Toshiba Satellite A300D
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Toshiba Satellite A300DProcessor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 2.7kg
Price: 900 euro
Links: Toshiba homepage Toshiba notebook section Satellite A300D (Series) Satellite A300D (Model)
Average Score: 75% - good
Average of 2 scores (from 5 reviews)
mobility: 40%, workmanship: - %, ergonomy: - %, emissions: - %
Reviews for the Toshiba Satellite A300D
70% Toshiba Satellite A300D-125
Source: Inside HW 
Even though we didn’t like some things, final evaluation for Toshiba Satellite A300D-125 is satisfactory. If shine surfaces and lack of quality video outputs don’t bother you, purchasing of this notebook model will provide you solid home multimedia device with very attractive design.
Zufriedenstellend
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/28/2008
Rating: Total score: 70%
Foreign Reviews
80% Toshiba Satellite A300D-13A
Source: PC Magazin - 8/08 
, Length Unknown, Date: 08/01/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% performance: 95% mobility: 40%
Toshiba Satellite A300D-13A
Source: Magnus.de
online available, Very Short, Date: 07/06/2008
Rating: price: 80% performance: 95% mobility: 40%
Toshiba Satellite A300D-13A
Source: PC Magazin - 8/08
, Very Short, Date: 07/01/2008
Rating: price: 80% performance: 95% mobility: 40%
Toshiba Satellite A300D-14R
Source: PCM 
online available, Very Short, Date: 09/22/2008
Rating: performance: 80% display: 40%
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.
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.
TL-60:
>> 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.
75%: 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.
