Does your Toshiba have a SATA hard drive? All the new ones do, surely this unit at Newegg does too. But you may also sacrifice speed/reliability to swap it out. I may suggest you take an image of your old HDD with GParted or even the 'dd' command, then put that image on the new hard drive, then grow the new hard drive's partition to utilize the extra space (if the new on is bigger (in capacity)... or partition whats left over and mount that partition too. It's not a fantasy to swap hard drives though, if you thinking 'will it start up in the new hardware?' Also, the new laptop you linked to certainly supports accelerated 3D graphics, which sounds like a step up for you in that department.<div>
<br></div><div>Just for the fun of it, check out Micro Center. Not every deal ships (some are 'in store only'). I re-located to Columbus, OH and we have Micro Center here, my dad just picked up a really nice Asus laptop for $249 that supports accelerated graphics, the RAM is a bit lower than what you found at Newegg, but could be upgraded for $20-30 to 4gb. I have had very good service from Micro Center too, they are very customer oriented. It's worth a quick look, but unfortunately most of the 'good' deals are 'in store only'</div>
<div>MicroCenter <a href="http://www.microcenter.com/">http://www.microcenter.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Good luck,</div><div>Rob Haag</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:36 PM, BrianO'Keefe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com" target="_blank">okeefe@cybermesa.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hey all,<br>
<br>
I have the Toshiba satellite with an AMD 64 bit processor. One of my
main issues is that the notebook doesn't have the newer video
capability to run Ubuntu beyond what I have, which is 10.10 except
in crappy 2D mode (or vintage or whatever they call it).<br>
This Acer laptop
<a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215371&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL081612&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL081612-_-EMC-081612-Index-_-LaptopsNotebooks-_-34215371-L0A" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215371&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL081612&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL081612-_-EMC-081612-Index-_-LaptopsNotebooks-_-34215371-L0A</a><br>
<br>
is capable, I think, and I'm wondering if I could pop my HD from the
Toshiba into it and just run with it. Or is that a fantasy? The
price is great and it gets good reviews.<br>
<br>
Advice?<br>
<br>
Muchas gracias<br>
<br>
Brian<br>
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