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    HDD Space Left

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by ezralimm, Jun 15, 2004.

  1. ezralimm

    ezralimm Newbie

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    Hi.

    I would be going to a residential collage soon, and ill be leaving behind my inspiron 8600 to my lil bro at home. My parents have agreed to get me a notebook... preferably one that could not play games :( ...

    Ill be doing an IB diploma program so there will be alot of assignments and group work taking place around the campus... there is also a mandatory 4000word essay etc. Ill probably be going overseas in 2 years time so an international warranty would be preffered.

    I have surveyed the notebooks available in Malaysia and come to note that the Thinkpads feel the most solid and the keyboards are really really comfortable to use.

    Ive narrowed my search to either the T41 (23731FA) or the X40 (23711CA).

    X40: 256mb/20gb/1ghz/1.24kg/3yr/XP pro/12" XGA (USD 1628)
    T41: 256mb/30gb/1.4ghz/2.2kg/3yr/XP pro/12" XGA (USD 1838)

    The ram should be sufficient for my tasks:
    -Office Suite (word excel powerpoint)
    -ITunes (roughly 40mb ram used)
    -Photoshop (just basic editing of 0.8mb large jpeg pics from digicam)

    However, im worried that the HDD space may not be enough...
    I have heard that the security and backup partition takes a sizeable chunk of the HDD...

    I have < 5gb of mp3s.. and a few GBs of pics taken from a 3MP Sony DSC.


    MY QUESTIONS ARE:
    How much space would i have left when the unit is brand new with the 20gb and 30gb models?

    Do you think the price is reasonable for the specs specified above?

    I have not tried out the X40... I heard from some user reviews on cnet that the keyboard has a different feel compared to the T and R series. Is it true?




    Thanks in advance!

    inspiron 8600 (128mb M10-p)
     
    ezralimm, Jun 15, 2004
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  2. bootleg2go

    bootleg2go Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    Hi ezralimm,
    If it's not too late, I'll answer this.
    IBM sets aside about 3GB for their recovery disks and software. If you figure 5GB for mp3s and 5 GB for pictures and say another 4GB for the OS and basic office applications, your getting close to the 20GB mark. You can always buy another larger hard drive pretty cheap and add it later though.

    Jack
     
    bootleg2go, Jun 22, 2004
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