TOSHIBA L350 REVIEW

L350 marches out from the production lines of TOSHIBA

Marketed by Toshiba as a desktop replacement genre for the business sector, the L350 is certainly graciously influential. But that power comes in a huge and chunky wrap up, devoid of much enticement to be utilized as a mobile PC. Like using a filing cabinet as a paper weight, this notebook can positively get the work done, but it eats up much additional room than obligatory.

Design
Meet Toshiba’s L350 laptop computer from their Satellite Pro lineup, a budget computer for today’s business professional. Today’s laptop industry is stacked to the rafters with the newest trendy fashions and designer size notebooks which can fit into a purse or under your seat on a plane. Unfortunately for the L350, it’s big and bulky casing delegates this computer to the desktop and not the backpack.

Performance
Despite its blasé external, the L350 proves that good looks are only crust deep. Under the covering is a cultured 160GB hard drive (well diminutive of the 250gb in the M305 we just reviewed), with a 2.1 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor and two GB of SDRAM, so that CPA should encompass no predicament running tax software. But devoid of capable FireWire media inputs, it’s never quite convinced what else this workstation is destined to be utilized for beyond business applications and reasonable multimedia playback.

Weighing in at about 9 and a half pounds, 15 inches across and approximately 2 inches thick, this notebook is a creature to drag around. The L350 captures a full-size keyboard with a numeral pad and elevated black, plastic keys. They’re tangible enough and make it trouble-free to keep away from typing errors.

The speakers are ill-fated and are nasty sounding - remote and clanging would be portray the audio, which is a disgrace given the 17” diagonal Tru-Brite Widescreen lustrous flaunt, sprinting natively at 1440x900 declaration. With essential brightness illustration controls on the F6 and F7 keys, movies don’t seem half bad!

The lithium-ion power source however, wasn’t all that imposing for a 17” price sensitive notebook, running for just below 4 hours during standard usage, and 2 and a half with a DVD playing.

Conclusion
At a little over a $1000 acquire price, the Toshiba L350 Satellite Pro may be the notebook for you – if you require a 17” notebook. If it's cost your aiming for, the M305 we just reviewed pimps this representation in more or less each and every possible way excluding for screen (yes, inclusive of price).

Pros
+ Influential enough processor
+ Beautiful lustrous widescreen for watching movies

Cons
- Awkward
- No FireWire connectivity
- Awful sound quality
- Not noteworthy battery life

Value For Money

Our Rating