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Summary: Price Screw Up,Had To Be
Review: I was looking for a portable DVD player and got this for only 699 after rebate.Unbelievable.Only a couple 100 more and a whole computer with 4x the screen.
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Summary: I love this Notebook!
Review: I will never buy another Toshiba notebook again. I had always heard they did not run the smoothest, but made up for it in durability. In my experience, Windows XP constantly crashed, mysterious errors appeared constantly, and it often overheated and turned itself off. However, the durability was even more degrading. The battery and the AC adapter both fried within about a year and a half of purchase. Then the screen kicked out shortly thereafter, all conveniently after the warranty expired.
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Summary: Good price, piss-poor quality
Review: I will never buy another Toshiba notebook again. I had always heard they did not run the smoothest, but made up for it in durability. In my experience, Windows XP constantly crashed, mysterious errors appeared constantly, and it often overheated and turned itself off. However, the durability was even more degrading. The battery and the AC adapter both fried within about a year and a half of purchase. Then the screen kicked out shortly thereafter, all conveniently after the warranty expired.
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Summary: Unmatched value
Review: I've owned and used a wide range of laptop brands throughout the years and Toshibas have always been reliable and sturdy. This extremely affordable system continues that tradition with excellent build quality. The features are a bit barebone (lack of IRDA, built-in ethernet), but those can be added with PC Cards. The modular bay allows nice expansion options (CDRW and CDRW/DVD combo drives available). My calls to Toshiba are answered promptly and the support is bit better than average. The only downside to this unit is the weak battery, although I've been told by Toshiba techs that the modular bay li-ion battery can be used on this model. No other notebook computer comes close for this price.
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Summary: Great machine for what I do on it, and lighter than a Compaq
Review: No complaints about this machine. If you're expecting a desktop replacement with all the bells and whistles, you won't get it here, but after having it 2 months, I'm not disappointed. I cart it around the house with wireless networking with no problem. I was hoping for a PS/2 port, but it's lack of probably helps it stay light.
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Summary: Great machine for what I do on it, and lighter than a Compaq
Review: No complaints about this machine. If you're expecting a desktop replacement with all the bells and whistles, you won't get it here, but after having it 2 months, I'm not disappointed. I cart it around the house with wireless networking with no problem. I was hoping for a PS/2 port, but it's lack of probably helps it stay light.
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Summary: Horrible computer and customer service
Review: Please read all of these reviews. Notice they are all from people who recently acquired the computer. Thus, the reviews are positive because they haven't given the computer time to break down which it will probably do. I bought this computer 1 year ago and have had to return it 4 times to Toshiba for repairs. Each time the repair has taken over 2 weeks, and the customer service has been awful. Please be very wary of buying this computer, and from Toshiba in general. It randomly shuts down, the LCD malfunctions, and if you check the Toshiba website forums you will see that other customers have had this problem with satellite computers.
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Summary: Great value for money !
Review: The laptop plays DVD's without any problems at full screem mode. The included software is basically just Win XP Home, nothing else is worth anything. The screen is fine. The laptop seems to get very hot after just a few minutes of heavy use, this is my first laptop so maybe all laptops get hot ? The fan for CPU/system cooling works slow at most times, but every few minutes it begins to make a lot of sound and runs at full speed. Again this might be happening with all laptops. The tech support is very good, much better than something like Dell. Te weight is acceptable, no too much, not light either. The biggest missing featureis a CD-RW drive and having to remove DVD drive if you want to use the floppy drive. This exchange between DVD/floopy drive can be done without rebooting also. Can't comment on battery as I haven't tested it. The speakers not very rudimentary, not worth listening music or movies on them. All in all a very good value for money if you get it at under 700 or 800 bucks. One good thing about Toshiba is that they are not ripping you off for the extra battery you might need unlike Sony who will charge you around 250 bucks ! Toshiba is asking only 100 for extra one.
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Summary: To clarify some misunderstanding.
Review: This celeron processor is Tualatin-core based. it's the same core as the P III-M. This type celeron chip could be running at 100 or 133MHz bus, coud have 128 or 256 Kb L2 cache. In this laptop, it's 133MHz and 256 Kb L2 !!! compare to P III-M, it's just short of L2 cache (256 vs 512 Kb), still it's much better than other celeron running at 100MHz bus and/or 128 kb L2.(say toshiba 1805-s207, hp zt1130/1150 on 100M bus). even some old P III just running at 100MHz bus also. I would say get it when it's [inexpensive]. it was [money] before rebate, was it???
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Summary: Excellent value notebook ruined by bad pixels
Review: This is an excellent configuration for the money and has everything I need except LAN and CD-RW, and I can get by with adding these thru PCMCIA or USB, however the LCD display had a total of 6 bad pixels, 4 of them bunched in two groups of two right next to each other. One was bright white, the other bright red. These were visable during almost any activity and made DVD viewing unacceptable. Much to their credit Amazon.com took it back in a professional manner with NO hassles, I realize that the industry standard for an LCD's acceptable bad pixel count is generally anything under 8 and allowing the return in this manner assures my return business.
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