Advantages: Light, versatile, packed with features Disadvantages: It's still a laptop
...Let me make it perfectly clear right up front: I'm not overfond of laptops. They're relatively small, usually have rather fuzzy screens, come with small keyboards that make typing difficult, and have strange built-in mice that are nigh onto impossible to manipulate. Given my durthers, I'll take a full-sized PC any day.
Despite all these disclaimers, my purpose here to review the Toshiba TecraM2 notebook, kindly purchased for me by my company to make me more efficient and productive. Now don't get me wrong. I appreciate the sentiments and the logic of the new laptop, even though I use it far less often than my more powerful, less portable desktop. But I have to admit, my TecraM2 isn't as bad as I feared.
Talk about damning with faint praise! Perhaps I can improve a bit on that. There's one thing my Toshiba does remarkable...
BawBaw
10.07.2005 ·Read review
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Review of Toshiba TecraM2
Advantages: Fast, Great Graphics Chip, Light (2.6kg) Disadvantages: Expensive, Sensitive to registry changes
...Why did I buy the Tecra 8100?
First of all what I wanted was a desktop replacement machine, one on which I could do all my spreadsheet and word stuff as well as play games. I am an engineer so I need good connectivity options as well.
The choice was:-
Dell Inspiron 3800, 5000, 7500
Toshiba Tecra 8100
HP Omnibook 6000
The Dells are very good machines, I used to old an old 7000 series. The 3800 is light and quite quick, the 5000 has all the multimedia features you need, the 7500 has even more. But... The 3800 is not meant to be used as a desktop replacement, it doesn't have the oomph for that. The 5000 and 7000 are great machines but heavy.
The HP Omnibook is the machine I would probably buy by choice except that it is very expensive and uses the ATI graphics card
The Tecra is not as expensive as the Omnibook and uses...
cdawkins
31.08.2000 ·Read review
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Review of Toshiba Tecra 8100
...The Accuaratus M9 mouse is made by a company called Ceratech, who have been manufacturing quality technological devices for the PC for 25 years now. Their website is none to brilliant to look at but it has the basics and does look not too bad. This mouse will set up back £8.71 should you wish to purchase it from their website. Mine however was obtained from a gift shop in Livingston for a mere £4.99. Obtained !! that sounds as if I didn't actually pay for it, but I did.
The mouse is available in two different colours black with silver highlights or white with silver highlights both equally as attractive. The connection to your PC can be made by the USB cable attached to the mouse, or by a PS2 adaptor, which is also supplied. The adaptor has a normal PS" connection to the PC port and also has a USB connection on its...
Advantages: Portable, easy to use Disadvantages: There are better laptops available for the price
...I decided to use a laptop as I'm constantly running from college, to uni to home to london! I needed a laptop that would be easily transportable, with long enough battery life to last. I chose this laptop as it was simple and came with Microsoft Office and Anti-Virus. I would only be using it for my college/uni work so it seemed to suit my needs
It is relatively low-spec, although you can buy additional memory but I would not use it for gaming, essentially its a student laptop.
It is quite light (2.7kg) and it's relatively small (33.8cm x 28cm x 3.7cm) this all adds up to make it very easily transportable. I havent bought a carry-case for it because Ive had no need for one, it is small enough and light enough to fit nicely under my arm.
It is very robust, even with the amount it has been transported it has only a few minor...
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26.01.2006 ·Read review
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Review of Toshiba Tecra A3
Advantages: Lightweight, powerful, strong, long battery life. Excellent toshiba software. Quiet. Filter on CPU vent Disadvantages: Headphone port at the front. Tiny trackpad. Creaks a lot. Screen not that good
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14.12.2008 ·Read review
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Review of Toshiba Tecra A9
Advantages: Solid Casing, built in bluetooth, wifi Disadvantages: slow compared to modern machines, built in mouse
...I have been using the Toshiba Tecra 9000 for about two years now.
The laptop is very good. The inbuilt wireless and Bluetooth are very useful. The built in SD Card reader is also useful, but only runs at USB 1.1 speed so can be a little slow when transferring lots of files.
The screen is bright and clear and copes well with playing DVDs. It is a fast enough PC to watch the BBC iPlayer in full screen.
The built in mouse nipple can be a little hard to get used to, so I would recommend a small cordless USB mouse. You can get these for as little as two or three quid from a site like ebuyer.
The battery life is ok.
There can be some issues with these laptops, and if you have one that is starting to blue screen some information can be found at http://www.squidoo.com/T9000fix.
Overall this laptop is suitable for many tasks...
Carrotts73
21.07.2008 ·Read review
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Review of Toshiba Tecra 9000
Advantages: every one wants one Disadvantages: slightly bulky
...The Tecra 8000 Is an exellent laptop. Of all the laptops I come across the tecra is One of the best I have seen.If you want some thing thin and sexy then this is not for you.The benefit of buying this machine are certainly good value for money .first there is the 14.1 tft screen. Then theres the prestigious name.Toshibas are very easy to fix if you come across problems .You can install the hdd yourself. you can install the memory yourself and if you format the hdd the chances are that you will find the drivers for the graphics card and sound card on the win 98 cd.every time I have come across this laptop I have seen pure exellence. Only two issues on the downside one is the price and the other is its slightly bulky....
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22.09.2000 ·Read review
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Review of Toshiba Tecra 8000
Advantages: Light, sleek and stylish. Great performance and great value for money. Disadvantages: Largest screen size is 14.1 Inches.
...Working in IT I get to test all the latest machines and I had the pleasure recently of using the Tecra 8100 1Ghz machine running with 256MB and I have to say I was very impressed. Firstly it is quite sleek and light which you want in a laptop and I think it looks very stylish. Now that the asthetics are out of the way we can concentrate on the important things like performance and stability. I have experience of many laptops e.g. Compaq Armadas, Dell Inspirons, Sony Vaios etc but so far the Toshiba Tecra has been th most reliable. The other brands I have mentioned seem to all have problems with the power management systems. Most use speedstep technology which means when the laptop is not plugged in the processor will clock down to save power. This is a pain on most of the other machines but not the Toshiba. Also the biggest problems...
Dragon17
25.09.2001 ·Read review
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Review of Toshiba Tecra 8100
Advantages: Great airflow, Looks very nice, great features Disadvantages: side door is removable type with thumb screws, not swing door
...Firstly, let me point out that I have the window version of this case, which has a very wide perspex side window with vents and options for fit various size fans to the side. It also has a blue LED fan at the back, lighting up the internal components, and in my opinion looks really good when you dim the lights in your room. This version if you look around (I got mine from Laptops & Supplies) is about the same price. Also, there are 9 drive bays.
On with the review:
Looks:
It took me weeks of Googling to find a case that fitted my exact criterea... I needed it to look smart, a little flashy, but also serious. Tick a box here.
Dimensions:
I also had a problem finding another case looking like this to be not too deep that it would stick out from under my small desk and dig into my knees. Believe me, most of these style of cases...
...I bought my Tecra 8000 to do computer consulting work on, so pretty much everything from using apps, games, development and web stuff.
The machine has a really good, large screen, thought it doesn't go to very high resolutions without resorting to a 'virtual desktop' type arrangement which doesn't really work. The battery life is absolutely excellent, often putting in at least 3.5 hours, even 3 with constant DVD access going on.
My machine came with a DVD drive and MPEG decoder which works excellently under win98 but attrociously under win2000 which appears to ignore the codec.
Hard disk is large at 12gb and seems to have good access speeds.
Sound system is reasonable, the speakers are a bit wimpy compared to a Thinkpad's and the onw board synth doesn't get recognised by a lot of music creation software.
Graphically there...
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