TOSHIBA SATELLITE A300-02C REVIEW

Toshiba Satellite A300-02C – A mix of everything

Intel's supremacy of the laptop market over the last few years has prepared reviewing a little less appealing. There are only so lots of ways to mound praise on Centrino. As we in the vicinity of the end of our stay for AMD's long in arrears reply to Centrino, Intel has fired up another barrage; Centrino 2. This Toshiba Satellite A300-02C is my 1st laptop using Intel's most recent bits.

Design
Each year or 2 Toshiba revises the appearance of its laptop framework. The styling is consistent transversely much of the line from 13" to 17" screen sculpts. This year I feel Toshiba got it precise. Even though it comes down to individual taste, the gaze of the new-fangled Satellites is trouble-free on the eyes. Mercury Silver with 80’s style horizontal black line decoration (reversed when you elevate the lid), these laptops will crack out from the rest of the crowd on your restricted big box store shelf.

Performance
Toshiba utilizes Intel's Core 2 Duo P7350 CPU. This is a Penryn-3M intermediate voltage chip. What does this mean?
• It's completed using 45 nm procedure making it lesser and cooler sprinting.
• It has 3 MB of stage two caches in opposition to 2 MB in last year's value processors.
• The most recent front side bus velocity of 1066 MHz.
• Intermediate voltage means that it guzzles fewer powers, humanizing battery life.

Subsequently up are the chipset, Intel's PM45 north bridge and ICH9-M south bridge. Opening the PM45; in toting up to sustaining the quicker Front Side Bus velocities it also fetch hold up for DDR3 which is together quicker and uses poorer voltage. Despondently, this was left off the A300-02C's requirements. Although not applicable in this evaluation, PM45 also adjoins AMD Crossfire-X support. The ICH9-M is prominent habitually for dropping equivalent drive shore up. Gigabyte LAN and HD Audio were at hand in the preceding production. Battery sprint life was stumpy for a Centrino laptop. A tendency I have discerned freshly is that less than 3 hours on an array is general. Conceivably the battery deficiency is causing PC producers to employ smaller cells to maintain costs down.

Overall
In toting up to the presentation features left off, significant portability features like a superior capacity power pack are also missing. If this laptop is not besieged to gamers on the run, then it should at least incorporate an appropriate battery. Pitiable battery sprint life is only justifiable when recital is extremely strong. Like so many of the Toshiba laptops I have evaluated, the A300-02C is excellent. Still, it's not the greatest, smoothest or best value laptop you will hit upon.

Pros
+ Transportable gaming presentation in a diminutive package
+ Rock-hard edifice

Cons
- Diminutive battery and pitiable stamina
- Montevina 2 does not demonstrate the anticipated gains in this design

Value For Money

Our Rating