Equium A60: Never Buy One (Toshiba Satellite Pro A60)

Member Name: chids

Product:	Toshiba Satellite Pro A60
Date:	07/07/08 (429 review reads)
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Advantages: Looks Nice, Runs Windows

Disadvantages: Everything Else

I'm going to get straight to the point: what went wrong?
I now have a lovely Macbook that works, but my previous laptop - the A60 - was absolutely the most awful laptop in the world. Apart from being extremely bulky it was also noisy. I thought that the more room inside the cooler it would be. Obviously not. I could sit in a car going down the motorway and i would still hear it bellowing out above everything else.
The noise was created by a fan that is supposed to cool a powerful processor - note that the machine was still far too hot to have on my lap. The power, however, never really came. You opened Word 2003 and it would launch about a minute later - pretty slow. Try running any software for too long and the machine will simply overheat and turn off. Thats right, not shut down as it should, but just cut out the power.
Power on the go was out of the equation as it lasted anywhere from 15m minutes to 1 and a half hours. An appallingly bad battery life for any laptop. An old pentium laptop could beat that.
Redeeming features? Well is suppose it looked ok, but that was about it. Honestly just leave it where it is and either buy something else or nothing at all.

Summary: Leave it where it is and either buy something else or nothing at all.

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