Toshiba or Compaq

[Jun aka Pekto]

hi... i'm also planning to buy a toshiba A215 laptop (almost the same features as yours but with built-in webcam). would you highly recommend it? how long is the battery life? how about gaming? i'm just a casual gamer, need for speed games at most. TIA

Mine also has a 1.3mp webcam. I guess I forgot to mention it. Battery life with internet surfing is around 2.5 hours. The Mobility Radeon X1200 is ok for games like Warhammer Dawn Of War (rts). Forget about OpenGL based FPS games like Doom 3/Quake 4.

That's ok. I never intended to game much on mine. Plus, the resolution is fairly low (1280 x 800). Many games should run fine on it.

san mo sir nabili ang toshiba laptop mo? ok ang specs nya.

I got it for $900 (regular $940) at the military base nearby. My wife got a discount of some sort.

But, Newegg and others sell it at similar price, I think. The only weak component is the 250gb 4200rpm SATA150 hard drive. But, even it isn't as slow as I expected. It's much quicker than the 40gb 4200rpm IDE hard drive in my HP Pavilion ze5270 lappie. I find its speed acceptable. In fact, I thought at first it's a 5400 rpm hard drive.