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| Date Reviewed: 10/17/2006 |
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Strengths: Bright Screen, super decent price at 499.99AR, good size for traveling.
Weaknesses: Battery life could be longer, its slow loading and shutting down with 512mb of ram (I bought a Kingston 1 gig upgrade and it has since gotten faster), keyboard layout is strange at first.
Summary: I really like this laptop. This is my first laptop and I didnt want to spend a lot of money on it. I'll be mainly using it for school work and movies. Because I'll be lugging it back and forth from school, the 14inch size is perfect and fits in my school bag nicely. At 5.2 pounds, its relatively lite compared to 15.4 inch laptops, and it is much lighter than my microbiology or anatomy physiology book!
I dont like that this laptop gets pretty hot after 2 hours of operation. The fan doesnt really distract me that much. If you buy this laptop, an additional 1 gig of memory is a must!
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| Date Reviewed: 10/14/2006 |
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Strengths: The LCD is bright, the CPU is very fast (well, at least faster than my centrino-M 1.8G Hz), the machine is built solidly.
Weaknesses: RAM is only 512MB, however, that should not be a real problem since you can add one extra RAM.
Summary: I bought this laptop last week at CompUSA for $704 out of the door. The laptop is great at gaming, I have tried the CS, WOW, NBA and NFL at it. So far so good.
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| Date Reviewed: 11/05/2006 |
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Strengths: battery life, DVD-burner, screen brightness, four USB sockets at convenient positions, SD card slot
Weaknesses: more memory is needed, too much useless software preinstalled. keys are little bit small. No microphone installed.
Summary: 2008-04-28 17:26:43 Got this from Circuitcity. Works great for the past two months. It is a lot better (no wonder) than my old Dell Inspiron 4150, which died after 4 years.
Pros: DVD-burner, 4 USB sockets (2 at the right side and 2 at the back) are very convenient. SD card slot is a plus, considering it is the most popular flash card format, battery life is good.
Cons: you definitely need more memory to fully explore the potential of this machine. The layout of the keyboard is not standard, takes some time to get used to it. The key size is a bit small, and will be a problem for people with big fingers. There are a lot of pre-installed softwares, useless to me and make the machine slow.
Take home message: a good choice for basic tasks, remember to find a good deal.
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| Date Reviewed: 10/14/2006 |
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Strengths: Economical, Powerful to handle things we do everyday, Centrino core Due, nice card reader
Weaknesses: Little heavy than expected. Looks are not very attractive.
Summary: We just purchased this laptop some days back and we like it. Very nice thing about this laptop is, it is very economical. Multi-Card reader is very useful. Also it makes less noise with CDs than our old laptop. I will recommend it to everyone.
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| Date Reviewed: 10/15/2006 |
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Strengths: Light, nice screen, perfect size, easy to set up for the novice
Weaknesses: Battery, keyboard layout, fan noise
Summary: This is a great little notebook for a budget shopper. Upon opening up the box, I had it up and running on the internet within 10 minutes.
The screen is nice and bright. I think the 14" size is just perfect - not too small to watch movies and not too large for traveling.
Although I'm sure others would beg to differ, I do like some of the Toshiba-installed utility tools such as the ConfigFree Launcher and Toshiba Power Saver Properties that lets you adjust settings based on what you're doing - watching movies, gaming, normal use, long-life use, etc...
Definitely recommend it!
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| Date Reviewed: 11/01/2006 |
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Strengths: Fast CPU, large and fast HDD. Bright screen. Quiet keyboard
Weaknesses: Can get a little bit warm. Lack of graphic power. Ram is small
Summary: Best core duo laptop for the money so far. Fast and powerful. Ram size is not impressive but you can always add one stick as there is an empty slot available.
I am happy with it.
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| Date Reviewed: 10/14/2006 |
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Strengths: This laptop isn't too expensive, and it carries a lot of great specs. I like that it's has a 14" widescreen.
Weaknesses: -The fan on the left slide goes off periodically to let out the hot air, but it is pretty loud.
-No bluetooth
Summary: I didn't like the orginial startups of the laptop. Toshiba installed a lot of useless programs that I had to remove with mscongif, so the windows startup would be faster. Other than that, I like this laptop. It's decently priced and has a lot of great features.
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| Date Reviewed: 10/21/2006 |
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Strengths: Light, only 5.3lbs, powerful, core duo t2050, good looking
Weaknesses: No
Summary: My first core duo laptop. It is amazing fast! With 512MB memory, 80GB hard drive. It has no problems to watch HDTV. My old laptop stuck when playing HDTV, this one does not let me down. Core duo is definitely a better choice than single core processors. The LCD is also more bright, the picture looks vivid.
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| Date Reviewed: 10/15/2006 |
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Strengths: Multi-tasking. Can run many programs at once - very little lag, if any
Weaknesses: low ram - decided to install another 512MB to make it a 1Giger.
Summary: Very nice laptop - my first. My brother bought his for around $3500 about 8 years ago. This machine (of course) blows his out of the water! Nice multi-tasking machine.
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| Date Reviewed: 10/21/2006 |
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Strengths: Very bright screen, only 5lb weight, very good price for 599.99 no rebate.
Weaknesses: None
Summary: I bought this one to replace my old Dell Inspiron 1100, compared to the old one, the screen is much brighter and computer faster, recommend for everyone, especially for the low 599.99 price.
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| Date Reviewed: 11/01/2006 |
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Strengths: Full sized keyboard. Card reader. Bright screen. Hotkey and touchpad utilities.
Weaknesses: Harddrive is a little bit noisy and warm. LCD has some light leaking.
Summary: I purchased this laptop from Circuitcity and I love it except three things: HDD is noisy; hot; LCD is bright but has light leakage. Other than that, I am quite happy about it. I especially like the full sized keyboard and card reader. The touchpad is a little small but I can live with it.
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| Date Reviewed: 10/14/2006 |
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 A so so Laptop Strengths: Configuration is good and price is good
Weaknesses: performance is not good
Summary: even the configuration is good among most of laptops, but the performace failed me to have a good opinion on toshiba. I will jump in ibm or sony next time. Toshiba only for sale not for self.
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| Date Reviewed: 10/21/2006 |
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Strengths: Most cost effective core duo laptop right now.
Weaknesses: no
Summary: Amzing speed! Cost effective, some celeron laptop sold at the same price level, I cannot belive it. 14.1" is a good trade off between weight, size and letter size. The 12.1" lcd give too small font, so your eye would be tired soon. Only downside is fan is a little bit noisy.
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| Date Reviewed: 12/31/2006 |
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Strengths: Cost, display, sound quality, system build, speed, portable, wireless connectivity, battery life
Weaknesses: Fan noise, could use more memory but NOT NECCESSARY!
Summary: Okay, let me just say out right that 1GB is not necessary for any system running on Microsoft XP unless you are running memory intensive programs such as Photoshop or games with insane graphics. 1GB of memory is nice to have, but if you are just using the net and running standard applications, then upgrading to 1GB is not necessary. I have the regular configuartion of 512MB on this system and with the apps I use, this system could not be faster. Start-up takes less than one minute for FULL boot up. If I have it on hibernate mode it starts up right away and is ready to go. My old Dell Inspirion 2650 was running on 128MB of memory until it's recent death, and this Toshiba is a speed demon compared to the Inspiron, though the Inspiron still operated at a decent speed. So anyone who tells you that you NEED 1GB is seriously mistaken.
Aside from memory, this computer has many wonderful features that make it worth much more than it costs. First off, it has an awesome battery life for a six-cell battery. I can get over four hours with the screen on low brightness in power saver mode while using a word processor. This is important to me because I like using the laptop for taking notes during lectures that can sometimes last up to four hours.
This system definitely qualifies as an entertainment notebook. It has an amazing display, great speakers and a pretty decent graphics card. I saw this notebook at first while shopping around in stores, and the screen stood out from all the others. Again, unless you are an extreme gamer, you will be more than pleased with the graphics, display and sound quality of this notebook. In my opinion, it surpasses all of the competition.
This Toshiba picks up on wireless networks very easily on my campus. I have had no problems with that feature thus far. It is also very portable, though it could be more compact.
My only complaint with this notebook would be the fan could be a bit quieter, and Toshiba shouldn't load this thing with SO much bloatware. Otherwise, it is a PERFECT machine at a PERFECT price.
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| Date Reviewed: 10/14/2006 |
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Cheap and powerful notebook.
Strengths: Great value/price ratio, decent performance, bright LCD screen.
Weaknesses: Cooling design could be better, no bluetooth, LCD lack contrast.
Summary: 2006-10-16 09:37:47 The LCD is very bright with glossy coating, but the viewing angle and contrast is not very good. After uninstalling all the free trial software, the performance of the machine is more than OK for normal usage. The fan is running at very low RPM most of the time, but will occasionally spin up to high RPM to blow out some hot air. 80G SATA Hard drive does not feel slow but emits quite a bit heat and noise Plastic exterior looks well built.
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