Advantages: Great Sound, 2GB RAM, Quite Quick, 4 Hours Battery life, looks, Bright Widescreen, WiFi
Disadvantages: Weight...............that's it

...The Toshiba Satellite A200-195. I first saw this product on the comet website, as i was looking for my first laptop to use at home and at school, the price looked good for the specification of the laptop. So what do you get for that price: A Dual Core Processor that runs at 1.73 GHz (like having a 3.46 GHz pentium 4) A huge 2GB of high performance RAM (667 mhz DDR2) A decent 120GB hard drive An integrated DVD-RW A 15.4" Bright Widescreen Excellent WiFi and wired Internet An amazing up to 4 Hours battery life (I have only got upto 3:45 Hours, if you were to run linux you could get it upto 5 hours) Windows Vista Home Premium A very very good sound system The main thing i was looking for was a good battery life. I had a choice of this Toshiba (4 Hours) , an Apple Macbook that cost twice as much (6 Hours), a Sony Vaio almost... Read review

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Advantages: Light, Fast, Looks nice, Reliable, Value.
Disadvantages: Doesn't have a built in webcam or Bluetooth connectivity.

...with the good value. After going through the specifications on the Toshiba website, which I might add is very easy to compare the differences between their laptops and is really quite helpful, I settled on an A200 series, as the new A210 series is based on AMD's processors and currently Intel's processors (CPU's) are a lot better at power management, thus give a longer battery life. This is the only difference between the A200 and A210 series. I had settled on one of the A200's, however as it is a laptop and I need to really be able to feel the weight of it, as I am not good at judging weights from a kilogram measure on a website, I went to various high street shops to see and have a quick play on the Toshiba A200's. I went to PC World, Dixons, Currys etc, all the staff seemed to echo the reviews I had read on the internet about Toshiba being one... Read review

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Advantages: Fast, upgradeable, extremely portable and super stylish
Disadvantages: Heatsink blocks up with dust easity, leading to overheating

...I have had several laptops, usually older ones and was given this one by my brother six months back. He'd used it continuously for about a year and it was showing its flaws but after a bit of tweaking it's been a dream, and believe me I'm no light user either! Mostly I use it to develop software (Visual Studio 2005, C#, .NET) and have it weighted down with SDK's. But, I also edit video in premiere on it, and write music in Cubase with some hefty plug-ins running not to mention a Line 6 TonePort GX and amp modelling software STRENGTHS The Toshiba Portege A200 is one of the lightest, slimmest laptops you'll come across, but apart from a slightly poor graphics card it lacks nothing in features and is highly upgradeable. The run time is over 2.5 Hours on a fully charged battery and the 12.1" screen is 1024x768 resolution so although... Read review

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Advantages: Speed, comfortabe, cheap.
Disadvantages: No webcam built-in.

...The Toshiba brand has always been noted with mass gratitude for solid and robust piece-of-art laptops and particularity, the Satellite Pro A200 is not an odd exception, not a disappointment. The Satellite Pro offers Intel new processor technology as far as concerned. This advantage gives the user open options for use of softwares and applications compatible with the new technology of duo-core. Still the duo-core processors are robust, at least 1.5GHZ that reach 3.0GHZ (TSP has 1.73GHz Core 2 Duo CPU), with twos HEARTS as the two cores! The processor is relaxed with the 1GB of 667MHz DDR2 memory (better than DDR1). all though, it's not advised for windows vista. Vista requires 2GB. It still represents good value for what's in the box. The Graphical display and the adapters are very satisfying, sometimes luxurious, capable... Read review

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Advantages: Amazing Picture Quality
Disadvantages: Slightly over sensitive touch pad

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Advantages: Decent Camera
Disadvantages: No video sound

...We got this a couple of years back, we still have it now, we had the A202 version of the camera this was "lost" on holiday in the canaries, so out there in the spanish islands we thought, we cant go home without holiday pictures and so we ended up spending some of our holiday money on this new camera. The Fujifilm Finepix A200, 2 MegaPixel Camera,Video,Zoom. Great features on a great camera. The camera comes with a rather small memory card, a 16mb Fujifilm X-D picture card, quite expensive back then, but now the price of a packet of crisps. It has good quality photos with four different settings to make your space last longer. Heres a little example. 16MB Memory Card 2M-F 25 Pictures 2M-N 39 Pictures 1M 49 Pictures 0.3M 122 Pictures So not that bad considering the size of memory, but you could... Read review

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Advantages: Compact, portable, dual core, good sized screen, smooth keyboard
Disadvantages: None yet-fingers crossed

...'s early Sunday closing time, by the time we had decided on our purchase. Now I shall cut a long story short and explain that many of the laptops on sale in Currys were classed as 'Previously used' As the assistant explained that these may have been returned to the store unopened we thought we would go for one of these. However after many problems over the next couple of days getting our purchase sorted we cancelled the order and decided to buy on-line. We choose our laptop from Dixons on-line and although t was a slightly different model, it was still a Toshiba. Dixon's was easy to use and competitive and we settled for the A200 at a purchase price of £549.99 including delivery. The order progressed went swimmingly and very soon Hubby was giving me a call at work to say the 'New toy' had arrived. The Toshiba A200 has a matte black base... Read review

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Advantages: Decent spec. including decent memory, card reader, DVD writer etc., quite light and portable
Disadvantages: See review

...DVD disks that offer more space per disc than single layered ones), as well as this it comes wireless ready, so you don't have to plug in and use up an extra USB port with a network card, it also has a decent size screen and apart from what it said on the shops website, my dad had recommended buying specifically a Toshiba, as he thought that they were very light and portable laptops and had always thought of them as being a good name for reliable electronics, so that also went in its favour. There are other good things about this model but I'll go into those later. One other thing to mention is that it has an Intel GMA graphics/video card which has a maximum of 256mb dedicated memory, this is what Vista uses to show all the snazzy 3D tiling and other stuff like that, as I mention further on. This is a good feature too, as other laptops I... Read review

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Advantages: Sound quality, FM radio and transmitter
Disadvantages: Photo ability, small memory

...Netac are a fairly new name to the UK. Hailing from China, they have produced an interesting variation on the media player theme ready for the newly relaxed rules in the UK regarding FM transmitters. Until recently it was illegal to use devices that transmit FM such as iPod addons that allow you to pick up its output via your car FM radio. Netac have combined an MP3 player, FM radio, video player, eBook reader, photo album and recorder in to a tiny form factor not much bigger than a box of matches and then added in an FM transmitter for good measure. Setting it Up I was initially flummoxed by Netac's own instructions which advise a trip to their web site to download the drivers and software needed to use the A200. The web site only had the video conversion tool, no sign of anything for downloading music or images. After some... Read review

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Advantages: Excellent picture quality, range of functions, lens quality, anti shake function
Disadvantages: Viewfinder not the best, low light autofocus

...Although Konica Minolta have now ceased making cameras, there are still a few of these around (and warranty/service has been handed over to Sony). The A200 is the last of KM bridge mount digital cameras in the pro-sumer market. It has a 8m pixel CCD and 28 to 200 (35mm equivalent) manual zoom lens - much better than a motor driven lens which tend to have noticeable "stops". Although fairly big (not quite as big as a D-SLR) and quite heavy, the range of functions available from fully automatic to fully manual with a number of programme modes in between means that you get pretty much all the benefits of a D-SLR in a smaller, more convenient package. It's no pocket camera however. A number of items standout:- the excellent quality lens (which has very little barrel distortion or vignetting) and which can take both wide... Read review

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