I have a Toshiba Satellite A205-S5841 Laptop with Windows Vista. I don’t like Vista. I have some old XP recovery disks from a Compaq Presario SR1503WM Desktop. How can I put XP on to my Laptop. and what would I need to do to make it work? 10 points to anyone who can help.
Typically brand named laptops/desktops come with proprietary recoverable Windows OS disks that only work in their systems. IE a toshiba recover disk will only work in a toshiba system etc. My guess is that the compaq recovery disk will not work in your toshiba laptop. You can try but it will probably give you error on install. You will need a fresh XP CD full version to do what you want to do.
There are many misconceptions having to do with reconditioned and refurbished laptops. All the replacement parts should have the highest quality to ensure customer satisfaction
Sometimes the refurbished stock comes directly from the manufacturers to the consumer when refurbished, or sometimes to the company specializing in refurbishment if the manufacturers does not refurbish in-house. Then the refurbishment company supplies the items to the consumers. There are cons and pros to purchasing the refurbished computers: PRO: *The Cheaper Price *Speed – often items sold from the stock rather than the made-to-order *Support – the refurbishment companies are usually easier to contact than the bigger manufacturers. *Often the refurbished items are already upgraded to the higher specification than original items, such as bigger memory or a bigger hard drive. *Items will come with the warranty that is offered by the refurbisher. CONS: *Sometimes people worry that refurbished one is inferior. In summary; you do not have anything to fear in buying the refurbished laptops, except there could be occasional marks,blemishes, or scratches on the product.
Saves Your Money with A Refurbished Computer
High end media computers are very expensive and therefore an average family cannot afford to purchase it. In such circumstance, refurbished computers are the only alternative for those who want them for home and basic office use. Refurbish computers are available with computer retailers. The dealers, who exchange new computers for used ones, refurbish the returned used ones and offer to sell them at heavily reduced rate. In case you require the monitor, it may cost a bit more. Such computer systems are available for sale online at competitive prices. It is even possible to get insurance, extended warranty and shipping free of cost. It is to be remembered that some of these refurbished systems are not condemned pieces. There are various reasons for such systems to reach for second sales as refurbished. Some of the customers prefer to buy refurbished ones, because they have already bought an expensive system, and require a second one for family use. An important advantage of the refurbish system is that it is upgradeable in case the buyer wants to add accessories like hard drives, memory, faster modems and DVD drives. All these additional accessories are available online, including monitor. So the refurbished computer systems is a safe option for those who want them at an affordable price.
Refurbished Computers Are a Great Solution
An entire industry exists around the business of refurbishing and remarketing used laptops and desktop computers. The major sources of these machines are billion dollar companies. Wise CIO’s plan to have a regular refresh schedule so that they don’t end up with a fleet of outdated computers creating a budget crisis. Fortune 1000 companies, companies that employ thousands of workers, typically lease computers for 3 years. At the end of that period, companies can extend the lease, buy out the equipment, or return the computers to the leasing company. The largest leasing companies in the computer field are actually subsidiaries of the computer manufacturing companies. Examples would include DellT Financial Services, HPT Financial Services, and IBMT Global Finance. These companies exist to facilitate the sale of new computers for their parent companies. Brokers, in turn, want to sell these used computers to new buyers. Brokers can (and do) sell used computers “as-is” to other brokers or consumers. Used computers are a commodity, and the market typically attributes a value to these machines that is just a multiple of some value multiplied by the speed of the equipment’s processors in megahertz. These commodity computers trade at low commodity prices. Other brokers actually invest time and capital to refurbish computers. The Refurbishment process involves many steps. Brokers audit the equipment to determine the machines’ specifications. They test to make sure the machines are bootable. Brokers inspect the equipment to ensure it is aesthetically acceptable. If necessary, they professionally paint machines, replace keyboards, wrist rests, and covers. The next step involves loading an Operating System (OS). The best brokers participate in the Microsoft Authorized Refurbished (MAR) program which ensures that they are providing a licensed copy of the operating system with a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) sticker and a restore disk. Unlike used, commodity computers, refurbished machines are premium products, and brokers can obtain a higher price in the market. Still, these prices are a great bargain compared to new retail prices. Typically one can get approximately the same amount of refurbished computing power for about 50% of the price of new machines. The industry calls these “Off-Lease” machines. They typically sell with a 90 day warranty provided either by the brokers themselves, or by the original equipment manufacturer. Originally owned by Fortune 1000 companies, they were once the cutting edge of computing power. Three years later, and refurbished, they are still great machines. Refurbished Off-Lease computers can be a great tool for individuals who want corporate power, or for mid-size and small companies who just haven’t yet reached the billion dollar level.
Where to Buy Refurbished Laptops
Refurbishing, simply, means “to make bright, or fresh again, renovate”. When the customer returns the laptop to the supplier for some reason, the supplier would refurbish it and re-sell it. The Internet provides a lot of information regarding how and where we could buy a refurbished laptop. There are a host of websites that give details regarding this and there are many sites which sell refurbished laptops online. Most of these websites have simple and easy to comprehend content which is very helpful in terms of saving you a lot of time and money, and avoiding unnecessary hassles in buying laptops. Online auctions are another source for buying refurbished laptops. Most online marketplaces have pre-set prices and even if they offer warranty, it would usually be for only a short period of time. Another route you could take is to get in touch with big brand names in the laptop/computing field. Most big brands do refurbish returned laptops and sell them for a cheaper price. Known companies like IBM, Dell, Compaq, HP, Acer and others refurbish laptops. You could check with laptop manufacturers who could recommend a list of authorized sellers of their equipment. Apart from this, reputable computer sales companies often buy refurbished laptops in bulk and then sell at a good price
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The elegance of a Samurai Materialized as Toshiba laptops
It is said that the way in which a Samurai moves his blade resembles the dancing moves of a baller dancer in terms of smoothness of movement and elegance. The former one is an glorious figment of the past while the latter one is the florescent delight of the present.
However, the companies that have been formed in Japan do echo the aforementioned elegance coupled with the ‘dead on target’ efficiency in the form of consistently launching products that have been setting benchmarks for all other companies in the world.
One of the companies which has its headquarter is Toshiba and just like its Japanese contemporaries, it also maintains an extremely visible level of efficiency and performance in the creation of its products. The products themselves turn out to be ones which are extremely dependable, reliable and durable apart from effectively serving their respective purposes. Toshiba laptops are one group of such products which are certainly going to the next level of performance when it comes to having features and facilities.
The laptop was brought out in the market to give the customer the services of a personal computer on a mobile platform. Laptops are devices, which are essentially computers, however, they can be carried around quite easily. The latest laptops that are coming out in the market today are deemed with the name ‘notebooks’ because they certainly resemble oversized notebooks by virtue of their size.
Toshiba laptops and notebooks are known all over the world for providing the latest technologies and software along with extremely high processing speeds and wonderful screen resolutions.
Some of the examples that are currently doing extremely well all over the world are:
1.Toshiba Ultra Light 1.76lb Portege R600
2.Toshiba Qosmio X308-Q708 Gaming laptop
3.Toshiba Qosmio F45
4.Libretto U100
Although company owned showrooms along with retail outlets selling Toshiba laptops are present all over the world, however, they have in their fray a new medium or rather a new platform for purchasing laptops that have been made by Toshiba.
This platform is none other than the Internet and the world today sees an extensive use of a concept called online shopping which allows users to shop for products online using these shopping websites.
The age now is that of B2C transactions which take place within minutes and, therefore, laptops that are made by Toshiba are also sold online as well.
The brand Toshiba is one that is known all over the world and, therefore, the corresponding products are likely to have a good demand in the market.
Hence, all the shopping websites that are there today in the world are including laptops made by the company Toshiba in their respective product portfolios.
Hence, the customer now has the option of just sitting around lazily in a chair and pressing (equally lazily) just a few buttons leading to the purchase of a laptop which then gets delivered right at their doorstep, irrespective of their location in the world. Toshiba is certainly gaining oodles of financial benefits from having its products sold online. Toshiba laptops are, therefore, being sold in every country all over the world from some website or other.
The customer would prefer buying those products which are cheap. Toshiba laptops also measure up to the expectations of the users in this regard as well due to having come out with many affordable products.
Hence, it can be said that this company is doing quite well in the business of creating and selling laptops and that too on a global scale.
what is draft wireless the new laptop toshiba qosmio x300 says it has it?
does it have better wireless range?
Draft wireless is another name for wireless “N” which can run at speeds up to 300mbs and will also run at “G” speeds. It is called draft because they are still developing it a little.
Dell XFR D630 $2600 is this price too much? Brand New Factory sealed with 12 month warranty Need Help?
Rugged Realized
Companies looking for a fully ruggedized laptop that can stay up and running in the harshest environments
Retail Value $4,000.00
Featuring:
2.2GHz; 2G; 80G; DVDRW; WLAN; FingerPrint
* Solid die cast magnesium chassis
* Solid State Hard Drives (SSHD)
* Shock isolated protection for hard drives and LCD display
* Sealed keyboard capable of withstanding the elements
* Factory Reconditioned – Comes with 1 year warranty direct from Dell
and my price is 2,600 wholesale please tell me if it is too high and what is a good price to sell this machine?
Look here and check the price: http://www.dell.com/xfr
Latitude XFR D630: A Laptop for Harsh Environments
So you have finally concluded that size does matter and installed a shiny new hard drive in your PC, what to do with the old one? Here are a few suggestions, some you’ve probably already considered, some perhaps not:
1.If you have the space inside your desktop then simply add the new drive and keep using the old one as well.
2.Take the old drive out and fit it into an external enclosure (inexpensive and easy to find on the usual sites) and voila! you have a portable external HDD at a greatly reduced cost.
3.Alternatively you can now buy a USB HDD ‘dock’ that allows you to simply slot in any IDE or SATA drive to use as extra storage.
4.Use the old drive as the storage in a ‘barebones’ Personal Video Recorder, these again are easy to find and are a lot cheaper as they come without a HDD inside.
5.Reserve your old drive for mp3 music tracks, and by using idea 1, 2 or 3 you can have your own PC jukebox
6.You could sell it on an internet auction site – but beware! you need to fully erase all your personal data from it first, simply deleting and formatting will still leave your data easily recovered by any nefarious individual that gets their hands on it! To safely sanitise your drive try Heidi Eraser or DBAN (Darik’s Boot And Nuke), both free to download
7.If you also have an old desktop case, monitor and keyboard etc, you could donate a complete system to someone you know who is perhaps a year or two beyond the digital generation, even a ‘state of the ark’ system (that works!) could still open up a whole new world to them and create a new ‘silver surfer’.
8.Alternatively donate the system to any of the many charities that pass on systems to the needy and/or the developing world (but remember to refer to number 6 above!)
9.With a few minutes work with a drill and the addition of cheap and easily available clock mechanism you could convert your HDD into a stylish timepiece.
10.Or, for no cost or effort at all simply use the drive as a paperweight, bookend or doorstop.
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can i connect an IDE harddisk to a laptop?
i have an old laptop and plenty of I.D.E Hard disks,and i want to find that is there any way i can connect them to my laptop,
i already have the OPPOSITE converter,with which i can connect a laptop hard drive to my PC IDE slot,
BUT i need its opposite,,are there any connectors available?is there any way that i can make one out of the one that i have?
please dont give me the links to buy it online,….etc because i live Far away from usa or E.U, the shipping would cost as much as an old car!
so just tell me can i make one myself,are there any circuit diagrams?.if so..link them
note again… i want to run a REGULAR IDE hard disk in my Laptop!
any way of doing this?
hey…its not that simple..my laptop is old and it DOESENT Support USB Boot..now what should i do?
There exists adapters that will convert IDE to USB. I have one at home and one at work, and they work great. I bought mine online, and I’m not an electrical engineer, so I can’t tell you how to make one.
USB 2.0 to IDE SATA 2.5/3.5 HDD Converter Cable Adapter
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Compatibility of Open Office 2.3?
If I use Open Office 2.3 on the Acer Aspire One mini laptop (with Linux operating system), will the files I create be fully compatible if I move them to my desktop pc (Windows XP) using Microsoft Word 2007? Hope that makes sense. Thanks for your time.
So long as you save in a format supported by Word 2007. I’m pretty sure Word doesn’t support Open Document (the default format used by OpenOffice), but OpenOffice can save in Word format.
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