Technical Details
- High-performance AMD dual-core processor Turion II P560 Dual-Core Processor
- Large 17.3" diagonal LED-backlit TruBrite® screen. LED backlighting permits a thinner and more energy-efficient screen.
- Extra-large 4GB memory lets you run your most demanding programs.
- 500GB hard drive holds thousands of songs, photos and documents.
- Wireless-N for high-performance, cable-free networking.
Product Details
What People Say Great price for great laptop By By W. freeman (fairmont, wv) Toshiba computers are very nice, even though i'm an Acer fan and have been for about 14 years. I've never had a single problem wit Acer and i think they should rate higher for reliability than they do. Toshiba had a ruff time last year with a lot of technical issues with their machines and were getting a bad rap form about everyone. They have always been good quality built computers, but i guess every laptop can have it's defective parts here and there. I work on computers, and have for many years, there is only so much you can do with a laptop(to work on) but here are some of the pro's and con's as i see it, based on this one i got for my father. PROS 1. Nice bright screen with a basic ATI HD 4250, good for HD movies, bad for gaming. 2. Good solid build from the ground up, although all computers today feel pretty much the same. 3. Pretty quiet, although the fan usually always runs, but it's subtle. 4. Good for surfing the net, word processing, music and movies not much else. 5. Good burner, usually Toshiba puts on Cyberlink, but not on this machine, i put it on myself with an old disc i had. 6. Very smooth keys, soft actually, and where you rest your hands feels very comfortable. 7. Good sounding loud speakers, no Harmon Kardon but good. 8. No track pad problems, its sensitive but right over the track pad guess what? Yeah a shut off button, imagine that ha. 9. High Speed 3.0 USB, with sata port. 10. Large 17.3 inch screen, which is hard to find for this price. Not LED though, LCD only. CONS 1. I myself hate AMD especially Turion, but this one does "ok". My Acer has the Pentium Dual Core P6100 which is much faster overall. Converting movies shows a big difference even though this is a 2.53ghz dual core. Mainly because the Acer has 3mb of L3 cache. 2. Finger print magnet, although it looks nice. 3. Little bit of flex in the keys, just a little though. 4. Extremely cheap mouse buttons, probably the worst i've seen. Very loud when using 5. Horrible web cam picture. 6. Runs a little hot sometimes underneath your right palm, small potatoes. 7. Slow boot, as with even faster computers. 8. Not enough "useful" software out of the box, no burning utilities, Microsoft works, etc. 9. Extremely weak on board ATI GPU, you can barely play half life on low settings. :( So all in all it's an average computer with mediocre performance, but a good deal for the money. Every AMD i've used in the last few years on any computer i've worked on has been very sluggish. But if you want a good deal that won't break your bank, and just for everyday regular use, this computer is for you. Also as i said in this range other than Acer you won't find very many 17.3 inch screens for the price. By I'll start off by saying the only reason I chose to buy this PC was because the price is right. It was on sale for under $500 so I didn't think there was any risk in such an investment. I've always wanted to get into PC gaming and to do that I knew that after a while I would either have to upgrade (which I don't know how to do for the life of me) or trade in for a new one further down the road. This computer will be awful for gaming! If you are looking for a good gaming laptop than I suggest looking for a laptop that costs at least $1000 and do your research about GPX cards. Regardless of that, I was easily able to make this otherwise weak GPU play very demanding 1080p HD videos with very high bitrates. Out of the box it didn't play them so well, but a $10 investment into CoreAVC will go a long way and improve H.264 video decoding like a pro. The design of the laptop is also top notch in my opinion. I was hesitant to buy a gray computer, but only the lid is gray, and very dark at that. The keyboard was outstanding for me with soft flat keys with a stylish glossy black finish. Has a full number pad and a track pad lock as well. The track pad isn't the best....no maybe it is. All track pads seem to be different kinds of suck, but at least this one has a nice texture to it and not just smooth and flat. Either way, get yourself a wireless Logitech mouse. The display is your typical LED screen, and while it looks as good as you would expect a 17.3 inch 1600x900 LED screen to look, I can't help but remember how much more I enjoyed my old Sony Vaio and its regular LCD screen. But I guess laptops these days are all about seeing your reflection if you using it in a bright room. Ports are nice. Comes with 2 USB ports (and a 3rd in the form of a USB/Sata combo port) HDMI, VGA, and an SD Slot. 3 USB ports is alright, but the standard is 4. SD Slot makes the SD card stick out rather than click in, so I always took out the card before moving it to avoid the card getting hit. But everything works as expected. I'll finish by saying that despite my small complaints, I liked this laptop. For a computer this price you can't go wrong with it. For just an average PC user I highly recommend it. It is by no means powerful, but if you really needed it to be, you wouldn't be reading a review for a laptop of this price anyway. Just seriously, don't game on it. |
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