Great performance, low priced laptop (Toshiba Satellite A30)

Member Name: weavern

Product:	Toshiba Satellite A30
Date:	24/06/06 (370 review reads)
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Advantages: Small and Powerfull

Disadvantages: Cooling fans could be located better, not intergrated wireless

A good alrounder is this laptop. I bought mine about a year ago for a reasonable price. It has many features to it which are very helpfull.

1. Wether your on the move or sat at you desk theres an power option there to get the best performance and battery life out of the laptop

2. Multimedia buttons on front, so if you listening to music, you dont have to have the lid up to change tracks, just press the button!

3. Small and compact, but still has enough power to run many high CPU usage programs. The cooling fans are temperature controlled so most of the time it is silent in use. They also have speed control on them so if the CPU is only getting a bit of usage, the fans aren't going at full pelt and creating lots of noise.

The ease of use with this i great. The keyboard layout is standard and the mouse pad is in the middle for a left/right handed user. Mouse pad also has scrolling features so you don't have to use the scroll bar eveytime, just move you finger to the edge of the pad and scroll.

Its also really reliable. I got this second had and was originally purchased in '04. Its now 2 years old and i've only had to send it off for repair once, and that was because I dropped it!

The only realy thing that I can flaw with the laptop is that the cooling fans are right where you would rest it on you lap if its not on a desk. But that can be overcome by repositioning slightly.

But all in all this is a very good laptop. Perfect for the occational E-mail/Students/Gamers/Office users.

Summary: High performace, compact design. Quiet operation, multimedia hotkeys

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