• Tonight (well today), Matthew, I'm going to be a student ... read my stuff, packed my bag ... bring it on. 6 hours ago
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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. [...]

New M400 bios update

There are several major issues that M400 owners would like to see addressed. Continual fan usage, mouse lag problems and unstable resume from  standby/hibernation affect many Portege owners. There has been an update that claims to sort out the hibernation problem available  for a couple of weeks. It seems to work OK on my machine.
Toshiba [...]

Mysterious Moving Matter

When I was using my tablet today I noticed that the new piece of dust (mentioned in last night’s post) had slipped down to the edge of the screen. It was only visible from an angle and I only noticed it when the Portege was in portrait mode. After my meeting I turned my M400 [...]

Tablet @ Work – 10 Weeks In

The Toshiba Portege M400 tablet is one cool computer and I really enjoy using it. It’s reasonably light and I really like the small form factor.

However, (and there is always a but) there are a couple of fairly serious issues that affect my enjoyment of the computer.

The fan runs almost continuously. It’s [...]

Tablet @ Work – One Week In!

I’ve had my Toshiba Protege M400 for a little over a week now. I’ve been using it everyday and am becoming more comfortable with it. I’m still running on 512MB ram and that’s definitely on the short side (I have another 512MB on order) but it’s not too bad.

Lots of users report that 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 [...]