toshiba laptop

[alushe]

My mom just bought me this laptop for school for $650, i wanted to know is toshiba a good and reliable brand (bad experience with old hp laptop)? is this a good model for the price? and last i was looking at the space available it says that it has 91 Gb, and 81 free. But the model says it comes with 100 gb?

http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Tosh...70891/catOid/-12963/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do

thanks, alsuhe

 

[The_Other_One]

It's a nice laptop. Not top of the line, but decent for the price.

Toshiba laptops are pretty nice ones. They would be one of my top choices when looking into new ones.

As for the HD, they are measured in 1000KB rather than 1024KB for 1MB. So you loose a good bit of space. Plus you probably have some sort of restore partition on the drive.

 

[Fr33d0m]

All Toshiba laptops have a hidden recovery partition on there for a lot of people who do not know how to simply reformat a hard drive and reinstall their OS, drivers, and software themselves. This saves time for the average PC user but only takes drave space away from an advanced user. What I do is, pop in the disk for the OS of your choice (Linux, Vista, XP) and delete all partitions and do your own partitioning scheme. That way you for one, have the maximum storage space, and two, have a clean install of your OS without the trial B.S. that most manufacturers have installed on their systems.

 

[shakezula]

can you combine the restore partition? the recovery drive on the laptop to get that extra space back? i do not have any OS disks to reformat.