Selling My Toshiba

[Christopherson]

So I want to upgrade to a better laptop, but in order to do so, I need to be able to sell mine. Its a pretty decent machine, but I'm not 100% sure how to check all of the specks. Can anyone point me in the right direction as far as how to find out all of the selling points my machine has??? Thanks a bunch guys!

[Christopherson]

[sarcasm] Jeasus people! Come on! No one will help me. You are all a bunch of lazy fucktards! [/sarcasm]

No actually, I got off my lazy ass and googled it. So I've got a Toshiba Satellite M35X with a 1.8Ghz processor, 512MB Ram, Windows XP Home, a 15.4 inch widescreen and a 12-cell lithium-ion battery. It has a 64MB onboard video card. I play LIVE 06 on it just fine. Is anyone interested in buying it? Just curious. Oh it also has a 80GB hard drive and a DVD burner.

[Cloudy]

I recommend you to sell it on eBay... at least it's safer there.

[Christopherson]

What do you all think I should get? I want to spend around $1000 for a laptop. The last one I bnought was refurbished, which I think is the way to go. Since it is my only computer, I need it to be able to play Live and possibly Madden. So I need one with either a 128 or 256MB video card on it. I've found a few refurbished Dell's and a couple refurbed Toshiba's, but I havent decided yet for sure.

[Big-D]

Well if you want a general overview then go to Start-Run and type dxdiag and press Ok

If you want a more specific overview like Cpu,Gpu temps,Motherboard,and stuff then download Everest.

You can always also go to the manufacturer's website and find your pc and specs.

Your laptop is worth about $600 i would say, and no dont buy Refurbs: there refurbed for a reason be that they had problems at one time or that the customer was not satisfied.Imo laptops are a waste of money. Buy or build a desktop, or get a tablet pc.

[Christopherson]

What are the advantages of a tablet to a laptop, I'm not too sure, other than the rotating screen, which I do NOT need. I use a laptop because I commute to school everyday, so I'm gone for 8-10 hours, and I do schoolwork on my breaks. Also, I travel a fair amount, and I can take things with me that way.

[benji]

Personally, I would forget about gaming on a laptop and go with a desktop. For the same price you can get a far superior gaming desktop. I'm focused on a laptop simply for web usage, maybe some office-type work (dumping XP and put Linux on it for that). If you don't care about gaming on it you can save a bundle by taking the simple integrated Intel graphics and focusing on processors and ram.

Make sure you're getting a Core Duo processor in that laptop, as they are the bee's knees and seem to have some extra long term potential past processor cuts don't. Also, overcompensate on the ram in a laptop, because you can't upgrade them like you can a desktop (I know you can technically, but would you really want to?) more ram will make it last longer without encountering serious performance issues.

Myself, I'm eyeing a 12 inch, 4-5 pound at most, Dell system currently. Core Duo processor and at least 1GB of ram, don't really care about much other than wireless card and at least 60GB of HD (which seems to be standard) as I noted above what I'd use it for. The reason I'm eyeing Dell is because of discounts I could get bringing it under $800. And the fact that they're currently giving 12 of them away a day for a month.