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Tech Review: Toshiba A305 Laptop

Posted by Eugene Morton - Monday, June 02, 2008 2:29 PM


The market’s flooded with laptops, but not all of them have the computing power or media-centric features a discerning and jet setting PC user might require.However, the Toshiba A305 Laptop might. Find out if this powerhouse laptop has what you’re looking for.

What You Need to Know

  • It's pretty stylish
  • It only weighs about 6 lbs.
  • 1.5” thick
  • Feels a little plasticy
  • The entire thing is covered with a high gloss design that really gives it some class, although it's a fingerprint magnet
  • Similar to an Alienware design
  • The trackpad is tactile since it's flush with the case, but a rough texture so you know when you're using it
  • Keyboard is well-spaced out
  • Really snappy performance
  • 3 gigs of RAM and dual 200 gigabyte hard drives make video and photo editing easy on a budget machine
  • The ATI Radeon HD 3650 graphics cards has 512 megs of memory so it can handle some pretty intense games, plus it doesn't crash as much since it's not NVIDIA and Vista
  • The Intel Core 2 Duo is 2.1 gigahertz so this really compares with a good desktop overall
  • They include a bunch of trials and software that get really annoying with all the solicits
  • The Harman Kardon speakers pack a real punch
  • Sleep and charge charges your USB devices even when the laptop is off


Price

  • Costs around $1,250
  • There is really no downside; you get way more than you pay for

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Comment(s)

Posted by pittruler - Monday, June 2, 2008 2:48 PM

how does this compare to a low level alienware looking to get a new laptop

Posted by scorcher117 - Monday, June 2, 2008 3:23 PM

@pittruler

its MUCH less expensive

Posted by pittruler - Monday, June 2, 2008 3:33 PM

i saw the low level aliens for around 1400 is it worth the extra 200 never had an alien before or would this lap top be just as good

Posted by VayMasters - Monday, June 2, 2008 3:58 PM

If only it had Nvidia, I would have probably have gotten it.

Posted by Bookshelf - Monday, June 2, 2008 4:04 PM

"plus it doesn't crash as much since it's not NVIDIA and Vista"

what the f%ck kind of a unnecessary, racist comment is that? i ran vista for 7 months and gamed on it daily and never had it crash.

the last ATI card i had fried itself from the damn heatsink falling off of it inside my case over night.

ill just make this comment...

I use Nvidia cards now cause i don't like waking up in the morning to the smell of burnt silicon coming from my computer and looking at my monitor saying "check video signal"....

Posted by scorcher117 - Monday, June 2, 2008 4:41 PM

@pittruler

i wouldn't think it is worth the extra 200, bcuz this comp is still alot more powerful compared to the alienware laptops barebones 1400 configuration

Posted by xSniper209LHSx - Monday, June 2, 2008 10:18 PM

whats the screen size?

Posted by Nezacant - Tuesday, June 3, 2008 7:47 AM

@Bookshelf

ATI makes the GPU but the card itself is usually maunfactured by different OEMs. (PNY, BFG, Diamond, etc) They would be the ones to blame for your heatsink problem.

Posted by saitin - Tuesday, June 3, 2008 9:12 AM

alien ware is shït since dell took over

Posted by saitin - Tuesday, June 3, 2008 9:14 AM

nvidea's drivers constantly crash computers during games/movies

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