0 Toshiba Satellite C650-154 Laptop Review

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Toshiba Satellite C650-154 Specification:

Intel® Core™ i3-350M Processor

RAM 4,096 (2,048 + 2,048) MB, DDR3

HD 320 GB

DVD Super Multi (Double Layer) drive

Display : 39.6cm (15.6”)  Toshiba TruBrite® HD TFT High Brightness display with 16 : 9 aspect ratio and LED backlighting, internal resolution : 1,366 x 768

Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator HD memory : up to 1,696 MB shared memory

Never mind the ultra slim, ultra portable and ultra stylish laptops, many people just want a reasonable laptop at an affordable price. Step forward the Toshiba Satellite C650-15X, a great laptop for everyday use that won't break the bank.

The Satellite C650 has sober-looking and practical flushed through the design. However, Toshiba has given it a nice plain black matte finish which feels beautifully robust and there’s no flex in the hardware. Toshiba has also made sure the components and features are competitive.

The Toshiba Satellite C650 is simple to use thanks to an end-to-end keyboard on the 15.6-inch frame, complete with a numerical keypad – great for creating presentations and typing for long periods.

Connections are average with only one VGA and two USBs, but there’s no HDMI for High-Def fun. Toshiba also left out a Blu-ray drive option– opting for an integrated DVD instead, although it’s not really a surprise looking at the competitive price.

Toshiba Satellite C650: Performance

Our model had an ageing 2.3GHz dual core processor, but it does have 4GB of DDR3 – the fastest memory money can buy. Combined with the 64-bit flavour of Windows Home Premium and roomy 500GB hard drive, the Satellite C650 has respectable specs, ably handing day to day tasks, but you won’t be playing games via the Intel GMA 4500M graphics card.

Toshiba claims 270 minutes battery life and we came very close at 254 minutes, but this is reduced to 145 on maximum performance mode with all bells and whistles turned on.

Toshiba Satellite C650: Display

At 1366x768 the Satellite C650’s 15.6 inch screen has a low resolution for a mid-sized laptop. We tried opening two documents simultaneously but found you really need a higher resolution to make it viable. On the positive side, the LED Backlit display isn’t too glossy and has a wide viewing angle so it’s easy for more than one person to see the screen.

Toshiba’s included some useful software from Nero and McAffee - programs you’ll actually use. This makes the Satellite C650 good to go out of the box. We also love the inclusion of face recognition software for the integrated web-cam, which can be used as a security feature.

The Toshiba Satellite C650 isn’t ultra-mobile and performance is average, but for everyday tasks, including browsing and office tasks it’s a solid choice. If you or a son and daughter are heading off to university any time soon then it’s worth noting that this laptop is available under the National Notebook and Desktop Agreement (NDNA) for students, where it comes with a three-year warranty.

modified from T3.com

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0 Toshiba Satellite A665-S6067 Laptop Review

By Admin_AT | At 9:24 PM | Label : Toshiba | 0 Comments

Toshiba Satellite A665-S6067 Specification:

Intel® Core™ i7-720QM processor

NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 330M 2782MB total: 1GB GDDR3 discrete memory + up to 1758MB shared memory w/NVIDIA® TurboCache™ technology

4GB DDR3 memory

500GB HDD (5400rpm)

DVD-SuperMulti (+/-R double layer) with Labelflash™ drive

Display Size 16.0" widescreen

Display Type HD TruBrite® LED Backlit display

Display Resolution Supports 720p content, 16:9 aspect ratio, 1366x768 (HD)

harman/kardon® stereo speakers, Headphone jack (stereo), Microphone jack (mono), Built-in microphone

Webcam

Wi-Fi® Wireless networking (802.11b/g/n)

10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN

Power AC Adapter 90W (19V x 4.74A) 100-240V AC Adapter

Battery Li-Ion (48Wh, 6-Cell)

Battery Life Up to 3.16 hours

Toshiba Satellite A665-S6067 is a 16-inch laptop versed with a 1.6GHz Intel® Core™ i7-720QM processor, 4GB DDR3 memory, and 500GB HDD (5400rpm). It sports a 16″ HD TruBrite® LED Backlit display, NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 330M graphics, Built-in webcam and microphone, HDMI port, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, DVD-SuperMulti, and 6-cell Li-Ion battery. The laptop runs on Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit handling system. Needless to say, such a pattern is good sufficient for the every day use, people have been really confident with it.

As a well-configured 16″ laptop, the Toshiba Satellite A665-S6067 could be an preferred desktop replacement, so if you’ve been sleepy of your desktop PC, it’s right time to reinstate it with this one. The laptop is good for examination movies and personification games, you’ll suffer shining knowledge with it.

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0 Toshiba Qosmio X505-Q890 Laptop Review

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Toshiba Qosmio X505-Q890 Specs:

Intel® Core™ i7-740QM processor

NVIDIA® GeForce® GTS 360M 2298MB total: 1GB GDDR5 discrete memory + up to 1274MB shared memory w/NVIDIA® TurboCache™ technology

6GB DDR3 1066MHz memory

564GB: 64GB SSD (Serial ATA) + 500GB (7200rpm, Serial ATA)

Blu-ray Disc™ ROM and DVD SuperMulti drive with Labelflash®*

18.4" widescreen FHD TruBrite® TFT LCD Display 16:9 aspect ratio, Supports 1080p content*, 1920x1080

Built-in microphone, Headphone jack (stereo), harman/kardon® stereo speakers, Microphone jack (mono), S/P DIF output port (shared with headphone port)

Webcam

Wi-Fi® Wireless networking (802.11b/g/n)

Bluetooth® V2.1 + EDR

10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN

AC Adapter 180W (19V x 9.5A) Auto-sensing,100-240V AC Adapter

Battery High Capacity Li-Ion (87Wh, 12-cell)

Battery LifeUp to 3.77 hours

Weight  Starting at 9.70 lbs.

Display and Sound

Though it's designed for gaming, the Qosmio X505-Q890 makes an excellent multimedia system. The gorgeous 18.4-inch, 1920 x 1080-pixel screen is the real star of the show, offering plenty of screen real estate with beautiful, sharp images. When watching videos, such as a Blu-ray of Iron Man, the high-definition video was sharp, smooth, and colorful. Of course, when we watched a streaming 720p video of Fringe we noticed some blockiness because the screen was at a higher resolution than the video.

The Harmon Kardon speakers are good enough to turn the X505-Q890 into a stereo substitute. When streaming "Stuck on Repeat" by Little Boots, the sound was accurate if not overly rich and loud enough to fill a large living room.

Ports and Webcam

For such a large system, the Qosmio X505-Q890 has a pretty standard array of ports. On its right side are two USB ports, audio in/out, and VGA out. Its left side is adorned with Ethernet, HDMI, a Firewire 400 port, ExpressCard/54 reader, and a USB/eSATA port for a total of three USB ports overall. The front lip houses a 5-in-1 memory card reader and a Wi-Fi on/off switch. The only port we wish the X505-Q890 had is USB 3.0.

The X505-Q890's 1.3-megapixel webcam produced impressively sharp and bright images even in our dimly lit cubical. When talking on Skype, our image was colorful and the video smooth.

Performance

Just from its specs, we could predict that the Qosmio X505-Q890 would provide epic performance. The notebook's 1.73-GHz Intel Core i7 Q740 CPU has four high-speed cores that can run a whopping eight threads at once, improving your multitasking or boosting the performance of multithreaded apps. Its Nvidia GeForce GTS 360M discrete graphics card is loaded with 1GB of graphics memory, and it has two storage drives: a speedy 64GB SSD boot drive and a 7,200-rpm, 500GB hard drive.

On PCMark Vantage, a synthetic benchmark that measures overall system prowess, the Qosmio X505 scored a whopping 10,392, which is nearly double the category average for desktop replacements (5,308) and 80 percent better than the ASUS G73Jh (6,460). In fact, that's the third highest score we've ever seen, behind only the more expensive and boutique-oriented $3,966 Malibal Satori (13,187) and the $5,952 Origin EON18 (11,039), both of which use desktop components.

The 64GB SSD booted Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit) in a speedy 52 seconds, 11 seconds faster than the category average and 15 seconds faster than the ASUS G73Jh, but about 4 seconds slower than the original X505.

We conducted our LAPTOP File Transfer Test, in which we copy 4.97GB of files on the 7,200-rpm hard drive, and saw it complete in a mere 2 minutes and 51 seconds for a rate of 37.1 MBps, comfortably faster than the 32.6 MBps category average and the 31.2 MBps turned in by the ASUS G73Jh. When it came to transcoding video, the X505-Q890 also converted a 114MB MPEG-4 in just 57 seconds, 6 seconds faster than the category average of 1:03.