Toshiba Satellite A210 Series
Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-52, AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-56, AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-58, AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-62Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600, ATI Radeon Xpress X1200
Display: 15.4 inch, 16.5 inch
Weight: 2.7kg, 2.73kg
700, 900
Average Score: 79.33% - good
Average of 6 scores (from 9 reviews)
mobility: 50%, workmanship: 82%, ergonomy: 79%, emissions: 65%
Toshiba Satellite A210-12Z
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Toshiba Satellite A210-12ZProcessor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-52
Graphics Adapter: ATI Radeon Xpress X1200 128 MB
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 2.7kg
Price: 700 euro
Links: Toshiba homepage Toshiba notebook section
Average Score: 83% - good
Average of 2 scores (from 2 reviews)
83% Test Toshiba Satellite A210-12Z Notebook
Source: Notebookcheck 
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
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
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Toshiba Satellite A210-131Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-56
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 2.7kg
Price: 900 euro
Links: Toshiba homepage Toshiba notebook section Satellite A210-131 (Model)
Average Score: 90% - very good
Average of 1 scores (from 2 reviews)
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
online available, Short, Date: 09/25/2007
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 80% workmanship: 50%
Toshiba Satellite A210-12U
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Toshiba Satellite A210-12UProcessor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-52
Graphics Adapter: ATI Radeon Xpress X1200 128 MB
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 2.73kg
Price: 700 euro
Links: Toshiba homepage Toshiba notebook section Satellite A210-12U (Model)
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
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Toshiba Satellite A210-16YProcessor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-58
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 2.7kg
Price: 900 euro
Links: Toshiba homepage Toshiba notebook section Satellite A210-16Y (Model)
Average Score: 70% - average
Average of 1 scores (from 1 reviews)
70% Toshiba Satellite A210-16Y
Source: Notebookjournal
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
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Toshiba Satellite A210-10CProcessor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-52
Graphics Adapter: ATI Radeon Xpress X1200
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 2.7kg
Price: 700 euro
Links: Toshiba homepage Toshiba notebook section Satellite A210-10C (Model)
Average Score: 70% - average
Average of 1 scores (from 1 reviews)
70% Office-Leistung zum kleinen Preis
Source: Notebookjournal
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
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Toshiba Satellite A210-172Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-62
Graphics Adapter: ATI Radeon Xpress X1200
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 2.7kg
Price: 900 euro
Links: Toshiba homepage Toshiba notebook section Satellite A210-172 (Model)
Average Score: 80% - good
Average of 1 scores (from 1 reviews)
80% Toshiba Satellite A210 172
Source: AMD-Notebook-Tester Blog
online available, Very Short, Date: 03/04/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% features: 80%
Toshiba Satellite A210-1BD
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Toshiba Satellite A210-1BD Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-58
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600
Display: 16.5 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 2.7kg
Price: 700 euro
Links: Toshiba homepage Toshiba notebook section
Toshiba Satellite A210-1BD
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Medium, Date: 05/06/2008
Rating: price: 80% performance: 80% mobility: 40% workmanship: 80% emissions: 40%
Comment
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.
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.
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.
Lower end of Graphics Cards for users who want to play games. New games should run on these cards, but only with decreased details and mediocre resolution.
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.
These cards should be able to display all current games with fluent framerates but not all with high detail settings. Especially demanding games like Crysis, Age of Conan, or Mass Effect are only playable with lower settings. Less demanding (and older) games, like Fifa 08, Command & Conquer 3, or Battlefield 2142 can be played with higher detail levels.
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.
>> 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.
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.
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.
79.33%: 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.
