I bought this good value basic laptop for my 8 year old daughter. It performs reasonably well, its not quick by modern standards but its not slow either. The hardware is of a good quality from good suppliers. It does have some spam software pre-installed, mainly stuff from Google which annoyed me. On first boot you have to install the software from its harddrive, no dvd is supplied, and following this you should burn recovery disks with which to reinstall the hard disk should you lose the factory installed stuff. Its a shame Toshiba could not ship a dvd with the product to save you from doing it yourself. Beware the high Toshiba charge for the 'Free' ...  Read the complete review

What a bore. There is simply nothing that stands out in this laptop and is a brilliantly average run-of the mill middle ranged gizmo. First off, though I am a huge fan of AMD processors (for gaming purposes usually), the AMD Athlon dual core 64 is by far ruled over by the Intel Dual Core. Paying 400$ for a mere 2 GB and 160 GB hard disk is in the current market not a very wise thing to do, given the huge spec advantages offered by competitors just 100$ up the price range. There is also no scope of extending the memory if you were considering the option, because believe it or not both the slots are taken and there is no third slot. Probably, the only saving grace is the ..  Read the complete review

I work for a school so get to try out a lot of hardware and software,our latest laptop is the Toshiba Satellite Pro L300d-20r. first i shall talk about the specs processor-athlon dual core ql-64 Memory-2gb 800mhz Hard drive-160gb 5400rpm 15 inch lcd display dvd super drive webcam modem wireless lan 802.11bg So from the off it is a decent specification ,my only gripe from out of the box experience is that there is no windows xp rollback disk that came with most toshibas until recently,(i can't say i am a fan of windows Vista) Loading up the laptop to a windows image is easy and self explanitory you just have to ...  Read the complete review