My wife just got this new laptop and I would like to let potential buyers in on our experiences with it. Some low price laptops use processors from Intel's Core i3 processor family, but this Toshiba Satellite C650-15x has a less powerful Pentium Dual Core T4500 processor. Processing power isn't the most important thing if you'll only be web browsing and word processing, but the C650's slower processor means that it needs plenty of other features before anyone would choose it over the competition.
Never fear because Toshiba did load the laptop up with some great features; there's a 500GB hard disk and 4GB of memory which is great for this price point. The battery life has been very good at 4-5 hours depending what we are doing. If you are an avid gamer you should probably spend a little more because the graphics are pretty average.
The Toshiba's main advantage is its low price. It's a well-built laptop with lots of RAM and a huge hard drive. Despite its older processor it's perfectly capable of all the tasks that most people actually use computers for like email, creating a document, organizing photos and browsing the web. If you don't have much to spend get the C650. It is a good choice.