Toshiba Satellite U300
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Toshiba Satellite U300Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T5450
Graphics Adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 256 MB
Display: 13.3 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 2kg
Links: Toshiba homepage Toshiba notebook section Satellite U300 (Model)
Average Score: 79% - good
Average of 3 scores (from 4 reviews)
mobility: 80%, workmanship: 80%, ergonomy: 82%, emissions: 59%
Reviews for the Toshiba Satellite U300
80% Toshiba Satellite U300-113 laptop PC
Source: PC Advisor 
Its suitability as a gaming machine is questionable, but in the Toshiba Satellite U300-113 Toshiba has put together a smart and stylish laptop that gives a good account of itself elsewhere.
You'll want a cloth to hand, however, as the Toshiba Satellite U300-113's lovely dark blue exterior smudges easily. We were also concerned about the amount of heat this Toshiba laptop seems to generate.
Even so, the 13.3in Toshiba Satellite U300-113 feels sturdily built with a hard-wearing chassis and hinge and it comes in a few grammes short of the 2kg mark.
The Toshiba Satellite U300-113 is not the most powerful of laptops. Its 1.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T5450 processor is supported by only 1GB of DDR2 RAM and turned in a middling WorldBench speed benchmark score of 66.
(von 5): 4, Verarbeitung 4, Ausstattung 3.5, Preis/Leistung 4
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 09/07/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% features: 70% workmanship: 80%
Foreign Reviews
76% Hohe Mobilität: Toshiba Satellite U300
Source: PC Go 
online available, Very Short, Date: 11/07/2007
Rating: Total score: 76% price: 80% mobility: 80%
81% Test Toshiba Satellite U300 Notebook
Source: Notebookcheck
online available, Long, Date: 08/25/2007
Rating: Total score: 81% performance: 76% display: 87% mobility: 79% workmanship: 80% ergonomy: 82% emissions: 78%
Toshiba Satellite U300 im Test
Source: Netzwelt
online available, Long, Date: 08/15/2007
Rating: price: 95% performance: 80% features: 80% display: 50% mobility: 80% emissions: 40%
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.
T5450:
>> 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.
79%: 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.
