Toshiba Satellite E205 Series

Toshiba Satellite E205-S1904

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Average Score: 75.6% - good

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Toshiba Satellite e205 Blue Label Notebook Review
Source: Notebooks.com Archive.org version
The Toshiba Satellite e205 is a pretty amazing notebook. Most of the issues I discovered during my use were minor and don’t take away from the fact that this is a powerful notebook that is perfect for college students. It would be great if the notebook had all-day battery life, but given all you can do it is acceptable. There’s no denying that the wireless streaming is an incredibly cool feature and one that really makes the device. If you love to consume media — online, on your notebook and on your HDTV — then the e205 is perfect for you. If you find yourself editing a clip for YouTube or touching up a few photos, it’ll do that too.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 06/08/2010
Rating: price: 80% performance: 80%

50% Toshiba Satellite E205-S1904
Source: PC World Archive.org version
The Toshiba Satellite E205-S1904 all-purpose laptop, currently a Best Buy exclusive priced at just under $900 (as of March 17, 2010), offers some nifty features, such as the option to connect the laptop's display to your HDTV wirelessly through an HDMI-equipped peripheral. On its own, the Satellite E205-S1904 is an average laptop, but its Wireless Display capability is pretty cool.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 03/17/2010
Rating: Total score: 50% performance: 72% features: 78%

Toshiba Satellite E205-S1904 WiDi Laptop Review
Source: Hot Hardware Archive.org version
We enjoyed using the E205 and could easily envision it becoming our go-to laptop when we are out and about, if it weren't for the disappointing battery life--which for us is a deal breaker. We also would have liked to see built-in Bluetooth, support for Ethernet Gigabit, and better-sounding speakers. The E205 offers a decent balance between performance, price, and features--as well as a nifty new technology--but we can't help thinking that one too many compromises went into its crowd-sourced design.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 03/08/2010
Rating: display: 80% mobility: 40%

80% Toshiba Satellite E205-S1904
Source: PC Mag Archive.org version
It's hard to contain my excitement every time a laptop maker takes a plain-looking laptop and showcases an exciting new technology. Case in point: the Toshiba Satellite E205-S1904 ($999 list). The Toshiba E205-S1904 is a speedy one, created under the direction of, and sold exclusively by, Best Buy. The Toshiba Satellite E205-S1904 is budding with potential, thanks to a backlit keyboard, Core i5 processing, and Intel's WiDi technology.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 02/12/2010
Rating: Total score: 80%

Toshiba Satellite E205 Review
Source: Notebookreview.com Archive.org version
The Toshiba Satellite E205 is one of the nicest 14-inch consumer notebooks we have reviewed in a while. It offers an excellent modern design, a great color scheme, and very useful features. Wireless technology has come a long way in the past few years with Wireless USB usually being mentioned the most. Unlike Wireless USB, Intel Wireless Display actually works very well.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 02/11/2010
Rating: workmanship: 80% emissions: 40%

80% Toshiba Satellite E205-S1904
Source: CNet Archive.org version
At this year's CES, one of the technologies that captured our interest was Intel's Wireless Display technology, or WiDi. Presented as a simple plug-and-play way of transmitting a laptop's video signal to any TV with the help of a small Netgear-made box, WiDi presents a tempting solution to the often messy methods currently available to those who want to get their Hulu on the big screen. As one of the first laptops to feature Intel's Wireless Display technology, the Toshiba Satellite E205-S1904 is a slim, fast, and affordable package for mainstream users.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 02/09/2010
Rating: Total score: 80%

88% Toshiba Satellite E205-S1904
Source: Computer Shopper Archive.org version
Toshiba's Satellite E205-S1904 is a stylish 14.1-inch notebook that offers a surprising amount of cutting-edge technology given its low price ($899, at the time of our testing). This Core i5–powered unit, available exclusively at Best Buy stores, is an excellent general-purpose notebook with a bonus sure to appeal to HDTV owners: It's one of the first to support Intel's Wireless Digital (WiDi) technology, which sends video wirelessly to a receiver you can connect to your HDTV. Wireless video support makes the E205 work well with your entertainment center. Plus, this laptop is fast and feature-packed.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 02/01/2010
Rating: Total score: 88%

80% Toshiba Satellite E205-S190
Source: Laptop Mag Archive.org version
This stylish and innovative notebook offers strong performance and can wirelessly stream high-def video to your TV.  Toshiba and Best Buy did a lot of things right with the Satellite E205. For a reasonable $899 users get a sleek, futuristic notebook and strong performance, backed by Intel’s new Core i5 processor. The integration of Intel’s Wireless Display technology, complete with Netgear’s TV adapter box, make this 14-inch notebook particularly compelling.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 01/29/2010
Rating: Total score: 80%

Toshiba Satellite E205-S1980

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Average Score: 70% - average

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70% Toshiba Satellite E205-S1980
Source: PC Mag Archive.org version
The Toshiba Satellite E205-S1980 is a competent 14-inch mainstream laptop, equipped with good processing power, battery life, and a backlit keyboard, but it's only worth buying if the price drops significantly.
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 01/11/2011
Rating: Total score: 70%

70% Toshiba Satellite E205-S1980
Source: CNet Archive.org version

Back at the beginning of 2010, one of our favorite laptop surprises was the Toshiba Satellite E205-S1904. Toshiba's holiday update of one of our favorite laptops, the Satellite E205, adds graphics and WiMax, but its higher price and lack of other new features prevent it from being a standout at the end of 2010

Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 11/18/2010
Rating: Total score: 70% performance: 80% mobility: 50%

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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) HD Graphics: Onboard graphics card that is built in the new Arrandale CPUs (Core i3 / i5 / i7 Dual Cores). Depending on the model and Turbo Boost, the GMA HD is clocked between 166 and 766 MHz.

NVIDIA GeForce 310M: The GeForce 310M is the successor of the GeFore G210M and based on the same chip with very similar clock rates (shader speed +30MHz to 1530MHz).

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

Intel Core i5:

430M:

460M: The Core i5-460M has only 3 MB L3 Cache (compared to the I7-620M) and clocks between 2.53-2.8 GHz (Turbo Mode). Thanks to Hyperthreading, 4 threads can be processed simultaneously. An integrated graphics card (GMA HD) and a DDR3 memory controller are also included in the package.

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

14.00:

14 inch display size represents a middle ground between the small subnotebook formats and the screens of the standard 15 inch laptops.

The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, provides good resolutions with usable detail sizes, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact. 

In the past, 14-inch devices were very rare, but now they are the standard for laptops after the 15-inchers. 

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

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74%: 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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