Toshiba Satellite L455-S5975 – C 900 / 2.2 GHz – RAM 2 GB – HDD 250 GB – DVD?RW TruBrite – matte silver
January 12, 2010 · Posted in Laptop
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I have a little Toshiba that is 12 years old, so thought I would love another Toshiba. Perhaps I would, but not THIS laptop. I wanted something smaller, so that part is my bad. I wanted something lighter, and it isn’t as light as I thought. It does have a DVD so that is good.
The pad is hard to use, too sensitive, and you can’t “tone it down” – the cursor jumps all over the page to places unknown and I’m not even using it! I thought attaching the mouse would be “the answer” even though that sort of defeats the purpose of having a laptop. The mouse attaches at the side, so the mouse cord is always in the way. Irritating. And when you type, getting close to the pad makes the cursor jump out of where you are typing, so you have to go find it and kidnap it back to your app.
Window’s 7 isn’t near as wonderful as advertised. Windows 95 was a whole lot better, so why to they keep mucking it up?
All in all, I like the 12 year old one better even if it is heavier – at least it is smaller. I hate this new one.
Rating: 2 / 5
My grandparent’s less-than two year old Compaq decided to give out very prematurely. It had similar issues to what Xbox 360’s are having, if your curious. It’s semi-fixed now, but that’s beside the point
Anyway, I found one of these at Best Buy for $320 so I figured I’d give it a shot. I was a little disappointed when I realized it lacked duel core, but honestly the new Celerons are miles ahead of the earlier models.
Now, I can’t vouch for what was originally loaded seeing as I removed Windows 7 and loaded Windows Vista SP2. However, with a clean slate, it runs very well. It boots exceptionally fast and doesn’t struggle with anything we throw at it. Youtube HD, hulu, flash-based sites, etc, it all works very well. Honestly there’s not much else their computer is used for, but most any basic tasks should be handled quite well. Heat is manages pretty well. It’s not as cool as my Core 2, but better than their old laptop (Athlon X2) and pretty resonable when using basic features.
I suppose my only real complaints would be the cosmetics and the battery life. Cosmetics is minor. It’s a larger laptop than most 15. 6″ with more empty space around the keyboard than’s really desired. There are also no soft buttons as you may see in the pictures, but those usually remain untouched on my machines. It does, however, have a nice volume roller along the front, so that’s a nice plus!
As for battery life, two hours is probably stretching it. I’ll use it off the plug while I’m at their house and probably can squeeze around 2 hours out of it using very basic things such as Meebo or browsing this site. Once you start watching Youtube videos, the life (as with most lappies) drops dramatically.
All in all, a good laptop for basic usage. It’s more aimed for the desktop replacement segment than portability though, so don’t expect to be carrying it around all that much.
Rating: 4 / 5
I purchased this for my husband for Christmas 2009. He went to use it for the 2nd time last night (with the first time just making a recovery disc and setting up e-mail) and it went to a white screen, with no option to do anything. We rebooted by shutting it off and on because Control, alt, delete did nothing and it came back with vertical colored lines and no matter how many times we turn it on and off, it does the same thing. Probably less than 5 hours on this machine. Pretty much defective immediately. Now that it’s been more than 14 days since we purchased it (Best Buy), we have to work through the warranty service, which means we’ll probably have to send it off and wait a month. UGH!! I’ve had my toshiba for 1. 5 years with no issue, but this one is a bummer. Only problem we’ve consistenly had with our Toshibas involve replacing the power cords, a lot! Get the warranty, you’ll use it. Everything is so expensive when it comes to repairs.
Rating: 1 / 5
Well purchased a Toshiba Satellite for my son for Christmas and have disappointed since day one. Plugged it up and we get scrambled LCD screen with black blobs all over the place. I call Toshiba for advice and the first thing they say is this is covered under warranty. Seems they will not repair any screen related issues with there laptops. They said it was caused by abuse. I find this hard to believe since it was this way right out of the box and used for less than 3 days. No were in the warranty book does it say this is not covered. I ask for them to point this out to me and no one would answer my question. The kicker is they want $425 to repair a $400 computer. I will be returning this laptop and will avoid Toshiba like the black plague. I would suggest anyone considering a Toshiba call the warranty department first and ask them what does there warranty cover. Don’t make the mistake I made.
Reggie
Rating: 1 / 5
Great Deal!! I bought this computer mainly for internet use and light computing, watch some movies from netflix. It is totally great for price. I highly recommend this computer if you are looking just for internet use. Highly satisfied. Whole family uses it.
Rating: 5 / 5