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Summary: Nic e product but prepare to be guinea pigs!
Review: It is a nice looking box, just got it off Circuit City. Nice screen and soundsystem. Keyboard is great. We used the smartmedia download and it was flying. The DVD is great too. The biggest complaint is (a) XP is still very buggy - be prepared to spend hours on microsoft.com (and yes my cable modem went out on me due to excite@home's problem) and downloading patches become a chaos. (b) Toshiba websites and support forum are great but the folks have not had much experience with this product yet. For e.g. the CD for Easy Creator does not work, comes with a funny 5.1 version and the path set wrong. The folks at Toshiba is clueless as they have not used it. And don't know where to get the orginal source file.
(c) The LED in the front is useless - it is so tiny and doesn't light up when it is connected to power (it does for 5 seconds) that it is practically useless.
(d) Yes, XP does crash - wait till you load peripheral products on it. Mainly driver problems. It is a nice toy if you are into a little weekend troubleshooting for Windows and Toshiba. N
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Summary: Good Notebook but noisy
Review: Just picked this laptop up. Pro: Large 15 inch screen with no pixels burned out
1.1GHZ Pentium III Processor - plenty of muscle
Excellent 16MB Video Card NVIDIA Geoforce 2
30GB Drive - it's nice to have a bigger drive
512mb SDRAM Standard - Great with Windows XP
Great Sound System - with Subwoofer under the unit
Front panel CD/DVD controls
DVD/CDRW Drive in one drive
3 USB Ports + Firewire and BlueTooth - also Ethernet and Modem
Two 3V memory card slots for Digitial camera unloading, etc.
Very nice looking Laptop - Well built Negatives:
Screen only displays in 1024 X 768 mode - will do virtual modes
(Should have higher full screen resolution for 15 inch screen)
HD is quite slow at 4200 RPM's and mine is very very noisy
Fan is very loud when running
Battery life is only about 1.5 hours
CDR/RW is quite slow at 8X/4X
Quite heavy at almost 7 pounds
No Serial or Parallel ports - but does have 3 USB ports I really like this laptop but the HD Drive noise is driving me nuts. I'm going to see if I can get it replaced from Toshiba. If you are looking for a desktop replacement with a lot of horse power - this may be a good laptop for you. If you are looking for something light and quiet - it is not your machine.
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Summary: Totally defective, poor design
Review: My father and I each bought one of these computers, to make a long story short, my fathers has been serviced 3 times, and mine once, they both overheat, randomly shut down in the middle of use, the CD drives both malfunctioned and had to be replaced. The list goes on, DO NOT PURCHASE THIS!
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Summary: Step Forward for Consumer Notebooks
Review: Powerusers rejoice! The Toshiba Satellite 5005 pushes the limits of a consumer-oriented notebook, offering high-end features at a consumer friendly price. While more expensive than many, the system offers more memory (512 MB vs 256), larger hard disk (30 GB vs. 20), bigger screen (15" vs. 14.1"), more video memory (16 MB vs. 8 MB), and faster processor (1.1-GHz vs. 1) than most common configurations from Compaq, HP, and others. Finally, an affordable system for powerusers and gamers. Positives:
* A visual standout, a real looker.
* Has a Firewire (IEEE 1394) port for use in editing with digital camcorders and other devices.
* The subwoofer makes this computer one of the first notebooks to take sound seriously.
* Direct SmartMedia and SecureDigital inputs allow easy connectivity with digital cameras. The is one of the few non-Sony notebooks to offer a way to directly connect storage cards (although Sony's use the Memory Stick format) without an adaptor. Tradeoffs:
* While there are three USB ports, there is no parallel or serial ports. You will need to purchase an adapter (like those from Belkin) to use a parallel printer with this computer.
* The system is on the heavy side. There is a weight price for the computing power.
* Battery life is under two hours. Consider an extra battery or two for those long flights. Overall, an excellent system...provocative package...powerful.
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Summary: PC User since 10 Years - Mac User for 0.5 Year
Review: Short remark: This machine made a lot of problems. Maybe they were due to the hardware. Maybe they were due to Windows XP (a very expensive and bad OS).
I bought a Mac OS X machine from Apple then and it is heaven... I don't have to configure computers - instead I can do my work, be creative.
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Summary: Warning - the screen will fry your eyeballs!
Review: The screen on this machine will blind you! The whiteness is way too bright and dazzles your eyes, even if you turn the brightness down (all this does is make all the other colors dark, the white still dazzles!) This happens even if you hook up an external monitor. Wonderful machine with amazing specs., but un-useable because of the too-bright screen. Also, no way to access the BIOS.
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Summary: Good computer, bad service
Review: This is the second toshiba laptop I've bought, and it sure will be my last.
Toshiba laptops are great - among any laptop owners I've known, I've had very little problems using the product. However, when you do have a problem, the warranty services are horrible. I've had a few problems with my recent laptop that purchased from the toshiba site online. The DVD CD-RWrom was delivered broken. Also, approximately one year after purchase, my LAN would not work. I had purchased a 3 year premium warranty when I purchased the laptop. The staff at Toshiba never recorded that information, and it took me weeks tracking myself back to the Toshiba sales representative (the guy that I originally bought the laptop from) in order to get that settled. I was annoyed that Toshiba did not have enough staff base to fix their own problems, but the worse was yet to come. The 24-hour costumer service staff are extremely polite when they answer your calls. When I called to complain about my broken CD rom, they shipped a box right away via Airborne Express. It only takes about 5 to 7 business days from the time you make a complain call to receiving the box, sending the box to the Toshiba depot, then getting it sent back to you. However, they NEVER fix your problem. Adding insult to the injury, the feedback form always has some weird comment such as "I ran scandisk on your computer" (did they even read what the problem was??) It took me 12 months, 9 shipping back and forth, and much more calls to the costumer service (which they did always answer politely) until the miserable CD rom finally got replaced. I refuse to buy another Toshiba product (and I highly recommend others to do so as well) until they improve their warranty services. Warranty servics is not about answering calls politely, shipping things super fast, or providing friendly after-repair comments. It is about getting problems fixed. Toshiba has plenty of service representatives, but severely lacks qualified technicians.
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Summary: excellent
Review: This laptop is a great desktop replacement with Lotus SmartSuite preinstalled, excellent speakers, an external diskette drive and a lot of extras for the price. Seems to have a lot of quality.
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Summary: What's good and what's not so good.
Review: What's GOOD:
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-16MB nVidia GPU is balanced perfectly for practically every application, ranging from video editing to photo manipulation to 3D gaming to your basic office programs. -The harmon/kardon speakers with subwoofer have to be the best sound system on any laptop. -Three USB ports are built-in but the parallel and serial port have been sacrificed. The trade-off is well worth it because nothing really uses those types of connections any more. -The Sub-LCD with control buttons on the front make skipping tracks and fast-forwarding DVD's more easy. -The floppy (3.5") disk drive externally hooks up to a USB port which saves weight when you don't need it. The only internal disk drives are for a Secure Digital and/or SmartMedia card. -Industrial designers played a bigger role in the aesthetics of this laptop, so you end up with more than just the typical grey box. It's definitely one of the better looking ones on the market today. What's NOT so good:
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-With such a powerful video card, it's a shame that the screen can only support an internal resolution of 1024x768. Also, a XGA screen would have been a better choice than an active-matrix one. -The cooling systems consists of a fan that only turns on when the processor gets hot. Unfortunately, it gets very annoying to hear it start and stop so often. -The battery only lasts about 2 hours. On certain power settings, it can last maybe 2.5, but that just isn't enough. If you watch a movie with the DVD-ROM drive, the battery will be almost bone dry. -Lack of accessories limits what can be done with this laptop. To the best of my knowledge, you can NOT buy a cigarete adapter to use it in the car, there are no modular drives, and a docking station/port replicator is not available. -The IR (infrared) port is on the front left side, which makes is extreme difficult to line up with other IR devices (printers, other laptops, PC's) because you have to point it away from you. -The top of the laptop is a large and shiny blue plastic cover. It does look nice, but it requires extra care because every little blemish, smudge, and scratch will show up.
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