Following review is provided by notebookcheck.pl, our Polish editor team.

The Satellite M100 is a small notebook. Like the Satellite A100s or L100s it has a silver, beveled case and a black keyboard. Above the keyboard it provides some large, useful, elegant looking, but loud hotkeys, the power switch and Harman Kardon speakers. The display cover is charcoal-gray.

M100 is made of plastic. The display cover yields under pressure. The panel above the keyboard, near the left speaker is not accurately built and the battery wobbles. So, the total workmanship is only fair to average.

The big hinges work alright, there is no wobbling after adjusting the screen's position. That is particularly  important, because you'll need to adjust the position quite often depending on the way you sit in front of the screen, because of pretty narrow viewing angles.

A big strength of the Satellite M100 is its modest dimensions. This notebook is no midget, but, because of its weight, a lot mobiler than its bigger competitors.

For a laptop of this size the provided number and kind of interfaces is by all means satisfactory. Because of the rather small dimensions of the notebook, their order is unfortunately not optimal. Only one of four USB ports is at the back, the second one is in the middle of the left side, and two more USB ports are near the front of the right side.

If the load is low, the M100 is just like a typical Toshiba, very quiet. However, with growing load and especially with high 3D demands, the fan starts running. So, during playing games, the fan runs all the time, quite audibly exhausting the hot air. However, it really rarely works at full speed.

Temperature

Although the case is rather small, no heat accumulated inside which was transmitted to the laptop's surfaces. Even after enjoying demanding graphical applications for a long time, we measured only a maximum temperature of 36.5 degrees Celsius at the top side of the case. Whereas on the bottom side the temperature went slightly above 40 degrees.

Alike many other Toshiba Satellite notebooks and the Tecra A7 the M100 is also equipped with a standard 4000mAh battery. Because the M100 comes with energy demanding components, it is not possible to work unplugged for a longer time. So, the Satellite M100's mobility is considerably limited in an unpleasant way.

Slender, deft, and powerful, the Toshiba Satellite M100-165 provides an interesting way out of the dilemma of powerful components embedded in a rather slim case. First of all the ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 GPU has its own dedicated memory. So, those who like playing video games time and again, would certainly prefer the M100 to a notebook with integrated GPU. But, the drawback is a shorter battery runtime. And the M100's battery runtime turned out to be really short. So, if you demand a very mobile notebook, you should rather choose another one.