My girlfriend wants this laptop:

[Snooble]

toshiba-satellite-l655d-133-pink-06525264

Please can you list me all the things that are rubbish about it?

And all the things that are worth the money?

She needs to hear it from you guys.

List specs below:

General Information Processor AMD Athlon™ II Dual-Core Processor P320
- 2.1 GHz
- 1.8 GHz HT
- 1MB L2 Cache
Operating System Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit
RAM - 3GB installed DDR3 RAM (1066 MHz)
- 8GB maximum RAM capacity
Graphics card ATI Radeon™ HD 4250 Graphics
Screen type Widescreen LCD
Screen resolution - WXGA
- 1366 x 768
Screen size 15.6"
Screen features 16:9 aspect ratio and LED backlighting
TruBrite technology
High Brightness
Hard drive 500GB SATA 5400rpm
Optical disk drive DVD Super Multi drive (Double Layer)
Memory card reader 4 in 1: supports SD™ Cards up to 64 GB, Memory Stick® up to 256 MB, Memory Stick Pro™ up to 16 GB and MultiMedia Card™ up to 2 GB
USB 2 x USB 2.0
1 x eSATA/USB 2.0
FireWire No
Modem/Ethernet 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX
Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n
Video interface VGA, HDMI
Audio interface 1 x external microphone
1 x headphone (stereo)
TV output 1 x HDMI (digital audio/video)
1 x VGA (analogue video)
Extension card slot 2 x memory slots (1 to configure)
Sound Supported audio format : 24-bit stereo
Speakers : built-in stereo speakers
Webcam Yes
Keyboard & Mouse Full-size matt pale grey flat keyboard with 10-digit numeric keypad
Touch Pad with Multi-Touch Control
Battery Lithium-ion
Battery Life: up to 3 hours 55 minutes
Accessories included AC adaptor
Software included Toshiba Disc Creator
Toshiba User''s Manual
Supervisor Password Utility
Toshiba Assist
Chicony Camera Assistant Software
Toshiba Face Recognition
Microsoft® Works, Microsoft® Office Home and Student 2007 (free 60-day trial)
Toshiba Value Added Package (Toshiba Power Saver, Toshiba Zooming Utility, Toshiba PC Diagnostic Tool, Toshiba Flash Cards, Toshiba Components Common Driver, Toshiba Accessibility, Toshiba Button Support)
McAfee® Internet Security (includes free Internet updates for 30 days)
WildTangent Games Console
Toshiba Photo Service
Toshiba Recovery Media Creator
Nero 9 Essentials
Nero BackItUp & Burn
Skype
Bing Toolbar and Bing Search
Windows Live Essentials
eBay
Amazon
Connectivity Doctor
ConfigFree™
Toshiba utilities and drivers
Size W x D x H : 380.0 x 250.0 x 28.0 (front) / 37.9 (rear) mm
Weight 2.8 kg

Price is £430 down from £600.

Thanks all,

S

 

[Coldzero]

Its a Tosh?

 

[Snooble]

Toshiba are rubbish?

 

[joey1211]

Tell her you'll buy her a pink laptop if she gives you a go on the pink wafer.

 

[Hagar]

Toshiba are reliable and long lasting.

 

[TwsT]

Toshiba are reliable and long lasting.

concur my family have never had a problem with toshiba satelite series. great value.

 

[TommyV]

Seems legit.

I love how they advertise 'bing toolbar' 'ebay' and 'amazon' as it's list of features lol, but to the uneducated technological eye that's all perks!!

 

[Raikiri]

There's nothing wrong with it as such, but for £50 less you can get a HP G62 with the following specs:

Intel Core i3-350M 2.26GHz
3GB DDR3 RAM
320GB
15.6" HD
DVDRW
Webcam, Bluetooth,HDMI

 

[Snooble]

There's nothing wrong with it as such, but for £50 less you can get a HP G62 with the following specs:

Intel Core i3-350M 2.26GHz
3GB DDR3 RAM
320GB
15.6" HD
DVDRW
Webcam, Bluetooth,HDMI

That's the kind of response I was looking for. Thank you.

I think it's a rubbish deal. She should be going i3.

And don't you think it's strange putting 64bit on a 3gb ram system?

Cheers,

S

 

[SGWills]

3 gig on 64bit would cause that miuch of an issue, only thing wrong is that its a bit out of date, at that price looks as thou its from a high street so as mentioned have a look at pc shops as tey will give better spec for cheaper/same price

 

[olivier renault]

There's nothing wrong with it as such, but for £50 less you can get a HP G62 with the following specs:

Intel Core i3-350M 2.26GHz
3GB DDR3 RAM
320GB
15.6" HD
DVDRW
Webcam, Bluetooth,HDMI

It's pink! priorities, people.

I think it's all right actually. the P320 looks quite decent on notebookcheck (around the i3), and it's got some dedicated graphics. Dunno about the rest (battery life, heat and so on).


EDIT : review.

It's not great, but at that sort of price, it's expected. Can probably find a better all rounder costing a bit more. I'd also prefer a i3, it's a great entry platform.

EDIT 2 : French review of a HP G62 P320 platform.

Again, they complain about heat and power consumption, What I'd expect from an AMD mobile.

... passing the helmet is, as always, for saving lives.

LOL. I love google translation