Toshiba new user reporting! I bought mine at H.O.N in Penang. Model M200-E413, free additional 512mb, 2 years warranty (1 year international and 1 year local warranty) and Swiss travel bag.

Anyone know where I can get the clear laptop lid cover proctective film in Butterworth (prefer) or Penang island? Thanks!

This post has been edited by yeeck06: Sep 24 2007, 12:31 PM

tat protective film is only to protect the laptop until it reaches the customer la dude...... this is eddy teach me 1 so if want scold scold him la haha

no lar bro ... m200 got no plastic cover on top of its lid lar ... it comes with a small cover for the lid ... but that wont last long too ...



and welcome to the club bro yeeck06 ...



This post has been edited by eddy230379: Sep 24 2007, 04:56 PM

got anything which can last long?

HaHaHa.....u guys very funny ler.....I like it... Tomorrow I will go search for the film liao....I will get mini mouse for laptop as well. Anyone use snapball? Is it really effective to reduce heat build up in our laptop. I bought liao but yet to use.....dowan to stick something to my laptop yet...still new mah....

Eddy, Thanks for your greetings?

what is a snapball? can show me pics of it?

Here is the link.....
Snapball

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Added on September 24, 2007, 10:56 pmHi Sifu, my laptop screen brightness is too bright for my eye so I use the function key f6 to adjust the brightness from level 8 to level 4 but everytime when I restart or turn on the laptop, the brightness will be back to level 8. How can I set the brightness so it will stay there forever? Thanks!

This post has been edited by yeeck06: Sep 24 2007, 10:56 PM

this i think you ask eddy better.....btw the snapball is some kind of thing which elevates the laptop only right?

click on the battery icon at sys tray once, then pop out a menu.
then choose more power option, at there u can set few power plans. u may choose diff profile for diff brightness of the screen, display turn off time...
alternatively, go to control panel>Hardware and sound>Power option. same thing can be done there.

I not sure it has been asked before or not, but fliping over 55 pages is going to kill me somehow.
I wanna ask something regarding to the Satellite M200.
Somehow, I couldn't find the RAM setting for my built-in graphic.
I mean I wanna distribute more RAM for my built-in graphic.
If you can help me with it, I'll very appreciate it.
Thanks in advance.

Yes! It reduce heat from building under the notebook as well. When I use the laptop at home, I will removed the battery so now there is a big hole there and no place for me to stick the snapball.

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Added on September 25, 2007, 11:53 am
I got it done last night! Thanks anyway!


This post has been edited by yeeck06: Sep 25 2007, 11:53 AM

all the m200 series r using intel shared graphics ...

for toshiba models u cant actually set how much memory u want it to share ...

it automaticly shares ur it from ur RAM when the need of heavier graphic processing is required ...

This post has been edited by eddy230379: Sep 25 2007, 12:14 PM

So its not like others built-in graphic that we can share whatever amount memory we wanted to share?
Oh well, thanks anyway, now I've gained 1 more knowledge.

Anyone here using any software to monitor our laptop processor, HDD temperature? I use PC Probe II for my desktop but for laptop not sure which one is suitable. Any recommendation? Thanks!

it reduces heat because of the elevated surface right?

Hello everyone, just joined the club for about a week. Bought a M200-E412 came loaded with Vista home basic.

1 thing I must say... Vista is kind of slow and loads too many stuffs. And the worst thing.... my outlook 2003 couldn't run. Checked the internet and noticed that many people face this problem. Anyway its Microsoft's issue.

I think Toshiba notebook rocks but should have let consumers have choices on their preferred softwares.

Cheers.

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Added on September 25, 2007, 9:29 pmOh ya, i'm thinking of downgrading the Vista to XP Pro but not sure whether is there any compatibility issues with any hardware drivers. Anyone knows?

Thanks.

This post has been edited by patrickfam: Sep 25 2007, 09:29 PM

yup ... vista is not to everyone's liking ... plus software compatibility is not very good ...

u can downgrade to xp ... u can get the drivers from pc.toshiba-asia.com

Thanks Eddy!

I might just try to downgrade and see. The M200's config should perform real good with XP.

yup ... tried it with xp and 2gb ram ... very quick and efficient ...

Yeap...

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Added on September 26, 2007, 7:41 am
Yeah, Vista is slow compare with XP. I have a desktop with Pentium 4, 1.8ghz processor using windows XP pro. I can feel that it is faster than my new laptop! Will consider to downgrade as well. I think I might upgrade my laptop ram from 1ghz to 2ghz. Probably it will improved the speed kua.


This post has been edited by yeeck06: Sep 26 2007, 07:41 AM