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2GB Ram

I upgraded my M400 to 2GB of ram this afternoon. I have debated with myself long and hard about whether this was a useful upgrade (up from 1GB) and in the end my geeky side won over my pragmatic ($$) side.

For people wondering where the ram sits on the M400 – it’s under the keyboard. [...]

Vista on the Tablet

I have managed to install Vista Ultimate Edition on the M400 and so far I am reasonably happy with it. This is a cautious install – there are a few things that I’m uncertain about – so I have retained my Tablet Edition (XP) in a dual boot configuration.

Early impressions:

Good

Vista installed very easily.
Tablet functionality is [...]

Reinstalling XP Tablet Edition

I’ve had my Toshiba M400 for nearly six months now and in that time I’ve fallen out of love with the Tablet. I love the concept, but if having the extra functionality means having all of the extra bloatware then it’s not for me.

I have re-imaged it from Toshiba’s image several times but the [...]

Tablet @ Work – Day 1

Today I took my tablet out for the first time. I was at Parakai School with the wonderful teachers who work there. First up, we were distracted by a powerline that had chosen today to snap and fall down just metres from my car. The teachers that I was working with, and I joined the [...]

Taking My Tablet

I have spent far too long today setting up my new tablet PC.

It’s a Toshiba Portege M400 and very nice too. At the moment it’s very standard with just the extra slice battery on board have an extra 512 MB of ram on order to bring it up to a [...]