TOSHIBA EQUIUM L40-156 REVIEW

Ultimate for Professional and Personal Applications - Toshiba Equium L40-156

Toshiba Equium L40-156 Multimedia notebook is especially designed to keep you connected to with Internet. You will be amazed with the incorporated multimedia applications that can entertain you any time at any situation. Whether you are a online gamer or a professional requiring high-speed efficiency – Toshiba Equium L-40-156 can be ultimate for both personal and professional applications.

Design
Just like standard Toshiba type this one is available in silver and black color. Keyboard of the notebook is great that has 88 keys and 2 keys dedicated to Windows. You can take pleasure while gaming in its 15.4” TFT wide screen display with Internet resolution of 1200x800 pixel. The pointing device type is Touch Pad and the sharp corner of system gives finishing touch. The appearing dimension is WxDxH: 365x269.5x36.8mm and the starting weight is 2.80 kg. Of course the first look would be impressive to any eyes.

Performance
Toshiba Equium L40-156 performance with T2310 Pentium Dual Core Processor (front side bus speed of 533 MHz), live memory of 2GB, hard drive space of 80GB SATA and RAM of 512MB. Equium L40-156 uses Window Vista Home Premium Edition. The optical drive The optical drive refers to a removable media bay choice of type DVD Super Multi (Double Layer) drive with excellent reading speed of; 24x CD-ROM and 8x DVD-ROM, and writing speed of; 24x CD-R, 4x CD-RW, 10x HS CD-RW, 10x US CD-RW, 8x DVD-R, 4x DVD-R (Double Layer), 4x DVD-RW, 8x DVD+R, 4x DVD+R (Double Layer), 4x DVD+RW and 5x DVD-RAM. Other features includes in-built graphics card, WiFi card, 3 USB 2.0, 1 x headphone (stereo type), 1 x external microphone, in-built wireless LAN card compatible with 802.11b/g network support. The Lithium-ion battery power last up to 3 hours and comes with 1 year international warranty.

Overall
In general the system works great though Toshiba could have used more brains towards designs. However, the specification serves all-purpose for professional and personal application. Mobile users will be highly satisfied with its host multimedia applications. Need little research before buying for sure.

Pros
+ Fancy standard keyboard
+ Good Design
+ Attractive Price

Cons
- Less Battery life
- Internal video modes missing

Value For Money

Our Rating

TOSHIBA EQUIUM L40-17M A SUB $500 NOTEBOOK - REVIEW

If you're shopping for a notebook with bordered funds, then the Toshiba Equium L40-17M makes a decent compromise between features, price and working capabilities. With a price tag of just £429.99 and it still manages to pack in decent punch with an impressive amount of options.

Design
Design-wise, this is not an ugly duckling but it looks very basic rather than modish. You won't be humiliated to take this notebook out of the house but your friends are very much unlikely to be drooling with resentment. The keyboard gives real good-sized keys for ease of typing and the overall layout is sagacious, although it's soft and squishy in use. Weighing at nearly 3kg, the L40-17M isn't the slim fit to carry around with you all the time even if its going to provide decent battery life. Connectivity options are sparse, with just 3 USB ports offered.

Performance
With a price tag that is sub-£500, you can't be expecting the latest high spec ingredients, but the L40-17M makes the highest of what it's stuffed up with. You get a dual-core Pentium chip, It also comes with a RAM space of 2GB, which is very generous and assist the combo achieve a PCMark05 score of 3,269.

Its 15.4-inch display offers a bountiful space to work on and it has a nearly customary widescreen resolution of 1,280x800 pixels, showing up for a decent desktop area. The hard drive storage capacity stretches up to 120GB, Which reasonable space even though this is not the biggest on offer. The internal DVD writer assists in making backups without any problem.
It comes under-equipped when it comes to battery survivability. It only just manages to keep running for more than an hour when run on the intensive Battery Eater test.

Overall
Gaming out-of-the-way, the L40-17M is capable of most jobs you put it through. It might be on the slower side, but it will huff and puffs to get the job done. Packing a decent specification this notebook perched onto a sub-£500 package isn't an easy mission.

Pros
+ Decent Memory
+ Best buy at the sub $500 Notebook

Cons
- Poor Battery
- Slow Sprinter
- Very Basic

Value For Money

Our Rating