Toshiba Satellite A350 Series

Toshiba Satellite A350-11N

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Average Score: 70% - average

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70% Toshiba Satellite A350-11N review
Source: Techradar Archive.org version
 

Toshiba's A350-11N is a good laptop, but unfortunately it's let down by poor 3D performance.

Overall, the Toshiba Satellite A350 is a competent laptop for light multimedia use. The lack of a dedicated graphics card is a flaw, however, and could be enough to force people to look elsewhere.
70
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 06/09/2009
Rating: Total score: 70%

70% Toshiba Satellite A350-11N review
Source: Techradar Archive.org version
Toshiba give us an entry-level multimedia laptop with good usability, but poor 3D performance. Overall, the Toshiba Satellite A350 is a competent laptop and a reasonable choice if you need a media centre for watching movies. Unfortunately, the lack of a dedicated GPU means it won't be for everyone, and those seeking a gaming laptop should look elsewhere.
70
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 05/28/2009
Rating: Total score: 70%

70% Toshiba Satellite A350-11N notebook
Source: Pocket Lint Archive.org version
If you’re simply seeking a device to watch films on, alongside your daily laptop needs, then there’s a lot to like about the Toshiba Satellite A350. It’s comfortable, reasonably well equipped, offers good build quality and the screen is surprisingly good for movie playback. It’s also competitively priced. Just don’t expect to find a cut-priced Toshiba Qosmio, as the A350 lacks the power of its more expensive sibling, and stumbles when it comes to some aspects expected of a multimedia machine.
70, Preis 80, Leistung 50, Ausstattung 80, Display 80, Verarbeitung 80
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 04/15/2009
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 80% performance: 50% features: 80% display: 80% workmanship: 80%

70% Toshiba Satellite A350-11N
Source: Trusted Reviews Archive.org version
Overall then, in the Toshiba Satellite A350-11N we have a notebook that carries over a lot of the strengths (including darn good speakers and an excellent keyboard), but unfortunately also a lot of the weaknesses of its predecessor. It's not bad value for the money and does offer fairly good battery life, but considering failings like the screen's poor viewing angles and lack of digital video output there might be better and cheaper alternatives available depending on your priorities.
70, Preis 60, Leistung 80, Ausstattung 70, Display 40, Mobilität 80
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 02/17/2009
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 60% performance: 80% features: 70% display: 40% mobility: 80%

Toshiba Satellite A355-S6940

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TOSHIBA Satellite A355-S6940 Intel Core 2 Duo 16
Source: Notebookreview.com Archive.org version
The newly refreshed 16” A350 series notebook from Toshiba is a solid performer, keeping all that we loved about the first generation notebook and improving in a couple of areas. Power consumption technically improved, but since Toshiba went with a smaller capacity battery, battery life actually decreased. The glossy Fusion surface is still as scratch-resistant as it ever was, but still very smudge prone as noted before. System performance is great when compared against non-gaming notebooks, and the dual hard drives open up a ton of potential for a lot of storage. One thing Toshiba should have changed with this newer model is the starting price. Since the time the A305 was released last year many gaming notebooks have started to appear in the $1,000-$1,300 price segment. This means consumers who are shopping based on price and specifications will lean towards the “better” gaming machines if they are so near in cost.
Preis 40, Leistung 80, Mobilität 50
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 03/16/2009
Rating: price: 40% performance: 80% mobility: 50%

Toshiba Satellite A350-12J

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Average Score: 68.5% - average

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70% Toshiba Satellite A350-12J
Source: Reg Hardware Archive.org version
If you like your laptops nice and shiny, Toshiba's new Satellite A350-12J will go down a treat. Not only do you get a glossy black chassis with a lid that's surprisingly smudge-resistant, but the keyboard is also coated in the stuff. It's not something that will appeal to all tastes, and we found it felt very odd to type on. If you can get used to its shiny and somewhat slippery keyboard, the Satellite A350-12J is a solid notebook that performs reasonably well as long as you're not into gaming. The problem is that there's nothing that really makes it stand out from the crowd, and at this price we had hoped to see some form of discrete graphics. 
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 08/04/2009
Rating: Total score: 70%

Toshiba - Satellite A350 review
Source: IT Reviews Archive.org version
As far as first impressions go, the Satellite A350 from Toshiba certainly gets the thumbs up. The all-black chassis looks smart and it feels like a solidly built piece of kit. At just under £600, the Satellite A350-12J represents good value, but we do have our reservations. The glossy keyboard, for example, appears to be a case of style over substance, while the lack of Bluetooth and Gigabit LAN are two surprising omissions in a £600 laptop. And considering its movie-watching credentials, it's a shame Toshiba couldn't find room for a remote control.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 07/21/2009
Rating: price: 70%

67% Toshiba A350-12J
Source: PC Pro Archive.org version
 

Choosing a laptop to replace an aged desktop PC used to be a straightforward choice of deciding whether you wanted a mid-sized portable with a 15.4in screen or a hulking behemoth with a 17in screen. Now, however, with manufacturers gradually making the move from the traditional 16:10 displays to the 16:9 ratio, you can add 15.6in, 16in and 18.4in to the list. The Toshiba Satellite A350 sits slap bang in the middle of this bunch. A gleaming physique and a glossy 16in display, but elsewhere this Toshiba fails to excite

67
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 07/01/2009
Rating: Total score: 67%

Toshiba Satellite A350-205

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Average Score: 77% - good

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90% Toshiba Satellite A350-205
Source: PC Authority Archive.org version
The Toshiba gets the nod this month, even without the outstanding battery life of the Acer, or the highest benchmark score, simply because it's the best all-rounder of the bunch. There's nothing missing, and everything you could desire in a mid-range system is supplied amply. It's not the most portable, but it's well ahead of the pack in all other regards. 
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 08/14/2009
Rating: Total score: 90% mobility: 60%

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60% Cinemascope-Notebooks
Source: PC Magazin - 11/09
Comparison, , Very Short, Date: 10/01/2009
Rating: Total score: 60%

81% Toshiba Satellite A350-205
Source: PC Go - 8/09
Single Review, , Very Short, Date: 07/01/2009
Rating: Total score: 81% price: 90%

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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.

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD: Onboard (shared Memory) GPU built in the GM45, GE45 and GS45 chipset (Montevina). Because of two more shaders and a higher core clock, much faster than the old GMA X3100. Still not advisable for gamers (DirectX 10 games not playable or only with very low settings). The integrated video processor is able to help decode HD videos (AVC/VC-2/MPEG2) , e.g., for a fluent Blu-Ray playback with slow CPUs.

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).

» 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.

T5800: Entry level dual core processor based on the Merom core without Virtualization support and a low maximum temperature.

P8600:

Fast but still not overpriced dual core CPU. For most games and multimedia applications sufficient and due to the 25W TDP even for smaller notebooks useable.

T6400: Entry level dual core processor based on the Penryn core with only 2 MB level 2 cache and a low clock speed.

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

16.00:

This range for display formats was and is a rarity. It is larger than the general standard of 15 inches, but not yet in the range of large workstations. One usually has higher screen resolutions available, but portability suffers from that.

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

3 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.

3 kg:

72%: 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.

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