joining toshiba club with my toshiba notebook that I bought in US end of last year for ~690 USD

A305-S6898
* Core 2 Duo T5800 2GHz; 4GB DDR2 800MHz; DVD±RW; 320GB HDD
* 15.4" WXGA LCD; 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Discrete GPU
* Wi-Fi Link 5100AGN; WebCam + Mic; Card Reader; 6lbs; 1.5" thin
* Fusion Finish; stylish Kinetic Pattern; Vista Home Premium 64-bit SP1

This post has been edited by hikki_boa: Apr 9 2009, 07:37 PM

it was brand new with 1 yr limited warranty in US ... I guess it should be fine without the remaining 8 months warranty in malaysia

I was thinking to buy some spare parts from ebay ... but I didn't expect broken notebook can sell 300-400USD in ebay ... holy smoke .... hopefully nothing broken in the end ... else will need to request help from colleague to grab it from ebay and bring it back to me

guess what ... i could have get lenovo idealpad Y530 with greater spec at ~630 USD after tax + Free Shipping

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor P7350 ( 2GHz 1GHz 3MB )
Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium (32 ... 3G max ram )
NVIDIA GeForce 9300M 256MB
3 GB PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM 1066MHz
15.4 " LED WXGA TFT with integrated camera AntiGlare 1280x800
Industry Standard Touchpad
320GB 5400
DVD Recordable (Dual Layer)
6 Cell Lithium-Ion
Intel Wireless Wi-Fi Link 5100
Bluetooth Version 2.0 + EDR (my toshiba no bluetooth ... damn it)
2.1 speaker + subwoofer
One Year Limited Warranty

The spec is so great and i almost get myself buying one more laptop

This post has been edited by hikki_boa: Apr 10 2009, 01:21 PM

ya ... it will format the HDD and reinstall everything ....

I messed up my vista 64 OS on 1st day i got my notebook when I try to partition my hardisk (disk management failed to work properly for unknown reason, 3rd party partition software malfunctioning on 64 bit OS)

end up I managed to partition my HDD during recovery process and it took a good 2 hours recovery process to re-install all the toshiba OEM software(junk) ... and reinstall my softwares again ... DUH

thats all my "awesome" 1st day breakdown & recovery story ...