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Summary: Affordable with all features
Review: ... Great notebook for this price.
CD-RW/DVD works great. Battery life decent. Screen colors and size superb.2 minor complaints:
1. The keys are not in standard place. Start key at top. Home,Bckspc,Del all at non-standard places.
2. Jack for Dial-up connection is again in a bad place. Just in front of DVD rom. So if you open the drive, it gets stuck by the phone wire. I have recommended it to all my friends.
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Summary: Problems solved
Review: 1. Shutting off automatically= Problem fixed by updating bios from www.toshiba.com 2. Trouble reading CD contents and reading DVDS = unchecked the box for enabling digital cd in My computer's cd drive properties Unfixed things, Fan is a bit loud, and notebook on heavy side. Besides these, it is a solid, reasonably priced notebook great for students or researchers.
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Summary: Stay Away From This Looser
Review: Bought two of these computers for the family. Both have track pads that are virtually unusable. The pointer will freeze unexpectedly, requiring a hard shutdown to "get free." The arrow/cursor wanders, sometimes inserting itself in the document a line or two away (sometimes even a paragraph or two away) as you continue to type. There is no way to surpress the tapping function of the touch pad. Using an external mouse causes the same problems, leading one to believe that it is a driver problem. I downloaded and installed a new driver from the Toshiba site -- same problems. The Toshiba online help site has a message board where owners voice their problems -- others have experienced these same track pad problems, with no solutions. Toshiba technical support has been very UNhelpful, virtually guessing what is wrong. I was even told that I was unrealistic to expect everything to work properly right out of the box. I guess a functional track pad is too much to expect. Based on my experience, I'd stay away from everything Toshiba altogether, not just this model.
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Summary: Good deal
Review: Don't listen to that guy about the bad Celeron (INTEL MAKES CELERON PROCESSORS). I have never had any problems with them, and this is good package for the price
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Summary: One bad apple doesnt spoil a bunch....
Review: For everyone with your random power shutoff's which is what most of these bad ratings are about, YOU HAVE TO GO UPDATE YOUR BIOS!!! If you dont know how to do it, ask someone who does. I bought this laptop new for $... before the price break from (a local store). It has worked great with the exception of one time on a trip to VA I was changing some setting on my start up and the thing locked up tighter than a drum. No surprise that technical support was in a country where english is rarely spoken. Turns out something with the motherboard went haywire and warranty replaced it. I think people sometimes have the wrong idea from moving from a desktop to a laptop of what they will have. Laptop's have problems, no different than a convertible is guaranteed to leak. You have to learn there is always some compromise when you have a pc you can take to the beach and watch a movie on. Other than the one snag it has been a great machine. I took off XP home and put on XP Professional and it has been all smooth sailing. Very clean, very fast, solid stable laptop.
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Summary: BIOS is NOT the problem
Review: Hey all- I have been following the class-action suit against Toshiba RE: random shut-offs and wanted to correct something that another reviewer asserted. In the "one bad apple..." review, the reviewer asserts that the BIOS fixes offered by Toshiba will correct this problem. This is a truth wrapped in falsehood. The BIOS fix WILL prevent this problem from occuring, but it is because it prevents your computer from running at its advertised speed. To say this is a solution is insane. All it suggests is that you should have bought a cheaper, slower computer to begin with. Do NOT confuse the BIOS fix as a real fix. Do not buy this computer. Also, do not buy a Satellite 5005-series or 1900-series. Same deal. Viva le lawsuit!
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Summary: BIOS is NOT the problem
Review: Hey all- I have been following the class-action suit against Toshiba RE: random shut-offs and wanted to correct something that another reviewer asserted. In the "one bad apple..." review, the reviewer asserts that the BIOS fixes offered by Toshiba will correct this problem. This is a truth wrapped in falsehood. The BIOS fix WILL prevent this problem from occuring, but it is because it prevents your computer from running at its advertised speed. To say this is a solution is insane. All it suggests is that you should have bought a cheaper, slower computer to begin with. Do NOT confuse the BIOS fix as a real fix. Do not buy this computer. Also, do not buy a Satellite 5005-series or 1900-series. Same deal. Viva le lawsuit!
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Summary: BIOS is NOT the problem
Review: Hey all- I have been following the class-action suit against Toshiba RE: random shut-offs and wanted to correct something that another reviewer asserted. In the "one bad apple..." review, the reviewer asserts that the BIOS fixes offered by Toshiba will correct this problem. This is a truth wrapped in falsehood. The BIOS fix WILL prevent this problem from occuring, but it is because it prevents your computer from running at its advertised speed. To say this is a solution is insane. All it suggests is that you should have bought a cheaper, slower computer to begin with. Do NOT confuse the BIOS fix as a real fix. Do not buy this computer. Also, do not buy a Satellite 5005-series or 1900-series. Same deal. Viva le lawsuit!
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Summary: Just a note...
Review: I am one of many with the famous Toshiba laptop overheat-and-shut-down problems. I just wanted to point out- since someone dismissed this problem as being easily correctible- it is NOT. updating BIOS was a clever trick by Toshiba to deflect the problem- not fix it. The BIOS fix merely SLOWS your computer down so that the processer produces less heat. However, it means that the user wasted a lot of money on a fast chip they cannot use. do not buy this computer (or the 1900 series) and expect to run it at the speed you were promised. Hell it may not run at all. Mine shuts down when i load some acrobat files, use Word, burn Cds, etc. i'm furious! right now, as I type, I have TWO ice packs on this piece of plastic and yet it has already shut-off twice in the last hour. I'm not kidding. this is not a whiny-- why isn't my computer perfect?-- complaint. I cannot use many Cd-roms, I cannot watch dvds AT ALL (meaning $ wasted on that drive), I cannot watch streaming video. I cannot even write a term paper without expecting a shut-off or two. No joke.
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Summary: Just a note...
Review: I am one of many with the famous Toshiba laptop overheat-and-shut-down problems. I just wanted to point out- since someone dismissed this problem as being easily correctible- it is NOT. updating BIOS was a clever trick by Toshiba to deflect the problem- not fix it. The BIOS fix merely SLOWS your computer down so that the processer produces less heat. However, it means that the user wasted a lot of money on a fast chip they cannot use. do not buy this computer (or the 1900 series) and expect to run it at the speed you were promised. Hell it may not run at all. Mine shuts down when i load some acrobat files, use Word, burn Cds, etc. i'm furious! right now, as I type, I have TWO ice packs on this piece of plastic and yet it has already shut-off twice in the last hour. I'm not kidding. this is not a whiny-- why isn't my computer perfect?-- complaint. I cannot use many Cd-roms, I cannot watch dvds AT ALL (meaning $ wasted on that drive), I cannot watch streaming video. I cannot even write a term paper without expecting a shut-off or two. No joke.
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