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Summary: Excellent product.
Review: This laptop is quite useful..battery life is excellent at lasting for about 2.5 to 3 hours with normal use. I finished Star wars Episode 1 before it was close to the battery running out. The graphics are so so, this laptop is definately not ment for a gamer. If you want a gaming laptop...get one with a Geforce 2 Go in it. But other than that, this is an excellent laptop.
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Summary: Excelent Laptop! High Quality Toshiba.
Review: Toshiba just makes a great laptop. There are many things that make this one great. But, before I mention them, let me say that if you every need to reinstall or upgrade the operating system, make sure that you download and install the latest BIOS update. It seems that without the update, the machine's ACPI shuts the power off randomly.
Besides that, I like the application shortcut keys above the keyboard that you can program to execute your most frequently used programs. The case has a great fan slot on the left side that keeps the inside air circulating out. I like the video out jack on the back. I use it to slideshow digital pictures on my TV. I like the feel of the keyboard and that panel to the RAM slot is on the bottom of the laptop and not under the keyboard on this model. The screen is bright and easy to see from all angles with 14.1 inch active-matrix display. The drawbacks that I've noticed in comparing it to my last Toshiba Satellite are that this one has the DVDROM drive on the right side where I use my external USB mouse. I wish it was on the left, or in the front with the floppy like my last Satellite. The modem jack is also on the right side and creates another obstruction for us who are right handed mouse users. The speakers are not as good as my last, and I haven't found a way to adjust the brightness and contrast of the screen. There may be a way but I haven't read of one yet. Lastly the Cyber Aladdin video card in this model does not have a compatible driver for Linux, even though the video card vendor says it is compatible with Linux on their web site. I've looked everywhere and cannot find one. Despite the drawbacks, I really like this laptop all-in-all. I think it is a very fair price for such all around quality. I am another satisfied customer.
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Summary: An Awfull Laptop Computer
Review: Toshiba Satellite 1805-S254 is a terrible computer. I bought from Amazon.com last December (2001),the DVD driver did not work when I received.The problem was that I could not read the contents of a CD. After being serviced by Toshiba, the problem was solved partly, but I still can not read the CD contents when I log on as a normal user. After 3 months, the system board stopped working, and the service person told me I had to wait weeks to get a new board. I am still waiting, and I do not know when I can get one. If you want to buy a laptop computer, be cautious of this model.
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Summary: Desktop replacement Great Value!!!
Review: Very solid performer with tech support to boot. I have had this machine for a year now and have not had any major service calls at all. I was recently given the opportunity by my employer to replace this notebook but I refused based on its performance and reliability. The sturdy construction is an added bonus. Congrats Toshiba for a fine product. Incidently I added the extended warranty just the other day because I absolutey intend to keep this machine for the long haul.
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Summary: I HATE IT! I HATE IT! I HATE IT!
Review: When my parents bought me the satellite for my 17th birthday i was so excited since it was my first personal notebook. Now i am 19 and have suffered the last two years with this peice of junk. I don't even know where to start...first it randomly shuts down for no apparent reason. It constantly locks up when using the internet, my screen freaks out randomly at least a couple times a year to the point where it literally wont show an image, the speakers suck, it's slow as hell and i can't even remember everything else that is wrong with it.
On top of all of this Toshiba itself sucks in the customer service department. My father is now on their "beware of customer" list because he continually calls when the damn thing breaks down and ends up getting people who don't speak english and don't understand anything he is trying to explain. I promise you he and I are both fully capable of explaining a problem. Toshiba's solution has been multiple times to send the computer in for fixing - which i have done at least four times over the last two years.
- One example of Toshiba's poor service: I sent the computer in to fix a dimming screen and on their service sheet, i boldy stated NO to refragmenting becuase of all the saved work i had on it. Well they refragmented it, lost all my work over the last year, and on top of it as my luck would turn the back up CD i had didnt work. Though the CD part was my mistake, i was devestated considering Toshiba shouldn't have lost the work in the first place.
The other reason i hate this thing is that being a college freshmen i have to rely entirely on my computer. SO low and behold this thing decides not to show images on my screen two weeks before my final exams. I was forced to box it up and send it to a repair shop ASAP, in which the computer wasn't returned to me for over a week.
Thanks to Toshiba, i am forever turned off of Toshiba computers. i will never in my ENTIRE LIFE purchase a product from their company and i suggest to those reading this that they do the same. On top of it i am worried that Toshiba has completely turned me away from PCs which i have so dilegently used the last few years...looks like Apple has a new customer. THANK YOU TOSHIBA!
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