Toshiba Satellite A110-275

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Toshiba - Satellite A110-275 review
Source: IT Reviews
While it seems that everyone and their dog has a notebook range these days, companies that have been in the game for a long time tend to get overlooked. Toshiba's Satellite A110-275 is a well-rounded laptop with good workstation performance, and is ideal for home use... unless, that is, you want to play a game now and then.
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Leistung gut
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 11/15/2006
performance: 80%

80% Lots of plus points for this notebook from Toshiba
Source: vnunet.com
Pros: Good relative system performance; lightweight; well built, Vista capable; Cons: Small trackpad; DVD playback will only last a couple of hours; smaller hard disk than most. Overall: The cheapest notebook here, but among the best performing. Toshiba has impressed us again.
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(von 5): 4, Preis/Leistung 4, Ausstattung 5, Ergonomie 4, Verarbeitung gut, Mobilität mäßig
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 10/23/2006
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% features: 80% mobility: 60% workmanship: 80% ergonomy: 80%

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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 is an integrated (onboard) graphic chip on Mobile Intel 945GM chipset. It is a faster clocked version of the GMA 900 and supports no hardware T&L (Transform & Lightning) accelleration (which is required for some games).

Only older games can be played fluently with these graphics chips (if they were not too demanding). Shared memory graphic cores in this category got the advantage of less heat production and longer battery runtimes. For office, internet, image processing, and video editing tasks these graphics chips are still useable without any restrictions.

Intel Core Duo: Double Core processor with a very good relation of performance to current consumption. The 2 MB L2 Cache are used together by the double. The maximum capacity of 31 watts is only 4 watts more than with the Pentium M (predecessor). Both cores are lowered automatically and independently of each other by speed steps down to 1 GHz. In addition it now supports also SSE3 instructions. At least it is just as fast as a equivalent Pentium M. With applications, which were designed for multi-processors, the performance can be nearly twice as fast as with the Pentium M (e.g. CineBench around 86% fast)

T2050:
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

15.4": 15 inch display-variants are the standard and are used for more than the half of all notebooks.  15.4 inch display with 16:10 are the standard for notebook displays.
The reason why so many people like displays with medium size is, that this size is not exhausting for the eyes, does not need too much current and the laptops can be kept quite compact.
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

2.7 kg: This notebook is lighter than the average of all notebooks. It is too heavy for sub-notebooks. 14 inch displays are normal for this class of weight.

Toshiba: Toshiba is one of the biggest international notebook-manufacturer. There exist many reviews for Toshiba models. The ratings of German magazines are very positive, but the relation of price and value is evaluated rather average. The ratings according the features and display are also quite well for Toshiba notebooks.

Toshiba reviews

80%: This rating is not convincing. It must be considered, that there exist hardly any laptops, which receive a rating below 60%. This notebook is evaluated below average, this is not really a recommendation for purchase.

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