Beautiful Home Laptop - it's only lack in grafic performance, everthing else is okay!
With it's target consumer 'home user' , it's understandable that this laptops is at good price. behind it's shining style, you will be welcomed by eccentric media like 'hotkeys' that sensitive to touch for controlling CD and DVD.
Satellite A300 sytem also use one of the superiority of the Windows Vista Feature, HotStart. This Feature enable you to play music and video file without any delay. Enjoying movie from A300 will give you satisfaction. you must thanked this 15.4" laptop cause it's bright and interesting performance.
A300 good for those who want to do standar jobs. unfortunately it's grafic card integration is not good enough on 3D performance. You will never be able to play games or do Video editing intesively. but the cons of that is covered by it's battery duration that last for more than 3 hour.
For usability, the keyboard that A3000-177 used is one of the best we have seen. Big and pointed keys. Offer wide spaces for you to ensure that you don't press the wrong button. meanwhile the mouse bolster is polished more roughly to enable cursor placement more accurately.
A300 model use 1.83GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB Memory. With this kind of specification, it's performance is fast enough to do many jobs that should be do. This sytem will only slowing down when run couple program simultaniously. 200GB capacity Hard disk is big enough to store your movie and application.
Satellite admit that they are consumer class laptops image in nirkable that still used context (still using adapter 802.11 a/g Wi-Fi instead of 802 11n Chip like the one Fujitsu, Siemens, and Sony use) it's connection only S-Video and VGA, even not supporting DVI or HDMI high definition.
Eventhough Toshiba Satellite A300 lose in speed aspect also component that could be rely on. it's contruction quality is extraodinary comfortable when using interface, as enable to place this product in one of a recommended laptops. Price is still cheaper than other laptops that offer the same capabilities.
OverAll :
Aiming at 'home user' consumer, this laptops appear different and pleasing
Specfication :
Processor: Intel 1.83GHZ CORE 2 DUO T5550
Screen Size:15.4"
Graphics card: 1280x800 WXGA
Weight: 2.9 Kg
Memory: 2048MB DDR2 SDRAM
Hard Disk Capacity:200GB HDD
Useful For: Home User
Other Info: Wireless LAN 802. 11A/G, Ethernet GIGABIT, USB 4, FIREWIRE 1 (MINI) , VISTA HOME PREMIUM
Price Range : $1900
Our Review Score : 727 / 1000