Toshiba Satellite A215 S5837 Review

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Toshiba A215-S5837 Satellite 15.4" Widescreen Laptop, AMD Athlon 64 X2 TL-60 at 2.0GHz, 160GB hard drive, Built-in wireless 802.11b/g, 2GB of DDR2 memory, Burns DVDs and CDs, Windows Vista Home Premium

Features and Technical Details
Features

    * AMD TurionTM 64 X2 mobile technology TL-60aat 2.0HHz, 15.4" WXGA TFT-LCD widescreen display with TruBrite technology and 1280 x 800 resolution
    * 2GB PC5300 DDR2 SDRAM, Multiformat DVD±RW/CD-RW drive with double-layer support records up to 8.5GB of data or 4 hours of video
    * 160GB Serial ATA hard drive (5400 rpm), ATI RADEON X1200 graphics with 128-319MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory
    * 5-in-1 bridge media adapter supports Secure Digital, MultiMediaCard, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO and xD-Picture Card
    * i.LINK (IEEE 1394) interface and 4 high-speed USB 2.0 ports for fast digital video

Processor, Memory, and Motherboard

    * Hardware Platform: PC
    * Processor: 2 AMD Athlon 64 X2
    * Number of Processors: 1
    * RAM: 2 GB
    * RAM Type: DDR2 SDRAM

Hard Drive

    * Size: 160 GB
    * Type: Serial ATA

Wireless

    * Wireless Type: 802.11B

Helpful Customer Reviews for

By Samuel Clemens
Pros: Built sturdy, good size screen, Windows Vista OS, great price, great speakers
Cons: "O" key sticks a little, top collects and shows fingerprints
I love my new laptop. After about 6 months of just checking out different laptops, I was looking at the Sony Vaio CR series and did like it, but I also was looking at Toshiba. After collecting my graduation money, I started scanning the weekly ads for deals on laptops and found this one for only $500! The Vaio was going for $1100, so it was a no brainer which one I was going to get. I've been using it for close to three weeks now, and the only thing I have notice about the laptop is that the "O" key occasionally won't strike while you're typing, but pushing a little harder will fix the problem for a good while. Also, the "Onyx Blue Metallic" top does collect finger prints and smudges, but it's not really that bad.
I've had my laptop for nearly a month. I got it through Best Buy because of the customer service (and Amazon's lack thereof when it comes to their laptops)
Toshiba is a great brand and if I ever need to replace this laptop, I will definitely buy from them again.

By Jack Daniels
This has been a great product. I bought it a little over 4 months ago from Best Buy - $475... unreal. Anyway, the twincore amd cpu is really nice to use, I can floor the cpu with one process, and it never seems to actually slow it down. Keep a rendering program active, and go checking email... works well.

I didn't use Vista at all, rather I immediately upgraded to Linux Mint. For those of you considering this laptop and linux, know that the wireless driver is not yet available for this machine. It's so close, but it's been that way about 3 weeks now... Anyway, all the other drivers work fine. great machine.

Somebody mentioned that they had a mouse jumping issue with it; they were using Vista, I'm glad to see that, because mine does it too. However, since this is linux, I thought it was an incompatibility. I've recently found that keeping my thumbs further away - not resting on the space bar really helps me -- seems the touchpad is pretty sensitive, so... keeping away from it is a good idea. It's also very tap-sensitive, I've been inadvertently clicking on stuff. Of course that's all controllable too.

I don't use wireless that much, though I'll admit I'd be very pleased if it worked! My laptop is a dekstop replacement as it's almost as powerful as my desktop. The only area of concern is the single 5400 rpm drive. It's as slow as any 5400 rpm drive. the actual drive is: TOSHIBA MK1637GSX.

well that's my review. Good Luck!

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