Member Name: Expert Software Engineer
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Toshiba Satellite Pro L300D-20R |
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18/09/09 (104 review reads) |
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Advantages: Value for money, nice size and reasonable performance.. good quality hardware
Disadvantages: Poor preinstalled software quality, lack of recovery disk
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' Windows 7 upgrade which is not free at all and will cost you nearly £30! Other manufacturers are only charging postage for this so Toshiba are ripping us off.
Overall its a good value laptop and I am pleased with it, but it is considerably slower than a good modern desktop machine.
Summary: Its better than most at the same price point,
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- 11/12/09 I wrote this review some time ago. Buyer Beware - Toshiba Cashback is possibly fraudulent, and certainly misleading as they are currently refusing to pay me the money promised in the cashback deal despite me meeting all terms and conditions. I cannot recommend this laptop if paying the full price without the cash back deal. It worries me that such large companies appear to be financially misbehaving. I complained about the windows 7 adverts and won my case with the ASA but now have to go to court over the cashback deal, which I will do. |
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