Toshiba Satellite L505D-S5983 Notebook – AMD AthlonTM II dual-core M300 2.0GHz 15.6″ widescreen 3GB DDR2 320GB HD DVD±RW/CD-RW 802.11b/g Windows 7 Home Premium

Toshiba Satellite L505D-S5983 Notebook – AMD AthlonTM II dual-core M300 2.0GHz 15.6″ widescreen 3GB DDR2 320GB HD DVD±RW/CD-RW 802.11b/g Windows 7 Home Premium Review

I wanted a laptop as a backup for my desk and do not need the full functionality of a laptop computer complete, but more than a netbook. Even if I have an impact week ($ 399 Best Buy), I spent a long time to decide if I want to keep it because I have a limit of 2 weeks. It is much faster than my desktop, including access to the Internet. Windows 7 is a learning curve has been frustrating (a user XP great), while in a hurry to try to access the features of the home network, etc. SomeToshiba utilities are useful for finding patterns before Win7 to find. The system has performed very well until a couple of crashes while you are using Internet Explorer 8 looks ok for a restart. The touchpad has something to read and adaptation (both computers and me) to use the functions. The scroll function is nice, but for some reason does not work on all windows, but clicking on the scroll bar appears that works well at home. Actually it was 3 USB ports (one is ashared eSATA / USB, I had not realized, if he had not spoken saleman.

Now for the surprises … The system comes with only a small printed booklet for further instructions. Toshiba offers an online manual is helpful, but it provides no help in actually setting up wireless, make sure it is protected with WEP, or register a home network. Good luck, if you're not a computer guru or a neighbor, a friend who is. Despite what the salesman told me, is a 32-bit –and only start in 32 Win7 bits, even if the CPU is 64 bit. It was not an option for 64-bit Win 7 technical support Toshiba says that if I were in memory of 4 GB or more, then the possibility of "return" the 64-bit, even though Toshiba site does not show this model as a 64-bit (due to 3 GB of RAM or limitation of licensing?). You may need to purchase an upgrade version to select 32 or 64 bit Win7, so will see if the 64-bit for winSystem. Sound / speaker system is horrible. In addition to the speakers, it sounds like a cheap toy Childs, the volume (at max "wheel" of recruitment and selection of 100% control of the sound), rather than the music, YouTube, etc. I read the reviews on the quantity and bad sound quality, but thought it could not really bad ….. But it is even worse than described. Sound through the headphones / phones is OK, if you do not mind bearing with the laptop.

Even if the battery is low, ISet the mark of quality "," set and get more than 2 hours, maybe about 3 hours with the use of light, such as surfing the Web, read e-mail and help files, write documents, etc. Since fan only occasionally up to 35% faster with this type of use, I suspect, the battery life would be much less than 2 hours to a high CPU load games or programs. It is about 15 GB hard disk with hidden recovery partition, and the video card uses the RAM occupied for video memory. You can create recovery DVD, but Idetermine whether this actually do the recycling as a backup system on the current state (including programs, DVD) or just copy the settings from the recovery partition.

Overall, I decided that it will be my goal, but it is good to know what features you need. If you Equities / music / youtube etc is expected to use an external speaker or headphones. If you are the abilities of 64 Win7 bits used to access more memory or 64-bit software, the race schedulePurchase of an upgrade version of Retail.