Drop, charge, and lose the cords
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4.5 stars
"Fantabuloustic All-rounder!!!"
Pros: Jack-of-all-trades, Master of ALL
Cons: Battery life is not fantastic, but Toshiba's pre-installed power saver settings help a great deal
Summary: I bought this at a computer fair, spur of the moment, as it was simply too good to miss at that price. I was a Fujitsu fan, and loved my 5 year-old E model, but I have absolutely no regrets. My model is actually M50-P345, came with 1.6GHz, 60Gb hard disk, 1Gb 533MHz DDR RAM, 256Mb X600SE ATI Radeon video RAM, and super dual layer +/- RW DVDRAM drive. It's got blue tooth, infra-red, firewire, S-video output, reads all my cards, even XD. The wireless and volume control are external - and I always forget that - which is very convenient.
The screen is quite bright even at the lowest brightness setting, so i have no problem working with the long life setting in Toshiba's power manager.
There are some more nice(?) touches. The sides and corners of the touchpad has got special functions like scrolling and page forward and back. There are also many other special function key settings, like instant change of screen resolution. While I have yet to get used to or master them - and sometimes the touchpad functions can be a tad irritating when they pop out uncalled for - I do appreciate the effort that Toshiba puts in to improve the interface. Some people will loathe such things, but I think I'll probably get used to and love them in due time.
The speakers are great, though the bass is a little weak, which is only to be expected of something so small. The built in SRS surround makes a truly audible difference, except when too much is asked of the bass.
I've owned it for a month, and I'm still trying to find anything else that I might want, and which it doesn't have, or doesn't do well.
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We liked the look and spec so bought two. After spending lots of time transfering data etc., from a PC one notepad would not start up. Suport said it was a defective hard drive and not only did they now have one but neither did the local Toshiba people. We asked them to replace it and after nearly a week a new one was delivered but only after hassle about methods of payment etc.,
More wasted time then the printer software wouldn't complete install so we returned it to find the CD drive was defective and once more there were no parts. At this point having been a supporter of Toshiba build quality and international support for ten years - we gave up and took back our cash. It seems that all names get lost somewhere along the road and we hope that Toshiba come back soon!!!!
