Toshiba NB305-106

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Reviews for the Toshiba NB305-106

60% Netbook Review: Toshiba Mini NB305
Source: Hardware Central Archive.org version

Individual applications ran well enough on the NB305 -- Internet Explorer often took remarkably long to retrieve and render a URL, but since Google Chrome didn't have the same problem, I'll blame that on Microsoft. But multitasking was sluggish, and app-switching often took too long. Win 7's CPU- and memory-use-gauge gadget tells the story. Even with no apps running except Windows Task Manager, memory usage doesn't fall below 55 percent -- a bad place to start.

Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 10/28/2010
Rating: Total score: 60% price: 60% performance: 40% features: 80%

80% Toshiba NB305-106 - 10.1in Netbook Review
Source: Trusted Reviews Archive.org version
If you've read any of our other recent netbook reviews you'll have detected a common thread linking them. If you haven't we'll summarise now: netbooks haven't changed. Toshiba has produced another great netbook for those with more refined tastes. It delivers good battery life, looks very stylish and is great to use. However, it's a little on the expensive side and suffers from the same limitations placed on all netbooks.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 04/12/2010
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 60% performance: 70% features: 80% mobility: 80%

Foreign Reviews

94% Die Ausdauerndsten
Source: SFT - 7/10
Comparison, , Length Unknown, Date: 06/01/2010
Rating: Total score: 94%

60% Toshiba NB305-106
Source: 01Net FR→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 08/04/2010
Rating: Total score: 60%

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 3150: Integrated (shared memory) graphics card in the intel Atom N4xx CPUs. Minimally faster than an old GMA 950 and therefore not suited for 3D games or HD videos (only MPEG2 acceleration).

These graphics cards are not suited for Windows 3D games. Office and Internet surfing however is possible.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

Intel Atom: The Intel Atom series is a 64-Bit (not every model supports 64bit) microprocessor for cheap and small notebooks (so called netbooks), MIDs, or UMPCs. The speciality of the new architecture is the "in order" execution (instead of the usual and faster "out of order" execution). Therefore, the transistor count of the Atom series is much lower and, thus, cheaper to produce. Furthermore, the power consumption is very low. The performance per Megahertz is therfore worse than the old Pentium 3M (1,2 GHz on par with a 1.6 GHz Atom).

N450:

Intel Atom CPU for Netbooks with integrated memory controller and GMA 3150 GPU. The performance of the system should be only minimally faster than the previous Atom N280 / GMA 950 combination.

10.10":

This is a standard display format for tablet computers or small convertibles. You see more on the screen than on a smartphone but you can't use big resolutions well. On the other hand, mobility is not a problem.

Toshiba: Toshiba Corporation is a Japanese conglomerate or technology group. The company was established in 1939 and in 1978 Toshiba became the official company name. The company's products and services include power, industrial and social infrastructure systems, elevators and escalators, electronic components, semiconductors, hard drives, printers, batteries, lighting, logistics and information technology. Toshiba was one of the largest manufacturers of personal computers, consumer electronics, home appliances and medical equipment.

73.5%: This rating is poor. More than three quarters of the models are rated better. That is rather not a purchase recommendation. Even if verbal ratings in this area do not sound that bad ("sufficient" or "satisfactory"), they are usually euphemisms that disguise a classification as a below-average laptop.

» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.

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