Toshiba Satellite A300
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Average of 19 scores (from 22 reviews)
Reviews for the Toshiba Satellite A300
Source: Techradar
Archive.org versionToshiba's business laptop proves useful for home duties too. The Toshiba Satellite Pro A300-2C5 (£525 inc. VAT) targets business users primarily. As such, you'll find a tough design and a laptop that's more than capable of handling the daily commute. Overall, the Toshiba Satellite Pro A300- 2C5 is an impressive laptop. Offering a great mix of quality, comfort and performance, it's the ideal tool for busy professionals, with only a below-average battery life letting it down.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 08/24/2009
Rating: Total score: 60%
Source: Techradar
Archive.org versionOverall, there's a lot to like about the Toshiba Satellite A300-15B, not least the sublimely comfortable keyboard. It's a great multimedia laptop if you plan on using it around the house, only missing out on an award by virtue of it's woefully short battery life.
3.5 von 5, Verarbeitung gut, Leistung schlecht, Mobilität schlecht
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 01/09/2009
Rating: Total score: 70% performance: 40% mobility: 40% workmanship: 80%
Source: Pocket Lint
Archive.org versionReasonably While it’s difficult to wholeheartedly recommend the A300D-15B, there’s a lot to like about this machine. Best of all is its multimedia performance – and at this price you’ll struggle to find better 3D capabilities. We were also very impressed with the keyboard, at least in terms of comfort and usability. The glossy finish won’t appeal to all users though, prone as it is to scratches and grubby prints. Overall, the fact this machine has an AMD chip isn’t really an issue. For lots of people, the battery life of around 1.5 hours will be – but if you only need a laptop for use around the house then the Toshiba is definitely worth a look.
7 von 10, Leistung mäßig, Mobilität schlecht
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 12/08/2008
Rating: Total score: 70% performance: 60% mobility: 40%
Source: Hexus
Archive.org versionToshiba's Satellite A300D-15B mid-range laptop ships with an etail price of £620 and is based around AMD's Turion X2 Ultra processor and discrete Mobility Radeon HD 3650 512MB graphics card.
Tipping the scales at almost 3kg, the good-looking laptop has an excellent 15.4in WXGA+ (1,440x900px) screen, decent gaming credentials, above-average multimedia features, and, surprisingly, room-filling sound. The downsides, however, are more numerous. A mock carbon fibre-like finishes smudges way too easily, the Turion X2 Ultra CPU is found wanting when compared to Centrino (2), the glossy keyboard is hard to write quickly upon, and the battery-life is poor, not helped by the small-capacity battery. Equally as irksome is the first-instance loading/configuring time for Windows Vista, which amounts to some 40 minutes.
4 von 10, Display gut, Mobilität sehr schlecht, Leistung schlecht, Emissionen schlecht
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 10/07/2008
Rating: Total score: 40% performance: 40% display: 80% mobility: 30% emissions: 40%
Source: Trusted Reviews
Archive.org versionThe Toshiba Satellite A300-177 is an average 15.4in laptop with a slightly below average screen and battery life, while the unique design is at best an acquired taste. Overall it's not a bad machine, but for just a little extra the competition offers far more. The one area where it excels is in offering the best sound quality of any budget 15 incher we've come across, thanks to its truly excellent Harman Kardon speakers.
(von 10): 7, Leistung 7, Ausstattung 8, Display mäßig, Mobilität mäßig
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 06/12/2008
Rating: Total score: 70% performance: 70% features: 80% display: 60% mobility: 60%
Source: Pocket Lint
Archive.org versionThe Toshiba Satellite A300-177 is an attractive notebook and on that level, Toshiba has succeeded. However, we do feel the high-gloss finish is a little too much to live with every day. If you can overcome the finish, this is a good all-round machine that offers genuine value for money.
8 von 10, Preis sehr gut, Leistung gut
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 05/26/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 90% performance: 80%
Foreign Reviews
Source: PC Games Hardware - 8/09
Comparison, , Length Unknown, Date: 07/01/2009
Rating: Total score: 92% price: 70%
Source: Com! - 8/09
Comparison, , Long, Date: 07/01/2009
Rating: Total score: 81% price: 80% performance: 18% features: 23% mobility: 20% ergonomy: 20%
Source: PC Magazin - 6/09
Comparison, , Long, Date: 06/01/2009
Rating: Total score: 76% price: 70%
Source: Notebookjournal
DE→EN Archive.org versionSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 02/28/2009
Rating: Total score: 60% price: 70% performance: 40% features: 50% display: 30% mobility: 30% workmanship: 70% ergonomy: 70%
Source: Notebookinfo
DE→EN Archive.org versionSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 01/27/2009
Rating: Total score: 71% performance: 39% features: 80% display: 65% mobility: 76% workmanship: 82%
Source: Gamestar
Comparison, , Length Unknown, Date: 12/01/2008
Rating: Total score: 64% price: 60% performance: 80% display: 60% emissions: 50%
Source: Stiftung Warentest - 12/08
User Review, online available, Medium, Date: 12/01/2008
Rating: Total score: 79% performance: 88% display: 85% mobility: 67% workmanship: 93% ergonomy: 84% emissions: 88%
Source: Gamestar
DE→EN Archive.org versionSingle Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 11/06/2008
Rating: Total score: 64% price: 50% performance: 23% features: 5% display: 14%
Source: Notebookforum.at
DE→EN Archive.org versionUser Review, , Short, Date: 11/03/2008
Rating: price: 90% performance: 50%
Source: PC Magazin - 11/2008
Comparison, , Short, Date: 10/16/2008
Rating: Total score: 71% price: 70% performance: 73% features: 77% mobility: 60% workmanship: 67%
Source: Notebookjournal
DE→EN Archive.org versionSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 08/11/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 70% performance: 60% features: 50% display: 30% mobility: 30% workmanship: 70% ergonomy: 70% emissions: 30%
Source: PC Welt
DE→EN Archive.org versionReview Type Unknown, , Length Unknown, Date: 06/19/2008
Rating: Total score: 50% price: 50% performance: 66% features: 40% mobility: 20% ergonomy: 41%
Source: Hispazone
ES→EN Archive.org versionSingle Review, online available, Medium, Date: 06/12/2008
Rating: price: 80% workmanship: 80% emissions: 80%
Source: Notebook Italia
IT→EN Archive.org versionSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 05/09/2008
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: NotebookTV.hu
HU→EN Archive.org versionSingle Review, online available, Medium, Date: 06/04/2009
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 80% performance: 80% display: 70% mobility: 60% workmanship: 60% ergonomy: 60% emissions: 80%
Source: Nonstop Mobil
HU→EN Archive.org versionComparison, online available, Medium, Date: 05/02/2009
Rating: price: 100% performance: 80%
Comment
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650: The Hd 3650 is a middle class graphics card (in 2008) and compareable to an 8600M GT GPU from Nvidia. It is fabricated in 55nm process and due to Avivo video engine the graphic card can support the processor with several video operations (HD video too).
Only some 3D games with very low demands are playable with these cards.
» 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.
T8100: Former mid-range Core 2 Duo based on the Penryn core that features FSB800 and VT-x virtualization functions.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
15.40":
15-inch display variants are the standard and are used for more than half of all laptops.
The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, often allows high resolutions and thus offers rich details on the screen, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact - simply the standard compromise.
» 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.
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.
69.89%: This rating is poor. More than three quarters of the models are rated better. That is rather not a purchase recommendation. Even if verbal ratings in this area do not sound that bad ("sufficient" or "satisfactory"), they are usually euphemisms that disguise a classification as a below-average laptop.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
