Advantages: Ease of use, memory capacity Disadvantages: Quality, feel, value for money
The Toshiba Satellite L500 is the same as most other toshiba laptops. It looks stylish and can do all the basic functions that you would want for a laptop. However, when you use it, you dont feel very comfortable because it feels very cheap. The keyboard is very flimsy and feels like it is about to break every time you type something and the mouse pad and buttons do not respond well. However, the number pad on the right hand side of the keyboard is great as it makes it so easy to type numbers. You can buy this laptop with a range of processors and sizes of harddrive so you can choose the one which suits you best. The display is actually very good but the battery life could have been improved. On my model it will last for a maximum of 2.5 hours on its lowest power setting.
Overall, this laptop is reasonable at most things but not ...
Advantages: Value For money Disadvantages: No Bluetooth
i first bought a Toshiba around about 4 or 5 years ago, it was a toshiba tecra m3, it was a lovely laptop until i dropped it and broke it, i decided that i would replace it with another toshiba because of the previous good reliability i had got from the machine, i thing that attracted me to this laptop was firstly the fact it was an operating system upgrade for me and secondly the superior specifications, the only down side being that there is no integrated bluetooth and trusted security platform, i found that the offers that were available at the time of purchase were very reasonable and i feel i got great value for money, i also think that the designer of this laptop has taken very great care with the general look and feel of the laptop and have put a lot of thought into the hardware they have supplied and it holds pride of place ...
Advantages: some outsatding fratures Disadvantages: none
a Integrated camera of 0.3 Mega pixel.
The operating system we get is Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium which is some what hard to adopt for new user but after some day it will be easy.
It also have Dual layer DVD drive we can play movies in that and it is very fast and easy to use.
we also get some free stuff also with laptop like Google Earth,McAfee Internet Security Suite 2008 (30 days subscription),Google PicasaToshiba DVD Player, Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student Edition (Trial) and many more these are some of the important ones
If u realy want to save money then go for this ...
Progressive scanning (line doubling), simultaneous recording and playback, time slip function
Audio system
Output Mode
Stereo
Digital Audio Format
Dolby Digital output, DTS digital output
Surround Sound Effects
3D Virtual Surround Sound
Dvd
Type
DVD recorder
Media Type
CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RAM, SVCD, DVD-R, DVD+RW, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD, CD, Video CD
Recordable Media
DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD+R
Programmability
12 events / 1 month
Supported Digital Video Standards
DivX (ver.6)
Supported Digital Audio Standards
MP3
Upscaling
Yes
Dvd features
Picture Zoom
Yes
DVD Additional Features
JPEG photo playback
Vcr
Device Type
VCR
Media Type
VHS
Video Head Qty
4
Tv tuner
Type
Standard
Tuner Qty
1
Stereo Reception System
NICAM
Digital tv tuner
Digital TV Tuner Type
DVB-T
Tuner Qty
1
Connections
Connector Type
1 x audio line-out ( RCA phono x 2 )
1 x SPDIF output ( RCA phono )
1 x component video output ( RCA phono x 3 )
2 x SCART (RGB) ( 21 PIN SCART )
1 x composite video output ( RCA phono )
1 x HDMI output ( 19 pin HDMI Type A )
1 x composite video/audio input ( RCA phono x 3 )
1 x IEEE 1394 (FireWire/i.LINK)
Manufacturer's product description
If you're not ready to discard your VHS tapes, this combin deck is for you. Able to play VHS and DVD, the D-VR18DT can dub from VHS to DVD, record to DVD from its built-in freeview tuner, and even upscale to 1080p quality. It plays almost any DVD disc format as well as CD, DiVX video files, MP3 music and JPEG photos - and you can even import footage from a camcorder.
