Toshiba Satellite U305-S5127
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Toshiba Satellite U305-S5127Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T7100
Graphics Adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 128 MB
Display: 13.3 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 2.1kg
Links: Toshiba homepage Toshiba notebook section
Average Score: 64.5% - average
Average of 2 scores (from 2 reviews)
mobility: 88%, workmanship: - %, ergonomy: - %, emissions: - %
Reviews for the Toshiba Satellite U305-S5127
79% Toshiba Satellite U305-S5127
Source: PC World 
Store-bought fare doesn't get much better than the Toshiba Satellite U305-S5127. It's a preconfigured retail-only Windows Vista Home Premium laptop that hits all the right notes for good portable computing: light heft, bright screen, nice price, and great battery life. It's all there. Even so-so speed and a slightly imperfect keyboard do little to mar the gotta-have-it vibe. This glossy black, $1350 (as of 10/24/07) all-purpose laptop weighs 4.9 pounds and has a small but very bright 13.3-inch 1280-by-800 screen. The display was so bright that I suspected new LED technology at work in the background, but it is in fact a 250-NIT LCD (an above-average brightness spec) combined with TruBrite technology.
(von 100): 79, Leistung 82, Ausstattung 78, Preis/Leistung günstig, Display gut, Mobilität ausgezeichnet
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 12/03/2007
Rating: Total score: 79% price: 80% performance: 82% features: 78% display: 80% mobility: 95%
50% Toshiba Satellite U305-S5127
Source: Laptop Mag
This stylish 13.3-inch notebook boasts extra-long battery life and plenty of features for an affordable price. So what's not to like? From the new Apple MacBook to the Dell XPS M1330, the 13.3-inch notebooks we've seen lately are smaller and thinner than ever but still manage to match the functionality and performance of bigger notebooks. Armed with a Santa Rosa processor and Turbo Memory, Toshiba's 13.3-inch Satellite U305-S5127 has plenty of promise. In addition to mobility, it offers students and road warriors outstanding battery life and strong wireless performance for a fair price. But when it comes to multimedia playback and reliable hardware, the U305 stumbles. The U305's Onyx Blue Metallic lid is sleek, as is its Titanium Silver interior. Above the keyboard are six multimedia buttons, including Stop, Play/Pause, and Forward and Back, as well as launch buttons for Toshiba's DVD Player and Internet Explorer.
2.5 von 5, Mobilität gut, Leistung gut
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 10/10/2007
Rating: Total score: 50% performance: 80% mobility: 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.
T7100:
>> 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.
2.1 kg: These sub-notebooks weight less than the average of all notebooks, but represent a heavier class of weight among the sub-notebooks. 13 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.
64.5%: Such a bad rating is rare. There exist hardly any notebooks, which are rated worse.
>> Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
