Laptop Part 2

Still loving it. It seems as though every time I turn on my laptop I find something new to play with. Where to start. How about the cover. It starts there. It is a dark metallic blue. Pretty cool color. I do however wish they would have done something diff. with the key board though. Its just a plain silver. Not sure what all can be done with it. To dark you wouldn't be able to see it and to light it would be dirty all the time. So I guess I have to live with the silver.

Speaking of the keyboard......one of my favorite things happens to be there. The number pad! I am sure there are other laptops out with a full key board and number pad on the side but this is the first one I have seen. Now being a desk top replacement and the fact that this is a work computer it comes in extremely handy. Other cool things going on on the keyboard are the finger print reader. I still have some playing around with it to get it perfected but its a cool feature. Instead of typing in your passwords to get into the computer and other sites you just swipe your finger and it enters in the pass word for you.

Now there are a few things I do not like and this is one of them. The power connection is on the left side of the laptop. I know your thinking how big a deal can that be. Well its not the end of the world but you wouldn't believe how annoying it can be. I don't know how many times I have sat down on the couch and had to have the power cord draped across my lap to the other side of the laptop. Like i said not the end of the world but it would have been better in the back.

Sense we are talking about the left side lets stay there for a moment. I do have other huge issues with the left side. The left side does have 2 2.0 usb ports on it as well as the network plug. There is a new express card slot and what Toshiba calls an i-link port. One of the many things i have yet to explore so I'm not sure what an "i-port" is. I will do some research and explain in my next post. Looks like mini usb to me. There is a rgb port for an external monitor and some cooling vents. There is also a s-video port. Now for my biggest complaint of the whole computer. Actually came seriously close to sending it back over this. IT HAS AN S-VIDEO PORT!!!! If you remember my last post I talked about the very cool but very expensive upgrade I paid for the...... hd dvd player. So why on earth would you put an s-video port in this thing with a hd dvd player? I am getting mad just typing this. I can not believe it did not come with an hdmi input. So I am just left with hope that I can do something with the express card slot to get an hdmi input on my comp. Big reason I paid for the hd dvd player was so I could watch movies on my tv in hd.

Ok moving on before I call Toshiba. Lets jump to the right side. Nothing to exciting there like the hd dvd player that I can watch standard def movies with. Ok that's it when I'm done blogging I'm emailing Toshiba about the hdmi port. Not sure if it will do any good but I know it wont if I don't say anything. Oh yeah there are 4 more usb ports and the modem port on the right side as well.

Back to the top. I think I had already mentioned the 17" monitor. It also has a built in web cam and mic. Which are deff. cool. Great for playing on msn messenger live and putting up videos on the web. I might have to post a video blog just to play around with it.

Well that's about all for this one. Next time Ill talk a little about vista and some other programs on it. Stay tuned for part 3.