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I see. I asked, because the name "slice" was developed to distinguish a pack that is directly attached to a laptop's case, from one attached to a docking station. I don't recall the name, but I seem to recall a battery pack with an entirely different name than "standard", "extended capacity"...

Finally, some clarity. Thank you. Is there a fancy name for my Toshiba 12 cell bulging case battery pack, other than an "extended capacity pack?"

JTR is fine. He just emailed me. He will write a post shortly.

I thank you for the link. I must have lost my mind, though. I never thought of seeking data on the website, because I didn't intend on buying anything from them other than the laptop. I'm rarely this "oblivious" to what is within my grasp. "Almost" everything I need in data is posted there...

I checked his phone number at the outage link above. Nobody at his address has reported an outage. The quote above the CNN link is NOT from JTR, but rather from a CNN reporter who visited the area. JTR doesn't drive, but his mother does and they have a car. I'll keep trying to contact him...

Indeed I am friends with jtr. He lives 21 miles from me. I have not heard from him since about 8 PM the night of the hurricane. He spoke of high winds, but seemed confident that the hurricane would pass without any incident. I've sent him emails with no reply. I've called him several times...

More confusion. What is a "slice battery pack?":erm: :erm: I have a 92 Wh 12 cell Toshiba pack that raises the back of the case by 1 inch due to it's extended shape. Is this pack a "slice" pack?

Thank you for the explanation. I didn't think of the added abilities when using a docking station. So one could have a 9 cell attached to the laptop and another 9 cell attached to the docking station? That's a whole lot of attaching going on. Can I make the statement based on arithmetic...

OK. There is a 6 cell pack, a 9 cell pack.....and an "extended" pack. How many cells is in the last one, what is the capacity in amp-hours, power rating in watt-hours, voltage and estimated run time of each pack? I've always admired the versatility of the T530, not having looked at any other...

Although I want this laptop to excel above my Toshiba, I'm not willing to keep upgrading it to the heavens. This is why I've left most of it at it's stock condition. Thank you.

A memory upgrade for sure. Definitely not an HDD upgrade. An SSD upgrade later. Need more specs./answers from Lenovo.

Nice testimony about your laptop. Your foresight worked out well for you. I almost bumped up the CPU to the Intel 3320, but a Lenovo rep. didn't convince me that I would see any increase in processing speed for the additional $55. So I'll be "suffering" with the Intel 3210 after all. I agree...

Good point. I need nothing NOW. I want something SOON. If it wasn't for the holiday season approaching, I would have placed an order by now. I've seen the $858,09 price before. Does anybody have any comments about my configuration selections? It's best I hear your opinions now, and not...

Thank you. I'll be looking for either an $89 reduction from their $178 warranty upgrade price, or $107.50 off from when it's $215. But won't they raise the price of some other feature at the same time? I've seen this done, not necessarily with the warranty portion of a configuration. Sneaky...

Thank you. I've used the pm'd code daily from the time it was posted. The price is still $858.09. Check for a pm I sent you, detailing the steps I've been taking to configure a laptop. The procedure I've been using has been the same for 3 months. My apparent stubbornness with waiting, is...

Hello Mercutio, Long time no reply by me to your post below. I'm thinking of how to address your Seppuku recommendation for WD executives, etc. (...

I've just about finalized my configuration of a Lenovo Thinkpad T530 laptop, to serve as a playmate for my Toshiba Satellite A505-S6965 unit (bought in August 2009). I'm watching the price go up and down in an unpredictable manner, every few days. I'm not familiar with the pricing trend of...

Whoa, you've really had baaaad luck with SSDs! Regarding the concept of "the back-up", some of us must have experienced a drive failure before a back-up was completed. In this case, the data was lost. Therefore, if any hard drive fails at any time, we hope it will be after we do a back up...

Thank you for the additional education on SSDs. The best service offered by forums is "general education." Yes, you missed out on a good deal. Newegg is dynamic, so there will be other deals. Just don't fall asleep at the helm again, OK?

I know very little about SSDs, so I welcome you to discuss this technology.....with my blessing. Just one point to make. I'm not one of the fools to whom you are referring. I back up my Win 7 Ultimate drive data on two other drives in the desktop's case. I'm expecting that both of these...

I'm not sure what technology is being utilized to engineer a long lasting, reliable SSD, so I can't make any comments on this matter. What format do you think will make the project a success, if not SATA? Do you realize that we've been speaking of SSD drives and not the topic of this thread...

Logic dictates to me that no one manufacturer has a death grip on the existing SSD consumer base. They're all struggling to perfect the technology to the point where it drives pc users to sheer madness, with them dying to get their hands on the drives and placing their mechanical drives "into a...

You have big eyes, my good man. They're barely 1 TB in capacity. Break open your piggy bank. Newegg is "almost giving away" an OCZ 1.2 TB SSD for a mere $6,200 (plus $6.00 shipping, of course). May I take your order. How many would you like? No limit!

No, not that. The cost "difference" is well known. But the amount of wear and tear of electrical/non-moving parts, and the number of write cycles before a drive goes to SSD Heaven, are still unknown. More research has to be done, and it will take a few more years to predict a typical lifespan...

Yes, I back up my data onto a mechanical drive on the desktop pc. But there are still a few kinks to be worked out by the SSD manufacturers to make their much higher price per GB worthwhile. Theoretically, they are superior to mechanical drives. But they haven't been around long enough to see...

Would you clarify your question? Or did you intend on making a statement?

I'm not entirely comfortable with the overall level of reliability of the SSD technology, although the ones with a reasonable price tag would accommodate my capacity needs nicely.

Oh, the jiggling action I use to see if the warning box will appear, is very mild. I do NOT apply sharp jolts or anything of the sort. In fact, when the program works, a gentle change in vertical movement makes the box appear. It's pretty sensitive. So please don't think that my testing...

I received a reply to a post I submitted on the Toshiba Forum. The poster stated the following, "Even if you disable the hard drive notifications, the hard drive protection is still working to prevent the hard drive from crashing. If the sensor feels that the computer is being dropped, it...

Yes, I have. I bought the laptop in Aug. 2009, and the drive was replaced under warranty service in Apr. 2012 by a Toshiba authorized service provider. When the program works, it works properly in compliance with the level of sensitivity I choose. For the purposes of seeing if it is active...

I've had a few incidents where the latest version of the program disabled. I'm thinking that one of the following actions may have something to do with this: 1. As a result of my many attempts to solve a problem where returning from sleep mode delays the connection of the wireless adapter...

I'm reasonably sure that an automatic firmware update was the cause of the surprise router reset yesterday, which was followed by a return to default settings and a router reboot. Verizon "probably" had nothing to do with it. Below is what preceded the reset.... The day before the event, I...

Yes, Windows 7 Home Edition 64bit. Toshiba has no useful wireless network monitoring program. In fact, Toshiba's Diagnostic Tool would bore to death a kindergarten student. The components on the machine either PASS or FAIL. It's totally "useless." I'll investigate your recommendation.

How would I know if the router was re-flashed? Why would Verizon do this anyway? What is actually done? Will there be a record of this event in the events log file that I can access on the router's website? You are confusing my neighbor's setup, with mine. She has allowed me to access her...

What I'm about to write should be put under the heading "The X-Files", it's that mysterious..... I've been fine tuning my Verizon FiOS/Actiontec router via it's webpage for the last few weeks, trying to squeeze out a few more Mbps of download speed for my laptop. In fact, yesterday I was...

I knew nothing of the mSATA drives before this thread. I don't read about the latest and greatest technological breakthroughs in pcs. I'm just happy that my desktop and laptop are purring along, protesting here and there about how they're being overworked and underpaid.

The economic policy of supply and demand works in mysterious ways. When I decide on what kind of storage device I would like in my next laptop, I know that I will get many opinion here. The joy I get from reading all of your posts is derived from the many opinions about the same item, based on...

Thank you for your recommendation. The choices on Newegg are dizzying, and it will only get worse as the technology improves.

Prices are way too high for an mSATA drive, although my 500 GB drive has hardly been itilized and I wouldn't need anything bigger than 125 GB. In fact, my only need for a multi-drive laptop might be for data backup. I store all large multimedia files and data files on my desktop, via transfers...

It's good to find somebody who's had hands on experience with various laptops within one brand name and across brand names. I am not a bold and brave guy when it comes to considering a used version of an item I'm about to buy. It's a matter of not trusting strangers, especially with an item as...

I've also read that these 3 OSs are similar.. By the way, I had a failure of the Windows 8 installation. I'm still not sure what made it fail. Each installation requires a restart to verify that it was successful. Fortunately I can exist quite well without it, so it's stubbornness is more of...

Addendum: I had a few more unpredictable failures. But ever since I downloaded the Windows 8 (64 bit) version from the Toshiba website and installed it, all has been well. Recall that my OS is Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit). I wonder why the program is working?

Thank you for your vote of confidence for Lenovo laptops. A 5-6 year stretch is more impressive for a laptop than a desktop, due to the unavoidable harsh treatment associated with mobility. Iit's hard to baby a laptop in the field. You must have been good to it for it to live so long! I like...

Speaking of multiple drives, Lenovo told me that the T530 can house 2. One is internal and the other can be mounted in the optical drive tray, when a CD/DVD drive is not in it. Didn't earlier Thinkpad models house 2 internal drives? To be honest, I don't know anybody with a Toshiba laptop...

Until yesterday, the HDD Protection program was becoming disabled without any intervention from me. Since my last post, I've been minding my own business watching it notify me when the sensor detects movement. Yesterday I took drastic steps to stop the mysterious activity. I uninstalled the...

Merc, I agree. It must be similar to the accelerometer built into touchscreen cell phones, where the display may be viewed either horizontally or vertically.

Will, Something on the chassis has to be installed to detect irregular motion or an impact, summoning the drive to park it's heads. The HDD Protection module probably creates a communication channel between the motion sensor and the drive.

This would explain why I'm able to use the hard drive, even though the dialog box is present. Naturally, when the tap or change in motion ceases, the heads are free to move as required from their park position. I stand corrected.

Thank you for your recommendation. All things considered, it would be wise for me to do a face to face evaluation of a T530 at some Lenovo business center. Human engineering is a big thing for me when buying a device with which I will spend a lot of time. Function over form dictates 90% of...

They still run after the bout with "deceleration poisoning". But how do they look after the drop? Does the concrete look more brutalized than the laptop, being that they are so tough? Is the chassis material titanium? Or is it magnesium for super lightweight? Oh, I'm surely sticking with...