Toshiba Satellite A100-756

My dad lent me a laptop so that I could do some writing on it and read my daughter stories. It was only borrowed whilst I could afford a new one. I was quite shocked by the poor quality of it. Not like other computer's I had, had before. However, my dad was lending it to me, so I could not complain. There are some good points as well as the bad. First of all, it works and for some reason I've ended up with one. My husband was out shopping and spotted one in a laptop shop for £120, so it was a bit of an impulse buy. Then, when he got it home, he realised that it was the same make. Let me tell ... more

Full specification are at the end of the review. This laptop is an ingenius piece of junk that derserves the bin however ill start with the good points. Advantages/positives: Wonderful compatablitly with Vista, life server after my hard drive broke and my BIOS( nerd stuff - binary input and out system) wouldnt accept a old version of XP pro ( no sp). Well the point is that it works like a dream with Vista Business. Decent computing power, can handle games which require a lot of processing demand and graphics. Excellent entertainment notebook, nice surround sound when watching DVD, movies ... more

Purchased this laptop in November 2006, it came with Windows Media Center Edition 2005 with an update offer to upgrade Windows Vista Home Premium on its release (Jan 2007) for free. However, I think that this laptop now comes with Vista pre-installed. Used this laptop for light gaming, entertainment and application programing. It compleatly replaced my desktop pc and have used it as such. It has had 24/7 use and thanks to the core processor in it, it has not suffered from many of the overheating problems which can occur with laptops. The addition of a dedicated graphics card means that gaming ... more

just add 4 gb of ram to this baby and theres noffing that it cant do ive had laptops at twice the price that dont even get near this toshiba have realeased newer versions left right and centre i know i have used and brought them for work but they dont match up to the 756 i think toshiba put there all in to the 756 and it works with all so simple as well as being fast its never ever gone wrong ang the only l;aptop ive not had to wipe clean every 6 months to keep it on the straight and narrow the only let down is the mouse scroller its got a built in roller to say scroll webpages up and down use ... more