Review: Toshiba Satellite A215-S4767 Laptop (AMD Turion 64 TL64, 2 GB RAM, 250 GB HD, Vista Ultimate)
My Big Fat ReviewTwinkle, Twinkle Little Satellite.
I bought this for the obvious reasons travel and what not, but mostly so I could work from the couch and never, ever have to get up again. So far it's working great. The Toshiba is a good machine. I mostly use it for writing, blogging, email and Skype. The most strenuous programs I've run on it are Half-Life 2 and Photoshop, both ran flawlessly. I use the Satellite almost everyday, average 8 hours a day, and it's never crashed on me. The Satellite comes with Vista Ultimate if that's your kinda thing. It's not for me so I did a dual install with XP Pro 64. Sadly Toshiba's website doesn't have the support for this so you'll have to hunt down all the drivers yourself (which won't be easy, but they are out there). Outside of that the only other issue I've had with this Laptop is the bios. Some of the Satellite series have a nasty habit of locking you out with a bios password (whether you had one or not). There is a bios update for this that is supposed to prevent this from happening, but when I updated I got locked out anyhow. The good news is, even though I had to send it away, Toshiba took care of it free of charge and they'll do the same for anyone with the same problem. Overall this is a great laptop and I'd definitely buy another Toshibia down the road.
Product Features
- Bright 15.4-inch LCD stylishly accented with an onyx blue metallic LCD cover
- 2.2 GHz 64-bit AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-64 processor, 2 GB RAM, dual-layer DVD/CD burner with Labelflash printing
- 250 Gigabyte SATA Hard Drive
- 54g Atherols Wi-Fi (802.11b/g); 10/100 Ethernet; ATI Radeon X1200 graphics card with up to 319 MB of shared memory
- Connectivity: 4 USB, 1 FireWire, 1 VGA, 1 S-Video, 1 ExpressCard 34/54. 5-in-1 memory card reader
- Pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Ultimate