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"very good laptop for the money" on by Masterdane
Pros: Price , Core Solo, 80 Gig HD, DVD Burner,Widscreen With Trubrite
Cons: 512 MB Could Be 1 gig And The Hard Drive Gets Hot Sometimes
Summary: I Bought This Laptop At Best Buy For 599 great deal i personally think for the specs i have used it everyday since and really pleased with it the only thing that bothers me is the hard drive does get a little hot now and then but could be normal
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"Bang for the buck!" on by CeeDnet
Pros: It's well made(I dropped mine down hard tiled stair way) and it still works fine, light, almost a netbook size.Screen is truebrite.Keyboard design/keys seem to do very well with hiding minimizing dust. Only 512 ram you should definitely upgrade
Cons: Battery life was a letdown, but you can upgrade.1 bank of ram easy access panel.1 bank of ram is under keyboard and that seems daft,it's my first laptop so I am not sure if that is standard. It just seems to me they could of thought that out better.
Summary: I am very happy with purchase 2 G of ram now,and it is a fine little machine. I am on 3rd year with it and fan is running smooth.I foresee me getting a total of five years out of this LT and I love the size. I strongly recommend it
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"good laptop for the money" on by thinkread
Pros: We have used this laptop for 30 months. lcd screen and touch pad went out in the same week. we like the product just wanted a little more.
Cons: not durable for long term.
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"It's alright, but I was hoping to get through 4 years of college with it." on by silverrose3333
Pros: The size is great for taking notes in class.
Cons: The DVD drive went out after just one year, sent it in to get fixed and it only worked for about a month after that. The battery life is only about 2 hours. The start-up time is a good 5-10 minutes.
Summary: I loved this laptop at first, but as it nears only two years it runs very slowly, the DVD burner is broken, and the battery life is less daily.
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"very nice - but wrist-rests & touchpad too hot; keys low visibility markings; key pad flexes" on by hot spur
Pros: functions; beautiful screen, low weight, great style
Cons: hot wrist-rest & touchpad; low visibility of markings on keys; flexing keypad
Summary: IF I can get the cause of the unbearably hot wrist-rest and touchpad fixed, I will say: excellent functionality and value for money. In which case I would increase my overall rating to 8.
Numerous small gray markings on the black keys are nigh on impossible to see.
Bought yesterday, on sale for $500 + taxes at Office Depot.Updated
This is to update the first opinion (above) I posted about this notebook pc.
Toshiba telephone-technical-support told me it's not normal for the front of the deck to get hot at the touchpad or at locations near the front of the deck (above which I locate my hands when typing, or on which I rest them when not typing).
Nevertheless I've since found that the most of the lower priced (say less than about $1,000) notebooks on display in my local Office Depot store get warm-to-very-hot at the front of the deck.
Exceptions I found in the lower price range were the Lenovo 3000 N100 (0786EU), which ran very slightly warm, and a business-type IBM ThinkPad, which ran extremely cool. Also, two of the Toshiba notebooks on display were running noticeably cooler than mine: Satellite M105-S1021, and Satellite A105-S4074. Most but not all of the notebooks on display priced around $1000 were running acceptably cool by my standards.
From reading and talking around, it seems the problem is probably due to heat dissipated when the battery is fully charged and the power cord is still providing "wall" power (which is then "trying" to over-charge the battery - and which I suppose is a "cheap" design).
However, based on my experience today, there seems to be a (somewhat inconvenient) solution - that I suppose may go along with lower priced notebooks such as this one:
You need to NOT charge the battery while using the notebook.
Of course, running on battery power introduces a need for vigilance against low state-of-charge of the battery - and that's a nuisance. Alternatively, if the notebook will operate on "wall" power without its battery being installed - which I have NOT checked yet - I think that should also make the deck run cooler.
Both of the solutions I've offered here will help prolong the life of the battery, through avoiding frequent "overcharging" of the battery". (Running the battery down to empty about once a month is an additional way of extending the life of the battery that's recommended by Toshiba.)
To DALEZW: Additionally, I find this web site will not allow me to respond to the posting by dalezw. Hi, Dale. The price (i.e., $499.99 excluding taxes, after $50 instant rebate and $200 mail-in rebate) was advertised in the "flyers" for Office Depot that came with Los Angeles area papers last weekend (i.e. 2-3 September 2006). I couldn't find the offer in the Office Depot web site, either. I had to travel to an Office Depot store about 30-min drive to the East of LA, where I located the last piece remaining in-stock and bought it. None of the other Office Depot stores I tried had any left in stock. The SKU-number is 181-466. Good luck finding one in stock!Updated
This is to update the first opinion (above) I posted about this notebook pc.
Toshiba telephone-technical-support told me it's not normal for the front of the deck to get hot at the touchpad or at locations near the front of the deck (above which I locate my hands when typing, or on which I rest them when not typing).
Nevertheless I've since found that the most of the lower priced (say less than about $1,000) notebooks on display in my local Office Depot store get warm-to-very-hot at the front of the deck.
Exceptions I found in the lower price range were the Lenovo 3000 N100 (0786EU), which ran very slightly warm, and a business-type IBM ThinkPad, which ran extremely cool. Also, two of the Toshiba notebooks on display were running noticeably cooler than mine: Satellite M105-S1021, and Satellite A105-S4074. Most but not all of the notebooks on display priced around $1000 were running acceptably cool by my standards.
From reading and talking around, it seems the problem is probably due to heat dissipated when the battery is fully charged and the power cord is still providing "wall" power (which is then "trying" to over-charge the battery - and which I suppose is a "cheap" design).
However, based on my experience today, there seems to be a (somewhat inconvenient) solution - that I suppose may go along with lower priced notebooks such as this one:
You need to NOT charge the battery while using the notebook.
Of course, running on battery power introduces a need for vigilance against low state-of-charge of the battery - and that's a nuisance. Alternatively, if the notebook will operate on "wall" power without its battery being installed - which I have NOT checked yet - I think that should also make the deck run cooler.
Both of the solutions I've offered here will help prolong the life of the battery, through avoiding frequent "overcharging" of the battery". (Running the battery down to empty about once a month is an additional way of extending the life of the battery that's recommended by Toshiba.)
To DALEZW: Additionally, I find this web site will not allow me to respond to the posting by dalezw. Hi, Dale. The price (i.e., $499.99 excluding taxes, after $50 instant rebate and $200 mail-in rebate) was advertised in the "flyers" for Office Depot that came with Los Angeles area papers last weekend (i.e. 2-3 September 2006). I couldn't find the offer in the Office Depot web site, either. I had to travel to an Office Depot store about 30-min drive to the East of LA, where I located the last piece remaining in-stock and bought it. None of the other Office Depot stores I tried had any left in stock. The SKU-number is 181-466. Good luck finding one in stock!Updated
This is to update the first opinion (above) I posted about this notebook pc.
Toshiba telephone-technical-support told me it's not normal for the front of the deck to get hot at the touchpad or at locations near the front of the deck (above which I locate my hands when typing, or on which I rest them when not typing).
Nevertheless I've since found that the most of the lower priced (say less than about $1,000) notebooks on display in my local Office Depot store get warm-to-very-hot at the front of the deck.
Exceptions I found in the lower price range were the Lenovo 3000 N100 (0786EU), which ran very slightly warm, and a business-type IBM ThinkPad, which ran extremely cool. Also, two of the Toshiba notebooks on display were running noticeably cooler than mine: Satellite M105-S1021, and Satellite A105-S4074. Most but not all of the notebooks on display priced around $1000 were running acceptably cool by my standards.
From reading and talking around, it seems the problem is probably due to heat dissipated when the battery is fully charged and the power cord is still providing "wall" power (which is then "trying" to over-charge the battery - and which I suppose is a "cheap" design).
However, based on my experience today, there seems to be a (somewhat inconvenient) solution - that I suppose may go along with lower priced notebooks such as this one:
You need to NOT charge the battery while using the notebook.
Of course, running on battery power introduces a need for vigilance against low state-of-charge of the battery - and that's a nuisance. Alternatively, if the notebook will operate on "wall" power without its battery being installed - which I have NOT checked yet - I think that should also make the deck run cooler.
Both of the solutions I've offered here will help prolong the life of the battery, through avoiding frequent "overcharging" of the battery". (Running the battery down to empty about once a month is an additional way of extending the life of the battery that's recommended by Toshiba.)
To DALEZW: Additionally, I find this web site will not allow me to respond to the posting by dalezw. Hi, Dale. The price (i.e., $499.99 excluding taxes, after $50 instant rebate and $200 mail-in rebate) was advertised in the "flyers" for Office Depot that came with Los Angeles area papers last weekend (i.e. 2-3 September 2006). I couldn't find the offer in the Office Depot web site, either. I had to travel to an Office Depot store about 30-min drive to the East of LA, where I located the last piece remaining in-stock and bought it. None of the other Office Depot stores I tried had any left in stock. The SKU-number is 181-466. Good luck finding one in stock!
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