Toshiba Satellite Pro U300
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Toshiba Satellite Pro U300Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T7250
Graphics Adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100
Display: 13.3 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 2kg
Price: 1200 euro
Links: Toshiba homepage Toshiba notebook section Satellite Pro U300 (Model)
Average Score: 80% - good
Average of 1 scores (from 3 reviews)
mobility: 75%, workmanship: - %, ergonomy: 80%, emissions: - %
Reviews for the Toshiba Satellite Pro U300
Toshiba Satellite U300
Source: Inside HW 
Generally, right word that describes this notebook best is average. Nowadays average doesn’t go by very well. None of these faults are too big but there are many of them, much more than we expected. Toshiba Satellite U300-153 with price tag somewhere around 700€ ranks up as cheaper in its class. That is withal its biggest selling point because of reduced offer of 13.3’’ screen notebooks on the market. We consider that you can spend your money wiser if, from any reasons, notebook of these dimensions isn’t necessary.
Preis mäßig
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/02/2008
Rating: price: 60%
80% Understated ultraportable powerhouse?
Source: Pocket Lint
Toshiba tends to split its business in two quite distinctive trends, you have the full multimedia statements, such as its Qosmio line, and then there is the rather subdued and safe business machine. While the Toshiba Satellite Pro U300 falls into the second camp it's not an unattractive notebook. Finished in black and grey plastic, this isn't the most stylish of notebooks but it certainly proved robust for use on the move. It's a slim machine considering there is a DVD rewriter built-in and the size means it great for the commute, as it will easily slip in to any standard carry case. With an overall weight of 2.1kg, it's reasonably portable and coupled with a battery life well in excess of 3 hours, we were more than satisfied with its portability.
The Toshiba Satellite Pro U300 may not be a notebook to grab the headlines like some other 13.3-inch machines but we found it a powerful and versatile machine that certainly offers great value for money.
8 von 10, Leistung gut, Mobilität gut
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 04/07/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 80% mobility: 80%
Foreign Reviews
Schnäppchen für den Rucksack
Source: c't - 4/08 
, Medium, Date: 01/31/2008
Rating: performance: 70% features: 80% display: 40% mobility: 70% ergonomy: 80%
Comment
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 is an integrated (onboard) graphic chip on a Mobile Intel 965GM chipset. It is the successor of GMA 950 and features a fully programmable pipeline (supports Aero Glass fully and DirectX 10 with newest drivers). The peformance of the X3100 is clearly better than the GMA 950, still demanding modern games won't run fluently.
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.
>> 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.
T7250:
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
13.3": This is a frequent and the biggest display format for sub-notebooks.
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 few current, which improves the battery runtime and in consequence the mobility. The disadvantage is that the 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.
2 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.
80%: 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.
