hello! I did something one should never do... i bought a laptop on ebay and -worse than this- without watching and comparing prices over certain time before i did it... i just got so mad with my old laptop which was just so ****ing slow that it was just not acceptable any more, that i felt the need to buy a new one as soon as possible... so went to ebay, limited the search it to what i need (quadro card or moddable ati-card and a dual core cpu and below 500euros) and just took the first laptop that fitted to these needs. well what surprised me: it was the first laptop i bid on... so now i'm starting to think that i probably i might have got better for less, if i would have been more patient... here are the specs: * Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 (2.1 Ghz, 800 Mhz FSB, 3 MB L2 Cache) * 15,4" 1280x800 (crappy screen as i've read in a test) * 2048 MB Ram * 250 GB HDD S-ATA (5.400 U/Min.) * ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 2600, 256 * weight: 2,7 kg price: 500€ what do you think, good buy or bad buy?
now i had the time to test it... and it was definitely a bad buy! i actully bought i beause the gpu is moddable to FireGL... so i thought ok, good CPU, good GPU, i mainly use CAD Programs, so what can i do wrong? well there is a lot that can go wrong... 1.i need win xp for a mod and this laptop has serious troubles with win xp some hardware simply won't install (I started another thread about this, if anyone could help me about it i'd really appreciate it!) 2. the keyboard is PAINFUL! far too narrow and keys only react to very hard pushing, apart from that some keys are smaller and/or on a different place than usually. This makes writing a real pain. 3. the display is crap, but as i'm used to Dell notebooks, it is still good enoughfor me (dell has the worst displays all over the world)... well, if i get the notebook working on winxp this is all acceptable.... if not, well, seems like i'll have to get rid of it!
solution for the xp driver problems If you still want the win XP driver tell me and I will upload them to you in 1 file
E500 series of lg can be a pain in the ass. Lg has quite good laptops in high range but lower series are a disaster. The E500 AP72B for example has problems with the usb ports, many of them didn't have functional usb xD If you want good and cheap, try asus, samsung or medion.