Comments on: toshiba satellite laptop Significant Knowledgebase

By: Rivas

Rivas — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:04:42 +0000

Good hardware configuration, esp. for the price; excellent for casual use. I would not recommend this machine to a tech savvy user for professional use.

It is the best compromise that I could find between price and features. Bluetooth drivers are in it but you have to add the chip ($5 dongle and taking up a USB port). The worst compromise is it comes with almost no software, but that seems to be standard practice in the industry now.

My complaints are the touch pad interface is intermittent making it sometimes too sensitive and other times I cannot drag the cursor anywhere, and the cursor 'disappears' when the memory is busy. The integrated graphics and dynamic RAM allocation can be smarter; I still have to manually clear cache to retain performance when using graphics-intensive applications.

Read the one-star review and the responses to it about the cursor jumping to different parts of the screen during typing. Those people say it's the touch pad picking up static from the thumb. If that's indeed the reason for that annoying error, then it's a design flaw. Other vendors' touch pads don't do this.

By: Lara

Lara — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:14:58 +0000

HI EVERYBODY FROM ARGENTINA!!
I RECOMMEND THIS NOTEBOOK FOR PERSONAL BASIC USE AND MORE. IT SEEMS A LITTLE BIG AT FIRST GLANCE, BUT WHEN YOU GET USED TO IT, IT-S GREAT.

By: Hackney

Hackney — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:12:02 +0000

I needed a third computer for use when I was away from my desktop system and ultra portable light weight.

I chose this system which had the better processor but the video processor intergrated with the chip.

Clearly, for hard gamers and intensive video processing, the systems with the seperate video memory is necessary. However, for surfing the net or performing editing, the system is fine.

I have had no problems with Vista 64. The sytem booted up without a problem and instantly connected with my WIFI /n system.

There is a fair amount of crapware, but it can be easily removed through a variety of programs or simply removing the programs in the uninstall aspect of the control panel.

The screen is great and the key board is one of the nicest I've had in a laptop.

For the price, the system has a great screen, excellent keyboard, DVD/CD player and burner with a fast chip and tons of RAM.

I would not hesitate to recommend this unit to anyone. Gamers will need a faster video card

By: Jessup

Jessup — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:53:56 +0000

I’ve had this laptop for just over a week. I was slightly skeptical about running Vista, but I’ve had no problems with it thus far. This is my second Toshiba – my first is four years old and cost more than double this one at the time. For $650, this is a great deal. I was worried the screen was too big at first (yes, too big!) but I love it for watching Hulu, videos, etc. It’s not heavy, although I don’t move it very much from my desk. Battery life is OK – not Toshiba’s strong suit by any means, but it’s not terrible. You just have to remember to run it down periodically. In terms of bloatware – not horrible. Easy to delete. In terms of restore disks – you can create them with the utility provided. I made three backup DVDs the first day I had it, no problems. As far as the fingerprints go – yeah, it’s kind of an issue, but it’s not terrible. You get used to it or you use the microfiber cloth provided to wipe them off. Generally speaking, I am very happy with this machine. It has plenty of RAM, disk space, etc. For the casual home user, it’s perfect. I’m not a gamer or website developer, so I don’t require a ton of power. Bang for the buck, it’s fantastic.

Drawback: periodically, my typing skips around on the screen. Not sure if this is because I type very fast, or a flaw in the OS, or what — but it’s annoying. Not insurmountable, but annoying.

By: Crow

Crow — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:18:50 +0000

This computer is very fast after 4-days of configurations/tune-ups. No complain about the hardware, or Vista (Vista is actually very good, but I’m buying this one in order to upgrade it to Windows 7). After I deleted most of the crapware, the computer ranked to be ‘top 12% computers in the world’ by PCPitStop.com. Now with all kinds of software installed, including Windows 7 RC on drive E:, 2 external hard drives hooked up, it is a ‘top 18%’ computer when running at full power/High Performance (Balanced and Power Saver dropped it to 28% and below 48% respectively).

The computer unboxed with warped keyboard which I have to push it down hard in order to settle it in, but the function key portion is still higher than the frame in the middle. One very noticeable thing is that the computer’s touch pad, wrist rest areas are very hot. the touch pad chrome buttons are hot like a coffee mug at all time. Don’t know whether this will be a trouble or not for me in the future.

By: Qian

Qian — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:46:55 +0000

I researched a lot of laptops and was very pleased to find my first choice on Amazon. I got it brand new, packed beautifully, the laptop is beautiful..better than I ever expected. Is really fast. Then to top it off… before I recieved it I noticed it went down 50.00. I called Amazon and they were so gracious to take the 50.00 off for me. I recieved it quickly…great deal.

By: Nash

Nash — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:04:33 +0000

this is a nice machine. here is some pro and cons

pros= alot of memory
big hard drive for a laptop
free upgrade to windows 7
nice speakers
web cam
cons= no restore disk
vista 64 bit
show fingerprints on black finish
alot of junk software that you got to remove