Joe Blog's » laptop http://blog.joeb454.com A Day In The Life Of Your Average Joe Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:04:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Famous Online! http://blog.joeb454.com/2008/07/famous-online/ http://blog.joeb454.com/2008/07/famous-online/#comments Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:47:54 +0000 Joe http://joeb454.wordpress.com/?p=128 I've just had a look over at TalkToshiba (I'm wondering if they have any small/portable notebooks for a trial...hint hint...) and I notice that my blog is listed there on their "sidebar" - admittedly it is at the bottom, but still, it's nice to have some publicity, especially from there :D

Anyway, if any of you guys from TT are reading this, let me know if you have some small/portable laptops for a trial (15" or less ;) )

]]> http://blog.joeb454.com/2008/07/famous-online/feed/ 0 My Laptop Has Been Suspended!! http://blog.joeb454.com/2008/07/my-laptop-has-been-suspended/ http://blog.joeb454.com/2008/07/my-laptop-has-been-suspended/#comments Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:33:03 +0000 Joe http://joeb454.wordpress.com/?p=126 Yes that's right - I had a fiddle with the power settings on my Ubuntu installation earlier :)

I'm pleased to say that suspend works great with my laptop :D Which I'm sure will come in useful while moving between lectures at Uni when I go back.

Not much else to say really, I'm just glad it works! Holiday next week, so no posts for around 2 weeks :)

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All of that was gone however when DHL turned up at the door :)

My first impressions of the machine are:

  1. It's big - really big (intended as a desktop replacement I assume)
  2. It's not THAT attractive, I think this is partly the size though
  3. Sound is good quality
  4. Screen is good quality

I'll post some more thoughts over the coming weeks, ending with a final review, which could just be a collection of all previous comments in 1 big post :)

UPDATE

Some pictures for you to look at :)

Qosmio G40G40 Lid

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I think I'll end up taking it back to Currys and complaining, I only had the laptop for ~6 months, which means it's still under warranty :)

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I'm REALLY impressed, more than I was with Gutsy (7.10)! I'll most likely be installing this later on tonight, and I'll put up the results on my other blog (blog.joeb454.com) afterwards. I'm out til later tonight, and most of tomorrow, but the results will definitely be up at some point :) Everything seems to be working out the box which is nice.

Also this mark's the first time I've used a Linux disc-burning app...I'm using Windows less and less now-a-days, though despite that, I'll keep it on my laptop, just because I'd find it hard to delete something I've paid for ;)

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