Toshiba Satellite A300D
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, glossy: yes
Weight: 2.7kg
Price: 900 euro
Average of 3 scores (from 6 reviews)
Reviews for the Toshiba Satellite A300D
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
Source: Computerbild - 6/09
Comparison, , Long, Date: 05/01/2009
Rating: Total score: 83% price: 80% performance: 78% features: 85% display: 88% ergonomy: 85% emissions: 89%
Source: PC Magazin - 8/08
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 08/01/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% performance: 95% mobility: 40%
Source: Magnus.de
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 07/06/2008
Rating: price: 80% performance: 95% mobility: 40%
Source: PC Magazin - 8/08
Single Review, , Very Short, Date: 07/01/2008
Rating: price: 80% performance: 95% mobility: 40%
Source: PCM
NL→ENSingle Review, 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).
Non demanding games should be playable with these graphics cards.
» 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: First in 90nm, later in 65nm produced dual-core processor based on the K8 core. Compareable performance to a 1.8 GHz Core Duo CPU with 1MB Level 2 Cache (Celeron Dual Core e.g.).» 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. 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.» 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 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.
77.67%: 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.
