Toshiba Tecra S3

Notebook Specifications

Reviews for the Toshiba Tecra S3

60% Graphics muscle meets enterprise-grade security
Source: Laptop Mag
Don’t let its Nvidia graphics processor fool you; the Toshiba Tecra S3 is designed for business users, thanks to features like a TPM security chip and a fingerprint reader. This black-and-silver notebook has a very manageable 6.3-pound weight, but the Tecra S3’s 13.5 x 11.3-inch footprint is too unwieldy for road warriors. It runs for over three hours on battery power, which is nice, and that time doesn’t drop at all when the Wi-Fi adapter is turned on. The Wi-Fi performance was rather good, too. The Tecra S3’s 12.6-Mbps performance at 5 feet from our access point is nothing to write home about, but its 10-Mbps data transfer rate from 50 feet is very impressive and more indicative of real-world conditions.
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3 von 5
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 02/28/2006
Rating: Total score: 60%

Foreign Reviews

Business Notebook mit guter Bildqualität, vielen Security Features, genügend Gaming-Performance und guter Verarbeitung
Source: Minitechnet
, Length Unknown, Date: 04/30/2006
Rating: performance: 85% display: 85% workmanship: 85%

80% Kleine Schwächen
Source: PC Go
online available, Very Short, Date: 01/27/2006
Rating: Total score: 80%

77% Die besten Notebooks mit 3D-Grafik
Source: Chip.de
, Length Unknown, Date: 01/01/2006
Rating: Total score: 77% performance: 87% features: 74% display: 49% mobility: 68% ergonomy: 89%

75% Toshiba Tecra S3
Source: Notebook / Organizer / Handy
, Length Unknown, Date: 01/01/2006
Rating: Total score: 75% price: 75%

Comment

NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 is the mobile medium class of the GeForce Go 6000 series for notebooks. Its performance is good with normal current consumption (in 2006). Older games like Doom3 run fluently.

Lower end of Graphics Cards for users who want to play games. New games should run on these cards, but only with decreased details and mediocre resolution.

Intel Pentium M: With Intel chip set (855 or 915) and Intel WLAN also available with the name Centrino (name for the package).
In the comparison very fast per megahertz and very modest with weaknesses in floating point operations.
It is also available as a low voltage version with very small current consumption.

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

15.1": 15 inch display-variants are the standard and are used for more than the half of all notebooks. The 15.1 inch display is used for the 4:3 format and therefore is used  not so frequently like the 15.4 inch format.
Meanwhile notebook displays with a format 4:3 are strongly replaced by 16:10 formats. The 4:3 format does not have explicitely disadvantages, rather it is a question of taste. When TV-watching on the notebook it is decisive, in which format the current programm is offered.
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 current and the laptops can be kept quite compact.

>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

2.9 kg: This weight is average for notebooks. Therefore the numerous mass of laptops with 15 inch display fits in 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

73%: This rating is bad. Most notebooks are better rated. This is not a recommendation for purchase.

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