Toshiba Satellite A135-S4499
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Toshiba Satellite A135-S4499Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T5500
Graphics Adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 128 MB
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 2.8kg
Links: Toshiba homepage Toshiba notebook section
Average Score: 70% - average
Average of 1 scores (from 1 reviews)
mobility: 50%, workmanship: - %, ergonomy: - %, emissions: - %
Reviews for the Toshiba Satellite A135-S4499
70% Toshiba holds back the Satellite A135-S4499 with mediocre components.
Source: Laptop Mag 
There's a lot to like about the Toshiba Satellite A135-S4499 ($1,499). It looks great, comes with dual 120GB hard drives (loaded with Windows Vista Ultimate) and 2GB of RAM, and sports a slick Synaptics touchpad that moves the cursor and does a whole lot more. Unfortunately, it needs a faster processor and graphics to make it really shine. Because of its sleek design, hardware extras, and good display and sound, we recommend the Toshiba Satellite A135-S4499. It's just not the best mainstream machine of the money.
eher kurz gehaltener Test; online abrufbar
3.5 von 5, Leistung mangelhaft, Mobilität mangelhaft
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 03/26/2007
Rating: Total score: 70% performance: 50% mobility: 50%
Comment
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.
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Core 2 Duo: This is the Core Duo and Core Solo successor with a longer pipeline and 5-20% more speed without more power consumption. As an addition to the Core Duo design there exists a fourth decoder, an amplified SSE-unit and an additional arithmetical logical unit (ALU).
The Core 2 Duo for laptops is identical to the desktop Core 2 Duo processors but the notebook-processors work with lower voltages (0.95 to 1188 Volt) and a lower Frontside bus clock (1066 vs 667 MHz). The performance of equally clocked notebooks is 20-25% lower than Desktop PCs because of the lower Frontside bus clock and the slower hard disks.
T5500:
>> 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.
2.8 kg: This weight is average for notebooks. Therefore the numerous mass of laptops with 15 inch display fits in 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.
70%: This rating is bad. Most notebooks are better rated. This is not a recommendation for purchase.
>> Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
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