Toshiba A200-195

I first started investigating laptops in August as I wanted to take a laptop with me to university. My main requirements was that it was to be fast enough to handle most programs so that it doesn't leave me sitting around waiting to take notes or finish a task as well as remaining portable and more importantly good value for money. I am interested in computers and am doing a computer based course, so I thought I would have to budget form around £600 - £800 for a good performing laptop, as I was going on what my friends had paid for their laptops. I was also aware that after researching a bit on the internet, I found that when you buy a laptop its important that its from ...  Read the complete review

After having enjoyed my Asus laptop for about 6 years I decided it was time for a change. It was just getting too slow and the "immense" 10 GB hard drive (that's what I thought when I got it...) was constantly full, not to mention that the battery stopped charging all of a sudden... Anyways, I shopped around the net for quite a while before deciding on this one. The main decision factors were it's good specs, looks and, very important, the low price. This one came for about £400, the Asus had cost me almost £1000 Aesthetically it is a very eye catching machine, with its silver keyboard frame and grayish keyboard, the shiny screen and the midnight ...  Read the complete review

I got my laptop August 2007, primarily for University work. I'm computer literate, but not particularly technically minded so when buying, one of the things I was looking for was for it to be aesthetically pleasing. In my opinion, the Toshiba A200 definitely is. I've had it for some time now and had no real problems with it at all - I frequently run several programmes at once and it is generally very fast. Similarly, although I have an external hard drive for back-up I have found the memory to be really quite large, I still have not exceeded the total memory and I have a great number of photo, videos & music files. The only thing I would say is that I have a ...  Read the complete review

Have owned this for just over a year now. It is very reasonably priced considering what it comes with. When I first bought it, it was very speedy and operations took place quickly. Since then it has slowed dramtically which is quite a disadvantage. BAttery life on the laptop isn't good, and buying another battery for this model is very expensive. It is quite a large laptop compared to rivals but does come at a lower price. Mine has never gone wrong in any way, and is still working well now. The screen is large and makes gaming and film watching really good. THe speakers are not very good at all, but attaching headphones or another better set of speakers makes it much ...  Read the complete review