Toshiba Satellite Pro A300

*NOTE* I have written this review for dooyoo.co.uk under the same account name (musl1m) this review is all my own work. We've had this laptop for around a year and a half now, we first got it around March 2009, actually we bought a pair of them. Both came with Windows Vista Home Edition, now one is running Ubuntu 10.10 and the other Windows 7 Ultimate. The laptop has a very good keyboard that is very easy to type with, it has excellent feedback and is very easy to get used, but saying that one of the laptops control (ctrl) keys did come off. The mouse pad is a little on the small side, can get ... more

This is a good workhorse of a computer and with my model having 3GB of R.A.M is a good worker. The processor is strong with the dual core technology (2x1.8 GHz) but could be quite slow in a few years time. The processor is perfect for the sort of work I do, which is mainly using microsoft office. The only drawback is the video card which is a built-in intel 965 chipset family and this is slow and so, although ceratin games do work on this computer, such as Flight Simulator X (only on the lowest quality) and Medieval II Total War (which barely works) it is not for gamers. The 8 in one memory ... more

I accept acclimated alot of toshiba laptops over the advance of my job and i feel that with this one its one of the best i accept appear across. Out of the box with a some acceptable specs for basal lower end laptop. intel bifold amount t2370,1gb ram,100gb adamantine drive,vista basic.Had a few issues of not starting up but usually bound by demography the array out and putting it aback in again.for addition who is application this aloof for internet and appointment assignment this is perfect.i would use the accretion deejay beeline abroad that converts it to xp,as your laptop will not use as ... more