Toshiba Satellite A205-S5867 15.4-inch Laptop (1.86 GHz Intel Pentium Dual Core T2390 Processor, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, DVD Drive, Vista Premium)
Optimized for everyday use, the affordable Satellite A205 series, with 15.4" diagonal widescreen TruBrite display, is loaded with a PC wish list of features. Intel's latest technology offers efficient use of power and speed for multitasking and multimedia.
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Toshiba Satellite A205-S5867 15.4-inch Laptop (1.86 GHz Intel Pentium Dual Core T2390 Processor, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, DVD Drive, Vista Premium) Reviews
I would recommend buying this product everytime. So far so good. This laptop is meeting all my expectations. Delivery is fast and very efficient.
It was difficult to "downgrade" to Windows XP (you need serial ATA drivers) but after that it's been a fast, powerful addition to our computer family. This is a great laptop for our business. We use it for Quickbooks, email and the internet. Dual core is a plus. I don't think you'll find a better laptop in the under 700.00 range anywere. The one drawback we had was the lack of a parallel port (printer port) but we simply bought a USB printer and now things are fine.
I forget the specifics but if you search around Amazon you'll find the reviews that specifically address this problem. Problems: There was plenty of bloatware by Toshiba but that was easy to delete. Also keep in mind this problem is what hurt the average star rating. The casing actually seems pretty fragile, plastic like. It is absolutley pathetic. One last thing I would recommend is purchase (not a free one) an antivirus program for this and any other windows computer because Vista's security will not be enough. I only use it for web browing, watching dvds, photoshopping, playing Madden, Google Earth, basic things like that so if you need a lot of power this might not be for you.
I would say 1GB of ram is plenty for anything you want to do online as long as you don't run too many programs at once. The sound, microphone jack and volume wheel are at the front. I have the A215, it seems to be identical to the A205 except the A215 has less hard drive memory and has a AMD processor so it might be helpful to those looking to buy the A205. I personally like this, especially the sound wheel because my last laptop had two buttons for volume which was a pain pressing all the time. It's worth paying to not get viruses. Battery Life: The one gripe I have about my laptop right now is battery life. Physical dimensions: I'm very happy with the layout of my laptop.
I managed to delete this but was stressful. Also a problem I avoided thanks to reading other Amazon reviewers was this (or others I forget) Toshiba Laptop has a problem where it shuts down for no reason. Conclusions: This was a perfect laptop for me and I do not have any regrests buying it. So go to power options and set it at 100% no matter the conditions (plugged in, batter mode). I like the keyboard and I like that at the very front are buttons for internet, beats clicking. Fortunatley I don't take my laptop out much but it's still very annoying.
The battery indicator can be deceiving because it reads 2 hrs but I swear it was an hour at most and I don't watch that many movies, (the cd drives sucks up power) just web browse. Also stressful was when I downloaded an update to my Wireless software from Windows Update and it stopped working. The price is also very reasonable. Fortunatley I have not have any major problems with Vista. It turns out that's because the CPU needs to be set to 100%. I think if you are buying a pc with pre-installed Vista you will not have as many gripes as those upgrading to Vista. My biggest problems was this weird Toshiba program where they have this tabs at the top that was unneccessary and very annoying. I was annoyed by the infamous "Cancel or Allow" but that can be shut off.
I'd recommend buying extra batteries if you're going to take it out a lot. No problem for me because I handle it like a baby but if perhaps not for everyone. Vista: I was nervous about Vista because like everyone else I have heard bad things. I would advise to be very careful updating from Windows Update, especially your wireless card. So the star ratings can be deceiving. Hope this review helped, and good luck buying your laptop.
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