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| |  | Nikon | Home » » » » Toshiba Satellite A305D-S6851 15.4-inch Laptop (2.0 GHz AMD Turion X2 RM-70 Processor, 3 GB RAM, 250 GB Hard Drive, DVD Drive, Vista Premium) | | | | | | | Description: | | Raise the lid and rock the room: the elegant new Satellite A305D-s6851 laptop is set off with a brilliant high-gloss Fusion Finish. Experience entertainment par excellence with a variety of advanced A/V features like Harman Kardon stereo speakers, Dolby Sound Room, and an S/P DIF port. With USB Sleep-and-Charge support, you can use your Toshiba laptop to power-up your favorite portable electronic devices, even when the machine is off. With a built-in Webcam and Toshiba Face Recognition on your Satellite A305D-s6851 laptop, you¿ll have more fun staying in touch. Enjoy high-speed transfers and no-hassle storage with the eSATA port. Great for those with lots of files and multimedia, an eSATA port offers 5X the performance of a standard USB port when using an external hard drive. Enjoy the incredible sights and sounds of DVD entertainment with the integrated DVD SuperMulti optical drive, giving you the ability to handle most of today¿s popular CD and DVD formats. The Toshiba A305D-s6851 ships with Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium (SP1, 32-bit version), a 2.0 GHz AMD Turion X2 Dual-Core Mbile Processor RM-70, 1 MB L2, AMD M780V chipset, configured with 3072 MB PC6400 DDR2 SDRAM (both slots may be occupied, maximum capacity 4096 MB), 250 GB (5400 RPM) Serial ATA hard disk drive, DVD SuperMulti (+/-R double layer) drive with LabelFlash supporting 11 formats, 15.4" diagonal widescreen TruBrite display at 1280 x 800 native resolution (WXGA), ATI Radeon 3100 Graphics with 256 MB-1406 MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory, webcam and microphone built into LCD bezel, and Atheros 802.11b/g/n wireless-LAN. Dimensions: 14.3¿ x 10.5¿ x 1.36¿ /1.52¿ weight: Starting at 6.0 lbs. | | | Features: | |
• 15.4 inch (Diagonal) Widescreen TFT LCD Display at 1280 x 800 Native Resolution (WXGA)
• 2.0 GHz AMD Turion X2 Dual-Core Mobile Processor RM-70 with 1MB L2 Cache
• 3072 MB PC6400 DDR2 SDRAM, 250 GB (5400 RPM); Hard Drive (SATA), ATI Radeon 3100 Graphics with 256 MB-1406 MB
• DVD SuperMulti +/-R Double Layer with Labelflash Drive, Atheros 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN
• Windows Vista Home Premium, dims in inches: 14.3 x 10.5 x 1.36 /1.52 weight: starting at 6.0 lbs.
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| 14.3 inches | | Product Width:
| 10.5 inches | | Product Height:
| 1.36 inches | | Product Weight:
| 6.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 16.7 inches | | Package Width:
| 14.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 5.0 inches | | Package Weight:
| 10.5 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 3 reviews |
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Excelent ProductJan 18, 2010
It is an excellent product; i have almost a year to have it and there was no problem presented by this laptop so far, I highly recommend it, although it has to be cheaper than what I've payed for it (A year ago it had everything updated)
In conclusion I have nothing bad to say about this product other that recommend it.
Ha sido un exclente producto, tengo casi un año de tenerla y aun no he tenido ningun problema con esta laptop. este modelo en particular la recomiendo muchisimo, Tuve el modelo previo a este en Toshiba y me salio tan malo que nunca mas volvi a comprar en ese mismo negocio y espere nunca mas comprar una Toshiba, sin embargo esta me ha salido totalmente lo contrario, ha sido muy buena. Si me tocara volver a comprar una compraria una parecida.
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Caterpillar to Butterfly: 192 MB RAM to 3 GB RAM ++ some other stuff.Nov 03, 2008
Though I loved my previous laptop and used it with no complaints since November 2003, I feel like I was a caterpillar and now I'm a butterfly, using my new Toshiba L305D-S5581! Well, okay, I did have a complaint about how long it took my old PC to boot up and shut down, and was thrilled with my new Toshiba's faster accomplishments of those routine operations. I had expected slower instead of faster, due to VISTA and the additional programs which would be on the new laptop. I had XP on my old laptop. I like both versions of MS Windows OS, and can see the advantages of each, but VISTA is definitely the butterfly.
Even though many reviews have made what appear to have been valid complaints about products with the specifications this Toshiba (and other brands) has, I have not had any of those difficulties, and indeed have felt like wings have replaced my previously grounded slow motion.
I was foremost looking for a machine with at least 3 GB of SDRAM, and at least 200 GB HD. The choice of 3 GB of RAM was due to helpful reviews I've read on many pages for laptops on Amazon which have complained that Windows VISTA is slow with less RAM. What I have on this machine is absolutely fine for my needs.
Reviews have noted that not quite as much HD space is needed currently, with the market availability of USB drives which extend the PC's hard drive in a variety of ways, with nearly endless storage options... so I felt that 200 GB DH would be adequate, and it is, though I don't need to store lots of game or graphics programs on my PC, mostly just my manuscripts and MS WORD, AOL, and photos.
As to the complaints of current laptops being loaded with what is called crap ware or bloat ware, I have to say I agree somewhat with those complaints. I haven't yet been able to decide what I might need within the bloat ware offerings, and honestly can't decide which of the DVD players, CD writers, Wireless purveyors, etc., would be the ones I would want to use.
But what some reviews have pointed out exposes the trade off in this case, i.e., the reason certain LT's (laptops) can be offered at such good prices is that the companies who provide the plethora of extra programs pay for that advertising, thereby allowing the lower price offered by the company offering the machine. Given that trade off, I'm willing to take time to decide what I want to keep and discard among the huge number of colorful icons grinning at me from my desk top, hoping I'll click on them and purchase from their trial offerings.
Everything I have so far installed and begun using has been easy for me, not a computer wiz, to accomplish, though I'm very thankful for the reviewers who mentioned the Windows VISTA habit of always asking via a dialogue box pop-up if the user or "administrator" (me) initiated the action. Even though this pop up sometimes feels disruptive, I've become more comfortable knowing I will be asked and informed before uploading and installation will occur from the hordes of automatic updates seemingly offered by everyone on every program on my computer.
I was thankful to the reviewers who mentioned that with VISTA drivers are often needed for installations of programs and hardware. I loved the Plug & Play capacity with XP, but can easily see why the incredible increase of hardware and software might have caused the necessity of a specific CD driver to be used for installation, and so far all programs and equipment have come with necessary drivers. The reviews, however, alerted me to this necessity, so I wasn't surprised by this seeming backward change from XP to VISTA, which to me, now, is clearly a forward motion taking into account the current and growing progress in the computer industry, and the plethora of variety available.
I was able to easily install the driver of the HP All in One (with FAX) I purchased, along with the wireless mouse and USB hub. I hope to have time to review some of those, too, because I'm butterfly thrilled with each of them!
I want to conclude by thanking the huge number of reviewers on Amazon, who commented on various brands of notebook PC's. Each of those reviewers was directly and practically helpful to me in one way or another. Personally, I would rather read Amazon customer reviews on computer hardware, before reading PC magazines or other more complex sources of information. For me, reviews from everyday people, purchasers/users of specific pieces of equipment, say just what I need to know, in an easily comprehensible language. I do a lot of research on Amazon's buying pages, under customer reviews.
Flying off to ready more of my novels for publication on KINDLE, I remain a wing-ed author at your reading service!
Linda G. Shelnutt
Author of several books on Amazon's KINDLE and Amazon Shorts
2 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Great item, prompt deliverySep 13, 2008
I bought this item for my brother who is enjoying it alot! Delivery was very prompt I received the item sooner than expected which I believe can be attributed to excellent customer service. Thanks you!
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