. Mine is also a duo-core, though a higher model. It's on pretty much all the time, has never crashed, etc. I'm wuite pleased with it, except for it coming loaded with a bunch of crap I don't want.

[Geoffc]

hmm, tough decision. the bad graphics would me I could never really use it myself on the road, but otoh it would still make a good render node at home.

of course, my wife only needs something for email and net shopping.

[TheAllusionisst]

I bought a Toshiba convertable tablet PC and I have experienced nothing like it for sketching on the computer. SketchUp and most programs load and run fine, but I wasn't able to get XSI to run on it FWIW The Techra M4's have a dedicated nvidia video card in them, so you have decent graphics there.