Well that’s me up to an 80GB 5400 rpm HD. Simple as chips - just ghosted my c drive on to dvd, swapped the hardware over and dumped the image back on to the new drive - the whole thing took about half an hour and gave me a chance to inspect the gubbins inside the unit.

This S type really is far superior to the previous two - quiet fan (its a toshiba fan - anyone else checked to see the manufacturer?), and no battery charging issues.

Glad I stuck with it, it was touch and go for a while, but now I see how easy it is to upgrade I may be up for a processor upgrade in a year or so’s time to keep it up to date!

Is it just me or are laptops really cool to see inside - I think the insides of the S series are really well laid out, unlike some other manufacturers who seem to just throw everything together and pray it works..

8)

Nice! Congrats on the upgrade. Having 80GB in a notebook is certainly liberating! Hmm…I also have that Toshiba fan although I wonder now if my fan really is a problem like others. Perhaps my fan wasn’t as bad as I thought it was. At any rate, I’ve created some new profiles that seem to keep it silent most of the time.

Good for you - I’ve set my performance profile to number 4 and it keeps the system around about 70 degrees during Doom 3 , whilst remaining pretty quick.

I cannot stress enough though that this machine is a completely different beast than my previous two… 8)

That really is surprising…but I’m glad you’re finally satisfied with it. I am tempted to send my S in to see if they have some new updated fan but It’s hard for me to be without my baby as I have too much work to do.

The screen is acceptable, not as bright as the A series, but superior to 95% of other screeens out there.

If however, you are in two minds as to whether to buy a laptop or not, especially as you refer to friends talking ‘sense’ into you really implies that you can’t afford it and would just like one for the heck of it.

It takes a brave person to listen to reason in these situations…and no, I didn’t follow my friends advice - I bought one anyway!!

I upgraded my SRX87 from 20G to 40G a long time ago using the recovery disc. I was also surprised how easy it was.

JC

That’s great about your HD upgrade - I might want to do that in the future.  However more pressing for me right now is to upgrade the optical drive to a DVD-R.  Anyone have any information on this - in terms of how feasible it is, costs involved, where to buy?