Toshiba Satellite A210 Series
Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-52, AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-56, AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-58, AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-62Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600, ATI Radeon Xpress X1200
Display: 15.40 inch, 16.50 inch
Weight: 2.7kg, 2.73kg
Price: 700, 900 euro
Average of 10 scores (from 12 reviews)
Toshiba Satellite A210-14S
Specifications
Notebook: Toshiba Satellite A210-14SProcessor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-56
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 256 MB
Display: 15.40 inch, 16:10, 1280 x 800 pixels
Weight: 2.7kg
Price: 900 euro
Links: Toshiba homepage Toshiba notebook section Satellite A210-14S (Model)
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Foreign Reviews
Source: Notebookjournal DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 08/30/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 60% features: 70% display: 50% mobility: 30% workmanship: 80% ergonomy: 50%
Toshiba Satellite A210-12Z
Specifications
Notebook: Toshiba Satellite A210-12ZProcessor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-52
Graphics Adapter: ATI Radeon Xpress X1200 128 MB
Display: 15.40 inch, 16:10, 1280 x 800 pixels
Weight: 2.7kg
Price: 700 euro
Links: Toshiba homepage Toshiba notebook section
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Reviews
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?
Foreign Reviews
Source: Notebookcheck DE→EN Archive.org version
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→EN Archive.org version
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→EN Archive.org version
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→EN Archive.org version
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%
Toshiba Satellite A210-131
Specifications
Notebook: Toshiba Satellite A210-131Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-56
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400
Display: 15.40 inch, 16:10, 1280 x 800 pixels
Weight: 2.7kg
Price: 900 euro
Links: Toshiba homepage Toshiba notebook section Satellite A210-131 (Model)
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Reviews
Source: Notebookreview.com Archive.org version
In this price bracket the big players this year seem to be the Toshiba Satellite A210/A200, Dell Vostro 1000 and Acer Aspire 47xx and 55xx Gemstone series. All are good choices. Where I see the Toshiba having an edge over the Vostro 1000 is in the buyer's ability to walk into a store and touch/feel the notebook. Things like keyboard and design are very personal and hard to convey in a small web photograph. Aesthetically the Toshiba is better looking in my opinion. The Vostro can be bought with Windows XP - a vastly superior Operating System for PCs with modest specification like these. The Dell has a more orthodox keyboard layout - for a lot of people this alone could be the clincher. It also comes with a smaller 120GB HDD, but is spins faster. Comparing the A210 to Acer's Aspire, I again think the chassis is nicer on the Toshiba. The two Acer notebooks I found at this price both had Celeron CPUs - one was spec'ed with 512MB RAM and an 80GB HDD. So the Toshiba has an edge in terms of performance and specifications.
Preis gut, Ausstattung gut, Verarbeitung gut
User Review, online available, Medium, Date: 03/27/2008
Rating: price: 80% features: 80% workmanship: 80%
Foreign Reviews
Source: Notebookforum.at DE→EN Archive.org version
User Review, online available, Short, Date: 09/25/2007
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 80% workmanship: 50%
Toshiba Satellite A210-12U
Specifications
Notebook: Toshiba Satellite A210-12UProcessor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-52
Graphics Adapter: ATI Radeon Xpress X1200 128 MB
Display: 15.40 inch, 16:10, 1280 x 800 pixels
Weight: 2.73kg
Price: 700 euro
Links: Toshiba homepage Toshiba notebook section Satellite A210-12U (Model)
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Reviews
Source: IT Reviews Archive.org version
Toshiba's Satellite range of notebooks has undergone a refresh recently, with several new series of models added to the range. One of these is the A210 series, a stylish range of laptops aimed at the home user. Our review sample, the 12U, sits in the middle of a four-model family. Despite the sub-£500 price tag, the A210-12U is a well built, stylish looking notebook in its gloss, metallic, onyx blue and silver finish, set off nicely by blue, back-lit system indicators and a back-lit Satellite logo. At the heart of the A210-12U sits a dual core AMD Turion X2 TL-52 processor which is clocked at 1.60GHz with an 800MHz FSB and 1MB L2 cache. Backing this up is an ATI RS690M/SB600 chipset combination and 2GB of PC2-5300 DDR2 memory, which is an impressive amount given the price tag. All of which gives the A210-12U no more than average performance, but it's sufficient for most office applications, although you may find it struggling a bit when it comes to something like picture or video manipulation.
Leistung zufriedenstellend, Verarbeitung sehr gut, Preis/Leistung sehr gut
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 10/19/2007
Rating: price: 90% performance: 70% workmanship: 90%
Toshiba Satellite A210-16Y
Specifications
Notebook: Toshiba Satellite A210-16YProcessor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-58
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600
Display: 15.40 inch, 16:10, 1280 x 800 pixels
Weight: 2.7kg
Price: 900 euro
Links: Toshiba homepage Toshiba notebook section Satellite A210-16Y (Model)
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Foreign Reviews
Source: Notebookjournal DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 10/26/2007
Rating: Total score: 70% performance: 40% features: 50% display: 30% mobility: 30% workmanship: 90% ergonomy: 70%
Toshiba Satellite A210-10C
Specifications
Notebook: Toshiba Satellite A210-10CProcessor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-52
Graphics Adapter: ATI Radeon Xpress X1200
Display: 15.40 inch, 16:10, 1280 x 800 pixels
Weight: 2.7kg
Price: 700 euro
Links: Toshiba homepage Toshiba notebook section Satellite A210-10C (Model)
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Foreign Reviews
Source: Notebookjournal DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 11/23/2007
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 85% performance: 50% features: 30% display: 50% mobility: 30% workmanship: 90% ergonomy: 70%
Toshiba Satellite A210-172
Specifications
Notebook: Toshiba Satellite A210-172Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-62
Graphics Adapter: ATI Radeon Xpress X1200
Display: 15.40 inch, 16:10, 1280 x 800 pixels
Weight: 2.7kg
Price: 900 euro
Links: Toshiba homepage Toshiba notebook section Satellite A210-172 (Model)
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Foreign Reviews
Source: AMD-Notebook-Tester Blog DE→EN Archive.org version
User Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 03/04/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% features: 80%
Toshiba Satellite A210-1BD
Specifications
Notebook: Toshiba Satellite A210-1BDProcessor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-58
Graphics Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600
Display: 16.50 inch, 16:10, 1280 x 800 pixels
Weight: 2.7kg
Price: 700 euro
Links: Toshiba homepage Toshiba notebook section
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Foreign Reviews
Source: Notebookjournal DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/06/2008
Rating: price: 80% performance: 80% mobility: 40% workmanship: 80% emissions: 40%
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Toshiba: Toshiba Corporation is a Japanese conglomerate or technology group. The company was established in 1939 and in 1978 Toshiba became the official company name. The company's products and services include power, industrial and social infrastructure systems, elevators and escalators, electronic components, semiconductors, hard drives, printers, batteries, lighting, logistics and information technology. Toshiba was one of the largest manufacturers of personal computers, consumer electronics, home appliances and medical equipment.
Only some 3D games with very low demands are playable with these cards.
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600: This is a DirectX 10 graphic card from ATI and direct competitor to the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS graphic card for laptops and performs in games much better than the Nvidia card.
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400: This DirectX 10 graphic card from ATI is the direct competitor to the NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS graphic card for laptops. It features the Avivo HD video engine. The performance is not enaough for DX 10 games and high settings.
These graphics cards are not suited for Windows 3D games. Office and Internet surfing however is possible.
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.
» 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-56:
In 90nm (33W TDP) and 65nm (31W TDP) produced dual core processor with a clock rate of 1.8 GHz. The TL-56 is still based on the K8 core and compareable to a slower clocked Core Duo.
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.
TL-58:
In 65nm (31W TDP) produced dual core processor with a clock rate of 1.9 GHz. The TL-58 is still based on the K8 core and compareable to a slower clocked Core Duo.
TL-62:
In 65nm produced dual-core processor based on the K8 core. Compareable performance to a 1.9 GHz Core Duo CPU with 1MB Level 2 Cache (Celeron Dual Core e.g.).
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
2.7 kg:
With this weight, a laptop is rather heavier than average. Devices in this range shine more with screen size and performance than with mobility.
2.73 kg:
80.5%: This rating is slightly above average, there are somewhat more devices with worse ratings. However, clear purchase recommendations look different.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.