Toshiba Satellite A210-12Z
Specifications
Toshiba Satellite A210-12Z (Satellite A210 Series)
Processor
AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-52 1.6 GHz (AMD Turion 64 X2)
Graphics adapter
ATI Radeon Xpress X1200 - 128 MB, Memory: 400 MHz
Memory
2048 MB
, DDR2, PC5300, 667 MHz, 2x1024MB, max. 4096MB
Display
15.4 inch 16:10, 1280x800 pixel, TruBrite TFT Display, glossy: yes
Mainboard
ATI RS690
Storage
160 GB - 5400 rpm, 160 GB
, 5400 rpm, Hitachi HTS541616J9SA00
Soundcard
Agere Si3054
Connections
1 Express Card 54mm, 4 USB 2.0, 1 Firewire, 1 VGA, 1 S-Video, V.92 Modem, 1 Kensington Lock, Audio Connections: Headphone, Microphone, Card Reader: 6in1
Networking
100BASE-TX, 10BASE-T (10/100MBit), 802.11b/g (b/g)
Optical drive
Matshita DVD-RAM UJ-850S
Size
height x width x depth (in mm): 39 x 268 x 362 ( = 1.54 x 10.55 x 14.25 in)
Battery
43 Wh Lithium-Ion, 10.8V 4000mAh
Operating System
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 32 Bit
Additional features
InterVideo WinDVD, Toshiba Tools, Ulead DVD MovieWriter, 24 Months Warranty
Weight
2.7 kg ( = 95.24 oz / 5.95 pounds), Power Supply: 510 g ( = 17.99 oz / 1.12 pounds)
Price
700 Euro
Average Score:
Average of 3 scores (from 2 reviews)
Average of 3 scores (from 2 reviews)
price: - %, performance: 69%, features: 84%, display: 82% mobility: 75%, workmanship: 88%, ergonomy: 88%, emissions: 77%
Reviews for the Toshiba Satellite A210-12Z
Review Toshiba Satellite A210-12Z | Notebookcheck
The Satellite A200 Serie from Toshiba aims to the needs of a wide consumer market with a focus on the relation of price/value. What makes the difference between the series A210 and A200? Not really much. Besides the identical case and a partially identical display, only the implemented graphics hardware from AMD and ATI is different. You can get it starting with about 700 euro. Interested?
The Satellite A200 Serie from Toshiba aims to the needs of a wide consumer market with a focus on the relation of price/value. What makes the difference between the series A210 and A200? Not really much. Besides the identical case and a partially identical display, only the implemented graphics hardware from AMD and ATI is different. You can get it starting with about 700 euro. Interested?
Test Toshiba Satellite A210-12Z Notebook
Source: Notebookcheck
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Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 10/17/2007
Rating: Total score: 83% performance: 69% display: 82% mobility: 75% workmanship: 88% ergonomy: 88% emissions: 77%
Source: Notebookcheck
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 10/17/2007
Rating: Total score: 83% performance: 69% display: 82% mobility: 75% workmanship: 88% ergonomy: 88% emissions: 77%
Test Toshiba Satellite A210-12Z Notebook
Source: Notebookcheck DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 10/17/2007
Rating: Total score: 83% performance: 69% display: 82% mobility: 75% workmanship: 88% ergonomy: 88% emissions: 77%
Source: Notebookcheck
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 10/17/2007
Rating: Total score: 83% performance: 69% display: 82% mobility: 75% workmanship: 88% ergonomy: 88% emissions: 77%
Comment
ATI Radeon Xpress X1200: This is an onboard video chip and according AMD optimized for a good price/value. It is based on a X700 design but with less pixel- and vertex-pipelines. ATI Radeon Xpress X1200 is hardly apt for gamers. The graphic chip supports Windows Vista Aero surface and all 3D effects run fluently. Sometimes also called Radeon X1200. These graphics cards are not suited for Windows 3D games. Office and Internet surfing however is possible. » Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.AMD Turion 64 X2: AMD Turion 64 X2 is intended to be positioned against the Intel Core Duo was presented in 17. May 2006. The current consumption is not higher than with Centrino-Duo-notebooks (TL-45 with ATI Xpress and Mobility Radeon X300). This means, that approximative the same battery runtime and fan functions can be expected (with this chipset). However, the performance was 20% below the T2300 (1.66 GHz) due to the lower L2 Cache (Core Duo has 2048 Kbyte shared L2 Cache). Nevertheless, the performance is sufficient.
TL-52:
In 90nm produced dual core processor with a low clock rate of 1.6 GHz. The TL-52 is still based on the K8 core and compareable to a slower clocked Core Duo.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.15.4":
15-16 inch is a standard display size for laptops and offers the biggest variety of products.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.2.7 kg:
This weight is representative for typical laptops with a 14-16 inch display-diagonal.
Toshiba: Toshiba Corporation is a multinational conglomerate manufacturing company, headquartered in Japan. The company's main business is in Infrastructure, Consumer Products, and Electronic devices and components. Toshiba-made Semiconductors are among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders. Toshiba is one of the biggest international notebook-manufacturer. There exist many reviews for Toshiba models.
Toshiba is not present in the smartphone sector. As laptop manufacturer, Toshiba still had 6.6% of world market share in 2014. However it fell to only 1.6% in 2016, making only for the 8th place.
83%: This rating should be considered to be average. This is because the proportion of notebooks which have a higher rating is approximately equal to the proportion which have a lower rating.
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