Toshiba Satellite A300
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Toshiba Satellite A300Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T8100
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 2.7kg
Price: 1100 euro
Links: Toshiba homepage Toshiba notebook section Satellite A300 (Model)
Average Score: 66.88% - average
Average of 8 scores (from 10 reviews)
mobility: 40%, workmanship: 72%, ergonomy: 56%, emissions: 50%
Reviews for the Toshiba Satellite A300
40% Toshiba Satellite A300D AMD laptop
Source: Hexus 
Toshiba's Satellite A300D-15B mid-range laptop ships with an etail price of £620 and is based around AMD's Turion X2 Ultra processor and discrete Mobility Radeon HD 3650 512MB graphics card.
Tipping the scales at almost 3kg, the good-looking laptop has an excellent 15.4in WXGA+ (1,440x900px) screen, decent gaming credentials, above-average multimedia features, and, surprisingly, room-filling sound. The downsides, however, are more numerous. A mock carbon fibre-like finishes smudges way too easily, the Turion X2 Ultra CPU is found wanting when compared to Centrino (2), the glossy keyboard is hard to write quickly upon, and the battery-life is poor, not helped by the small-capacity battery. Equally as irksome is the first-instance loading/configuring time for Windows Vista, which amounts to some 40 minutes.
4 von 10, Display gut, Mobilität sehr schlecht, Leistung schlecht, Emissionen schlecht
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 10/07/2008
Rating: Total score: 40% performance: 40% display: 80% mobility: 30% emissions: 40%
70% Toshiba Satellite A300-177 Notebook
Source: Trusted Reviews
The Toshiba Satellite A300-177 is an average 15.4in laptop with a slightly below average screen and battery life, while the unique design is at best an acquired taste. Overall it's not a bad machine, but for just a little extra the competition offers far more. The one area where it excels is in offering the best sound quality of any budget 15 incher we've come across, thanks to its truly excellent Harman Kardon speakers.
(von 10): 7, Leistung 7, Ausstattung 8, Display mäßig, Mobilität mäßig
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 06/12/2008
Rating: Total score: 70% performance: 70% features: 80% display: 60% mobility: 60%
80% Toshiba Satellite A300-177 notebook review
Source: Pocket Lint
The Toshiba Satellite A300-177 is an attractive notebook and on that level, Toshiba has succeeded. However, we do feel the high-gloss finish is a little too much to live with every day. If you can overcome the finish, this is a good all-round machine that offers genuine value for money.
8 von 10, Preis sehr gut, Leistung gut
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 05/26/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 90% performance: 80%
Foreign Reviews
64% Toshiba Satellite A300-18k
Source: Gamestar 
online available, Very Short, Date: 11/06/2008
Rating: Total score: 64% price: 50% performance: 23% features: 5% display: 14%
TOSHIBA Satellite A300-1MX
Source: Notebookforum.at
, Short, Date: 11/03/2008
Rating: price: 90% performance: 50%
71% Artenvielfalt - leistungsstarke Allrounder im Mittelformat
Source: PC Magazin - 11/2008
, Short, Date: 10/16/2008
Rating: Total score: 71% price: 70% performance: 73% features: 77% mobility: 60% workmanship: 67%
80% Toshiba Satellite A300-18K
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Long, Date: 08/11/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 70% performance: 60% features: 50% display: 30% mobility: 30% workmanship: 70% ergonomy: 70% emissions: 30%
50% Test: Toshiba Satellite A300-18K
Source: PC Welt
, Length Unknown, Date: 06/19/2008
Rating: Total score: 50% price: 50% performance: 66% features: 40% mobility: 20% ergonomy: 41%
Nueva gama Satellite A300 de Toshiba. Portátil de gama domestica para usuarios exigentes.
Source: Hispazone 
online available, Medium, Date: 06/12/2008
Rating: price: 80% workmanship: 80% emissions: 80%
80% Recensione Toshiba Satellite A300
Source: Notebook Italia 
online available, Long, Date: 05/09/2008
Rating: Total score: 80%
Comment
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650: The Hd 3650 is a middle class graphics card (in 2008) and compareable to an 8600M GT GPU from Nvidia. It is fabricated in 55nm process and due to Avivo video engine the graphic card can support the processor with several video operations (HD video too).
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.
>> 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.
T8100:
>> 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.
66.88%: 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.
