Comments for madpole.com http://www.madpole.com Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:35:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 Comment on TOSHIBA A210-17I usability review by Jack http://www.madpole.com/2007/12/12/toshiba-a210-17i-usability-review/#comment-4220 Jack Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:47:04 +0000 http://www.madpole.com/2007/12/12/toshiba-a210-17i-usability-review/#comment-4220 I actually own this laptop and I can thoroughly recommend getting Ubuntu 8.10 for it. Sound works. Wireless works. And the graphics card is detected properly and works. 8.04 kind of works but I am using Xubuntu 8.10 and it works like a dream! I actually own this laptop and I can thoroughly recommend getting Ubuntu 8.10 for it. Sound works. Wireless works. And the graphics card is detected properly and works. 8.04 kind of works but I am using Xubuntu 8.10 and it works like a dream!

]]> Comment on TOSHIBA A210-17I usability review by basel http://www.madpole.com/2007/12/12/toshiba-a210-17i-usability-review/#comment-4182 basel Sat, 17 May 2008 07:15:41 +0000 http://www.madpole.com/2007/12/12/toshiba-a210-17i-usability-review/#comment-4182 I'm thinking of buying this laptop as it seems a good catch, i have an satellite a40 and some of the problems you have listed above are just a tad silly!!!!! (sorry) You will find as i did that alot of the problems you listed seem to be down to software/codec issues, hardware conflicts and of course vista ahhhhhhhhgggg i hate the thing but microsoft seem to be hinting that they will leapfrog vista and go directly to windows 7 which they have been secretly working on and we could see a beta for it early next year, interesting. once i buy i will wipe it clean and reinstall xp which to date i feel is the best operating system around. i have not gone down the linux road just yet, but could you guys recommend the best release and i think i might give it a whirl. Cheers Basel I’m thinking of buying this laptop as it seems a good catch, i have an satellite a40 and some of the problems you have listed above are just a tad silly!!!!! (sorry)

You will find as i did that alot of the problems you listed seem to be down to software/codec issues, hardware conflicts and of course vista ahhhhhhhhgggg i hate the thing but microsoft seem to be hinting that they will leapfrog vista and go directly to windows 7 which they have been secretly working on and we could see a beta for it early next year, interesting.

once i buy i will wipe it clean and reinstall xp which to date i feel is the best operating system around. i have not gone down the linux road just yet, but could you guys recommend the best release and i think i might give it a whirl.

Cheers

Basel

]]> Comment on TOSHIBA A210-17I usability review by Tony http://www.madpole.com/2007/12/12/toshiba-a210-17i-usability-review/#comment-4179 Tony Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:20:06 +0000 http://www.madpole.com/2007/12/12/toshiba-a210-17i-usability-review/#comment-4179 Awe crap !! Just got one , the looks are the only thing going for this machine. Is it me or do these run rather hotter than other laptops. Looks like a trip back to Currys for a refund (that'll be fun). My 3yr old Acer is better plus it's running XP sp2. Awe crap !! Just got one , the looks are the only thing going for this machine. Is it me or do these run rather hotter than other laptops.
Looks like a trip back to Currys for a refund (that’ll be fun). My 3yr old Acer is better plus it’s running XP sp2.

]]> Comment on TOSHIBA A210-17I usability review by Jason http://www.madpole.com/2007/12/12/toshiba-a210-17i-usability-review/#comment-4178 Jason Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:50:13 +0000 http://www.madpole.com/2007/12/12/toshiba-a210-17i-usability-review/#comment-4178 Hmmm, I've just bought one of these (hasn't been delivered yet) and was a little worried by your review, although I got it for a very reasonable £330 so I'm not complaining too much! The image disc thing seems to be standard with Toshibas - I'm replacing a 4 year old one which had the same thing (except with XP), and my desktop (Compaq) has one too, although I run Linux on there so it's not a big issue. Will probably dual boot Vista with Linux, thanks for the heads up re Fedora being better for this machine than Ubuntu. Hmmm, I’ve just bought one of these (hasn’t been delivered yet) and was a little worried by your review, although I got it for a very reasonable £330 so I’m not complaining too much! The image disc thing seems to be standard with Toshibas - I’m replacing a 4 year old one which had the same thing (except with XP), and my desktop (Compaq) has one too, although I run Linux on there so it’s not a big issue. Will probably dual boot Vista with Linux, thanks for the heads up re Fedora
being better for this machine than Ubuntu.

]]> Comment on TOSHIBA A210-17I usability review by Dan http://www.madpole.com/2007/12/12/toshiba-a210-17i-usability-review/#comment-4097 Dan Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:02:48 +0000 http://www.madpole.com/2007/12/12/toshiba-a210-17i-usability-review/#comment-4097 I got this laptop for xmas and the graphics card is meant to be 319mb :S The only issue I have is, apart from it has Vista on it, is that when I play DVDs it won't play them properly, the audio and video are out by a about 10 seconds, then it catches itself up again but then after awhile the CPU hits 100% and it looses it's timing - Anyone else have this problem? I got this laptop for xmas and the graphics card is meant to be 319mb :S

The only issue I have is, apart from it has Vista on it, is that when I play DVDs it won’t play them properly, the audio and video are out by a about 10 seconds, then it catches itself up again but then after awhile the CPU hits 100% and it looses it’s timing - Anyone else have this problem?

]]> Comment on TOSHIBA A210-17I usability review by james http://www.madpole.com/2007/12/12/toshiba-a210-17i-usability-review/#comment-4095 james Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:56:39 +0000 http://www.madpole.com/2007/12/12/toshiba-a210-17i-usability-review/#comment-4095 thanx for ur review, its very helpful as buying a laptop is a bit of a minefield. sounds like the toshiba would be a bit of a waste of 500quid thanx for ur review, its very helpful as buying a laptop is a bit of a minefield. sounds like the toshiba would be a bit of a waste of 500quid

]]> Comment on TOSHIBA A210-17I usability review by MadPole http://www.madpole.com/2007/12/12/toshiba-a210-17i-usability-review/#comment-4075 MadPole Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:46:16 +0000 http://www.madpole.com/2007/12/12/toshiba-a210-17i-usability-review/#comment-4075 Potential issues is WHAT happened....if You don't understand that.. be my guest until those issues happen to You.. and then £500 spent on equipment which does not work is not such good investment.....cheap maybe... but ain't working.... but to be fair... maybe I was just unlucky but hopefully You can understand my annoyance... I wanted to call people to wish them Merry Christmas... microphone was not working.. wanted to see some DVDs.. video wasn't working... OK... it happened only once... but with DELL laptop it never happened... and I think in today's world of modern technology... once is one time too many.... Odyssey 2001 and all that....£500 demands reliability in my opinion... one can get cheap laptops on eBay for few quid..... (:o Potential issues is WHAT happened….if You don’t understand that.. be my guest until those issues happen to You.. and then £500 spent on equipment which does not work is not such good investment…..cheap maybe… but ain’t working…. but to be fair… maybe I was just unlucky but hopefully You can understand my annoyance… I wanted to call people to wish them Merry Christmas… microphone was not working.. wanted to see some DVDs.. video wasn’t working… OK… it happened only once… but with DELL laptop it never happened… and I think in today’s world of modern technology… once is one time too many…. Odyssey 2001 and all that….£500 demands reliability in my opinion… one can get cheap laptops on eBay for few quid…..
(:o

]]> Comment on TOSHIBA A210-17I usability review by Gary http://www.madpole.com/2007/12/12/toshiba-a210-17i-usability-review/#comment-4071 Gary Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:59:55 +0000 http://www.madpole.com/2007/12/12/toshiba-a210-17i-usability-review/#comment-4071 bought one of these a couple of days ago, very happy with it - the graphics let the side down somewhat, but for the money you pay it seems a very good machine. Potential issues listed above are just plain silly btw bought one of these a couple of days ago, very happy with it - the graphics let the side down somewhat, but for the money you pay it seems a very good machine.

Potential issues listed above are just plain silly btw

]]> Comment on TOSHIBA A210-17I usability review by russ http://www.madpole.com/2007/12/12/toshiba-a210-17i-usability-review/#comment-4065 russ Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:40:49 +0000 http://www.madpole.com/2007/12/12/toshiba-a210-17i-usability-review/#comment-4065 My last ditch check to find a review of this laptop brought me to your review. I was going out to buy this today - I ain't now ! It's time consuming trying to find a machine with the spec you need (on a budget anyhow). My last ditch check to find a review of this laptop brought me to your review. I was going out to buy this today - I ain’t now !

It’s time consuming trying to find a machine with the spec you need (on a budget anyhow).

]]> Comment on TOSHIBA A210-17I usability review by Dre http://www.madpole.com/2007/12/12/toshiba-a210-17i-usability-review/#comment-4049 Dre Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:59:59 +0000 http://www.madpole.com/2007/12/12/toshiba-a210-17i-usability-review/#comment-4049 hmmm..i bought TOSHIBA A210-17I jst couple of days ago and once the screen went blank as you have described and its not gonna happen again. I was jst wondering whether it is possible to upgrade the graphics card, because it seems pretty bad...=SSSS hmmm..i bought TOSHIBA A210-17I jst couple of days ago and once the screen went blank as you have described and its not gonna happen again. I was jst wondering whether it is possible to upgrade the graphics card, because it seems pretty bad…=SSSS

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