L300D quite ok for me (Toshiba Satellite Pro L300D-20R)

Member Name: mollydog1

Product:	Toshiba Satellite Pro L300D-20R
Date:	16/09/09 (108 review reads)
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Advantages: decent specs,looks nice,quite quick

Disadvantages: not much memeory expansion options,no xp rollback disk

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 fill in things like the name you want to call the computer,the name of your users etc,this take about 30 minutes to go from turning it on to being set up.
Bundled software is ok although there is no free trial of microsoft office like other toshiba models (A300).You get a 30 day trial version of McAfee Security centre which isn't a great deal of use unless you want to purchase it. You also get Adobe reader 8 which is free anyway but at least it saves the download,Google desktops which i always uninstall so i cant comment on,my photobook 3.6 and picasa both of which i cant comment on either.Toshiba also throw in their DVD playing
One thing you do notice is how nice and big the screen is and you can get alot of items on the desktop in the native resolution and one of the plus points about vista is that it is very easy on the eye.The graphics are powered by ATI radeon 3100,which for a lower end laptop does the job but you could not use it as a mid powered gaming machine,simple low graphic games should work fine.
Another thing to note is the handy boot disk maker which builds the computer image to two 4.7gb dvds or one dual layer dvd. I recommend that uses do this straight away in case anything happens to the image that is on the hard drive.
Out of the 5 that a i built only one had a hardware issue of not displaying a image through the external device. this however will be sent off to toshiba and will be back working in about 2 weeks.
the laptop is quite bulky yet robust its not too heavy,the input and out puts it offers are;3 usb slots,headphone and microphone jack,LAN,VGA out,and a modem slot and one pcmcia slot.The 160gb is plenty for a moderate laptop user,both memory slots are taekn up so not alot of choices for expansion. i cant comment on battery life as im not an end user.
I would recommend this laptop for anyone who is a beginner up to a moderate user,it is great for basic computing it can run 0ffice 2007 pretty well,people looking for more processing power from a core 2 duo will look elsewhere and as mentioned above there isnt a lot of room for upgrade with the memory unless you buy 2 x 2gb sticks of ram. if this was running on xp i would be very happy with it,its just that i am not a fan of vista and for those awaiting windows 7 i would recommend this for that aswell. i would not recommend this to people hoping to play the latest games from the last 2-3 years as this would struggle.
All in all a good low to middle end laptop with some good specs,easy on the eye.

Summary: good laptop for anything other than high video demnads like gaming or editing

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