Toshiba Satellite A210 Series

Toshiba Satellite A210-14S

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80% Toshiba Satellite A210-14S - ATI HD 2600
Source: Notebookjournal DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 08/30/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 60% features: 70% display: 50% mobility: 30% workmanship: 80% ergonomy: 50%

Toshiba Satellite A210-12Z

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83% Test Toshiba Satellite A210-12Z Notebook
Source: Notebookcheck DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 10/17/2007
Rating: Total score: 83% performance: 69% display: 82% mobility: 75% workmanship: 88% ergonomy: 88% emissions: 77%

83% Test Toshiba Satellite A210-12Z Notebook
Source: Notebookcheck DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 10/17/2007
Rating: Total score: 83% performance: 69% display: 82% mobility: 75% workmanship: 88% ergonomy: 88% emissions: 77%

Toshiba Satellite A210-131

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Toshiba Satellite A210 User Review
Source: Notebookreview.com
In this price bracket the big players this year seem to be the Toshiba Satellite A210/A200, Dell Vostro 1000 and Acer Aspire 47xx and 55xx Gemstone series. All are good choices. Where I see the Toshiba having an edge over the Vostro 1000 is in the buyer's ability to walk into a store and touch/feel the notebook. Things like keyboard and design are very personal and hard to convey in a small web photograph. Aesthetically the Toshiba is better looking in my opinion. The Vostro can be bought with Windows XP - a vastly superior Operating System for PCs with modest specification like these. The Dell has a more orthodox keyboard layout - for a lot of people this alone could be the clincher. It also comes with a smaller 120GB HDD, but is spins faster. Comparing the A210 to Acer's Aspire, I again think the chassis is nicer on the Toshiba. The two Acer notebooks I found at this price both had Celeron CPUs - one was spec'ed with 512MB RAM and an 80GB HDD. So the Toshiba has an edge in terms of performance and specifications.
Preis gut, Ausstattung gut, Verarbeitung gut
User Review, online available, Medium, Date: 03/27/2008
Rating: price: 80% features: 80% workmanship: 80%

90% Mein Bericht: Toshiba Satellite A210-131
Source: Notebookforum.at DE→EN
User Review, online available, Short, Date: 09/25/2007
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 80% workmanship: 50%

Toshiba Satellite A210-12U

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Toshiba - Satellite A210-12U review
Source: IT Reviews
Toshiba's Satellite range of notebooks has undergone a refresh recently, with several new series of models added to the range. One of these is the A210 series, a stylish range of laptops aimed at the home user. Our review sample, the 12U, sits in the middle of a four-model family. Despite the sub-£500 price tag, the A210-12U is a well built, stylish looking notebook in its gloss, metallic, onyx blue and silver finish, set off nicely by blue, back-lit system indicators and a back-lit Satellite logo. At the heart of the A210-12U sits a dual core AMD Turion X2 TL-52 processor which is clocked at 1.60GHz with an 800MHz FSB and 1MB L2 cache. Backing this up is an ATI RS690M/SB600 chipset combination and 2GB of PC2-5300 DDR2 memory, which is an impressive amount given the price tag. All of which gives the A210-12U no more than average performance, but it's sufficient for most office applications, although you may find it struggling a bit when it comes to something like picture or video manipulation.
Leistung zufriedenstellend, Verarbeitung sehr gut, Preis/Leistung sehr gut
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 10/19/2007
Rating: price: 90% performance: 70% workmanship: 90%

Toshiba Satellite A210-16Y

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70% Toshiba Satellite A210-16Y
Source: Notebookjournal DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 10/26/2007
Rating: Total score: 70% performance: 40% features: 50% display: 30% mobility: 30% workmanship: 90% ergonomy: 70%

Toshiba Satellite A210-10C

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70% Office-Leistung zum kleinen Preis
Source: Notebookjournal DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 11/23/2007
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 85% performance: 50% features: 30% display: 50% mobility: 30% workmanship: 90% ergonomy: 70%

Toshiba Satellite A210-172

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80% Toshiba Satellite A210 172
Source: AMD-Notebook-Tester Blog DE→EN
User Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 03/04/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% features: 80%

Toshiba Satellite A210-1BD

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Toshiba Satellite A210-1BD
Source: Notebookjournal DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/06/2008
Rating: price: 80% performance: 80% mobility: 40% workmanship: 80% emissions: 40%

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Toshiba: Toshiba Corporation is a multinational conglomerate manufacturing company, headquartered in Japan. The company's main business is in Infrastructure, Consumer Products, and Electronic devices and components. Toshiba-made Semiconductors are among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders. Toshiba is one of the biggest international notebook-manufacturer. There exist many reviews for Toshiba models.

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Non demanding games should be playable with these graphics cards.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600: This is a DirectX 10 graphic card from ATI and direct competitor to the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS graphic card for laptops and performs in games much better than the Nvidia card.

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

ATI Radeon Xpress X1200: This is an onboard video chip and according AMD optimized for a good price/value. It is based on a X700 design but with less pixel- and vertex-pipelines. ATI Radeon Xpress X1200 is hardly apt for gamers. The graphic chip supports Windows Vista Aero surface and all 3D effects run fluently. Sometimes also called Radeon X1200.

Only some 3D games with very low demands are playable with these cards.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400: This DirectX 10 graphic card from ATI is the direct competitor to the NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS graphic card for laptops. It features the Avivo HD video engine. The performance is not enaough for DX 10 games and high settings.

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

AMD Turion 64 X2: AMD Turion 64 X2 is intended to be positioned against the Intel Core Duo was presented in 17. May 2006. The current consumption is not higher than with Centrino-Duo-notebooks (TL-45 with ATI Xpress and Mobility Radeon X300). This means, that approximative the same battery runtime and fan functions can be expected (with this chipset). However, the performance was 20% below the T2300 (1.66 GHz) due to the lower L2 Cache (Core Duo has 2048 Kbyte shared L2 Cache). Nevertheless, the performance is sufficient.

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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. Nowadays, more and more 16:9 displays with 15.6 inch appear. 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 energy and the laptops can be kept quite compact.

16.5: 16 inch display-variants exist since 2008 and partially got the market share of 15 inch notebooks. 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 energy 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.

2.73 kg:

This weight is average for notebooks. Therefore the numerous mass of laptops with 15 inch display fits in this class of weight.

79.88%: This rating is not convincing. The laptop is evaluated below average, this is not really a recommendation for purchase.

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

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