Is Satellite L300 the same as Equium L300?

Are the the same or not?
I am a fan of Toshiba.
1 year ago I bought a Toshiba L30-105 which in my opinion was good enough for my work. It was only ATI X200m, 80GB and I upgraded memory to 2Gb bus 667Mhz memory which work perfectly (Ram 667Mhz, GPU 333Mhz).
1 week ago, I decided to buy a new laptop to meet me working practices and I decided to by Toshiba Equium L300-146, which is new and cheap (350). However, I am totally disappointed about it. It has a better CPU than L30 and bigger harddrive, nevertheless, in spite of the fact that a 1Gb 667Mhz module was given, the computer can only work at bus 533Mhz (tested by CPUId 1.45). I also tested the GPU clock, which is worse than ATI X200m. Before I bought this laptop, by googling on the internet, I saw people say x3100 is better than Ati X200m and has Memclock/GPUclock worked at 400MHz. On this L300, it is even worse than Intel Chipset GMA950. I am really disappointed from what I found out. Also, L300 has lower WIndows Experiences Index than L30.
It is too late for me to change a new computer now. However, I write this to hope that TOSHIBA would have new BIOS upgrade so that the computer will fully supply Dram Bus 667MHZ and better Mem/GPU clock which is as shown on Intel website.

Thank you for your reply. I understand what you mean as I am not a normal user. I know what to do to boost up the computer performance.
For the software, I already used msconfig to turn off stuff I don't want and updated the newest drivers for it (At the moment, on Support site, Toshiba still hasn't updated the newest graphics/raid drivers for Vista which were out on Intel site on 25/04/2008 so I had to install manually). I also added another 1Gb Ram bus 667MHz from Huyndai (same made) but the bus just run at 533MHz
In the UK, Satelite L30-105 was sold with Windows Vista Home Basic and when I upgraded it to Vista Home Premium, it still had better performance than the current Equium L300-146. As I mentioned, I am really disappointed about the fact that L300 doesn't support performance as it should do with its technologies it has. What do you think if you buy a laptop with Ram bus 667MHz but only runs at 533Mhz and X3100 bus 400Mhz only runs at 200Mhz. I have also discover that it doesn't support Vista 64Bit whereas Intel T2370 has EM64 on it.
As I cannot get help from Toshiba Support Service (they never answer the problems like this), I think it is better to express my feeling here. Again, I only wish that new BIOS version will be supported soon.
Thanks a lot.
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