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    newbie to Toshiba X205 SLI3

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by vetalogy, Dec 19, 2007.

  1. vetalogy

    vetalogy Newbie

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    Greetings...
    I bought a Toshiba X205 SLI3 notebook four days ago. being a long time XP users I notice rather the longer time it needs to boot up. Anyways, I'm thinking to replace the 5400 hard drives with Hitachi 7200 drives, and filling the Ram to the max (4 GB). Any experiences about that?
    2- I noticed that the battery life is too short, it needs recharging after about 2 hours...Does charging the battery a lot shorten its life.
    3- I'm thinking to use the laptop for video editing, any experiences about that?
    4- Anyone tried or know if it's possible to install both vista and xp on Toshiba x205 SLI3? anything i should prepare regarding all drivers?

    Thanks a lot
     
    vetalogy, Dec 19, 2007
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  2. Padmé

    Padmé NBR Super Pink Princess

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    I can only answer a couple. 2-2 hours is about right and yes charging the battery a lot will shorten it's life because it only has a certain amount of cycles, but then again that is what a battery is for 3-should be fine for video editing.
     
    Padmé, Dec 19, 2007
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  3. y2khardtop

    y2khardtop Notebook Consultant

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    there are tons of threads about XP drivers. My machine runs twice as fast as it did with the Toshiba Vista install, only drawback is HD-DVD won't play.

    The easiest way to dual-boot is to install XP, then Vista. However, you can install XP after Vista, but will have to use a boot loader to choose which operating system to boot from.
     
    y2khardtop, Dec 19, 2007
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