Toshiba Satellite Pro U200

Notebook Specifications

Reviews for the Toshiba Satellite Pro U200

Foreign Reviews

80% Subnote mit High-End-Power
Source: Notebookjournal
, Length Unknown, Date: 06/13/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 90% performance: 100% features: 50% display: 50% mobility: 30% workmanship: 70% ergonomy: 50%

Kompakter Arbeiter
Source: Notebook / Organizer / Handy
, Length Unknown, Date: 01/05/2007
Rating: performance: 80% display: 50% mobility: 80%

100% Leistungsstarkes Subnotebook überzeugt in Verarbeitung und Preis
Source: Dooyoo
online available, Very Short, Date: 10/10/2006
Rating: Total score: 100% price: 85% performance: 80% features: 80% workmanship: 80% ergonomy: 100%

Toshiba Satellite Pro U200
Source: c't
online available, Very Short, Date: 10/01/2006
Rating: performance: 75% features: 85% display: 75% ergonomy: 85%

70% Subnotebook der gehobenen Klasse
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Short, Date: 09/29/2006
Rating: Total score: 70% features: 80% display: 90% mobility: 70% workmanship: 80%

100% Spitzenklasse
Source: Preissuchmaschine
online available, Very Short, Date: 07/29/2006
Rating: Total score: 100% price: 100% performance: 100% mobility: 100% workmanship: 100%

Comment

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 is an integrated (onboard) graphic chip on Mobile Intel 945GM chipset. It is a faster clocked version of the GMA 900 and supports no hardware T&L (Transform & Lightning) accelleration (which is required for some games).

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.

Intel Core Duo: Double Core processor with a very good relation of performance to current consumption. The 2 MB L2 Cache are used together by the double. The maximum capacity of 31 watts is only 4 watts more than with the Pentium M (predecessor). Both cores are lowered automatically and independently of each other by speed steps down to 1 GHz. In addition it now supports also SSE3 instructions. At least it is just as fast as a equivalent Pentium M. With applications, which were designed for multi-processors, the performance can be nearly twice as fast as with the Pentium M (e.g. CineBench around 86% fast)

T2400:
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

12.1": This is the most common display format for subnotebooks and an average size for subnotebooks.
The advantage is, that the subnotebook can be small dimensioned and can be carried easily. Further the tiny display has the advantage, that it needs less power, which improves the battery runtime and in consequence the mobility. The disadvantage is that reading of texts is very exhausting vor the eyes. High resolutions can hardly be used.
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

1.9 kg: These sub-notebooks weight less than the average of all notebooks, but represent a heavier class of weight among the sub-notebooks. 12 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.

Toshiba reviews

87.5%: This is a good rating above average. Nevertheless you should not forget, that 10-15% of all notebook-models get a better rating.

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